Star Trek novels in 2011 | 29th January 2011, 21:02

I used to keep an eye on forthcoming Star Trek novels using the upcoming books list at pshiphi.org, however that seems to have fallen into disuse, not being updated for some two and a half years. As such, I've decided to put together my own page listing the upcoming books so that I can keep track. I've tried to split it by month although there are some disagreements on the release dates so some may be wrong. Where there's doubt I've tried to go with the dates listed on Simon & Schuster (the publisher)'s website where available, then Amazon - these are of course US release dates and release in the UK or elsewhere will be later. Where possible there are cover images, however these may only be holding/marketing images and not the final covers - in some cases they are the final ones but some earlier designs are still floating about. January Typhon Pact/DS9: Rough Beasts of Empire The Typhon Pact series is a set of four novels set after Star Trek Nemesis, and deals with an alliance formed between the Federation's enemies. It's useful to have read the TNG and DS9 continuation series, and the Titan series, first, although they don't follow particularly well from the DS9 relaunch. David R. George's entry focusses on Spock, Sisko, and the Romulans, and is already out (okay, was probably out in December). Read my review Buy from Amazon UK Starfleet Academy: The Edge This is the second entry in a new 'young-adult' series of fairly short novellas, set in the alternate universe set-up in the 2009 film. Kirk, Bones and Uhura are at the academy, and Rudy Josephs' story covers their early days there. Listed in some places as 'the Competitive Edge'. Read my review Buy from Amazon UK Typhon Pact/TNG: Paths of Disharmony The final book in the Typhon Pact series is by Dayton Ward, and focusses on the crew of the Enterprise-E as they are dispatched to Andor to deal with the fall-out of the Destiny trilogy. It's not clear how much this will wrap up or leave hanging for future continuation novels to pick up on. According to S&S, this is already out, and Amazon are planning to dispatch my copy this week. Read my review Buy from Amazon UK March TNG: Indistinguishable From Magic It's unclear where David A. McIntee's novel falls in the TNG timeline - whether it follows on from the Typhon Pact series or not. It's an engineering mystery following La Forge, Scotty, Nog, Guinan and the crew of the USS Challenger. The cover depicts a Galaxy-class ship, which is probably the Challenger as seen twice in Voyager, in Endgame, the series finale, and in Timeless, in an alternate future, where La Forge was its' captain. Buy from Amazon UK April New Frontier: Blind Man's Bluff New Frontier is the first and most successful of the book-only Star Trek series. It seems to have lost its way a bit recently with large gaps between volumes. The story has been moved along to run parallel to the TNG continuations, so it will be interesting to see what effect that has. Originally scheduled for last summer, the release date was moved to January, and now to late April. Buy from Amazon UK DTI: Watching the Clock Christopher L Bennett writes this first novel in a potential new series focussing on the Department of Temporal Investigations (as seen in the DS9 episode Trials and Tribble-ations). Probably set in the TNG-era, I'm expecting time travel, and the plot is likely to be a continuation of the 'temporal cold war' arc from Enterprise's first two seasons, featuring investigators Dulmer and Lucsly (badly disguised anagrams of Mulder and Scully). Buy from Amazon UK May VOY: Children of the Storm The Voyager continuation seems to have been neglected a little, possibly due to the first four being a bit mediocre. Fortunately the most recent pair by Kirstin Beyer have been fantastic, numbering amongst my favourite Trek novels of recent years, and she's back to write this one. Voyager is back in the Delta Quadrant as part of a taskforce equipped with quantum slipstream drive. Three ships have gone missing though, and Voyager goes to investigate. Buy from Amazon UK Starfleet Academy: The Gemini Agent There's confusion over whether book three of the young-adult series is by Rudy Josephs or Rick Barba, both of whom have written one of the first two books. No details as yet on the subject matter, but no doubt it will feature Kirk, Spock, Bones and Uhura. Buy from Amazon UK June Vanguard: Declassified This is a collection of short stories/novellas by Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore, David Mack and Marco Palmieri. The Vanguard series is set on a space station in the TOS-era and follows the lives of its' crew, including some of the roles we've seen little of before, including intelligence officers and the judiciary. Buy from Amazon UK July TOS: Cast No Shadow James Swallow, a British author whose Trek and Doctor Who novels I've enjoyed in the past, writes this novel set seven years after The Undiscovered Country. Spock meets up with Valeris again after terrorists attack the Klingons. Doubt I'll read it as I'm not a big TOS reader. Buy from Amazon UK August TOS: A Choice of Catastrophes I'm not really a reader of Original Series novels and I've never heard of the authors, Steve Mollmann and Michael Schuster, before so I can't say much about this. Apparently it's set mid-TOS with the Enterprise under Sulu's command, dealing with crewmembers falling into mysterious comas. Buy from Amazon UK September Starfleet Academy: Assassination Game Fourth book in the young-adult series set in the new universe. Originally listed as by Rick Barba. There're contradictory publication dates floating around but I've gone with the current publisher date. Update, 12th March, Amazon now list the title as 'The Assassination Game', with a standard Pocket Books holding cover image that doesn't have the definite article in the title, and lists Alan Gratz as the author. Buy from Amazon UK ENT: The Romulan War: To Brave the Storm (was In Shariel's Jaws) I'd say this is probably only a working title for Michael A Martin's second solo entry in the Enterprise continuation, as both the publisher's website and Amazon just list it as 'sequel'. I wasn't too big a fan of the first, his work seeming to have lost something when he split from former writing partner Andy Mangels. Buy from Amazon UK VAN: What Judgements Come By Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore, this is listed by Memory Beta as being out in November, although I can't find it listed on the publisher's site yet. Update: in February this gained a title and a publication date on Simon & Schuster's site of September. November or later Mirror Universe: Rise Like Lions Probably in January 2012, and again very tentative, this will be by David Alan Mack and is expected to end the Mirror Universe story. Sources: Amazon UK Memory Beta Wikipedia Simon & Schuster

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