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I finished reading the final installment of the DS9 book's eight book story arc tonight and am happily amazed. It's characterizations (in all the books) has been very true to the series and would have been an excellent eighth season after the Dominion War.
For those that have been waiting (as I have) all year for Unity to come out, it resolves all the plot threads from the previous books (including why Weyoun was SO conviently there to rescue Jake Wex and Opaka) and starts new character based plot threads for when they decide to make more books. The book is not "to be continued" so it'll probably be a while before we see anything though.
These are some of the only truly great Star Trek novels I've read (I have gripes with character aspects in almost all the TNG stuff) and I really reccomend them.
Anyone else read this yet?
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Yes. I agree totally, and I can't wait for the next books in the story (the three "Worlds of Deep Space Nine" dual novels) to come out.
Actually, I've found the majority of books that have come out since the end of DS9 to be of superior quality.
Check out JG Hertzler (Martok)'s "Left Hand of Destiny" Duology, as well as the new "IKS Gorkon" series by Keith R.A. DeCandido, and the "Lost Era" books.
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Curse you Topher! You moved this just as I was writing a GREAT reply! (shakes fist at screen)
As I was saying:
Do you know who is writing those Worlds of DS9 books you mentioned? Hopefully SD Perry.
I read the Lost Era books Serpents Among The Ruins and Art of the Impossible and loved both of them: they're just great Trek.
Buuuuut, the Lost Era book with Enterprise C is not very good so far. It's a "chick episode" in book form in the first four chapters all they do is go on and on and on abour Garrett's relationship with her Betazoid ex-husband and her halfbreed kid and then switch to her vacationing XO and his girlfreind's problems with commitment and his secrets, then switch to Garrett's dead former XO and the relationship Garrett had with him and then back to her current XO... Well, you get the idea.
For a real laugh, read the two part "Homecoming" books about Voyager. I read them on the plane to and from San Fran and laughed out loud as the terrible characterizations and cookie-cutter Voyager template story. It was awful. Awful funny no less.
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Are they really better than other novels? I've read a few, and while some are entertaining Star Trek stories, none of them are good books. I have two Susan Wright novels (The Best and the Brightest and Gateways Part I) which are really bad examples. They are filled with pointless trivia pulled from the Encyclopedia, to fake some sort of continuity. But it comes accross as "Look at me! I have read the Enclyclopedia!". And the stories just drown in technobabble and details I don't want to know.
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Gateways was terrible overall, but the DS9 stuff was very good.
Yes,the DS9 books ARE that good. Read the two part DS9 books Avatar. It re-launches the series, introduces all the new cast and supporting characters and starts the story arc that eventually ends in Unity.
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Those are great as well and set the overall tone for the Avatar series (allthough the story itself starts a week before Emmissary and concludes somewhere in the middle of the Dominion War).
Has anyone read the DS9 anthology that recently came out called Prophecy and Change ? The first story was very well written but I jumped ahead to the Dax story and it's kinda dull so far.
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The SCE books (such as that one) don't really get covers, as they're E-books.
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The SCE books are really crappy. Am I just imagining it or is one of the officers gay??
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it was good for it's time but after re-reading it, I find a LOT of implausable aspects. The lack of other ships becoming involved in the fight and the idea of Enterprise and an Excelsior class tractoring a Cube is a bit much. Still, I love the part where the Tholians attack the Cube and the depiction of Dantar's assimilation at the book's begining is amazingly well written. That's saying a LOT considering my current POV on Peter David's writing.
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