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What's your favorite Star Trek novel?
I read all the TOS and TNG novels up through the mid-90s. I haven't read novels for any of the other series.
Uhura's Song by Janet Kagan is my favorite TOS novel. I am still salty that the tag remains unwrangled on AO3. There were a lot of good fic for this novel last Yuletide (mine*cough*mine LOL), and I don't think anybody beyond the recipients knew they were there.
Also loved Dwellers in the Crucible by Margaret Wander Bonnano. Wow, what an iddy, kinky, porny book full of OCs. Very formative for wee!Lorraine.
For TNG, I have a great fondness for all the books written by Peter David, especially the ones that feature Q. His writing is so funny, but then it gut punches you when you're not expecting it.
I also really enjoyed Masks by John Vornholt.
Tell me about your faves.
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Date: 2019-09-22 01:32 pm (UTC)In fact, I think that's where the joke this icon came from. It's been a while since I read it.
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Date: 2019-09-22 02:22 pm (UTC)Love that icon!
I would give anything to have footage of Jimmy Doohan interacting with Rushlight. That would be so awesome.
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Date: 2019-09-22 02:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-22 02:36 pm (UTC)And Chekov gets to be all sick and woobie-fied.
I would have had it on repeat for sure.
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Date: 2019-09-22 02:17 pm (UTC)(Sadly, Pathways, the book for the rest of the crew's backstories, wasn't nearly as good.)
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Date: 2019-09-22 02:19 pm (UTC)https://twitter.com/TheKateMulgrew/status/1174842245834575872
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Date: 2019-09-22 02:26 pm (UTC)I'm sure I read Dark Mirror, but I don't remember it off hand.
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Date: 2019-09-23 02:06 am (UTC)sometimes i think about peter saying she smelled like peaches or something. she wondered if that was god & he said it was, but for some reason didn't explain that it was a fruit.
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Date: 2019-09-23 10:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-22 06:02 pm (UTC)I read the academy books which I quite liked. Not as big a fan of the novels proper.
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Date: 2019-09-22 11:11 pm (UTC)I didn't read the academy books; I'm sure I would have liked them.
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Date: 2019-09-23 08:50 am (UTC)Hm. I'm fairly confident it had "gold" in the title.
Memory. What even.
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Date: 2019-09-23 10:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-26 03:44 am (UTC)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_novels
memory beta has plot info (spoilers!) if you want to find out more;
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Novel
sometimes memory alpha had just the blurb on the back;
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Novels
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Date: 2019-09-22 06:04 pm (UTC)Uhura’s Song, The Vulcan Academy Murders, and the first New Voyages collection. Those and Tears of the Singer are actually visible on my bookshelf.
Another fondly remembered one, that I can never recall the title of, is the one set in the past involving the characters from ‘here come the brides.’ It’s in a box but now I feel inclined to dig it out. I probably haven’t read any of the Trek books published after 2000.
I did read the TNG books but never as voraciously nor did I reread as I did with TOS. Beyond knowing I probably liked Peter David’s books I can’t recall anything specific.
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Date: 2019-09-22 11:15 pm (UTC)I don't remember the one you're contemplating unearthing.
My primary fondness is for the TNG books because I started reading the novels period when the show came out, so I read those first and then went back to the TOS ones.
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Date: 2019-09-23 07:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-23 02:02 am (UTC)a longer list here;
https://archersangel.dreamwidth.org/92894.html
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Date: 2019-09-23 10:42 am (UTC)I'm pretty sure I read Spock's World and liked it, too.
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Date: 2019-09-24 12:28 am (UTC)Honorable mention to a novel I didn't get to finish; thanks school holidays... Doomsday World, which is TNG era. I'm still amused, even years later, whenever I remember an exchange between a planetside Troi and Riker.
Troi: "Will, be careful. You're going to end up in sickbay."
Riker: *promptly slips and falls down loosely rocky hillside in a shower of scree*
Ha!
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Date: 2019-09-25 10:34 am (UTC)Oh, Riker. *shakes head* LOL