Just Sit Right Back and You'll Hear a Tale
The most commonly reported statistic on Star Trek tie-in fiction is that its readership is generally about 1-2% of the larger audience for the franchise as a whole.
In the hope that a rising tide raises all boats, and a larger audience for Star Trek: Discovery equals a larger audience for the tie-ins, let's move some paper and list the most recent Star Trek outings by people on my friendslist, much as I did when the Kelvin Timeline movies came out in 2009, 2013, and 2016.
To prevent redundancy, I'm only listing those people who've published something (or will be doing so soon) since that most recent promotional post last year, which makes for a rather short list:
Keith R.A. DeCandido (kradical) most recently translated Fire with Fire by Bernd Perplies and Christian Humberg, the first novel in the Star Trek: Prometheus series originally published by Cross Cult in German.
Una McCormack (altariel) most recently contributed Enigma Tales, a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel centred on everyone's favourite enigmatic Cardassian, Elim Garak.
Dayton Ward (daytonward) is still contributing to the franchise regularly, with recent works including the Star Trek: The Next Generation novels Headlong Flight and Hearts and Minds; the comic book story "The Menace of the Mechanitrons" (co-written with Kevin Dilmore in the style of the old Gold Key Comics), appearing in the anthology comic Star Trek: Waypoint; and Hidden Universe Travel Guides: The Klingon Empire, an in-universe book which (as the title implies) offers information for those wishing to visit Qo'noS and the territory of those honourable warriors. He will also be authoring Drastic Measures, the second prequel novel connected to Star Trek: Discovery.
...and of course, my last appearance was "You Are Not in Space" in Strange New Worlds 10. (For those of you who are interested, my annotations for that short story have moved to a new location since I last mentioned it here.)
All of the titles I just listed are also available in paperless formats such as Amazon Kindle, so let's move some electrons as well.
As with the last couple of entries I've posted like this, the most disheartening part is noticing how much more limited the list of tie-in writers and titles gets every time...with virtually no upcoming releases announced for next year, I worry about the future of Star Trek literary tie-ins overall.
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1 507 181 in Books
Amazon Kindle Sales Rank: #698 195 in Kindle Store
Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #132 665 in Books
In the hope that a rising tide raises all boats, and a larger audience for Star Trek: Discovery equals a larger audience for the tie-ins, let's move some paper and list the most recent Star Trek outings by people on my friendslist, much as I did when the Kelvin Timeline movies came out in 2009, 2013, and 2016.
To prevent redundancy, I'm only listing those people who've published something (or will be doing so soon) since that most recent promotional post last year, which makes for a rather short list:
Keith R.A. DeCandido (kradical) most recently translated Fire with Fire by Bernd Perplies and Christian Humberg, the first novel in the Star Trek: Prometheus series originally published by Cross Cult in German.
Una McCormack (altariel) most recently contributed Enigma Tales, a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel centred on everyone's favourite enigmatic Cardassian, Elim Garak.
Dayton Ward (daytonward) is still contributing to the franchise regularly, with recent works including the Star Trek: The Next Generation novels Headlong Flight and Hearts and Minds; the comic book story "The Menace of the Mechanitrons" (co-written with Kevin Dilmore in the style of the old Gold Key Comics), appearing in the anthology comic Star Trek: Waypoint; and Hidden Universe Travel Guides: The Klingon Empire, an in-universe book which (as the title implies) offers information for those wishing to visit Qo'noS and the territory of those honourable warriors. He will also be authoring Drastic Measures, the second prequel novel connected to Star Trek: Discovery.
...and of course, my last appearance was "You Are Not in Space" in Strange New Worlds 10. (For those of you who are interested, my annotations for that short story have moved to a new location since I last mentioned it here.)
All of the titles I just listed are also available in paperless formats such as Amazon Kindle, so let's move some electrons as well.
As with the last couple of entries I've posted like this, the most disheartening part is noticing how much more limited the list of tie-in writers and titles gets every time...with virtually no upcoming releases announced for next year, I worry about the future of Star Trek literary tie-ins overall.
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1 507 181 in Books
Amazon Kindle Sales Rank: #698 195 in Kindle Store
Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #132 665 in Books