Finished the Typhon Pact series

[voyager1]

Okay finished the 8th book tonight. Really liked the series, the 6th (Plagues of Night) and 7th (Raise the Dawn) in the series were my favorites. I might even go so far to say are my favorite Trek books I have read, maybe even better the the Destiny trilogy. Okay that might be crazy talk, Destiny is awesome! Now I am curious what to read next? Maybe the Vanguard series; maybe Voyager. I guess there is also the Mirror Universe parts left hanging in The Soul Key. And there is The Fall series which I am guessing is the next thing after Typhon Pact.

Oh decisions... decisions.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

Read The Fall. Don't wait Just read it.

 

[USS Firefly]

Read the Fall and then Vanguard. Then you will fall in a depression because there aren't Trek series anymore and you wish you didn't read the books so quickly.

The Destiny, Typhon Pact and Vanguard are indeed great series, I even prefer them above Discovery

 

[JD]

If you want to keep reading the TNG/DS9 relaunch arc after there are several books between Typhon Pact and the Fall. I've read all of these exept TItan: Fallen Gods and would highly recommend them.

Titan: Fallen Gods

TNG: Indistinguishable From Magic

TNG: Cold Equations trilogy

1. The Persistance of Memory
2. Silent Weapons
3. The Body Electric

TNG: The Stuff of Dreams (This one is an e-book novella, and it doesn't have a huge impact on the overall arc, so if you wanted you could probably get away with skipping it)
The Cold Equations trilogy has a pretty major character's return, and is a sequel to Immortal Coil, so if you haven't read that I'd recommend reading it before the CE books.

If you don't want to go that way, I highly recommend all three of the other series you mention. Vanguard is amazing, one of the best things to ever come out of the franchise. The Beyer Voyager Relaunch is also great, she does a great job with the TV characters and introduces some great new characters. They're also just great books overall.
The David Mack lead MU series takes what was always kind of a joke on the TV series and turns it into something much, much deeper.

 

[voyager1]

Well y’all I went with The Fall. Once I saw that Cold Equations dealt with my least favorite character (esp in the novels like Myriad Universes), I was out. Though I am sad to see one of my more favorite minor characters kicked it in Cold Equations, I may go back to that trilogy at some point.

Vanguard is definitely going to be next, as is the Mirror Universe arc. I am intrigued about Prey series, going back to Star Trek III and telling a story from that sounds cool.

The Star Trek VI follow up novel Cast No Shadow is intriguing as is Headlong Flight.

Any idea how standalone Headlong Flight is? It sounds like a novel length Myriad Universe type story, and I love those. I remember reading about this novel before and had forgotten about it.

I also have The Sky’s The Limit sitting by the bed. So lots of Trek books are in the horizon.

 

[JD]

Are you reading everything in order or just jumping around to what sounds interesting?

 

[voyager1]

Are you reading everything in order or just jumping around to what sounds interesting?

I have gone DS9r through Soul Key, then Destiny trilogy, Typhon and now The Fall. I have also read all the Enterprise/Rise of the Federation that take place after the show.

 

[Stephen!]

Any idea how standalone Headlong Flight is? It sounds like a novel length Myriad Universe type story, and I love those. I remember reading about this novel before and had forgotten about it.

Headlong Flight is part of the continued exploration of the Odyssean Pass. Headlong Flight is a story about a planet that keeps "bouncing" between different universes and different time periods. The recent Dayton Ward novels are generally standalone. I've been reading them out of sequence. I read Headlong Flight last year. I'm currently finishing Armageddon's Arrow and will then move onto Hearts and Minds.

 

[Stephen!]

Why was the Typhon Pact novel, "The Struggle Within", exclusively an ebook? Was it originally going to be a paperback release, but they changed their mind?

 

[Christopher]

Why was the Typhon Pact novel, "The Struggle Within", exclusively an ebook? Was it originally going to be a paperback release, but they changed their mind?

It was an e-book because it was commissioned as an e-book. Like all the e-novellas, it's way too short to be marketable in paperback. It was Pocket's first standalone Trek e-novella (as opposed to the earlier e-book series and miniseries like Corps of Engineers, Mere Anarchy, and Slings and Arrows), so I assume it was tied into the Typhon Pact series in hopes of encouraging readers to try out the new format. And apparently it worked, since they've gone on doing them ever since.

 

[JD]

Why was the Typhon Pact novel, "The Struggle Within", exclusively an ebook? Was it originally going to be a paperback release, but they changed their mind?

Pocket has gone back to releasing e-book exclusive novellas for the last few years. Here's a list of all of them. It's not just a Trek thing, a lot of other series I read have some.

 

[voyager1]

Well I have finished Typhon, and The Fall and now Mack’s MU books with Rise Like Lions and Section 31 Disavowed

Disavowed was very good, but Rise Like Lions was hands down one of the best single Trek novels I have read. Dang it was good, usually the best Trek stories are told over a series books like the 3 books Destiny and books Plagues of Night & Raise The Dawn of Typhon. But dang Mack knocked it out of the park with Rise Like Lions. I do think Star Trek needs to be careful with the MU and not over do it like the Borg. Granted this novel was written before Discovery, and Discovery is probably jading me a little.

Now Disavowed was good too, but it was more of spy thriller. It was good and the ending cliffhanger is really good. Reminded me a lot of Abyss and Zero Sum Game. One thing I did expect from the ending was the cave scene. I thought that was going to be fire pits from the DS9 season finale... oh well

Now I gotta figure out what I want to read next. Still got Vanguard on my radar and the Voyager relaunch is also an option. Also the next 31 book Control is an option.

 

[David Mack]

Now I gotta figure out what I want to read next. Still got Vanguard on my radar and the Voyager relaunch is also an option. Also the next 31 book Control is an option.

If you enjoyed Disavowed, I suggest you read Control while that book is fresh in your memory.

 

[voyager1]

David,

I just downloaded it. Bashir was always my favorite DS9 character, so seeing what happens next to him was just too tempting.

 

[Damian]

Well I have finished Typhon, and The Fall and now Mack’s MU books with Rise Like Lions and Section 31 Disavowed

Disavowed was very good, but Rise Like Lions was hands down one of the best single Trek novels I have read. Dang it was good, usually the best Trek stories are told over a series books like the 3 books Destiny and books Plagues of Night & Raise The Dawn of Typhon. But dang Mack knocked it out of the park with Rise Like Lions. I do think Star Trek needs to be careful with the MU and not over do it like the Borg. Granted this novel was written before Discovery, and Discovery is probably jading me a little.

Now Disavowed was good too, but it was more of spy thriller. It was good and the ending cliffhanger is really good. Reminded me a lot of Abyss and Zero Sum Game. One thing I did expect from the ending was the cave scene. I thought that was going to be fire pits from the DS9 season finale... oh well

Now I gotta figure out what I want to read next. Still got Vanguard on my radar and the Voyager relaunch is also an option. Also the next 31 book Control is an option.

Control is definitely a good option. If you haven't read the Voyager relaunch you can probably read that separately. It takes place in the same continuity as TNG/DS9 relaunches, and makes references to things going on there, but it's more or less it's own animal and it's a few years behind the other relaunches at this point. Vanguard was an excellent series too, as were the Seeker novels that followed (though Seekers were more standalone in nature)...I'd love to see more Seeker novels someday but I suspect those are probably finished at this point. I don't see S&S continuing book series unrelated to the original series or current and upcoming shows.

 

[Damian]

David,

I just downloaded it. Bashir was always my favorite DS9 character, so seeing what happens next to him was just too tempting.

After Control I'd recommend Una McCormack's DS9 novel "Enigma Tales"---I don't want to say too much as to not ruin "Control" for you but Bashir is in that novel as well (though it's not centered around Bashir....but again I don't want to say too much about it).

I'd also recommend Christopher Bennett's Enterprise: "Rise of the Federation Novels: Patterns of Interference" novel because some of what happens there involves plotlines (or threads) from "Control".

 

[Reanok]

I really lked Control I wish we's get another novel with Julian Bashir and how he's doing after the events of Control I just rer-ead Una McCormack's Enigma tales.I hope we'll find out about him and more of the Section 31 fallout in Collateral damage will effect the stories that take place in the Tng era.by David Mack when it gets released someday.This book is certainly something I look forward to getting..

 

[JD]

I don't see S&S continuing book series unrelated to the original series or current and upcoming shows.

It sounds like we'll be getting at least TNG for a while, we have Available Light coming out in April and David Mack is writing a follow up to Control called Collateral Damage, but I'm not sure what series that is going to be released as. We've also still go at least one Voyager novel, To Lose The Earth coming out sometime in the hopefully near future.

 

[Damian]

It sounds like we'll be getting at least TNG for a while, we have Available Light coming out in April and David Mack is writing a follow up to Control called Collateral Damage, but I'm not sure what series that is going to be released as. We've also still go at least one Voyager novel, To Lose The Earth coming out sometime in the hopefully near future.

Yeah, I think TNG will be one of the lone exceptions because of the nu-TNG show in the works. I'd love to hear something about "To Lose the Earth", at least where Beyer is in writing it---is she past the outline stage, first draft, when it's hope to be released. Last I heard it's still in the works and hasn't been cancelled.

But I think once the nu-TNG show starts the relaunches will likely stop at that point and all the non original series books will be based on the current running shows. I think the TNG books will shift focus toward the nu-TNG show, and assuming the new show jettison's the current novel continuity I don't think any of the current running storylines will continue. I suspect they may takes us as far as the destruction of Romulus, and even the immediate aftermath before quietly going away.

 

[David cgc]

Yeah, I think TNG will be one of the lone exceptions because of the nu-TNG show in the works. I'd love to hear something about "To Lose the Earth", at least where Beyer is in writing it---is she past the outline stage, first draft, when it's hope to be released. Last I heard it's still in the works and hasn't been cancelled.

Doug Drexler posted what is almost certainly the cover art for "To Lose the Earth" on his on-line portfolio recently, though all reference to that having happened has been scrubbed off the internet, so I guess someone reminded him that the book's street date still isn't announced. So, it's far enough along to have some cover art commissioned and finished, however long that is.