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How Many Post-TV Series Trek Novels have Made Bestsellers Lists?

JD

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I know when TNG was on the air there were a lot of Trek books making the NYT Bestsellers list, but for a while that seemed to slow down. The last few years I've started to see more of them making the lists, I know at least one of Kirsten Beyer's Voyager books made the NYT list, I think Serpents Among the Ruins was too. At least one of the DS9 books was a USA Today Bestseller.
So I was just wondering, does anyone which Trek books released since the old shows ended have made bestsellers lists and which lists they were on?
 
As I recall, NO TIME LIKE THE PAST--my "Kirk meets Seven of Nine" novel--hit the list, as well as another of my recent TOS books.
 
My post-series Star Trek novels that have hit major bestseller lists include:

A Time to Heal (USA Today), September 2004

Cold Equations, Book I: The Persistence of Memory (New York Times), November 2012

Cold Equations, Book III: The Body Electric (New York Times), January 2013

The Fall, Book III: A Ceremony of Losses (New York Times), November 2013

My Star Trek novels have also made a total of 22 appearances on the Locus Magazine monthly bestseller list in the media-related fiction category since 2004, five times in the #1 spot. (Some titles have appeared on more than one monthly list.)
 
If I remember correctly, either all of The Fall or all of The Fall except the first one were NYT bestsellers.

Also, one of Kirsten's did, I remember when we celebrated her becoming New York Times Bestselling Author Kirsten Mother Fucking Beyer. Looks like that was probably Protectors, since Acts of Contrition was the first one that called that out on the cover.
 
That's already more than I thought. Congrats to all of the whose books made the lists.
 
I think most of William Shatner books hit the New York Times Bestsellers lists, and most of those are set between the end of Star Trek Generations and the year following Star Trek Nemesis.
 
If I remember correctly, either all of The Fall or all of The Fall except the first one were NYT bestsellers.

Also, one of Kirsten's did, I remember when we celebrated her becoming New York Times Bestselling Author Kirsten Mother Fucking Beyer. Looks like that was probably Protectors, since Acts of Contrition was the first one that called that out on the cover.

The final four The Fall novels were NYT best-sellers and the Voyager book that followed them also made the list. It was a good run for Trek books with five in a row on the list.
 
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