Looking to navigate all the novels of Star Trek and need help with any updated complete lists of all books not comic books and I know of the flow chart but list is honestly easier? I can stay ahead of the new releases as they come out? Anyone also have resources besides library where to get cheaper novels or more audiobooks especially for older novels? Thanks new to Trek literature and some of the lists I have seen are just a flow chart or not including things that I realize from others so I get confused
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Have you seen Wikipedia's List of Star Trek novels?
Here’s my list of all the Simon and Schuster novels, updated but in the format it had for decades in the back of every book.
https://startreklitverse.com/classic-simon-and-schuster-novel-list.php
Plenty more to check out throughout my site as well.
https://startreklitverse.com/classic-simon-and-schuster-novel-list.php
Plenty more to check out throughout my site as well.
They have been since 1979 for the most part. There's also Titan Books which publishes the Autobiographies of Trek characters as well as the English translations of the German Prometheus novels.
James Blish wrote novelizations of (almost) all of the original TOS episodes. (I believe his wife, J.A. Lawrence, finished the rest of them after Blish's death?)
He also wrote one original TOS novel, called Spock Must Die! It was part of the Bantam line, before S&S got the license. It's not really in continuity with the rest of Star Trek.
Also, welcome to the board!
The flow chart applies to the interconnected novel continuity that was built mostly from about 2000-2020, when there were few to no new shows in production and the novels were free to take things in their own direction. Now that there are new shows in production, often contradicting what the novels did, that continuity has been brought to an end, and the novels coming out now are more standalone, mainly tying into the current shows. So you don't have to worry about staying ahead of new releases.
Really, aside from those two decades, most Trek novels have been standalone and have few connections to each other. Books tying into an ongoing screen continuity are often contradicted by later episodes or films and have a hard time maintaining any kind of consistency. In the '80s, multiple books from the same author would often have some continuity, and a very loose multi-author continuity evolved in the latter half of the '80s as different authors started referencing each other's books, but it was abandoned once The Next Generation contradicted a lot of it. After that, things were pretty standalone again until around the turn of the century. So for the most part, you can read the pre-2000 books in any order.
I have my own list of all the books, both official and non-official over at www.startrekbookclub.com and i try to stay on top of all the releases and author interviews.
Thanks for all the help!
Okay that helps a lot thank you
Okay thank you!
Awesome thank you is there filtering on the list of yours?
not yet, but one day!
Actually, more short story adaptations. Some of them (especially the earliest ones) short enough to be considered "sudden fiction." And Spock Must Die is not in continuity with anything else.
There's also Mission to Horatius, a children's novel by Mack Reynolds, that predated Spock Must Die. It was originally published by Whitman, and reprinted by Pocket (more as a historical curiosity than anything else); even after it was cleansed of some material that thankfully never made it into print (and reputedly was shocking even at the time of publication), it still shows a remarkable ignorance of what ST is all about.
Speaking of continuity, there was at least a loose continuity among Pocket TOS novels, with authors occasionally borrowing non-canon characters from each other, before Richard Arnold began his reign of terror.
Among some Pocket TOS novels. Even when the loose continuity was at its peak, there were still a fair number of books that didn't fit with the rest. And really, if you take Time for Yesterday out of the picture, it wouldn't be one continuity but several separate ones. That one book is the nexus that holds the rest together, because it referenced so many different books and subcontinuities that didn't reference each other.
Quite.
What was the weird stuff in Mission to Horatius? I have it, I’m looking right at it, but I’ve never read it.
I'd argue that it's in continuity with Blish's earlier adaptations. Try reading Star Trek, Star Trek 2, Star Trek 3, Spock Must Die! and Star Trek 4 in that order. I think Blish thought of those books as happening in the same continuity.
By the time 1972 rolled around and Bantam wanted 4 more Star Trek titles in a single year (5 through 8) Blish had turned over most of the writing to his ghosts, and the books hewed much closer to the episodes.
Some of it is covered in the Wikipedia article.
There was also J.A. Lawrence's Mudd's Angels (1978) which featured adaptations of both TOS Harry Mudd episodes, as well as an original novella called "The Business, as Usual, During Altercations," which ends up with Harry Mudd being exiled from the galaxy.James Blish wrote novelizations of (almost) all of the original TOS episodes. (I believe his wife, J.A. Lawrence, finished the rest of them after Blish's death?)
He also wrote one original TOS novel, called Spock Must Die! It was part of the Bantam line, before S&S got the license. It's not really in continuity with the rest of Star Trek.
Also, welcome to the board!
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