New version of reading-order chart, leading to Coda?

[chrinFinity]

I respectfully ask no spoilers in this thread. Thank you.

Like many others, I'm sure, I have relied on the Trek-Lit Reading Order chart hosted at thetrekcollective.net, which I am given to understand was created by our very own TrekBBS member Thrawn.

I am racing my way to the finish line, getting closer and closer to "caught up" (and currently, I'm about to finish Enigma Tales by Una McCormack).

With S&S tie-in content, and the latest "Coda" trilogy in particular (which again, I am working up to, so please no spoilers), the thought occurs to me that it should be time for a new version of the reading flowchart. (I would choke back tears to include the word "final" in that sentence.)

Any chance we get that update? I'm about to finish the chart, and failing any guidance, I'm going to have to sweep the release lists for 2017 through to 2021 to figure out what novels to read in which order.

I like coloured boxes on the screen. I am happy to make donations to a patreon, or through whatever means exist to reward artistic excellence in fandom!

So all that being said, any hints on a potential update to the "official unofficial" Trek-Lit Reading chart?

 

[ryan123450]

In a pinch, there’s always my version. Sadly no colored boxes here though!

https://startreklitverse.com/simple-post-nemesis-reading-list.php

 

[Thrawn]

It’s almost ready to be posted. But really: it’s the same chart, with a few added bells and whistles just because it’s the last one we’re going to do. It just has Coda at the bottom after everything else.

Collateral Damage, at the bottom of the current version, came out at the end of 2019 and is the last book before Coda. There isn’t anything else to scour, I promise!

 

[ATimson]

What, no To Lose the Earth?

 

[Mike Doyle]

What, no To Lose the Earth?

I think Thrawn means Collateral Damage is the last in the chronology on the chart before Coda. To Lose the Earth came out after but is set several years prior.

 

[chrinFinity]

Thanks Thrawn. I'm disappointed the litverse may be coming to an end, but never disappointed in your work. Thank you.

 

[F. King Daniel]

What if it never ended? Get the 80's novel continuity in there and add in the connections. Indistinguishable From Magic mentions Scotty's blond phase, bringing in all of Gold Key.

Let's make this splinter into a chonk.

 

[chrinFinity]

You know, that's not a bad idea. We could even create a website with a database to track each story, and their connections, and allow for things like filtering by medium or a particular arc. And link it all together, represent the data on screen with some javascript graphing library, that would be really sharp.

 

[thribs]

I always used the the one from Shastrix. Looks like they’ve updated it to include up to Coda.
https://www.shastrix.com/books/star-trek-reading-order.amp

 

[ryan123450]

You know, that's not a bad idea. We could even create a website with a database to track each story, and their connections, and allow for things like filtering by medium or a particular arc. And link it all together, represent the data on screen with some javascript graphing library, that would be really sharp.

If I had more time that kind of thing would be the exact kind of thing I’d love for my website to move towards. I’ve got alot of that base info there, just not presented in that way.

 

[Stevil2001]

I always used the the one from Shastrix. Looks like they’ve updated it to include up to Coda.
https://www.shastrix.com/books/star-trek-reading-order.amp

That's neat, I've never seen that one before. Easier to follow. Pretty inexplicable, though, that the "politics" strand excludes The Fall!

 

[frkcd]

Jim, aka Shastrix, does include a politics signifier for The Fall here: https://www.shastrix.com/books/star-trek-reading-order.php
Donnie

 

[thribs]

Jim, aka Shastrix, does include a politics signifier for The Fall here: https://www.shastrix.com/books/star-trek-reading-order.php
Donnie

That’s the list I’m familiar with

 

[Stevil2001]

Looks like when he simplified it, he missed the orange line going into The Fall as a whole and thus omitted any lines through the individual books?

 

[chrinFinity]

Ah, so that's what the coloured lines mean. Unfortunately I am red-green colour blind so I cannot use that list as effectively.

@ryan123450 Where is your website? What format is the data stored in that connects the books

 

[ryan123450]

Ah, so that's what the coloured lines mean. Unfortunately I am red-green colour blind so I cannot use that list as effectively.

@ryan123450 Where is your website? What format is the data stored in that connects the books

www.startreklitverse.com

It’s just html text, as far as how its “stored.”

 

[James H]

www.startreklitverse.com

It’s just html text, as far as how its “stored.”

Oh wow this is an incredible website, as someone just starting out on my way through the litverse this is going to help me a lot, alongside Thrawn's diagram

 

[ryan123450]

Oh wow this is an incredible website, as someone just starting out on my way through the litverse this is going to help me a lot, alongside Thrawn's diagram

Thanks. It’s a labor of love. Glad it’s helpful!

 

[merrybot]

If I had more time that kind of thing would be the exact kind of thing I’d love for my website to move towards. I’ve got alot of that base info there, just not presented in that way.

i'm slowly working on a spreadsheet that tries to list every novel in both the order you'd put them in on a chronological bookshelf, and whatever temporal things (if any) occur in it. maybe i'll try adding in the arcs and the graphical representations