July 2012
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Latest blurbs
The Simon and Schuster digital catalogue has been updated with a new blurb for the next Starfleet Academy book, due out in August 2013. The book doesn’t yet have a title, or even an author listed. Sounds like they’re jumping around the timeline a bit, with this blurb suggesting we’re back in first year, while the most recent book in the series, The Assassination Game, was in at least the second year.
It has been six months since James Kirk joined the Starfleet Academy. The rebellious young Kirk is used to doing things his way, but the Academy is showing him how to transform his headstrong attitude and ambition into qualities that will make him a leader.
In the fifth installment of the Starfleet Academy series, Kirk and his classmates are faced with conflicts greater than they could ever have imagined…. But if anyone’s equipped to take on a challenge, it’s the students of Starfleet Academy!
Pre-order: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.co.jp.
A couple of the authors of the 2013 TOS novels have also made comments (on the TrekBBS) on the blurbs for their books posted a few days ago. Tony Daniel had this to say about his book, Devil’s Bargain (original blurb follows):
The colonial world is not a mining colony, but a producer of a beer famous in the local sector. The Horta are are recruited to help avoid an asteroid strike that’s going to destroy the colony.
Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise are sent to evacuate the Federation mining colony Vesbius, a frontier settlement that is on the brink of an extinction-level event, threatening the lives of all the colonists and the disruption of ore production vital to Starfleet. However, the colonists refuse to abandon this settlement, not wanting to leave their claims. It is after these irrational decisions that Spock suggests that perhaps an unexpected ally could aid the colony and help complete the mission….
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Greg Cox (who himself wrote one of the handful of the other books to feature the Horta, Devil in the Sky) simply noted that the blurb for his book, The Weight of Worlds, is:
…based on an old draft of the outline. There is no “Coven” in the actual book.
Kirk, Spock, and Sulu must protect the remote Federation colony of Ephrata from the dreaded Coven—beings from another galaxy who are seeking starships much like the Enterprise to spread from world to world, opening gateways between dimensions to eventually conquer the entire Federation.
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Jeff Mariotte also posted the blurb to his book, The Folded World, on his blog. He made no further comment, so presumably it’s accurate?
2013 TOS novel blurbs
The Simon and Schuster online catalogue has been updated with the first blurbs for the four TOS novels coming in 2013:
Allegiance in Exile, by David R. George III
After a particularly horrifying experience, Captain James T. Kirk starts down the path toward something he believes he might regret for the rest of his days: accepting a commission as an admiral working at Starfleet Headquarters on Earth, far removed from the mysteries and adventures of deep-space exploration. Knowing that the Enterprise’s five-year mission is coming to an end and not wanting to forever be a wandering soul, Kirk must decide if this promotion is worthy of his true destiny or merely a temporary lapse in judgment….
Pre-order: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp.
Devil’s Bargain, by Tony Daniel
Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise are sent to evacuate the Federation mining colony Vesbius, a frontier settlement that is on the brink of an extinction-level event, threatening the lives of all the colonists and the disruption of ore production vital to Starfleet. However, the colonists refuse to abandon this settlement, not wanting to leave their claims. It is after these irrational decisions that Spock suggests that perhaps an unexpected ally could aid the colony and help complete the mission….
Pre-order: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp.
The Weight of Worlds, by Greg Cox
Kirk, Spock, and Sulu must protect the remote Federation colony of Ephrata from the dreaded Coven—beings from another galaxy who are seeking starships much like the Enterprise to spread from world to world, opening gateways between dimensions to eventually conquer the entire Federation.
Pre-order: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp.
The Folded World, by Jeff Mariotte
En route to a diplomatic mission, the Enterprise receives a distress call from the USS McRaven. As the Enterprise approaches the area where the McRaven appears to be, the crew encounters an anomoly unlike anything they’ve ever experienced. Space itself seems inconsistent—warping, changing appearance. But during the brief periods of calm, they locate the McRave—along with other ships of various origins, all tightly surrounding and being held in place by an enormous unidentified vessel….
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TNG mega-omnibus coming from IDW
Amazon have added a new listing for a Star Trek: The Next Generation Omnibus, a 480 page book due in December - Which I expect will be similar in format the the Star Trek: The Original Series Omnibus from a couple of years ago, and contain multiple IDW TNG series.
As IDW’s Star Trek comics have been so heavily dominated by TOS, the TNG series aren’t actually that numerous, so this book will likely contain all four of IDW’s TNG series to date (indeed Amazon list the authors and artists of them all):
- The Space Between, by David Tishman, with art by Casey Maloney.
- Intelligence Gathering, by Scott and David Tipton with art by David Messina.
- The Last Generation, by Andrew Steven Harris, with art by Gordon Purcell.
- Ghosts, by Zander Cannon, with art by Javier Aranda.
IDW’s only other TNG stories are Countdown, which is generally grouped with the new timeline stuff, a handful of Alien Spotlights (Andorians, Borg, and Q), and a single Captain’s Log (Jellico), plus of course the current Assimilation2, and the forthcoming Hive.
