Each subsequent novel has explored the characters' continuing growth. Like the television series, the relaunch novels that began in 2001 with the release of the two-part story Avatar contain ongoing and ever evolving plot threads.
It will be released in November as promised". Palmieri was able to assure those gathered that " Unity is done and in the production pipeline. Perry's first child pushed the project back a bit. This highly anticipated book was originally scheduled to be released earlier this year, but the unexpected early arrival of Ms. Perry, which is scheduled to be released this November. Andrew Robinson's story, "The Calling", follows up on the events of his critically acclaimed novel, A Stitch in Time.Īlso up for discussion at this panel was the novel Unity by S.D. Una McCormack offers the story "Face Value", set during season seven and featuring Kira and Garak working with Damar on Cardassia. This is an Ezri story about that character's attempt to deal with the ghost of Jadzia and how she begins to come to terms with being a joined Trill. "Chiaroscuro" by Geoffrey Thorne is set off-station between the episodes "Afterimage" and "Take Me Out to the Holosuite". Lang, his story is a procedural mystery featuring Odo and "sets up some of Odo's choices in season seven". Jeffrey Lang's "Foundlings" is set between the sixth and seventh seasons.
Also taking place during the show's sixth season, but much closer to the end of the season, is Heather Jarman's offering "The Devil You Know", which will address the direction the writers of the series took with the character of Jadzia during her finale season on the show. Terri Osborne's story, "Three Sides to Every Story", is set in the early part of the sixth season during the Dominion occupation and features Jake and Ziyal. DeCandido's contribution, will address the ramifications that the events in the episode "Hippocratic Oath" had on the friendship of Dr. Bennett will take a further look at the relationship between Quark and his Klingon 'wife', Grilka. ".Loved I Not Honor More" by Christopher L. Mangels, features what is perhaps "the oddest pairing in DS9 history", Nog and Kai Winn. Martin and Andy Mangels, "The Orb of Opportunity", is set during the third season and, according to Mr. The story by the writing team of Michael A. Summers, is set shortly after the premiere episode. Palmieri, Prophecy and Change will provide readers with "a sense of the whole tapestry of Deep Space Nine". The other contributing authors are Kevin Summers, Keith DeCandido, Terri Osborne, Geoffrey Thorne, Una McCormack, Christopher Bennett, Heather Jarman, Andy Mangels and Michael Martin. Nine of those stories are set during the series, with the final story, by Andrew J. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Deep Space Nine the trade paperback Prophecy and Change will hit bookstores this September. The discussion began with the titles scheduled to be released a little later this year. Participating in the panel discussion were Senior Editor Marco Palmieri and relaunch authors Andy Mangels, Heather Jarman, Jeffrey Lang and Keith R.A. At the recent Shore Leave convention in Baltimore, Maryland, one of the numerous discussion panels devoted to Star Trek novels included one panel devoted exclusively to the DS9 relaunch novels. Thus far, the master plan has succeeded brilliantly as the novels set after the series finale, "What You Leave Behind", have not only delighted fans the world over, but have definitely raised the bar in terms of writing quality in media tie-in fiction. Palmieri said, "So many dangling plot threads from the series to follow up on." There were so many stories yet to be told and as Mr. He was determined that there would be a real sense of continuity in the novels. When Pocket Books editor Marco Palmieri conceived the idea to set a series of novels after the final episode a lot of long range planning went into the process. While the last episode of the television series Deep Space Nine may have aired on June 2, 1999, the story and the characters still live on in the pages of the Deep Space Nine relaunch novels. She filed this report on the Deep Space Nine relaunch series. Jacqueline Bundy attended this scribe's mecca to find out the latest information on Pocket Books' novel releases. Members of the Star Trek writing community descended on the Shore Leave science fiction convention in Baltimore, Maryland, last weekend to talk shop with the fans.