I just recently bought my first Star Trek Novel. The book is "Mudd in Your Eye". not sure if anyone else has heard of it.
I am wondering if anyone else has any good books they could recommend for me to pick u and read. I am interested in starting the 6 book series called " The Capitan's Table". Let me know what you think....
Quantum-Charles.
Gosh - there are a ton of Trek books. I've actually read "Mudd in your Eye" too. I like the Shatner written books too and a lot of the older books put out by Bantam. I know others will chime in with their choices as well. The Titan series I think is a recent one that is pretty good too. I guess it partly depends on what crew/ship you like to read about.
There is a great guide book to Trek books out too.
http://www.amazon.com/Voyages-Imagination-Star-Fiction-Companion/dp/1416503498/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260414784&sr=1-1 (http://www.amazon.com/Voyages-Imagination-Star-Fiction-Companion/dp/1416503498/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260414784&sr=1-1)
Hey,
Thanks Rico. I will definitely follow up on the Titan series. It would be cool to follow Capt. Riker.
Do you like hard sci-fi as well? My current favorite author (non trek stuff) is Alastair Reynolds. His 'Revelation Space' book & series are a few of my favorites.
I have been reading sci-fi since before TOS.
In general good non-Trek sci-fi books are better than Trek books. I haven't read a lot of Trek books though I tried 4 in the last year. I managed to finish 3. The Voyager story Shadow which is part of the Section 31 novels was the best one.
Here is a site with a lot of recommendations that I tend to agree with?
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/sf/books/_misc/ranked.htm (http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/sf/books/_misc/ranked.htm)
I couldn't stand Reynold's Revelation Space.
This review most closely matches my opinion:
http://www.sfsite.com/05a/rs80.htm (http://www.sfsite.com/05a/rs80.htm)
I don't care for Consider Phlebas either.
http://www.amazon.com/Consider-Phlebas-Iain-M-Banks/product-reviews/031600538X/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addOneStar (http://www.amazon.com/Consider-Phlebas-Iain-M-Banks/product-reviews/031600538X/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addOneStar)
It was just dumb violence lurching from one meaningless event to another. I quit 2/3rds of the way through and only went that far because so many people say its good. But it was still better than Revelation Space that I forced myself to fininsh because I promised someone.
psik
Quote from: Quantum-Charles on December 09, 2009, 07:04:09 PM
I just recently bought my first Star Trek Novel. The book is "Mudd in Your Eye". not sure if anyone else has heard of it.
I am wondering if anyone else has any good books they could recommend for me to pick u and read. I am interested in starting the 6 book series called " The Capitan's Table". Let me know what you think....
Quantum-Charles.
Welcome to the forum, Charles!
If you're looking for a good Next-Gen era series, I recommend the New Frontier series by Peter David. The books do a great job combining sci-fi action & humor, and the characters grow on you pretty quickly. Link- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_New_Frontier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_New_Frontier)
'Mudd in Your Eye' was my first Trek novel, and I loved it :)) (I was about 11 at the time, but I bet I'd still love it now). Other TOS-era novels (or with those characters) that are worth checking out are 'Spock's World' and 'Sarek'. I remember reading one involving dinosaurs really being aliens that got trapped on earth during a fact finding mission, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called :S
And here I was (post-Voyager) thinking that the dinosaurs of Earth had sent explorers out from there to explore other planets :)
I can recommend all of the Captain's Table books except for #3, that one got a bit talky and slow.
I also picked up The Kobayashi Maru in a used bookstore, and that was a great book as well.
So, there's 2 recommendations for ya!
BJ