For everybody who asked: Star Trek: New Frontier: No Limits will be out in trade paperback in October, 2003. Pre-order now and be the first on your block to get:
Introduction by Peter David
Mackenzie Calhoun: “Loose Ends” by Dayton Ward
Elizabeth Shelby: “All that Glisters…” by Loren L. Coleman
Zak Kebron: “Waiting for G’Doh, or, How I Learned to Stop Moving and Hate People” by David Mack
Robin Lefler: “Lefler’s Logs” by Robert Greenberger
Morgan Primus: “Alice, on the Edge of Night” by Ilsa J. Bick
Soleta: “Revelations” by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Si Cwan: “Turning Point” by Josepha Sherman
Selar: “‘Q’-uandary” by Terri Osborne
Burgoyne 172: “Oil and Water” by Robert Jeschonek
Mark McHenry: “Singularity” by Christina F. York
Arex: “The Road to Edos” by Kevin Dilmore
D’ndai of Calhoun: “A Lady of Xenex” by Peg Robinson
U.S.S. Excalibur: “Making a Difference” by Mary Scott-Wiecek
Katerina Mueller: “Performance Appraisal” by Allyn Gibson
Xant: “Redemption” by Glenn Hauman and Lisa Sullivan
Soleta: “Out of the Frying Pan” by Susan Shwartz
Burgoyne 172: “Through the Looking Glass” by Susan Wright
Calhoun & Shelby: “A Little Getaway” by Peter David
The Star Trek: New Frontier Timeline, compiled by Keith R.A. DeCandido
“A Little Getaway” is the story of Calhoun and Shelby’s honeymoon on Xenex, and the rest– well, you’ll have to wait a bit.
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Wow – great lineup of authors!
With the sequel to Knight Life due in August, the new Apropos due sometime in Aug/Sept? (going off the intro to the last book), 2 New Frontier books (one hardcover, one mass paperback), and now this one…that is some serious reading.
I can’t wait. 🙂
Just realized…there is not a Xyon story 🙁 — Maybe PAD has something else in mind for the son of Calhoun.
With a line up like that, the book’s bound to sell big time.
But then, what do you do for an encore?
Even with the line-up of stories, it’s the timeline that I’m most interested in. With so long to wait between books, something along the lines of The Star Trek Chronology would save me considerable “pause and reflect” time with each new story.
Now, any chance that one of these authors has changed the registries of the Galaxy-class Excalibur and Trident? =P
encore? i think he’ll need to recover first. but, how about another comic book? quite liked double time.
ooh evil debt card acquired i can purchase these ahead of what nz gets them 😛
xyon could get his own little spin off series 😛
there quite a few short stories already in that list. how long are they going to be?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t “A Little Getaway” the same story that appeared in the Star Trek Gateways anthology?
Is that David “Kabuki” Mack who is doing the Zak Kebron story?
“Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t “A Little Getaway” the same story that appeared in the Star Trek Gateways anthology?”
Nope, that was “Death After Life.”
“Is that David “Kabuki” Mack who is doing the Zak Kebron story?”
Nope, different David Mack.
Corey
So, are there gonna be any Kol’ker worshippers in this one? I remember this bit fromt he TOS comics Peter did and a few of the books, I think, but I never got where it came from. I just thought it was funny.
There are indeed quite a few stories planned. Of how many pages will the paperback be comprised? I just finished reading Peter’s first book of Starfleet academy: Worfs first adventure.
A lot of familiar persons from the new frontier series were being used like Soleta, Zak Kebron and Marc mcHenry. Was this series a tryout for New Frontier, or did Peter find it a waste of characters. Although it was a very short story (117 pages including some well done sketches) it was quite entertaining.
No Xyon, no M’Ress, no Gleau, no Janos, no Kalinda (though we do see her in the Si Cwan story). Such is the way the cookie crumbles.
The David Mack who wrote the Kebron story is not the Kabuki guy. It is, however, the David Mack who wrote The Starfleet Survival Guide, cowrote the DS9 episodes “Starship Down” and “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” cowrote the S.C.E. eBook Invincible, and wrote the S.C.E. eBook Wildfire.
The Starfleet Academy books that introduced Kebron, Soleta, and McHenry were published in 1993, a good four years prior to New Frontier‘s debut. When it came time to come up with a crew for NF, Peter, presumably, decided to reuse those characters, all grow’d up, as it were. *grin*
—KRAD
When it came time to come up with a crew for NF, Peter, presumably, decided to reuse those characters, all grow’d up, as it were.
But not Tania Tobias..sigh..oh poor Tania, how we miss her.
So, are there gonna be any Kol’ker worshippers in this one?
Kolk’r and some of his worshippers are at least mentioned in the Xant story. Yes, it’s stirring religious debate in a Star Trek story– whoulda thunk?
Okay, it’s been a long time since I read through all the books (with new stuff coming out, it’s probably time to reread the whole thing), so someone please forgive my mental lapse and remind me who Xant is.
Paul F. P. Pogue
Xant is the god worshipped by those always-fun Redeemers. Their famous chant goes, “We are darkness; Xant is light. We are cold; Xant is heat.” And so on until you want to throttle them.
I’ve always wanted someone to run into these guys and reply with, “You are creamy, Xant is crunchy. We GET it!”
As for where Kolk’r came from, that’d be a Tuckerization of one Rich Kolker, a long time friend of Peter dating back to his pre-pro fan days.
Tuckerization is the use of a friend’s name as the name of a fictional character. Peter’s been known to do this a few times in various Trek comics and novels….
Adm. Thomas Y. Galloway, Commander Starbase 24, for example. 🙂 Classic Trek time period though, so don’t expect him to show up in New Frontier.
a) All hail whoever brought Loren over! (Now I just hope you didn’t scare him away!)
b) Will there be any Wobblies–er, sorry, Redeemers–around? Or just Xant?
c) Perhaps Tania might be the Trident‘s chief engineer, hmm?
Tom: Considering that I had a story proposal in where Adm. Galloway, Meyer, Boyajian, and two different Dr. Haumans meeting, under the watchful visage of Kolk’r– well, we should all consider ourselves lucky.
a) All hail whoever brought Loren over! (Now I just hope you didn’t scare him away!)
That would be me. *grin* Loren’s doing a Star Trek: S.C.E. story for me, and I was the one who pointed him at this anthology as well.
But not Tania Tobias..sigh..oh poor Tania, how we miss her.
Heh heh heh.
—KRAD
Glenn, probably just as well. Sgt. Roger Tang, Admiral Karen Williams, and Starfleet Academy Professor Tim Lynch’d be after you for leaving them out. 🙂 Or, more dangerously, Roger’d go after Jeff Meyer up in Seattle and Tim and Karen’d go after me in the Bay Area for being included. 🙂
Zak Kebron: “Waiting for G’Doh, or, How I Learned to Stop Moving and Hate People” by David Mack
I don’t know about anybody else, but I’d be spending the 11 bucks for the title of this story alone. *sigh* It still saddens me that Glenn Hauman’s Meyer and Boyajian (Whose origin I finally tracked down. Ain’t Google great?) story was rejected.
well i’ll definitely be shelling out the $19.95 or $24.95 for this book. thank xant that my sister gets me 30% discounts 😛 otherwise i’d be very poor now indeed
Is “trade paperback” the same as MMPB (mass market paperback), or is this one of the taller books? (I’ve come across TPB as a reprinted set of comics, but not in this context.)
Trade paperbacks are the taller books, like the Strange New Worlds books. The binding is supposedly more durable so the books will last longer, making it the preferred format for literary fiction. Read into that what you will.
Trade paperback is about 6″ x 9″, size-wise. All the Trek anthologies to date (the six Strange New Worlds volumes, Enterprise Logs, The Lives of Dax) had their first editions printed in this form, and the other two forthcoming anthologies (DS9: Prophecy and Change in September and Tales of the Dominion War in July 2004) will be in that format as well.
—KRAD
“Tales of the Dominion War” will be a welcome read…I’d like to see things from the POV of the shipyards. Combat fatigue is one thing, but can you imagine the kind of pressure the guys at Utopia Planitia (and other UFP shipyards) were under to crank out and refurbish battle-ready starships?
Okay, help me out here.
When is the finish to “Being Human” going to be out?
It has to be soon, right?
Right?
The next two New Frontier novels are due out in October, I believe.
So, this fall we will have a LOT of New Frontier to read! Which will be a nice change of pace after the extended break.
October is zero hour for all the new NF books. *grin* Gods Above, which will finish the story begun in Being Human, Stone and Anvil, a hardcover novel that will, among other things, chronicle Calhoun’s time at the Academy, and No Limits will all be published in October 2003.
—KRAD
any idea on when the hardcover one be out in paperback? actually how long after something comes out in hardcover will it be seen in paperback?
cheers
As a general rule, paperbacks usually come out between nine months and a year after the hardcover. Expect to see the paperback of Stone and Anvil some time between the late summer and fall of 2004.
—KRAD
To hëll with waiting 9 month or a year for the paperback I’ll buy the hard cover.
Zak Kebron: “Waiting for G’Doh, or, How I Learned to Stop Moving and Hate People” by David Mack
My favorite title. 🙂
Arex: “The Road to Edos” by Kevin Dilmore
Who the heck is Arex?
U.S.S. Excalibur: “Making a Difference” by Mary Scott-Wiecek
There’s a story about the ship itself?
I’ve always wanted someone to run into these guys and reply with, “You are creamy, Xant is crunchy. We GET it!”
LOL! I like that.
Also, does that mean Xant tastes great, they are less filling?
“Or, more dangerously, Roger’d go after Jeff Meyer up in Seattle”
Nah. Just make him watch an hour of my sketch comedy group. Known to cause mental rot and extreme emotional distress to sentient forms of life [up to and including Starfleet redshirts who manage to survive five year stints with Kirk….]
Who the heck is Arex?
Arex was a character created for the animated Star Trek in the 70’s, who was then introduced into New Frontier via temporal anomaly. He’s currently serving as the helmsman of the Trident under Captain Shelby.
The ultimate line of Redeemer chant would be, “Xant is apropos. We are irrelevant.”
Thanks for the info on Arex.
The ultimate line of Redeemer chant would be, “Xant is apropos. We are irrelevant.”
Great, now I’ve got this image of Xant as a half-lame semi-hero with a funky staff.
Hi,
Just wondering since New Frontier so fantastic is there any chance at all that the books will be made into a show. I mean the entire thing is perfect for one. I know that Paramount has a rule against the books being cannon to the series, but at this rate of what the book have become, they are cannon unto themselves and i was wondering if there was going to be a series based on New Frontier at all. Please let me know. Heck I’m still waiting for the Library to put through the last two books that were writen, I read No Limits, however I found out that it came after the other ones.
Being a startrek fan for many years i have only recently became a new frontier reader, after originaly dismissing it as an unknown chapter in the startrek universe.
How wrong i was, from reading my 1st new frontier book (admitedly from somewhere in the middle of the series backwards) i became hooked.
From the characters to the storylines to the humor make it not only one of the best novelised series i have ever read but in my opinion it would make a damm good tv series also. Maybe thats where paramount has gone wrong & mabey startrek would not be being cancelled had they thought of this.
I also wondered was mackenzey calhoun’s look fantasy or based on anyone? the picture of him on the front of the new limits book is coincidencely a dead ringer for my self except for the scar of course.