Best Star Trek Novels Novels & Stories

“Those other novels were commercial techno-thrillers, video game and television series tie-ins. Not classic, epic space operas . . . which Forever War is. It’s a great novel. You’ll get no argument from me. But they don’t really know what to do with it, which I warned you about three years ago.” “Fine. We’ll solve that Tuesday morning, or we’ll bid Franklin and Hammer-Fiske sayonara.” Jim clucked his teeth with his tongue and looked away into the snow-speckled night, debating what to say next. Apparently, Gavin wasn’t that drunk, because he asked in a tight voice, “Hey. You’re not telling me something. What is it?” Jim fought with himself for several more seconds, then said regretfully, “Lis

He turned to scan the old, pressed-wood shelf to his right, the kind found at K-Mart or Wal-Mart and not requiring any real skill to assemble. He unconsciously rolled the eight ball in his hands as he scanned the shelves. These books offered a trip down memory lane. His teenage collection of Star Wars novels. At one time he could’ve made the proud declaration he owned every one. Even the hard-to-find Han Solo novels from the late seventies. He’d stopped collecting them halfway through college, though. Now he owned only a fraction of the franchise’s backlist.

Each arc has its own set of influences, and I hope much of it came through in the writing. For example, Arc 6 (chapters 161 - 230) was thick with Star Trek influences. The biggest of which being Wrath of Khan (imo the best Star Trek story to ever exist), and its thematic exploration of toxic patriarchy. Khan was a wholly controlling male father figure who never cared about his people, or even his wife - all he cared about was his legacy and his image and him “winning”. I hope you saw similar parallels between Khan and ‘Father’ Grenn. One of the big things I wanted to highlight all throughout the novel was this idea of Good vs Evil.

“Okay, so my favorite author is Tom Clancy. His early stuff is really good, but he got increasingly self-indulgent with his later novels.” “One of his earlier novels, then,” I said. Andre looked legitimately excited now. “There are three options, all of which are great. His best written novels are probably Hunt for Red October or Clear and Present Danger.” “I didn’t ask for the best written,” I clarified. “I asked for your favorite book.” He grinned widely. “I’m glad you made that distinction, because my favorite book of his is Red Storm Rising. It’s the second book he published.” “It’s not a depressing book about nuclear war, is it?”