Doctor Who: The Darksmith Legacy preview
It’s a Thursday evening in November, and Unreality SF has braved the cold (and the strange drunken man on the Tube) to visit the Earls Court Doctor Who Exhibition in London. When we arrive, the venue...
View ArticleThe Alternative Factors – IDW’s Star Trek comics by the numbers
Every month, Diamond Comic Distributors release the sale figures for the top 300 comic books they sell via the Direct Market, which are then conveniently posted for your reading pleasure on John...
View ArticleCrossing a New Frontier
In 1993 the creative staff at Star Trek took a leap of faith and created a show that was not based on board the U.S.S. Enterprise, or even on any starship. It was this creation of Deep Space Nine that...
View ArticleDouble or Nothing – Trek does Bond
In Double or Nothing, a New Frontier novel by Peter David, Star Trek does Bond. Now, I know what you’re thinking, Trek already parodied James Bond in the classic DS9 episode Our Man Bashir. In fact,...
View ArticleEnterprise – boldly going where no books have gone before
In 2001, Paramount released the newest adventure into the future: Enterprise. The series was set a century before the Enterprise NCC-1701 of James T. Kirk, and was the first prequel series of Trek....
View ArticleOnce a month
Early in 2005, Pocket Books senior editor Marco Palmieri announced that, as of June, there would only be one Star Trek mass-market paperback book released per month, rather than two as had been the...
View ArticleBook-only series
With the start of two new ongoing book-only series (Vanguard, Titan) this year, for the first time there are more of them than series directly based on Star Trek TV shows. We now have the five series...
View ArticleCanon
Nearly as long as Star Trek tie-in novels have been in existence, the word “canon” has caused discussions and confusion amongst fandom, although in a perfect world canon shouldn’t even concern the...
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