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Publications [ ]

Novelizations [ ].

• Star Trek 1 by James Blish
• Star Trek 2 by James Blish
• Star Trek 3 by James Blish
• Star Trek 4 by James Blish
• Star Trek 5 by James Blish
• Star Trek 6 by James Blish
• Star Trek 7 by James Blish
• Star Trek 8 by James Blish
• Star Trek 9 by James Blish
• Star Trek 10 by James Blish
• Star Trek 11 by James Blish
• Star Trek 12 by James Blish and J.A. Lawrence
• Mudd's Angels by J.A. Lawrence (reprinted as Mudd’s Enterprise in May 1978)
• Star Trek: The Classic Episodes 1 (reprint of Season 1 novelizations)
• Star Trek: The Classic Episodes 2 (reprint of Season 2 novelizations)
• Star Trek: The Classic Episodes 3 (reprint of Season 3 novelizations)
• Star Trek: The Classic Episodes (selected reprints from Star Trek 1-12 , published by Random House )

Original fiction [ ]

• Spock Must Die! by James Blish
• Star Trek: The New Voyages edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath
• Spock, Messiah! by Theodore R. Cogswell and Charles A. Spano, Jr.
• The Price of the Phoenix by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath
• Planet of Judgment by Joe Haldeman
• Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath
• Vulcan! by Kathleen Sky
• The Starless World by Gordon Eklund
• Trek to Madworld by Stephen Goldin
• World Without End by Joe Haldeman
• The Fate of the Phoenix by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath
• Devil World by Gordon Eklund
• Perry's Planet by Jack C. Haldeman II
• The Galactic Whirlpool by David Gerrold
• Death's Angel by Kathleen Sky

"Fotonovels" [ ]

• Star Trek Fotonovels

Technical publications [ ]

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Connections [ ]

• Bantam Books article at Memory Alpha , the wiki for canon Star Trek .
• Bantam Books article at Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia.
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Star Trek Series

Star trek books in order.

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• Spock Must Die!
• Spock, Messiah!
• The Price of the Phoenix
• Planet of Judgment
• The Starless World
• Trek to Madworld
• World Without End
• The Fate of the Phoenix
• Devil's World
• Perry's Planet
• The Galactic Whirlpool
• Death's Angel

Short Stories

• The New Voyages
• Intersection Point
• The Enchanted Pool
• Visit to Weird Planet Revisited
• The Face on the Barroom Floor
• The Hunting
• The Winged Dreamers
• Mind-Sifter
• Sonnet From the Vulcan: Omicron Ceti Three
• The New Voyages 2
• The Patient Parasites
• In the Maze
• Marginal Existence
• The Procrustean Pitard
• The Sleeping God
• Elegy for Charlie
• Mudd's Angels
• The Business, As Usual, During Altercations

Short Novelizations

• Star Trek 1
• Charlie-X (Charlie's Law)
• Dagger of the Mind
• The Man Trap (The Unreal McCoy)
• Balance of Terror
• The Naked Time
• The Conscience of the King
• Star Trek 2
• A Taste of Armegeddon
• Tomorrow is Yesterday
• Errand of Mercy
• Court-Martial
• Operation- Annihilate!
• The City on the Edge of Forever
• Star Trek 3
• The Trouble With Tribbles
• Spectre of the Gun (The Last Gunfight)
• The Doomsday Machine
• Assignment: Earth
• Mirror, Mirror
• Friday's Child
• Star Trek 4
• All Our Yesterdays
• The Devil in the Dark
• Journey to Babel
• The Menagerie
• The Enterprise Incident
• A Piece of the Action
• Star Trek 5
• Whom God's Destroy
• The Tholian Web
• Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
• This Side of Paradise
• Turnabout Intruder
• Requiem for Methuselah
• The Way to Eden
• Star Trek 6
• The Savage Curtain
• The Lights of Zetar
• By Any Other Name
• The Cloud Minders
• The Mark of Gideon
• Star Trek 7
• Who Mourns for Adonais?
• The Changeling
• The Paradise Syndrome
• Metamorphosis
• The Deadly Years
• Elaan of Troyius
• Star Trek 8
• Spock's Brain
• The Enemy Within
• Where No Man Has Gone Before
• Wolf in the Fold
• For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
• Star Trek 9
• Return to Tomorrow
• The Ultimate Computer
• That Which Survives
• The Return of the Archons
• The Immunity Syndrome
• Star Trek 10
• The Alternative Factor
• The Galileo Seven
• Is There in Truth No Beauty?
• A Private Little War
• The Omega Glory
• Star Trek 11
• What Are Little Girls Made Of?
• The Squire of Gothos
• Wink of an Eye
• Bread and Circuses
• Day of the Dove
• Plato's Stepchildren
• Star Trek 12
• Patterns of Force
• The Gamesters of Triskelion
• And the Children Shall Lead
• The Corbomite Maneuver
• Shore Leave
• Mudd's Women

Photostory Adaptations

• A Taste of Armageddon
• The Galileo 7

Star Trek Books In Order

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Star Trek is a series of episodes initially divided into three seasons and produced by America based producer Gene Roddenberry which was an experiment of its own kind and later set the legend for many people. Star Trek is highly appraised by many people around the world for its futuristic thinking as per the time and era it was created in. There are huge crowds at its big conventions where people can meet their favorite stars and discuss episodes and theories with other people. The genre of science fiction got a new meaning through this show and the ideas used in each episode. While initially this show was not quite famous and accepted widely it stopped producing once CBS cancelled it in 1969 after which the show got quite famous through a process known as syndicate broadcasting where a channel can buy the original rights of a television show to broadcast it as per their timings. Soon it grew famous and remained a legacy throughout the 70’s becoming a huge hit and a cult classic with people known as trekkies devoted to each and every aspect of the show and having great knowledge about it. Such people regularly attend the meetings and events of Star Trek and maintain an amazing fan base for the series at all times.

Storyline of the books: The story of the episodes of the Star Trek book series originally released are adventures of the starship which travels through a part of the milky way galaxy and is known as the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701). The crew members aboard the space ship are the leading captain of the crew James T. Kirk whose role is played by William Shatner who became quite famous for his acting through the show along with other cast once the show gained popularity. Other members of the crew are First officer and science officer Spock played by Leonard Nimoy and is often compared with the crew’s captain Kirk, another crew member is the chief medical officer Leonard McCoy who is played by DeForest Kelly.

The storyline of the show is based about the year 2260’s and the time is measured in startime in the series. The initial series got the name after its fame as Star Trek: The Original Series so that it always stands out amongst the massive fan along with media franchise. Captain Kirk often states the purpose of the series in the beginning of the episodes in the world renowned series by introducing the show as voyages of the Starship Enterprise and its mission for five years is to go on an exploratory mission on different planets in order to find and research them and seek out new life and civilizations primarily by going where no human has gone previously.

Creation of Star Trek: Gene Roddenberry, finished drafting a short plot for a series based on science fiction on March 11th 1964, which he referred to as Star Trek and was set aboard a spaceship on the 23rd century. While his influences to the idea of Star Trek as accepted by Roddenberry himself include the stories featuring spaceship Space Beagle written by A. E. van Vogt along with Marathon which is a series of stories written by Eric Brand Russell along with the film Forbidden Planet launched in 1956.

While the works of Roddenberry are one of their kind and imprinted in history people have been seen debating his television series similar to a television series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger launched in 1956 which has similar elements to that of Star Trek along with a few technologies displayed on the show as well. While Roddenberry accepts deriving elements for his show from the Horatio Hornblower novels which depict a daring sea captain who goes on a journey for a noble purpose and overcomes various feats using his authority and daring and Roddenberry sometimes refers Captain Kirk by referring to him as Horatio Hornblower in Space.

Roddenberry had a good share of experience in writing successfully crafted television series which depicted his fine artistic skills through their popularity in the decades following 1960 and 1950. Except Star Trek: Deep Space Nine all the later movies based on Star Trek are based around the idea originally used by Roddenberry in the original series which depicted each episode as having a separate storyline contained within a single episode through a different adventure. In short the script was drafted such that each episode is a new adventure of the ship at a new location while their main motive remains carrying on at a slower pace. Thus, any person can view an episode as each episode has its own different story and is quite independent of others.

Books published in Star Trek: James Blish was the first person to write Star Trek books through short stories for each episode into one book. He wrote total 11 books based on the three seasons of original Star Trek episodes. The books were quite famous once the show gained popularity and Bantam Books republished Blish’s books in three volumes one for each season. There was an acknowledgement stating that after Star Trek 7 or Star Trek 8 the credit for writing Star Trek novels goes to his wife and mother J. A. Lawrence who ghost wrote the books for him. A short story written by Blish’s wife known as Mudd’s Angels was published with the book. The Star Trek books were published from 1967 to 1975 based on rough initial drafts for the show and initially they were not referenced to the show since James Blish was based in United Kingdom and the show had not yet been aired there.

With time the fans have grown for the show and books and people and experts often state the phenomenon of Star Trek as ever growing with time and people are found in huge crowds at the premiering of new episodes, movies, comics, books, graphic novels etc. at the Star Trek conventions. There are new experiments done by a variety of writer and a number of franchised shows for Star Trek have been released along with books over time. Many of the Star Trek books and comics along with shows cover the original show in an enhanced or detailed manner there are also a vivid variety of cases where people have based the book on a show or with their unique inputs. Some famous fan or company based books have also become the plotline of famous Star Trek movies or stories while some comics and book series of star trek are genuinely famous for their writing style and regular updates. Many of these franchised books do not relate to the original series in many aspects along with the plotline and there is a huge variety to choose from.

What to Choose: While there are a number of options available to the readers beginning with the initial novels of Blish are the best idea as it gives the starting plot of the story thought by the creator at that point. There are also a huge number of famous and appraised novels created by fans and other companies along with a wide array of books which grow in number each week and many of these books are quite impressive.

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Bantam Books

Bantam Books was an original publisher of for-profit Star Trek books .

Bantam Books was the second publisher given license to produce a series of original novels and episode novelizations based on the Star Trek franchise, starting in January 1967 and continuing until Paramount Pictures awarded the license to Pocket Books in 1979. Bantam's was not an exclusive license, as comics, technical publications and Star Trek: The Animated Series adaptations were published concurrently by Gold Key Comics and Ballantine Books . Despite the loss of the Star Trek license in 1979, due to lead times, Bantam continued to publish new novels until 1981, with Pocket Books refraining from issuing its own originals until after. In addition, Bantam retained the ability to reprint and reissue their existing titles, which they continued to do into the 1990s, with some books issued under new titles. [1]

Star Trek (all flavors) pro novels are now published by Pocket Books . Pocket acquired the license to publish Star Trek fiction in 1978 when Gulf+Western moved on creating a promotional tie-in for Star Trek: The Motion Picture . One of the more well-known editors for Pocket Books was John Ordover . He left that job in 2003.

Ballantine Books also ceased publishing Trek books in 1979.

Star Trek Publications

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• the foto novels
• Spock Must Die!
• Star Trek: The New Voyages
• Spock, Messiah!
• The Price of the Phoenix
• Planet of Judgment
• Mudd's Angels
• The Starless World
• Trek to Madworld
• World Without End
• The Fate of the Phoenix
• Devil World
• Perry's Planet
• The Galactic Whirlpool
• Death's Angel
• Let's calculate the 'score' for Bantam and see if they can be said to have 'won' the Fizzbin game so far. (1979)
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World Without End (Star Trek TOS) Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 1979

• Print length 150 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Bantam Books
• Publication date January 1, 1979
• ISBN-10 0553125834
• ISBN-13 978-0553125832
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam Books; 1st edition (January 1, 1979)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 150 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0553125834
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0553125832
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.4 ounces
• #154,868 in Science Fiction (Books)

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Joe haldeman.

Joe Haldeman began his writing career while he was still in the army. Drafted in 1967, he fought in the Central Highlands of Vietnam as a combat engineer with the Fourth Division. He was awarded several medals, including a Purple Heart. Haldeman sold his first story in 1969 and has since written over two dozen novels and five collections of short stories and poetry. He has won the Nebula and Hugo Awards for his novels, novellas, poems, and short stories, as well as the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Locus Award, the Rhysling Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. His works include The Forever War, Forever Peace, Camouflage, 1968, the Worlds saga, and the Marsbound series. Haldeman recently retired after many years as an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He and his wife, Gay, live in Florida, where he also paints, plays the guitar, rides his bicycle, and studies the skies with his telescope.

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Weird Star Trek Novels That Are Enjoyable To Read

I n February 1970, Bantam Books published the first original Star Trek novel. James Blish's Spock Must Die! received mixed reviews from critics, but it laid the foundation for many hundreds of further novels . Perhaps the golden era of Star Trek prose was under Pocket Books, who produced an ambitious continuation of TNG and DS9 long before Star Trek: Picard .

Some of the tie-in novels are good, some are bad, and some are just plain strange. From vanity projects to starship-sized plot holes, Star Trek's authors went where no one had gone before (and sometimes where they shouldn't have gone). Though they may be on the stranger side, here are a few books that fans of the franchise will doubtless enjoy.

The Enterprise War - John Jackson Miller

John Jackson Miller's 2019 novel answers a pertinent question: where was the Enterprise during Star Trek: Discovery 's Federation–Klingon War? Miller shows Pike's Enterprise caught in a different war between the Boundless and the Rengru, aliens who hope to use the starship to tip the scales in their favor.

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The Enterprise War has an exciting plot, but stumbles slightly when it comes to reconciling the Pike era with the rest of contemporary Trek. Spock's references to Michael Burnham seem out of place alongside obscure characters from Star Trek 's failed pilot, while the Enterprise 's saucer separation recalls TNG rather than TOS or Discovery . Miller's novel walks a fine line between anachronisms and tropes. The result is a weird blend of eras, but one that readers are sure to enjoy.

The Good That Men Do - Andy Mangels & Michael A. Martin

Few fans were impressed when Star Trek: Enterprise ended by killing off one of its crew. In terms of both scriptwriting and direction, the noble sacrifice of engineer Trip Tucker is an anticlimax. This shortcoming inspired authors Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin to consider an alternative: what if Tucker's death was a hoax?

RELATED: Star Trek: The Relationship Between Vulcans & Romulans, Explained

The Good That Men Do (2007) claims that Tucker never died; instead, he left the Enterprise to work for Section 31 . This coverup allowed him to investigate a new threat posed by the Romulans. The book holds a strange place in Star Trek canon: it is as much an apology as it is a novel, although the Romulans' machinations make for an entertaining read.

Disavowed - David Mack

While the Star Trek Relaunch series provided fans with some franchise highpoints, it had started to stumble by the time of David Mack's Disavowed (2014). Six years earlier, Mack had torn up the status quo with his Destiny trilogy, focusing on a massive Borg invasion . The trilogy is excellent—but its fallout left subsequent novels unsure of where to take the series.

Mack's story, centered on Julian Bashir, reinvents the Star Trek novel as a tense espionage thriller as the Starfleet doctor and Section 31 operative travels to the Mirror Universe to halt a scheme by the evil Breen. Mack's prose is propulsive, but Disavowed represents the Star Trek world at a crossroads. The book's weirdness lays not in its writing, but in its attempt to reinvigorate the series with a focus on espionage rather than exploration.

Broken Bow - Diane Carey

Star Trek 's writing has been the subject of parodies aplenty, from shows like The Orville to movies like Galaxy Quest . In 2020, the franchise itself got in on the fun, with cartoon series Lower Decks spoofing on Star Trek 's tropes. Yet Lower Decks was not the first time that Star Trek' s own writers took a swipe at the franchise. The 2001 novelization of "Broken Bow" derided the Star Trek: Enterprise episode it was meant to retell.

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Author Diane Carey wrote extensively for Star Trek 's novels (the hero of her 2000 novel Challenger was written to resemble Enterprise 's Scott Bakula, though the book predated his casting). Yet when it came to novelizing Bakula's first real adventure, Carey was so unimpressed with the script that she used the characters' internal monologues to criticize the story's plot. The author was allegedly blacklisted for her mischief, but she turned an otherwise by-the-numbers novelization into a sneaky practical joke.

A Singular Destiny - Keith R.A. DeCandido

Readers might expect a sequel to TNG and DS9 to feature a hero like Captain Picard, or a fan favorite like Kira Nerys. Yet although Keith R.A. DeCandido's 2009 novel does feature DS9 's Ezri Dax, its star is diplomat Sonek Pran, a wholly original character. This stylistic deviation allows A Singular Destiny to interrogate the state of the Relaunch universe . The Borg may be gone, but a new threat is rising in the form of the Typhon Pact, an alliance of several hostile states including the Breen and the Gorn.

Despite the scope of its universe, Star Trek can become bogged down by revisiting the same characters and tropes. DeCandido's novel bucks this trend, making this immersive political thriller an essential chapter in the Relaunch saga.

Fearful Symmetry - Olivia Woods

Viewers of DS9 may recall the episode "Second Skin," in which Bajoran Kira Nerys was disguised as a Cardassian. Fearful Symmetry claims that the woman that Kira impersonated, Iliana Ghemor, was also altered to look like Kira, but fell into the clutches of Gul Dukat , who imprisoned and abused her. Driven mad, the impostor plots her revenge in Olivia Woods' 2008 novel.

While it's odd that Dukat never mentioned his prisoner, the novel's true weirdness is its two-in-one physical format. Fearful Symmetry is made up of two narratives: the front cover depicts Kira, while the rear is an alternate cover showing Ghemor. Starting the book in one direction shows Kira's investigation into her duplicate, while starting in the opposite direction provides the troubled life of Ghemor. This parallel structuring allows the novel's form to mirror its content, a clever gimmick.

Killing Time - Della Van Hise

The possibility of a deeper, potentially romantic bond between Kirk and Spock has intrigued fans for decades (the term "slash fiction" is attributed to stories about the pair), but Star Trek 's writers were unwilling to offer any confirmation. Father of the franchise Gene Roddenberry was particularly opposed to the idea. He was displeased, to say the least, when author Della Van Hise snuck suggestive material into her 1985 novel.

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First editions of Killing Time (which involves the Romulans altering history to try and defeat the Federation) were recalled and destroyed, although some were purchased by fans. A revised edition removed the offending content. Rumors circulated that an even more explicit version existed, although Van Hise denied these claims. If nothing else, Killing Time demonstrates the importance of checking a book before it's sent to the printers.

The Return - Garfield Reeves-Steven & William Shatner

Actor Leonard Nimoy was so impressed by Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , in which his character died, that he asked for Spock to return from the dead . William Shatner, on the other hand, was so unimpressed by Kirk's death in Star Trek: Generations that he decided to take matters into his own hands, co-writing a series of novels in which a resurrected Kirk continues the fight against evil.

The resulting Shatnerverse (comprising ten novels by Shatner and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Steven) is generally considered non-canon even by novel fans, with some regarding it as an ego trip for Shatner. Kirk's transition into a quasi-Messianic figure certainly has all the hallmarks of a vanity project, as does his role in the total defeat of the Borg in 1996's The Return . The Shatnerverse novels may not fit into any version of canon aside from their own, but they represent an interesting diversion for those who like their books heavy on fan-service and light on common sense.

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World Without End

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World Without End is a Bantam TOS novel, written by Joe Haldeman , first published in February 1979 .

• 1.1 Chapter One
• 1.2 Chapter Two
• 1.3 Chapter Three
• 1.4 Chapter Four
• 2.1 Cover gallery
• 3 Characters
• 4.1 Timeline
• 5 External link

Summary [ ]

Chapter one [ ].

After Kirk records a log entry on the fact that the Enterprise is on a fairly unexciting trip, he joins Spock and Lt. Larousse in the officers' lounge , where they are engaged in a word game. Their reverie is interrupted as Uhura 's voice is heard paging yellow alert . There is a constructed world ahead, made with fantastic technology . A team of over 20 science and engineering specialists are called to an emergency meeting regarding the discovery in the briefing room .

Chapter Two [ ]

The scientists create a summary of their findings of the Chatalian world, which is a hollow planetoid which spins to create its own artificial gravity , and operates on a Bussard ramscoop drive system.

Chapter Three [ ]

An encounter team of five personnel, Kirk, McCoy , Larousse, Wilson and Moore assemble and beam to the Chatalian "surface". After experiencing universal translator difficulties, they are taken prisoner, but remain in contact with the ship.

Chapter Four [ ]

The bridge crew considers the complexities of Chatalian society, as reported by the landing party. They discover the wreck of a hundred-year old Klingon ship on the surface, Sulu leads a spacewalk to investigate. The crew manages to transcribe a translation of the Klingon log, describing the honorable suicides of the Klingon crew.

Background information [ ]

• The Bantam novel series have a plethora of different cover images, the English version of this novel has been released with four different covers, a new one for each subsequent printing. There have been three US printings by Bantam ( February 1979 , January 1985 and May 1993 ), and an overseas (UK, June 1995 ) edition from Titan Books .
• This is one of a very few Star Trek novels featuring a page of illustrations, a diagram of the artificial world is drawn on page 6.
• Author Joe Haldeman also wrote Planet of Judgment . World Without End is his second and final Star Trek novel.
• Although Klingons were eventually portrayed (in TNG ) as valuing honor and spirituality, and practicing ritual suicide , the depictions here of 22nd century Klingon priests and rituals are not quite identical.

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Characters [ ]

References [ ]

Timeline [ ].

• Mid- 2150s : The Klingon vessel crashes on Chatalia.
• Late- 2260s : The Enterprise is waylaid by Chatalia's magnetic field.

External link [ ]

• World Without End at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• 1 Rachel Garrett
• 3 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-G)