What are good Trek/Scifi books to read?

[Quantum-Charles]

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.

[Rico]

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

[Quantum-Charles]

Hey,

Thanks Rico. I will definitely follow up on the Titan series.   It would be cool to follow Capt. Riker.

[Bromptonboy]

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.

[psikeyhackr]

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

I couldn't stand Reynold's Revelation Space.

This review most closely matches my opinion:

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

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

[wraith1701]

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

[celestialteapot]

'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

[Feathers]

And here I was (post-Voyager) thinking that the dinosaurs of Earth had sent explorers out from there to explore other planets :)

[Captain BJ Wanlund]

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