{"id":287,"date":"2010-04-16T11:08:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/peter-david-marathon"},"modified":"2019-07-29T13:10:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T13:10:29","slug":"peter-david-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2010\/04\/16\/peter-david-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter David Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editorial notes<\/strong>: This post was found in ‘Draft’ mode in the original blog and may be incomplete. It is published here in its original state. It was last updated on 16\/04\/2010<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Now that I have a queue of posts scheduled I thought I could afford to start something new: a focus on a particular author. I decided to do Peter David. A caveat should be noted right here at the start: this will not cover David’s entire Star Trek bibliography, rather it will (somewhat unintentionally) cover only his works through the 1990s.<\/p>\n

Books were chosen by the following criteria: (1) I had not already covered them on this site; (2) they are based on one of the television series (hence I am not covering any of his many novels set in the New Frontier <\/em>series); (3) he must be the sole author. I wanted five books, and I wanted to represent at least each series once. I ended up choosing:<\/p>\n

– The Siege<\/em> – which is only single-author\u00a0 DS9 <\/em>novel (at this time)<\/p>\n

– The Rift<\/em> – which is one of two single-author TOS<\/em> novels. This won over the other (namely The Captain’s Daughter<\/em>) because, quite frankly, the blurb sounded better.<\/p>\n

– Imzadi<\/em> and Imzadi II<\/em> – I was originally intending to dismiss the sequel, but it was written in 1999 and so would give my “marathon” a bit more breadth. Double or Nothing<\/em> by David was also published in 1999, but was excluded for being book five of a series.<\/p>\n

– Q-Squared<\/em> – this was chosen because it seemed right to have at least one of the Q novels (the other being Q-in-Law<\/em>), and being published in 1994, it somewhat<\/em> helped balance the distribution of years<\/p>\n

Reviews will be posted in chronological order of publishing, starting with The Rift<\/em>. A recap will be posted after the last review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editorial notes: This post was found in ‘Draft’ mode in the original blog and may be incomplete. It is published here in its original state. It was last updated on 16\/04\/2010 Now that I have a queue of posts scheduled I thought I could afford to start something new: a focus on a particular author. 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