Monday, July 26, 2021

Positively Trek Book Club: Shadows Have Offended with Cassandra Rose Clarke!

 Star Trek: The Next Generation
Shadows Have Offended
Exclusive interview with author Cassandra Rose Clarke!

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It’s been many years since TNG novels set during the series’ run have been published with the post-Nemesis continuity taking precedence. However, thanks to a newcomer to the Star Trek fiction universe, all that has changed with a brand-new novel set during season seven of Star Trek: The Next Generation!

In this episode of the Positively Trek Book Club, hosts Bruce and Dan speak with author Cassandra Rose Clarke about her new TNG novel Shadows Have Offended! We discuss her prior works and how she came to write a Star Trek novel, the focus on Troi, Crusher, and Worf, her love of Betazed and its culture, Ambassador Lwaxana Troi, the mysteries at the heart of the novel, and wrap up with what she is working on now and where she can be found online.







Previous episode: The Lost Era: Well of Souls

Friday, July 16, 2021

Positively Trek Book Club: Well of Souls

 Star Trek: The Lost Era
Well of Souls
By Ilsa J. Bick

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The Lost Era continues! It’s 2336, and these are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise-C. Everything we know about this ship and her crew in canon comes from TNG’s “Yesterday’s Enterprise.” But Captain Rachel Garrett commanded her for many years, and there are many stories to be told about those missions.

Join us for this episode of the Positively Trek Book Club as hosts Dan and Bruce discuss The Lost Era: Well of Souls by Ilsa J. Bick. We talk about the many characters both old and new in this novel, guilt and trauma, a complicated plot involving crime syndicates and secrecy, the first duty of every Starfleet officer, and wrap up with our final thoughts and ratings for Well of Souls.







Previous episode: The Original Series: Living Memory

Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Release Day! TNG: Shadows Have Offended

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Shadows Have Offended
by Cassandra Rose Clarke


It's new Star Trek book day once again! This month, we have a newcomer to the world of Trek fiction: author Cassandra Rose Clarke, with her Star Trek: The Next Generation novel Shadows Have Offended. A novel set during season seven of TNG, Shadows Have Offended marks the first return to series-era TNG novels in a very long time!

Check out below for the back-cover blurb and links to purchase from Amazon!




Publisher's description:
An original novel based on the acclaimed Star Trek TV series!

The USS Enterprise has been granted the simple but unavoidable honor of ferrying key guests to Betazed for a cultural ceremony. En route, sudden tragedy strikes a Federation science station on the isolated planet Kota, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard has no qualms sending William Riker, Data, and Chief Medical Officer Beverly Crusher to investigate. But what begins as routine assignments for the two parties soon descends into chaos: Picard, Worf, and Deanna Troi must grapple with a dangerous diplomatic crisis as historic artifacts are stolen in the middle of a high-profile ceremony…while nothing is as it seems on Kota. A mounting medical emergency coupled with the science station’s failing technology—and no hope of rescue—has Doctor Crusher racing against time to solve a disturbing mystery threatening the lives of all her colleagues….


Purchase Shadows Have Offended:

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E-book (Kindle): Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk


Next Release: Picard: Rogue Elements