Keith DeCandido offered news today that Paramount has approved the latest project in which Kevin and I will be taking part. Because I'm a lazy bastard, I'm just pasting his original announcement as posted to various online venues:
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Pocket Books will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of Star Trek in a variety of ways, and I can now announce what the eBook line will be doing:
Mere Anarchy will be a six-eBook miniseries that will cover the entire history of the original series. The non-aligned planet Mestiko suffers a grave disaster, and the Enterprise is brought in to help. But the disaster will continue to have consequences throughout the next two-plus decades, both for the natives of Mestiko and for the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise...
The eBooks will break down as follows:
Book 1 by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore (August 2006). The authors of A Time to Sow, A Time to Harvest, and Vanguard: Summon the Thunder kick off the miniseries with a tale taking place just prior to "Where No Man Has Gone Before."
Book 2 by Mike W. Barr (September 2006). Best known for his stellar run on DC's first Star Trek comic in the 1980s, Mike's story will take place during the historic five-year mission.
Book 3 by Dave Galanter (October 2006). This installment will take place during the so-called "lost years" between the TV show and The Motion Picture, to be authored by the man behind SCE: Bitter Medicine, "Eleven Hours Out" in Tales of the Dominion War, and Maximum Warp.
Book 4 by Christopher L. Bennett (February 2007). Christopher will revisit the post-Motion Picture era that he covered in Ex Machina with this portion of the storyline.
Book 5 by Howard Weinstein (March 2007). Another veteran of DC's Trek comics, Howie's tale will take place in the gap between The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country on the Enterprise-A.
Book 6 by Margaret Wander Bonanno (April 2007). The miniseries will conclude with this post-Generations-prelude story by the author of Strangers from the Sky, Catalyst of Sorrows, and Burning Dreams.
The object will be to cover the breadth of the original series' history, both on the small and big screens, from the days of Gary Mitchell, Dr. Piper, and Lee Kelso, all the way to the aftermath of Jim Kirk being swallowed by the Nexus, with stops everywhere in between.
More details, including the individual eBook titles, some more on the plot, and cover art, will be forthcoming over the next few months.
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And yes, to say that I'm excited about working with the people on this list is an understatement of galactic proportions. Somebody pinch me, cuz I must be dreamin'!
posted by Dayton Ward # 4:19 PM 
