Once more, the folks at the excellent Trek.FM podcast site have asked me to come back and chat to them some more about my Star Trek writing, and this time I'm talking about my new Star Trek: The Next Generation novella The Stuff of Dreams, available now in eBook format.
Matthew Rushing and his co-host Christopher Jones presents the Literary Treks podcast discussing Star Trek novels and comics, and if you're a fan of the "expanded universe" of Trek fiction, their regular show features an in-depth an thoughtful dissection of the stories beyond the screen.
It all started years ago with an idea revolving around that unusual spatial anomaly in Generations. It ended with the commissioning of a Next Generation novella called The Stuff of Dreams.
In
this episode of Literary Treks we’re joined by James Swallow to talk
about his new story that centers on Captain Jean-Luc Picard and goes a
long way—in just 94 pages—toward fleshing out the inner workings of one
of Starfleet’s greatest captains.
Spoilers abound in this interview, so make sure you read the novella first...
Once again, thanks for Matt and Chris for having me on the show! Check out the interview Here (starting at the 43:42 mark; I had a cold, so I apologise for sounding a little stuffed-up) or subscribe to Literary Treks via iTunes Here.
Here's the latest 'Coming Soon' update on my forthcoming projects and events and stuff:
Burden of Duty - CD release of a Horus Heresy audio drama for Black Library. 9th April.
Enigma - A novel in the Tannhauser universe for Fantasy Flight Games. April.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut - an enhanced & expanded edition of the 2011 videogame for the WiiU platform. May 7th
Horus Heresy Weekender - Horus Heresy book event in Nottingham. 18th-19th May.
The Best of Hammer And Bolter Volume Two - A Warhammer 40,000 collection including reprints of my short story "Redeemed" and the chapbook "Bloodline". June 20th
Doctor Who: Shockwave - An original audio drama featuring the 7th Doctor, part of the Destiny of the Doctor anniversary series from Big Finish Productions. July.
Nine Worlds - Multi-genre GeekFest event in London. 9th-11th August.
Space Marines: The Omnibus - A Warhammer 40,000 collection featuring reprints of my stories "The Returned" and "Heart of Rage". September 10th
Star Trek The Fall: The Poisoned Chalice - a Star Trek novel for Pocket Books, volume #4 in The Fall miniseries. Late 2013.
Blake's 7 The Liberator Chronicles: The Hard Road - Part of Big Finish's upcoming Blake's 7 audio box-set series. TBC 2014.
This week, my new Star Trek The Next Generation eBook novella The Stuff of Dreams went
live, and it's available now for Kindle users from Amazon, for iPad via
iBooks, on Nook, Kobo and pretty much every kind of padd-like device
you might wish to have it on.
When Captain Picard is summoned
back to the mysterious space-time phenomenon known as the nexus, he and
his crew become embroiled in a desperate plot to rewrite history, no
matter what the cost.
As I noted downblog, The Stuff of Dreams centres on Picard and acts as a return of sorts to Star Trek Generations. The novella's picks up after the events of the Cold Equations trilogy by David Mack (and contains spoilers for those books).
I'm
pleased to say reader response has been pretty strong so far, and in
the weeks ahead I'm going to be discussing this story on a couple of Star Trek podcasts, so more on that to come...
A few posts downblog I mentioned musician Alexander Norman (aka ADN Compositions) who had been inspired by my Horus Heresy book Fear To Tread to create an epic track based on the events of the novel; and now he's done it again, this time with a piece called "To The Brink", with inspiration taken from my first Horus Heresy tale The Flight of the Eisenstein. It's pretty damn cool.
Check it out here!
Here's March's 'Coming Soon' update on future projects and events:
Star Trek The Next Generation: The Stuff of Dreams - eBook novella for Pocket Books. 26th March.
Burden of Duty - CD release of a Horus Heresy audio drama for Black Library. 9th April.
Enigma - A novel in the Tannhauser universe for Fantasy Flight Games. April.
Horus Heresy Weekender - Horus Heresy book event in Nottingham. 18th-19th May.
The Best of Hammer And Bolter Volume Two - A Warhammer 40,000 collection including reprints of my short story "Redeemed" and the chapbook "Bloodline". June 20th
Doctor Who: Shockwave - An original audio drama featuring the 7th Doctor, part of the Destiny of the Doctor anniversary series from Big Finish Productions. July.
Nine Worlds - Multi-genre GeekFest event in London. 9th-11th August.
Space Marines: The Omnibus - A Warhammer 40,000 collection featuring reprints of my stories "The Returned" and "Heart of Rage". September 10th
Star Trek The Fall: The Poisoned Chalice - a Star Trek novel for Gallery Books, volume #4 in The Fall miniseries. Late 2013.
Blake's 7 The Liberator Chronicles: The Hard Road - Part of Big Finish's upcoming Blake's 7 audio box-set series. TBC 2014.
