DS9: The Never Ending Sacrifice

[altariel]

Pocket Books announced their upcoming Star Trek schedule at Shore Leave last weekend, and if you scroll right down that page to September 2009, you'll see my name attached to a forthcoming DS9 novel called The Never Ending Sacrifice: "Continuation of the post-TV DS9 saga with emphasis on the Cardassians."

The Never Ending Sacrifice is the title of a book that Garak called "the finest Cardassian novel ever written". I'd better not disappoint.

In the meantime, you can read me coming across as grumpy in an interview with SFX about franchise fiction and shared universes.

Comments

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

Oh well done! What great news! And a great title. "The finest Cardassian novel ever written" - any idea what the others are like?

I enjoyed the interview - not at all grumpy.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yay!

We know a fair bit about Cardassian literature: my own particular favourites are enigma tales: Cardassian mystery stories in which the reader has to figure out not which of the characters is guilty, but exactly what each character is guilty of. Very Catholic.

The Never Ending Sacrifice is an example of the repetitive epic, in which plot elements and themes repeat themselves. In TNES, seven generations of a Cardassian family all live selfless lives of devotion to the state. Garak loved it, Bashir thought it was boring :-)

Cardassians have speculative fiction too: Meditations on a Crimson Shadow is about a future war with the Klingons.

Bet you're sorry you asked! ;-)