# Any good post DS9 novels out there? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-post-ds9-novels-out-there/593984 "2011-08-25T01:07:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-post-ds9-novels-out-there/593984/1 "2011-08-25T01:07:47Z")
Actually, I haven’t read _any_ DS9 novels. So I’ll take any suggestions if you think they’re worth reading. I am particularly interested in novels that took place after the show’s end. Thanks for any input. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-post-ds9-novels-out-there/593984/2 "2011-08-25T02:58:54Z")
DS9 spearheaded a new direction in Trek literature following the series finale. Before then, the vast majority of the books from all series were standalones, with related books mostly being from the same author or with limited multi-author mini-series. After the show went off the air, the novels started to form a continuing storyline, with some old characters, and a handful of new characters, and the first ten or so were fantastic, with storylines dealing with UFP/Dominion relations, the rebuilding of Cardassia, the future of Bajor, Mirror Universe intrigue, and dozens of other subplots about various characters. I think they are very much worth a read if you like DS9. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-post-ds9-novels-out-there/593984/3 "2011-08-25T03:45:29Z")
> [@Hades](#): > > DS9 spearheaded a new direction in Trek literature following the series finale. Before then, the vast majority of the books from all series were standalones, with related books mostly being from the same author or with limited multi-author mini-series. After the show went off the air, the novels started to form a continuing storyline, with some old characters, and a handful of new characters, and the first ten or so were fantastic, with storylines dealing with UFP/Dominion relations, the rebuilding of Cardassia, the future of Bajor, Mirror Universe intrigue, and dozens of other subplots about various characters. > > I think they are very much worth a read if you like DS9. Sounds great. You got any tittle names? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-post-ds9-novels-out-there/593984/4 "2011-08-25T05:30:35Z")
[Here](http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Nine_relaunch#Relaunch) is the list of DS9 Relaunch titles. These are the mostly serialized ones published after the series ended. They’re good to read in order for the background stories on the new characters, but IMHO they don’t really get good until _Left Hand of Destiny_, the _Worlds_ trilogy, and the _Warpath_ arc. _Rising Son_ is particularly awful. But, hey, they’re Star Trek books. You can read them in an afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-post-ds9-novels-out-there/593984/5 "2011-08-25T10:38:17Z")
I enjoyed [The Never-Ending Sacrifice](http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Never-Ending_Sacrifice). It’s a very Cardassia-heavy story, based off an early episode, but the author knows her DS9 history–and retells it from the point-of-view of a young Bajor-sympathetic Cardassian. The regular DS9 characters appear only briefly. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-post-ds9-novels-out-there/593984/6 "2011-08-25T13:45:14Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > _Rising Son_ is particularly awful. I stopped reading them right before this one. It can’t be worse than The Pandora Principle, which isn’t a DS9 novel, but is probably the worst Trek book I’ve ever read, and I’ve read most of the Shatner novels. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-post-ds9-novels-out-there/593984/7 "2011-08-25T18:35:07Z")
[We had another thread like this recently that might have some good suggestions.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=617639) ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-post-ds9-novels-out-there/593984/8 "2011-08-25T19:40:45Z")
As I wrote in the Linked Thread, I would recommend Day of Vipers by James Swallow. It is a Prequel technically that covers how the Cardassians conquered Bajor in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![raspberry\_hunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@raspberry\_hunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raspberry_hunter)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-post-ds9-novels-out-there/593984/9 "2011-08-25T20:01:07Z")
> [@Hades](#): > > I stopped reading them right before this one. It can’t be worse than The Pandora Principle, which isn’t a DS9 novel, but is probably the worst Trek book I’ve ever read, and I’ve read most of the Shatner novels. Aw. What was so terrible about Pandora Principle? (I speak as someone who loved it when I was ten, but I don’t think I’ve read it since. I suspect, knowing the other kinds of things that I liked when I was ten, that it was angsty and self-indulgent and sort of fanficcy Mary Sue-ish, but I don’t remember that it was any more so than many of the other Trek books… I remember Entropy Effect and Triangle being far worse in this respect, for example, and I remember the Shatner books being just plain boring.) Anyway, it’s good to know that the DS9 novels are good – I’ve never picked one up, but I loved DS9, which I only watched in its entirety recently, so this thread will probably get me to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-post-ds9-novels-out-there/593984/10 "2011-08-25T22:24:38Z")
I honestly don’t even remember. I read it when I was in middle school, I think, and that was over half my lifetime ago. All I remember is that it’s literally one of only two or three Trek books I struggled to finish, even including the Mary-Suetastic novels you just mentioned.