Just a note that, while the listing on the Simon & Schuster website is for the US, the major ebook sellers in other countries usually offer the same or similar deals on TrekLit, updated monthly.
The best way to find out which deals are available in your country is to search ‘Star Trek’ and books/ebooks, then filter and sort by price.
In most countries, sorting lowest to highest will put all the ebook deals at the top. In some, like the UK, just set the filter to a low maxim price e.g., less than £2.99.
I can only speak for those I’ve read - Iane Duane’s ‘Doctor’s Orders’ is a fine, easy read.
I loved Beyer’s ‘Children of the Storm’ but it’s in the midst of her Voyager Full Circle cycle. So it depends on whether you mind dropping in the middle of a long running series.
The Voyager String Theory trilogy is earlier in the timeline. Uneven but interesting.
It seems Simon & Schuster has different relationships with the various country platforms for the major ebook sellers. It seems that in some countries the promotion is on the audiobooks rather than the ebooks.
It’s usually not actually US only, just the exact $US 0.99 promotional price. (It would be great to have specific listings by country.)
In Canada, Amazon.ca typically has the same deals for $CDN 0.99 and I’ve seen the same but £ 0.99 at times on the UK site.
Checking the current Amazon Kindle prices for Canada shows the ebook deal $0.99
The UK Amazon Kindle is showing some of the books at £ 4.99, others are at 99p - but has Audiobooks for the Genesis wave showing as £0.00, that is for free.
The German Amazon Kindle de site has the ebooks also seemingly at full €8.99 for some, but others are going for free with a €0.00 listed price - including the Voyager ones - but again the Genesis Wave promotion for free audiobooks is in effect.
Those “Dominion War” 2-parters are odd - the TNG books are an original story, but the DS9 ones are adaptations of “Call to Arms” and “Sacrifice of Angels”.
There were a number of ‘event episode’ adaptations around that time, including the ‘Day of Honor’ ones for Voyager.
It does seem to be a specific niche of Treklit. I always saw it as a bit of a marketing stunt to draw in established fang to become new readers of the tie-in books.
I generally prefer original stories, and welcomed the Relaunch novelverse taking legacy characters and new ones forward.
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