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Going to Ireland seems to have had an unexpected side benefit: the shifting of time zones seems to have reset my biological clock so that I am now on a more normal schedule. I got up this morning at 6:30am to see my wife off to work, then I had my coffee and started on my day.

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After following a link from Keith R.A. DeCandido’s blog on LiveJournal to a good review of his latest Star Trek novel, A Singular Destiny, on entil2001’s “Critical Myth-Interpretations” blog, I found this very favorable review of my recent Star Trek Destiny trilogy.

Ye olde money quote:

The resulting conflict not only brings about the best depiction of the Borg since their original appearance, but manages to resolve their threat and expose their origins in one fell swoop.  More impressive by far is the deft management of those aforementioned contradictions; the nature of the Borg now makes sense, as compared to those muddled depictions of the past.

Color me pleased on this cold, gray, rainy Saturday in New York City.

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More good news from the publishing trenches, my friends: All three books in the Star Trek Destiny trilogy have been Locus Magazine bestsellers in Media-related Fiction, in January, February, and March 2009.

Best of all, Gods of Night was Locus’s #1 Bestseller in January!

So … ahem … I will now be referring to my recent work as “the bestselling Star Trek Destiny trilogy.”

Like y’all needed another reason to smack me and key my rental cars…

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…and Gods of Night has emerged as the winner of the Unreality-SF.net poll for 2008’s Best Story of the Year — but only just barely!

Out of 2137 votes cast, here was the final breakdown: Gods of Night – 266 votes; The Eyeless – 252 votes; Good Queen, Bad Queen, I Queen, You Queen – 251 votes; A Gutted World – 246 votes; Greater Than the Sum – 243 votes; Wet Work – 209 votes; The Raincloud Man – 203 votes; The Prisoner’s Dilemma – 197 votes; Brotherhood of the Daleks – 174 votes; Almost Perfect - 96 votes.

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Heads up, sports fans! There’s still time to vote for Star Trek Destiny: Gods of Night as the Best Media Tie-In Story of 2008 on Unreality-SF.net!

Voting closes on Sunday March 22. If you haven’t voted yet, do so now — ’cause it ain’t over till it’s over…

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The SF-and-fantasy übersite Unreality-SF.net is inviting its visitors to vote for the Best Media Tie-In Story of the Year. Among the other excellent works on the ballot is my own Star Trek Destiny: Gods of Night, the first book of my recent trilogy.

Also nominated are works written (and/or edited) by Keith R.A. DeCandido, Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore, Terri Osborne, and Christopher L. Bennett, among others.

I hope you’ll follow the link and cast your vote for my book, but no matter which story you vote for, visit the site and make your voice heard.

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Listen to a new audio interview of me, conducted by my friend and fellow scribe Keith R.A. DeCandido, for the website he helps produce, The Chronic Rift. In this interview I talk about the Star Trek Destiny trilogy and my upcoming first original novel, The Calling.

Mirrored from davidmack.pro/blog.

"Mere Mortals ends on a major cliffhanger that left me on the edge of my seat. I’m eagerly awaiting the conclusion — Lost Souls, set to release in late November. Again, Star Trek fans, don’t miss this crossover trilogy!"

"When David Mack said this was going to be epic in scale, he wasn't kidding.

I mean, this makes his work on Vanguard seem positively provincial by comparison."

"[Mack] does an amazing job in developing the Caeliar. The Caeliar are the kind of race that one expects to find in great science fiction: they inspire a sense of awe and wonder."

"[T]he Borg return to their elite status as Trek's most fearsome enemies. Mack does a great job of setting the stage for the epic battle, including a few vignettes from the battle lines. The reader is left with no doubt about the scope of what is at stake, and knowing that there is no reset button at the end of this tale makes it all the more thrilling and disturbing."

"Titan's tale features some of the most heart-wrenching writing I have read in Trek literature. As a father, reading Riker and Troi's struggle was hard. This is powerful writing, in particular Troi's counseling session. While the scientific and exploratory portions of the Titan's story (and how they begin to tie-in with the wider arc of Destiny) are very well done, the character-focused moments on board Titan carry the biggest punch (train, meet rabbit)."

"Continuing with the Hernandez storyline, I really liked the big old-fashioned space opera/adventure feel of it, with its mysterious and powerful aliens, and the huge, scientifically advanced alien cities. … The Caeliar world has a good, old-fashioned SF alien feel about it, and it's fun to find a big exploration and adventure story as part of what so many people think will be a Borg overdose."

"This is how to do a Star Trek crossover. With epic scope, intensity, and raw emotion, Gods of Night is a powerful beginning to a story that looks likely to have real consequences for the Star Trek universe. Not to be missed."