star trek has a unusual take on sci fi. a mix of military scifi but utopian adventure thriller. i've read most of the books and seen all the shows but something as popular as this must have inspired similar stories. any suggestions?
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>not knowing star trek is real
how do you even breathe?
>>not knowing star trek is real
um?
Please go outside, there's more to life than pretending to be moronic on SighSee for attention
Star trek was objectively terrible, I won't even mention the new series. From it's inception it was just a platform to push an agenda.
oh jesus, it's a tv show. calm down. i'm just trying to find similar books
its not it's*
moron.
Phone auto correct will put a gun to your head before it lets you type "its" without the apostrophe.
I honestly can't think of a single science fiction series or book that's similar in those ways to Trek
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
The Expanse
Culture series
>The Expanse
i'm not sure if that one counts unless the books have very different tone to the show
H. Beam Piper
i wish they made tv/movies like this cover art nowadays. 50s scifi is so fun to me
>The story originated in a suggestion by H. L. Mencken and presents a world on which the assassination of politicians is accepted practice.
I need to read this novel.
The Vorkosigan Saga is vaguely like it at times. Its real strength is its slightly harder than usual sci-fi mixed with great character drama. Not bad humor or world-building either.
when you say Star Trek, which ones do you mean? There as so many Star Trek books out there that it's claimed that Star Trek is "by far the biggest series of fiction in the history of western literature"
tos/tng era star trek. the boldly go where no one has gone before type of stories. voyager is pretty much the same
James Blish (who died at age 54 in 1975)
>Blish is credited with coining the term gas giant, in the story "Solar Plexus" ("a magnetic field of some strength nearby, one that didn't belong to the invisible gas giant revolving half a million miles away")
also best known for his Cities in Flight novels (1950-1962)
>a four-volume series of science fiction novels
>The stories cover roughly two thousand years, from the very near future to the end of the universe.
>Soviet model government in place in Washington, D.C. - Described as 'The sole City on the sleepy planetary capital of the system', and 'The place where old bureaucrats went to retire', Earth. All other Cities had by this time left the earth. Seat of operations of the Earth Police, and the Earth Government which regulates and polices the far-flung flying cities. The flying cities -- entire cities that are able to fly through space using an anti-gravity device -- include New York City (the main protagonist City). Liverpool, Dresden-Saxony, Buda-Pesht, Pittsburgh
Star Trek (1967–1977)
>Bantam Books commissioned Blish to adapt episodes of Star Trek. The adapted short stories were generally based on draft scripts and contained different plot elements from the aired television episodes.
the lead novel of his After Such Knowledge trilogy of novel (1958–1990) won a best novel award
he also has 15 more novels in addition to all of the above as well as over a 100 short fiction and novellas that have been collected into at least 15 collections
thanks anon, i have those star trek novels but haven't read them yet. i'll check out the cities books too
Star Trek: Prometheus (whole trilogy published 2016) was written by two Germans (Christian Humberg and Bernd Perplies)
It's the first officially licensed Star Trek novel—or to be more exact: trilogy—ever conceived by foreign authors outside the US .
The Calculating Stars tells the story of the formation of the International Space Coalition after a meteorite strikes Earth in the 1950s. This results in the best (remaining) scientists in the world fast-tracking human space colonization