Page created 19th November 2017. Last updated 6th March 2020.
This is list of novels based on Star Trek: Discovery. Both the TV series and tie-in novel series began in 2017. So far books based on the series have all been prequels to the main events of the TV series.
The books are released in the large trade paperback format, published by Gallery Books (part of Simon and Schuster), with audiobook releases by Simon and Schuster Audio, and German translations by Cross Cult.
The novels so far released or planned have had an unprecedented degree of coordination with the television production, thanks to Star Trek novelist Kirsten Beyer's role on the series' writing staff, and subsequently as tie-in fiction coordinator. Thanks to this, the first Discovery novel was released near simultaneously with the start of the TV series, and the novel authors have been able to co-ordinate with the TV writers so that the works written during in the development of the series avoid contraction and have the character voices firmly established - Indeed the works were so effectively coordinated that details developed for the novels were even adopted back into the TV production.
This list is in publication order.
- Overview: Set a year before the TV series, this book features the crew of the USS Shenzhou, as well as the USS Enterprise under Captain Pike, as both ships try to solve a problem on a colony world. The book brings together Michael Burnham and Spock, giving in insight into their relationship, and also explains away some of the visual discontinuities between the TOS pilot episode aesthetic and that used in Discovery.
- Author: David Mack.
- Published: September 2017.
- Other editions:
- Audiobook, read by Susan Eisenberg (September 2017).
- German language edition, Gegen die Zeit, translated by Helga Parmiter (October 2017).
- Purchase: Amazon, Forbidden Planet, iTunes.
- Overview: Set ten years before the TV series, this book features not-yet-captains Philippa Georgiou and Gabriella Lorca, and their involvement in the Tarsus IV massacre (an incident established in the TOS episode The Conscience of the King).
- Author: Dayton Ward.
- Published: February 2018.
- Other editions:
- Audiobook, read by Robert Petkoff (February 2018)
- German language edition, Drastische Massnahmen, translated by Helga Parmiter (February 2018).
- Coverage: Excerpts, audiobook excerpt.
- Purchase: Amazon, Forbidden Planet, iTunes.
- Overview: A Saru focused novel set aboard the USS Shenzhou, several years before the TV series. The book revolves around a disagreement between the Peliar and Gorlan (two little explored species seen or mentioned previously on screen), and also features the Tholians.
- Author: James Swallow.
- Published: June 2018.
- Other editions:
- Audiobook, read by Robert Petkoff (June 2018).
- Coverage: Temp audiobook cover, excerpts.
- Purchase: Amazon, iTunes.
- Overview: A Tilly focused novel, featuring the character at age 16.
- Author: Una McCormack.
- Published: January 2019.
- Other editions:
- Audiobook, read by January LaVoy (January 2019).
- Coverage: Excerpts.
- Purchase: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Forbidden Planet, iTunes.
Dead Endless
- Overview: A novel featuring Hugh Culber after his death and an encounter with Paul Stamets and the Discovery crew of another reality.
- Author: Dave Galanter.
- Published: December 2019.
- Purchase: Amazon.
- Overview: Mirror-Georgiou in Section 31 novel.
- Author: John Jackson Miller.
- Published: July 2020.
- Purchase: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iTunes.
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