Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The High Country by John Jackson Miller arrives on February 21st, 2023 from Simon & Schuster imprint Gallery Books. When it does, it’ll embody in-world maps that may permit readers to observe alongside as Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the USS Enterprise navigate a planet the place they discover themselves unable to entry know-how.
Cartographic Trip
Miller announced the maps on Twitter, the place he defined that they occurred partly on account of provide chain-related printing delays. Now that’s what I name a latinum lining!
The High Country will embody maps in three completely different kinds, “reflective of how the locals see their world; and a triptych follows the action.” Miller subsequently clarified that the maps will probably be printed at related factors within the story, and won’t be fold-out pages.
Thanks to a suggestion by narrators Robert Petkoff and January LaVoy, the maps will probably be included as a PDF with audiobook purchases. First drawn by Miller throughout the writing of the novel, the maps had been then refined with assist from his buddy, sport designer James Mishler.
According to the excerpt included on the again cowl, the novel will probably be set throughout SNW’s first season, that means Chief Engineer Hemmer (performed by Bruce Horak on the Paramount+ sequence) will probably be included on the crew manifest.
While The High Country is the primary prose novel to be based mostly on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, it isn’t the primary Trek novel to incorporate maps. A map included within the cult basic 2000 epistolary novel Deep Space Nine: A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson (Garak, only a easy tailor) featured Cardassia Prime’s capital metropolis.
The High Country
If you’re occupied with buying a signed copy of The High Country, particulars are at the moment accessible on the Faraway Press webpage.
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