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Novels by David Mack 38

David Mack

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2245
SNW
Ring of Fire
2245SNWDavid MackOct 2025

After murder and sabotage hit Kathara Station, a secret research facility above the accretion disk of a black hole, the Enterprise is sent to investigate. Pike knows this black hole: years ago a mission there went badly wrong. As enemies close in, the station director turns out to have secrets of her own.

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Firewall
2380PICDavid MackFeb 2024

Turned away by Starfleet because of her Borg past, Seven of Nine heads for the lawless Qiris sector. Asked by Federation Security to infiltrate the Fenris Rangers, she falls in with veteran Ranger Keon Harper and ends up fighting for the worlds the Federation left behind. A prequel to Star Trek: Picard.

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TOS
Harm's Way

Days after the fight with the planet killer, the Enterprise is caught up in the struggle between Starfleet, the Klingons and the Tholians over the Taurus Reach and the secrets of the Shedai. A Kirk-era story that ties into the Vanguard series.

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2387
Oblivion's Gate
2387Coda #3David MackNov 2021

To undo the sabotage that started the temporal collapse, Picard and Data travel back in time and into a parallel universe. Back home, an old friend is losing his grip on reality, and Picard faces a choice between saving the multiverse and saving his wife and son. The final book of the Coda trilogy.

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2258
More Beautiful Than Death

Captain James T. Kirk and the Enterprise crew escort Spock’s father, Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan, to a dilithium-rich planet called Akiron. They arrive to find this world under siege by creatures that some of the planet’s denizens believe are demons. Sarek orders Kirk to abandon the mission, but the young captain won’t turn his back on people in danger.

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2387
TNG
Collateral Damage
2387TNGDavid MackOct 2019

The past returns to haunt Captain Jean-Luc Picard - a crime he thought long-buried has been exposed, and he must return to Earth to answer for his role in a conspiracy that some call treason. Meanwhile, the USS Enterprise is sent to apprehend pirates who have stolen vital technology from a fragile Federation colony. But acting captain Commander Worf discovers that the pirates’ motives are not what they seem and that sometimes, standing for justice means defying the law.

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2386
Fortune of War

Twenty years have passed since the interstellar scourge known as the Husnock were exterminated without warning by a being with godlike abilities. Now a discovery by a Federation cultural research team has drawn the attention of several ruthless factions. Every belligerent power in the quadrant hopes to capture the Husnock's lethal technology.

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Desperate Hours
2255DSC #1David MackSep 2017

The Shenzhou must protect a Federation colony that is under attack by an ancient alien vessel that has surfaced from the planet’s sea. Starfleet declares the colony expendable, but Michael Burnham infiltrates the alien ship to save thousands.

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2386
DS9
Control

The discovery of a two-hundred-year-old secret gives Doctor Bashir his best chance yet to expose and destroy the illegal spy organization. But his foes won’t go down without a fight, and his mission to protect the Federation he loves just end up triggering its destruction.

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2268
TOS
Best Defense

One brave woman ventures alone into a parallel universe to save her old shipmates, exiled there decades earlier by a mysterious device called the Transfer Key.

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2269
Long Shot

Bizarre sensor readings lead the Sagittarius to an alien world where efforts to harness a dangerous and unstable technology have thrown the laws of probability out of balance. Now, events that might have occurred only one time in a trillion are hap­pening constantly, to deadly and dazzling effect.

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2386
DS9
Disavowed

Doctor Bashir sacrificed his career for a chance to infiltrate Section 31 and destroy it from within. Now it’s asking him to help it stop the Breen from stealing a dangerous new technology from the Mirror Univers. It’s a mission Bashir can’t refuse, or is it a trap from which even his genetically enhanced intellect can’t escape?

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2269
Second Nature

(Follows Vanguard series) Federation sends two starships, the scout Sagittarius and the cruiser Endeavour, to plumb the secrets of the vast region known as the Taurus Reach. The crew of the Sagittarius wants to save a species named the Tomol, but first they’ll need to save themselves - from the most nefarious Klingon starship commander in history.

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2385
DS9
A Ceremony of Losses

With countless lives at stake, the leaders of Andor, the Federation, and the Typhon Pact all scheme to twist the crisis to their political gain—at any price. Unwilling to be a mere bystander to tragedy, Doctor Julian Bashir risks everything to find a cure for the Andorians. But his courage will come at a terrible cost: his career, his freedom ... and maybe his life.

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2384
TNG
The Body Electric

A planet-sized Machine of terrifying power and unfathomable purpose hurls entire star systems into a supermassive black hole. Wesley Crusher, now a full-fledged Traveler, knows the Machine must be stopped, but he has no idea how.

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2384
TNG
Silent Weapons

Three years after the disastrous final Borg Invasion, a bitter cold war against the Typhon Pact has pushed Starfleet’s resources to the breaking point. The Enterprise crew answer a distress call from an old friend, only to become targets in a deadly game of deception.

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2384
TNG
The Persistence of Memory

Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise crew race to find out who has stolen Data’s android brother B-4—and for what sinister purpose. Against overwhelming odds Commander Worf has only one chance to avert a disaster.

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2268
Storming Heaven

Four great nations - the Federation, the Klingon Empire, the Tholian Assembly, and the Romulan Star Empire - have all taken tremendous risks in their race to learn and control the technologies of the ancient interstellar hegemons known as the Shedai. Now get ready for the mystery of the Taurus Reach to be revealed.

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2377
Rise Like Lions
2377David MackNov 2011

In the Mirror Universe, Smiley O'Brien's rebels are close to defeat, Mac Calhoun's raiders harass the Klingons, and Memory Omega, the secret network Spock founded a century earlier, decides it is time to strike.

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2259
Declassified

Witness the dawn of Starbase 47, as Ambassador Jetanien faces choices that will shape the future of Operation Vanguard ... follow journalist Tim Pennington as he reaches a crossroads in his search for the truth ... see how the crises on two colonies transform the lives of Diego Reyes and Rana Desai ... and travel with Cervantes Quinn to a deadly confrontation that will change everything.

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2382
DS9
Zero Sum Game

A spy for the Typhon Pact—a new political rival of the Federation—steals the plans for Starfleet’s newest technological advance: the slipstream drive. Bashir and Sarina Douglas are sent to infiltrate the Breen, find the hidden slipstream project, and destroy it. Meanwhile Captain Ezri Dax and her crew on the USS Aventine play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a Typhon Pact fleet.

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2267
Precipice

On a post-apocalyptic world in the Taurus Reach, undercover Starfleet Intelligence agent Cervantes Quinn finds an ancient Shedai conduit. Unfortunately, the Klingons have found it first and sent an army to claim it. The futures of three great powers are linked by one thing: the mysterious Mirdonyae Artifact. Unless Doctor Carol Marcus and Ming Xiong can unlock its secrets in time, it might destroy them all.

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2381
TNG
Lost Souls

The Borg are on the march, laying waste to worlds in their passage. An audacious plan could stop them forever, but it carries risks that Picard is unwilling to take. For Captain Ezri Dax there is no going back - only forward to whatever future awaits them.

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2381
TNG
Mere Mortals

The Borg have found a secret passage through subspace and are using it to attack the Federation. Meanwhile, Captain Riker and the Titan’s crew are held captive by the reclusive and powerful aliens known as the Caeliar.

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2381
TNG
Gods of Night

The Borg return to wreak havoc upon the Federation - and this time its goal is nothing less than total annihilation. Elsewhere, deep in the Gamma Quadrant, one of Earth's first generation of starships, lost for centuries, has been found.

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2266
Reap the Whirlwind

Ancient secrets lie on the fourth planet of the Jinoteur system, and three great rivals are fighting to control it. To keep Jinoteur from falling into enemy hands, the crews of Starbase Vanguard and the U.S.S. Sagittarius must risk everything: friends...loved ones...their own lives. But the sacrifices they make may prove too terrible for them to bear.

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2267
TOS
The Sorrows of Empire
2267TOSDavid MackFeb 2007

Inspired by Kirk's words in Mirror, Mirror, the Mirror Universe Spock seizes power over the Terran Empire and sets it on a course of reform, knowing it will leave his people open to conquest.

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2376
DS9
Warpath
2376DS9David MackApr 2006

The Jem'Hadar are a species engineered for war and programmed at the genetic level for one purpose: to fight until death as soldiers of the sprawling stellar empire known as the Dominion. No Jem'Hadar has ever lived thirty years, and not even their masters know what such a creature is capable of becoming were it to be freed of its servitude.

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2265
Harbinger

Kirk orders the Enterprise to put in for repairs at the new space station: Starbase 47, also known as Vanguard. When a calamity threatens to compromise Starfleet's continued presence in the region, Kirk, Spock, and several key specialists from the Enterprise must assist Vanguard's crew in investigating the cause of the disaster and containing the damage.

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2376
Small World

The da Vinci 's latest mission involves bringing precious cargo to the Mu Arae system - an entire world that, through a miraculous feat of engineering, is being stored in a small, pyramid-shaped box. Unfortunately, a hostile species wants the pyramid - and its amazing technology - for itself, and won't hesitate to go through the da Vinci to get it.

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TNG
A Time to Heal
2379TNGDavid MackSep 2004

A cataclysmic war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire has been miraculously averted, and a new government is finally in place on the planet Tezwa. But deadly secrets still threaten the fragile peace accord.

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TNG
A Time to Kill
2379TNGDavid MackAug 2004

At the height of the Dominion War, the Federation sends devastating weapons to the planet Tezwa, in violation of its fragile treaty with the Klingons, but the plan goes dangerously awry when Tezwa's ruthless prime minister launches his own scheme for power.

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2376
Failsafe

When a cultural observation probe malfunctions and crash-lands on a pre-warp world, the S.C.E. is sent in to destroy it before the technology falls into the hands of a civilization not prepared for it. Unfortunately, when Commander Gomez and her team arrive, they find that the device has already been captured by terrorist forces who intend to reverse-engineer the technology into a weapon.

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Wildfire, Book 2

The U.S.S. da Vinci's mission to salvage the U.S.S. Orion and the deadly Wildfire warhead has gone horribly wrong. Captain Gold and Security Chief Corsi are gravely injured, and the da Vinci is literally coming apart at the seams as it drifts further and further into the deadly atmosphere of a gas giant.

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Wildfire, Book 1

The da Vinci goes on a dangerous salvage mission: to rescue the U.S.S. Orion from a gas giant. As if the turbulent atmosphere of the planet wasn't enough, the Orion is carrying the prototype of the deadly Wildfire device - a protomatter warhead that can ignite gas giants into stars.

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Invincible, Part 2

Long believed to be just a Nalori myth, the shii has turned out to he devastatingly real! The monster - seemingly invulnerable, undeniably powerful, and completely ruthless - has carved a swath through the Nalori construction project on the crystal planet of Sarindar. The project's supervisor, Commander Sonya Gomez, must find a way to stop the deadly creature before It destroys the entire project and its workers.

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2376
Invincible, Part 1

Long believed to be just a Nalori myth, the shii has turned out to he devastatingly real! The monster - seemingly invulnerable, undeniably powerful, and completely ruthless - has carved a swath through the Nalori construction project on the crystal planet of Sarindar. The project's supervisor, Commander Sonya Gomez, must find a way to stop the deadly creature before It destroys the entire project and its workers.

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