SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 - There is a temporal apocalypse coming. And it starts next week.

With the arrival next Tuesday of the first book in a new trilogy, Coda, a story begins that its authors promise will be epic. Moments Asunder, by Dayton Ward, will launch the new series, in which the crews of Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Ezri Dax, and William Riker unite to prevent a cosmic-level apocalypse—only to find that some fates really are inevitable.

According to the publisher, Simon & Schuster, “Time is coming apart. Countless alternate and parallel realities are under attack, weakening and collapsing from relentless onslaught. If left unchecked, the universe faces an unstoppable descent toward entropy.”

Ward is joined by James Swallow and David Mack for the second and third books, respectively. The three have crafted a story intent on tying up loose ends from previous Star Trek literature in the face of the new television series in production. According to Swallow, who spoke on a virtual panel at the Shore Leave convention back in July, “People will love, and they will hate what we have done because we are telling a story which is dynamic, but it is also tragic. It's an adventure story, but it's also a disaster story. It takes you to places that we hope you will enjoy going to, but ... by the time the curtain runs down at the end of [David Mack]'s book, hopefully there will not be a dry eye in the house. We really aimed high on this."

Moments Asunder will be released on September 28th; The Ashes of Tomorrow, by James Swallow, comes out October 26th; and Oblivion’s Gate, by David Mack, drops on November 30th. You can pre-order all three now at Bookshop.org,  Amazon.com or wherever you buy your books.