Product Details

  • Trade Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Star Trek (January 6, 2009)
  • ISBN-10: 1416558500
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416558507

“For Want of a Nail”

Novelette in Shards and Shadows

Edited by Marco Palmieri & Margaret Clark

Fractured history. Broken lives. Splintered souls. Since the alternate universe was first glimpsed in the classic episode “Mirror, Mirror,” something about Star Trek’s dark side has beckoned us, called to us, tempted us — like forbidden fruit on the Tree of Knowledge. To taste it is to lose oneself in a world of startling familiarity and terrifying contradictions, where everything and everyone we knew is somehow disturbingly different, and where shocking secrets await their revelation.

What began in 2007 with Glass Empires and Obsidian Alliances — the first truly in-depth foray into the turbulent history of this other continuum — now continues in twelve new short tales that revisit and expand upon that so-called “Mirror Universe,” spanning all five of the core incarnations of Star Trek, as well as their literary offshoots, across more than two hundred years of divergent history.

Reviewers' Comments

"Seeing Barclay go into the heart of a battle to save the future of the Terran people, and confronting his personal fears in the process, brings Shards and Shadows to an enjoyable and fulfilling conclusion."

Robert Lyons, TrekMovie.com

Table of Contents

Christopher L. Bennett

Margaret Wander Bonanno

Peter David

Keith R.A. DeCandido

Michael Jan Friedman

Jim Johnson

Rudy Josephs

David Mack

Dave Stern

James Swallow

Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore

Susan Wright