Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The High Country

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The first novel based on the thrilling Paramount+ TV series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds!

When an experimental shuttlecraft fails, Captain Christopher Pike suspects a mechanical malfunctiononly to discover the very principles on which Starfleet bases its technology have simply stopped functioning. He and his crewmates are forced to abandon ship in a dangerous maneuver that scatters their party across the strangest new world theyve ever encountered.

First Officer Una Chin-Riley finds herself fighting to survive an untamed wilderness where dangers lurk at every turn. Young cadet Nyota Uhura struggles in a volcanic wasteland where things are not as they seem. Science Officer Spock is missing altogether. And Pike gets the chance to fulfill a childhood dream: to live the life of a cowboy in a world where the tools of the twenty-third century are of no use.

Yet even in the saddle, Pike is still very much a starship captain, with all the responsibilities that entails. Setting out to find his crewmates, he encounters a surprising face from his pastand discovers that one peoples utopia might be someone elses purgatory. He must lead an exodusor risk a calamity of galactic proportions that even the Starship Enterprise is powerless to stop...

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John Jackson Miller is theNew York Timesbestselling author ofStar Trek: Picard: Rogue Elements,Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing, Star Trek: Discovery: The Enterprise War, the acclaimedStar Trek: Preytrilogy (Hells Heart,The Jackals Trick,The Hall of Heroes), and the novelsStar Trek: The Next Generation: Takedown,Star Wars: A New Dawn,Star Wars: Kenobi,Star Wars: Knight Errant,Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the SithThe Collected Stories; and fifteenStar Warsgraphic novels, as well as the original workOverdraft: The Orion Offensive. He has also written the enovellaStar Trek: Titan: Absent Enemies. A comics industry historian and analyst, he has written for franchises including Halo, Conan, Iron Man, Indiana Jones, Battlestar Galactica, Mass Effect, and The Simpsons. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife, two children, and far too many comic books.