Seekers 4 by Ian McLean, on Flickr "Star Trek: Seekers 4, All That's Left" by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore has arrived in Sydney, Down Under. CumberStitch by Ian McLean, on Flickr For those looking for something for the crafty Cumberbatch completist who's hard to buy for, here is the "Benedict CumberStitch" pattern book (left) by Colleen Carrington. Sadly, there is no "Star Trek" Khan image, but there are a few that can easily be adapted - and his Mirror Universe counterpart does appear in IDW's "Star Trek" comic #50 (right), also out this week. Since we aren't supposed to commit thread necro, the "Star Trek: The Complete Unauthorized History" by Robert Greenberger is now available in trade paperback. http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=197635
This week I photographed the new "Seekers 4" between two Sydney landmarks for Ward & Dilmore! Seekers 4 in Sydney by Ian McLean, on Flickr
I finally got my copy of The autobiography of James T. Kirk by David Goodman. I've read a few chapters this is a great book.
I've ordered Christopher's Titan novel Orion's Hounds in German (Die Hunde des Orion). I already know the original, now I want to re-read it as translation.
Star Trek: Child of Two Worlds, plus Ringworld Part 2. by Ian McLean, on Flickr New arrivals Down Under!! "Star Trek" novel by Greg Cox ("Child of Two Worlds") just now from Galaxy Bookshop and - from Amazon - Part 2 of the "Ringworld" graphic novel, featuring Larry Niven's kzinti!
Child of Two Worlds is available? Got to grab it. On German Amazon there are several days left until it is available. False alarm.
Do you get books from a physical store? Sometimes the stores will have to books out before they are available from online stores like Amazon.
Not in Germany. English books I have to order anyway. Either with Amazon or Thalia (local bookselling).
Unlike "Harry Potter" and highly anticipated "event" novels, which might hinge on a particular publicity announcement or a secret spoiler, there is not usually a hard and fast "street date" for books. In the past, Galaxy Bookshop in Sydney would order each new Trek book in two batches: air-freighted direct from the US, and then topped up by the sea-freighted ones (via Simon & Schuster Aust.'s regular importation for all the bookshops they distribute to in Australia). So the second batch was always later, but cheaper. Since about 2007, Simon & Schuster Australia has imported all its books by air, and release months are now essentially simultaneous with the US. Galaxy's supply go onto the shelves immediately, being a customer-responsive SF specialist, and the other copies eventually trickle down, through various layers of marketing/warehousing etc, into other Aussie bookshops. And some shops keep to "street dates" whether they have to or not.
It's a great thing that we worldwide fans can enjoy the products concurrently with the US release dates instead of being left out of the loop.
It hasn't always been that way. In the 1980s, Pocket novels sometimes took up to four months to turn up in Aussie stores. With ST III in 1984, we got the novelization via expensive air freight about a week after its US release, cheaper sea-freight copies about three months after US release... and the movie itself six months after its US release!