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[Kilana2]

Not sure if you are aware, but the Klingon Empire novel A Burning House is also part of that series. The series was rebranded for that book, but it continues on from I.K.S. Gorkon.

Since you only mentioned three novels I figured it couldn't hurt to point it out.

Thank you. I have already read A Bourning House.... and it was great, even without knowing the other stories. I've also read Diplomatic Implausibility. I couldn't get the Gorkon novels for a reasonable price until now.
Now I can (delivered from UK), and I'm happy. It's unlikely that these novels get a proper German translation anytime soon.

 

[Paris]

Yesterday I was in a local used book store and came across beautiful copies of 5 Trek books i've been looking for. I got Greg Cox's first Khan book, as well as A Time to Hate and A Time to Love by Robert Greenberger, and Dark Victory and Preserver, both from the Shatnerverse by Shat w/Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. It was a good day!

 

[Kilana2]

I received three books today: Lost Era - Well of Souls and I.K.S. Gorkon I and III. II is due to arrive on Monday.

 

[Therin of Andor]

New Trek stuff by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Part 2 of the Gaila "Reunion" and Part 1 of the Spock Prime storyline, both from IDW Comics, with a Mr Squawk "CelebriDuck" and my soon-to-be-customized Harrison/Khan action figure (from a commercial "Sherlock" figure).

 

[Kilana2]

I.K.S. Gorkon II - Honor Bound

 

[Therin of Andor]

Last week I received "Enterprise: Live By the Code" by Christopher L Bennett, "Set Phasers on Stun: 50 Years of Star Trek" by Marcus Berkmann, and finally got the chance to read IDW's "Starfleet Academy" #4, which came out the week before.

I also made a long-anticipated Mego-like Marta (a green Orion slave girl) custom action figure from a spare "Batman '66" Barbara Gordon/Batgirl alter-ego figure.

Happy Easter everyone!

 

[Kilana2]

I've just ordered the three TOS Janus Gate novels......

 

[Jinn]

DS9 DVD Box! I've watched already eight episodes since yesterday.

 

[Christopher]

I also made a long-anticipated Mego-like Marta (a green Orion slave girl) custom action figure from a spare "Batman '66" Barbara Gordon/Batgirl alter-ego figure.

Ooh. Pictures, please?

 

[Therin of Andor]

Ooh. Pictures, please?

Recent custom "Star Trek" action figures by Ian McLean: Marta the Orion, the Andorian Bookworm, and Lieutenant Harb Tanzer.


Marta, Andorian Bookworm and Harb by Ian McLean, on Flickr

I only had to paint Marta's head. The body is from a Mego "Wizard of Oz" Wicked Witch of the West (and actually has "fur" markings on the backs of the hands, seemingly using the mold of a Zira figure from "Planet of the Apes").

Harb Tanzer uses a Skipper figure from "Gilligan's Island", after gracious consultation with Diane Duane as to appropriateness of mustache style.

 

[Reanok]

I got the book , The Unofficial History of Star Trek by Robert Green burger . The stories I've read in the book have been really interesting.

 

[Avro Arrow]

"Set Phasers on Stun: 50 Years of Star Trek" by Marcus Berkmann

I don't think I've heard of this one before; thank you for mentioning it.

This is all Amazon seems to have on it:

Forty-seven years after NBC killed it off, Star Trek celebrates its half-century in a state of rude health. Boldly going where several other people have been before, Marcus Berkmann tells the story of this sturdy science fiction vehicle from its first five-year mission (rudely curtailed to three), through the dark years of the 1970s, the triumphant film series and The Next Generation, to the current 'reboot' films, with a younger cast taking on the characters of Kirk, Spock, McCoy and co. With wit, insight and a huge pile of DVDs, he seeks to answer all the important questions. Why did Kirk's shirt always get torn when he had a fist fight? What's the most number of times Uhura said 'Hailing frequencies open, sir' in a single episode? (Seven.) And what's the worst imaginable insult in Klingon? (Your mother has a smooth forehead.)

("a state of rude health"?)

Are you able to comment further on this one? Is it generally a worthwhile purchase? It sounds like it might cover ground we've seen many times before... does it offer anything new or interesting?

 

[Therin of Andor]

Are you able to comment further on this one? Is it generally a worthwhile purchase? It sounds like it might cover ground we've seen many times before... does it offer anything new or interesting?

It's one of those commentary books that quotes very heavily from previously published commentaries and biographies, so if you own all of those, you may not want or need this. Have only riffled so far but is quite readable.

 

[Kilana2]

I've just received The Latter Fire by James Swallow.

 

[Kilana2]

Christopher's Greater than the Sum (Mehr als die Summe).

 

[Kilana2]

German edition of Greg Cox' No Time Like the Past (Früher war alles besser).

(I've ordered many books recently )

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

Just purchased the eBook version of Enterprise: Live by the Code for $1.99 on Amazon.

I already have the paperback edition, but I've been holding off reading it until Christopher posts his annotations. Thumbing through the dead tree version, I noticed how small the font was and wished then that I could read it on my Kindle instead. Well, now I can!

This is the sort of deal that I've always wanted the Star Trek novels to feature: buy the paperback at regular price and -- for a few bucks more -- get the eBook version, too. That way, I get to continue collecting physical Trek books AND save my eyes some strain by reading the eBook with my preferred text size.

 

[Avro Arrow]

This is the sort of deal that I've always wanted the Star Trek novels to feature: buy the paperback at regular price and -- for a few bucks more -- get the eBook version, too.

I, too, have also wished this was a "standard feature"... I'd gladly pay a couple dollars extra to get an electronic version bundled with the physical copy.

And... thank you for the tip!! I checked, and the same discounted price was in effect at the Kobo store. (It usually is; I'm assuming these are set by the publisher and have to be honoured everywhere?) And actually, it turns out that *all* of the Rise of the Federation novels are currently at the same price, so I picked up the whole four-book series in eBook form for $8 plus tax!

(Christopher, I hope this isn't considered rude discussing this. Rest assured that I have already bought all four books at regular price in hardcopy form (although I haven't read Live by the Code yet), and these are just extra purchases for the convenience of an electronic edition, that I wouldn't have otherwise made if not for the sale price. No offense is intended.)

 

[Christopher]

And... thank you for the tip!! I checked, and the same discounted price was in effect at the Kobo store. (It usually is; I'm assuming these are set by the publisher and have to be honoured everywhere?) And actually, it turns out that *all* of the Rise of the Federation novels are currently at the same price, so I picked up the whole four-book series in eBook form for $8 plus tax!

(Christopher, I hope this isn't considered rude discussing this. Rest assured that I have already bought all four books at regular price in hardcopy form (although I haven't read Live by the Code yet), and these are just extra purchases for the convenience of an electronic edition, that I wouldn't have otherwise made if not for the sale price. No offense is intended.)

It's fine. It's not like discounts are illegal or anything. They're a way of increasing sales, really -- by making an individual sale more affordable, and more enticing by having it be less than the normal cost, you hopefully get more sales overall and come out ahead.

Of course, it helps a lot if you post reviews of the books on Amazon or Kobo or wherever. The more reviews a book gets -- any reviews, regardless of positivity -- the more it gets called to people's attention by the software. I think that at Amazon, the threshold is 50 reviews.

 

[BillJ]

Just purchased the eBook version of Enterprise: Live by the Code for $1.99 on Amazon.

Rolled the dice on this one for a $1.99. Thanks for the heads up.