This week's haul! "The Impossible Has Happened: The Life and Work of Gene Roddenberry, Creator of Star Trek" biography by Lance Parkin (Aurum Press UK; now in trade paperback); "Zero G: Green Space" non-Trek hardcover novel by William Shatner & Jeff Rovin (Simon & Schuster); "Discovery: The Official Collector's Edition" hardcover (Titan UK); and IDW's "Waypoint" comic omnibus trade paperback. Also arrived: the USS Franklin light-up ornament from Hallmark. New Trek by Ian McLean, on Flickr
This week's new releases Down Under: Titan’s English translation of Book 1 of the German language novel trilogy, “Prometheus”, by Bernd Perplies & Christian Humberg and Pocket’s “Titan: Fortunes of War” by David Mack. New Trek novels by Ian McLean, on Flickr
The motherlode arrived from Amazon US, coincidentally on the day Amazon Australia was launched!! (I only went there for the "Discovery" wall calendar, but look what else fell into my virtual basket! More Trek stuff by Ian McLean, on Flickr Clockwise from top left: "Search for Spock: A Star Trek Book of Exploration" (parody of "Where's Waldo/Wally") hardcover by Robb Pearlman & Craig Boldman; Star Trek desk calendar for 2018; "Star Trek Book of Lists" hardcover by Chip Carter; "Star Trek Sticky Notes" (looks like a little hardcover book); "Star Trek Beyond: The Makeup Artistry of Joel Harlow" hardcover by Joe Nazzaro; two sizes of "Captain's Log" lined notebook (with timeline, captain quotes, space distance conversion chart); "A Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation" by Joshua Chapman, age 11; and "What Would Captain Picard Do?" by Brandon T Snider. More Star Trek calendars for 2018 - front by Ian McLean, on Flickr More Star Trek calendars - back by Ian McLean, on Flickr And from Monday night at the State Theatre: The George Takei Phenomenon program by Ian McLean, on Flickr
IDW's "Discovery" #1 and "To Boldly Go" #14 comics came out last week, pictured with the Running Press light-and-sound TOS Communicator with mini book. New Trek by Ian McLean, on Flickr This week sees the conclusion of IDW’s “Mirror Broken” comic mini-series. IDW’s Mirror Broken #5 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Newly arrived from Amazon: “Cinemaps: an atlas of 35 great movies” by Andrew DeGraff, with essays by AD Jameson (Quirk Books, 2017). Cinemaps 1 by Ian McLean, on Flickr Two movies of significance to this thread are... 1982’s “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” and the 2009 “Star Trek”. Cinemaps - ST II by Ian McLean, on Flickr Cinemaps - ST 2009 by Ian McLean, on Flickr More new arrivals: "To Boldy Go" IDW comic omnibus volume #2, "Star Trek Magazine" # 64 and John Byrne's "New Visions: The Hunger" photocomic. New Trek by Ian McLean, on Flickr (Photographed with my newly arrived Borg Tribble prop, created by SPFX guy Roger Sides, who made a whole litter of them as cast and crew gifts on the set of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" while building the Borg Cube for “Q Who”. This tribble is made by Roger, from the original moulds, but painted differently so he could tell them all apart. Roger even drew me a little cartoon and autographed it!)
Voyager - Sühne (Atonement) has just arrived. With Harry Kim as cover boy. Tuvok isn't aboard but would surely quote some Starfleet regulations as to Kims hairstyle....
Just got two Supernatural novels and a Sleepy Hollow novel by Keith DeCandido. Never seen the tv series but what could go wrong? Also added Nomad and Exile by James Swallow to my reading pile.
James Swallow has another new novel in his spy series coming out soon called Ghost He mentioned on his blog a week ago.
December was Artist Edition Cover month at IDW, so this b/w alternate cover for "Boldly Go" #15 shows an uncropped, uncoloured cover illustration. For January, "Discovery" #2, "Star Trek Magazine" #65 - and a Michael Burnham "Discovery" namedrop on the cover of "Superman" #39? New Trek by Ian McLean, on Flickr Someone asked the cover artist on Twitter if the surname signature was also a salute to the lead character in "Star Trek: Discovery" - and the answer was yes. Burnham namedrop by Ian McLean, on Flickr
I recently got the Echoes and Reflections collection of the Myriad Universes, out of curiosity about The Chimes at Midnight. I've also been curious about the Mere Anarchy collection for a while, so now that recently arrived in the mail. I've assembled all but one issue of the DC volume 2 series of TNG. I really wish the DC series from the 80's and early 90's were collected in TPB volumes, but now I'm not worried about it, I just wanted to have physical copies of their TOS and TNG series from those decades.
The new "Star Trek: Discovery" prequel novel, "Drastic Measures" by Dayton Ward, is out Down Under. Drastic Measures by Ian McLean, on Flickr At left, Stamets and Dr Culber enamelled pins, available separately from Fansets - but I liked the idea of a fellow fan and put them together in the same packet. Mr Saru is also from Fansets and the miniature lapel pin is from Qmx (via Galaxy Bookshop). Also "Boldly Go" comic #16: IDW Star Trek Boldly Go by Ian McLean, on Flickr