Star Trek Novels in Germany

Discussion in 'Trek Literature' started by StefanM, Jun 24, 2018.

  1. Greg Cox

    Greg Cox Admiral Premium Member

    Joined:
    May 12, 2004
    Location:
    Lancaster, PA
    Thanks for the alert about MIASMA. I'm amused that that that story is going to get a hard-copy edition in German before seeing print in English . . . :)
     
    Jinn and StefanM like this.
  2. tomswift2002

    tomswift2002 Commodore Commodore

    Joined:
    Dec 19, 2011
    Is Discovery not doing well in Germany?
     
  3. StefanM

    StefanM Commander Red Shirt

    Joined:
    Jun 20, 2018
    Location:
    Grünberg, Germany
    Not the novels, unfortunately.
     
    Jinn likes this.
  4. tomswift2002

    tomswift2002 Commodore Commodore

    Joined:
    Dec 19, 2011
    What about the show?
     
  5. StefanM

    StefanM Commander Red Shirt

    Joined:
    Jun 20, 2018
    Location:
    Grünberg, Germany
  6. Kilana2

    Kilana2 Vice Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Jan 31, 2015
    Location:
    Kilana2
    The translation of two of the Seekers novels has been cancelled, due to low sales.
     
  7. Csalem

    Csalem Commodore Commodore

    Joined:
    Mar 28, 2006
    Location:
    Dublin, Ireland
    I love Google Translate for the first line:
     
    StefanM and Kilana2 like this.
  8. StefanM

    StefanM Commander Red Shirt

    Joined:
    Jun 20, 2018
    Location:
    Grünberg, Germany
    A question to you and all the other authors here:
    Do you at least get an extra payment, if your stories are published in other countries?
     
  9. Greg Cox

    Greg Cox Admiral Premium Member

    Joined:
    May 12, 2004
    Location:
    Lancaster, PA
    I assume any foreign sales are buried in my royalty statements somewhere, and applied against my advance.
     
    StefanM likes this.
  10. NCC-73515

    NCC-73515 Vice Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Apr 18, 2019
    Location:
    SoCal
    That translation is correct, fat = big in this case.
     
    Csalem likes this.
  11. James Swallow

    James Swallow Writer Captain

    Joined:
    Mar 9, 2004
    Location:
    UK
    Yeah, my thoughts exactly! I'm pleased to see The Stuff of Dreams in dead-tree format, whatever the language...
     
    Kilana2, StefanM and Greg Cox like this.
  12. Kilana2

    Kilana2 Vice Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Jan 31, 2015
    Location:
    Kilana2
    Yes. And as dead tree lover I will finally get the chance to read it. I'm not keen on ebooks....
     
    StefanM likes this.
  13. StefanM

    StefanM Commander Red Shirt

    Joined:
    Jun 20, 2018
    Location:
    Grünberg, Germany
    Same here ;)
    I still have more than 70 books to read, so I have no reason to buy ebooks. So Cross Cult has enough time, to put all their
    ebooks into REAL books.
     
    trampledamage and Kilana2 like this.
  14. Kilana2

    Kilana2 Vice Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Jan 31, 2015
    Location:
    Kilana2
    Your pile of unread books is definitely bigger than mine....:D
     
    StefanM likes this.
  15. StefanM

    StefanM Commander Red Shirt

    Joined:
    Jun 20, 2018
    Location:
    Grünberg, Germany
    Unfortunately...
    There are 153 CrossCult Star Trek novels, I have 145 of them (need 8), 8 more are announced yet.
    I've read 80, that's 73 to read. So yes, I think that's a lot...
    Oh, and 26 of 38 Goldmann (Bantam) Star Trek novels.
     
  16. James Swallow

    James Swallow Writer Captain

    Joined:
    Mar 9, 2004
    Location:
    UK
    This thread is reminding me I need to track down a couple of German-language editions of my Titan novels...
     
    Kilana2 likes this.
  17. Daddy Todd

    Daddy Todd Commodore Commodore

    Joined:
    Oct 13, 2004
    Location:
    Utah
    I recently started collecting the German translations of the Bantam Star Trek books, mostly because of the Eddie Jones (Fantoni) cover art. Before Goldmann, many were published by Williams, and, later, as issues of the Terra Astra hefte series.

    I'd always wondered why Bantam had covered up the Enterprise on the cover of Star Trek 10 with text. That always struck me as a bad layout. Turns out, it was because the art was originally painted for Williams' Enterprise 13 (which is half of the Bantam title Star Trek 9 -- the original was too long for the German paperback format in 1973, so it was split in half).

    Anyway, Bantam reused the art on their next Star Trek title, but had to obscure most of the painting with cover copy to match the layouts of the earlier volumes in the series.
     
    StefanM likes this.
  18. Kilana2

    Kilana2 Vice Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Jan 31, 2015
    Location:
    Kilana2
    DS9 Original Sin is planned for April 2020 now! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! I want more DS9!
     
    StefanM likes this.
  19. StefanM

    StefanM Commander Red Shirt

    Joined:
    Jun 20, 2018
    Location:
    Grünberg, Germany
    Plus in May:
    Voyager Architects of Infinity Part 2
     
    Kilana2 likes this.
  20. Kilana2

    Kilana2 Vice Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Jan 31, 2015
    Location:
    Kilana2
    New German titles and their publication dates are online now on Startrekromane.de:

    @ Christopher might be interested in the German titles.....

    Fortunes of War - Titan = Kriegsglück, August 2020

    Original Sin - DS9 = Ursünde, April 2020

    Available Light - TNG = Vorhandenes Licht, September 2020