I bought the lot. Because I’m a little stir crazy (three weeks now).
I’ll return & report when the books show up.
I’ll return & report when the books show up.
No, same haircut. And very likely the same shoot too, as it was done during the filming of Emissary.You're right. And Kira's got a different hairstyle as well. Nevermind.
The badges are on the wrong side. Cursed book.
Thank you! This is an interesting mystery.I bought the lot. Because I’m a little stir crazy (three weeks now).
I’ll return & report when the books show up.
I cropped out the relevant section of the pictures from the listing. I'm guessing we can't post direct Ebay links here, but if you search 'Star Trek Deep Space Nine PPB Novels Saratoga Siege Tempest Emissary Lot of 27' you should see the bundle auction from 'brightlightbookseller', based in the US, which has the original pics of the full set. They're also offering TOS/TNG/VOY bundles too, so it looks to be a real book and the seller isn't aware they've got something rare there.
I remember in the Okudas' 1994 first edition of The Star Trek Encyclopedia (which I think was published prior to the airing of DS9's season-two finale), the working title of the season-ender was revealed at the time to be "Dominion" (in an article referencing the destruction of the U.S.S. Odyssey), which then of course later got changed to "The Jem'Hadar" after the Encyclopedia went to press. Very interesting find.Okay, according to John, who was the junior editor working under Kevin Ryan at the time, the powers-that-be at Simon & Schuster assumed that DS9 season 2 would end with a season-spanning cliffhanger, and the cover was solicited pending revelation of the title. Paramount kept insisting that they weren't doing a cliffhanger, but the cover was made anyhow and given the September slot, eventually replaced with the novelization of "The Search."
John has no idea how that cover got on an actual book, since there were only solicitation cover flats done. It's possible that some copies of The Search had that cover put on it somehow -- or the eBay seller got his hands on a cover flat and wrapped it around another book.....
I have a vague partial memory of the change being due to something in the UK. A company or politics or something. ...unless my memory is completely wrong, which happens a lot.I remember in the Okudas' 1994 first edition of The Star Trek Encyclopedia (which I think was published prior to the airing of DS9's season-two finale), the working title of the season-ender was revealed at the time to be "Dominion" (in an article referencing the destruction of the U.S.S. Odyssey), which then of course later got changed to "The Jem'Hadar" after the Encyclopedia went to press. Very interesting find.
Yep. And it's reversed for some reason.The image is a well used promotional picture for the series.
OK, the lot of books arrived today. As KRAD theorized, between the covers is Diane Carey’s novelization of “The Search.”
It makes an interesting addition to my collection of Star Trek paperbacks. Is there another copy like that anywhere?
Yep. Same ISBN as The Search.Does it have an ISBN?
Thanks for sharing that with us! Nice to have this curiosity satisfied. Let's see some scans, man! Have you read the novelization of The Search prior to getting hold of that copy? Congratulations scoring that book.OK, the lot of books arrived today. As KRAD theorized, between the covers is Diane Carey’s novelization of “The Search.”
It makes an interesting addition to my collection of Star Trek paperbacks. Is there another copy like that anywhere?
OK, the lot of books arrived today. As KRAD theorized, between the covers is Diane Carey’s novelization of “The Search.”
It makes an interesting addition to my collection of Star Trek paperbacks. Is there another copy like that anywhere?
Interesting little curio there. I take it it was some sort of advance copy?
Okay, according to John, who was the junior editor working under Kevin Ryan at the time, the powers-that-be at Simon & Schuster assumed that DS9 season 2 would end with a season-spanning cliffhanger, and the cover was solicited pending revelation of the title. Paramount kept insisting that they weren't doing a cliffhanger, but the cover was made anyhow and given the September slot, eventually replaced with the novelization of "The Search."
John has no idea how that cover got on an actual book, since there were only solicitation cover flats done. It's possible that some copies of The Search had that cover put on it somehow -- or the eBay seller got his hands on a cover flat and wrapped it around another book.....
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