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E-Book Pricing Alerts

The deals page is up. Deals for the US this month (all now $1.99) are:

TOS
Spock’s World by Diane Duane
The Vulcan Academy Murders by Jean Lorrah
The IDIC Epidemic by Jean Lorrah
Yesterday’s Son by A.C. Crispin
Time for Yesterday by A.C. Crispin
Troublesome Minds by Dave Galanter
The Pandora Principle by Carolyn Clowes
Child of Two Worlds by Greg Cox
The Entropy Effect by Vonda N McIntyre

TNG
Ghost Ship by Diane Carey

PIC
The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack

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I can also see the following deals for the UK at 99p:

TOS
Spock’s World by Diane Duane
Troublesome Minds by Dave Galanter
Child of Two Worlds by Greg Cox
Mere Anarchy - Its Hour Come Round by Margaret Wander Bonanno

Picard
The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack

S.C.E. / Corps of Engineers
What’s Past Book Four - Distant Early Warning by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore

Mirror Universe
Glass Empires by Mike Sussman with Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore, David Mack, Greg Cox

Other
Destiny (Omnibus) by David Mack
 
I adore Spock's World. I haven't read Ghost Ship in over 35 years but I remember it was really good.
I liked The Vulcan Academy Murders when I was a teenager. Was I wrong?
I was scandalized by Yesterday's Son and the implication that Spock and Zarabeth had actually done it. (I didn't realize that there was 1960's TV code for "heck yeah they did it".)
 
Obsidian_Phil said:
I can also see the following deals for the UK at 99p:

TOS
Spock’s World by Diane Duane
Troublesome Minds by Dave Galanter
Child of Two Worlds by Greg Cox
Mere Anarchy - Its Hour Come Round by Margaret Wander Bonanno

Picard
The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack

S.C.E. / Corps of Engineers
What’s Past Book Four - Distant Early Warning by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore

Mirror Universe
Glass Empires by Mike Sussman with Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore, David Mack, Greg Cox

Other
Destiny (Omnibus) by David Mack
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I can also see the following in the UK main monthly deals for 99p:

Strange New Worlds
The High Country by John Jackson Miller
 
Tallguy said:
I haven't read Ghost Ship in over 35 years but I remember it was really good.
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Ghost Ship is an interesting read because it was written before TNG aired and the author only had the series bible and the pilot script to work from. The characters all act in ways that are jarring after seven seasons of TNG, four movies, and three seasons of Picard, but if you go back and watch Encounter at Farpoint afterwards, you can see how the book is a plausible extrapolation of where the series was going in 1987.
 
Shon T'Hara said:
Ghost Ship is an interesting read because it was written before TNG aired and the author only had the series bible and the pilot script to work from. The characters all act in ways that are jarring after seven seasons of TNG, four movies, and three seasons of Picard, but if you go back and watch Encounter at Farpoint afterwards, you can see how the book is a plausible extrapolation of where the series was going in 1987.
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I read it when it came out and I remember that not only did it feel like the characters I had been watching (for one season, IIRC) but it felt like they were alive. I can't say what it would read like in 1994 instead of 1988.

The two things I remember (think I remember): It touches on the pain that Geordi feels from his VISOR. This was mentioned in Farpoint and never addressed again. And was this the book where Wesley was messing around with the anti-matter tanks? He had come up with some scheme to do a cool thing and Geordi stops him? When Wesley's scheme is called upon to save the day not only does it not work, but he realizes that without the safeties that Geordi built in it would have destroyed the Enterprise.

Wesley is an acting ensign in this book. So that must have been planned early on then.
 
Tallguy said:
I read it when it came out and I remember that not only did it feel like the characters I had been watching (for one season, IIRC) but it felt like they were alive. I can't say what it would read like in 1994 instead of 1988.
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The big thing I remember is that Riker is a bigoted jerk towards Data, which follows on from his attitude in Farpoint, but which was quickly dropped from the series.
 
Here's what's on sale on Amazon Canada right now, not including the ones "permanently" on for 99 cents, or the regular monthly sales (which are apparently $1.99 now)--see @Obsidian_Phil 's post above for those.

$1.99

TOS #77: Twilight's End
VAN: What Judgments Come
SCE #21: War Stories, Book 1
The Star Trek Book (New Edition)

$2.99

TOS #93: New Earth, Book 5: Thin Air
TOS: Dark Victory
DS9: Gamma: Original Sin
VOY #13: The Black Shore
VOY: The Eternal Tide
VAN: Open Secrets
NF: Excalibur: Rennaisance
DTI: The Collectors
Hidden Universe Travel Guides: Vulcan

$3.99

TNG: Takedown
The Fifty-Year Mission: The First 25 Years

Much like the regular monthly sale titles, all of these have been on sale previously.
 
Smiley said:
November discounted books:

All Section 31 novels except Control are $1.99
Corona is $1.99
Seasons of Light and Darkness is $1.99

I also noticed Christopher L. Bennett's Only Superhuman is at $2.99 this month.
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I almost bought the Section 31 last month. Glad I decided to wait. That's a pretty good savings!
 
There seem to be fewer deals in the UK this month. The ones I saw for 99p are:

TOS
#80 The Joy Machine by James Gunn
#83 Heart of the Sun by Pamela Sargent and George Zebrowski
Mere Anarchy - The Centre Cannot Hold by Mike W. Barr
Mere Anarchy - The Blood-Dimmed Tide by Howard Weinstein
Seasons of Light and Darkness by Michael A. Martin

TNG
Section 31 - Rogue by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin

SCE
#35 The Demon Book 1 by Loren L. Coleman and Randall N. Bills

Section 31
Disavowed by David Mack
 
Obsidian_Phil said:
There seem to be fewer deals in the UK this month. The ones I saw for 99p are:

TOS
#80 The Joy Machine by James Gunn
#83 Heart of the Sun by Pamela Sargent and George Zebrowski
Mere Anarchy - The Centre Cannot Hold by Mike W. Barr
Mere Anarchy - The Blood-Dimmed Tide by Howard Weinstein
Seasons of Light and Darkness by Michael A. Martin

TNG
Section 31 - Rogue by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin

SCE
#35 The Demon Book 1 by Loren L. Coleman and Randall N. Bills

Section 31
Disavowed by David Mack
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Thank you! I'd not spotted the two numbered TOS ones, they weren't showing in the Star Trek Series chart, which is where I normally look for the deals.
 
The 99p UK ones for December seem to be up already, and are:

Shadow of the Machine, by Scott Harrison (TOS)
Dreams of the Raven, by Carmen Carter (TOS)
Rogue Saucer, by John Vornholt (TNG)
Typhon Pact Khitomer Accords omnibus (Plagues of Night, Raise the Dawn, and Brinkmanship), by David R George
The Insolence of Office, by William Leisner (TNG Slings and Arrows)
Strangers from the Sky, by Margaret Wonder Bonnano (TOS)
 
Right now, I'm seeing the following for $1.99:

Ishmael
Strangers From the Sky
Masks

For $2.99:

Hidden Universe Travel Guide: The Klingon Empire

If you have been sleeping on Strangers From the Sky in previous sales, do consider it again. It is one of the best Trek novels out there.
 
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