How is that a "however?" Those are basically synonymous. Coordinating and uniting both require more than one entity. I guess you can say one person's effort can be organized, though.
It still feels wrong to me, but I'm literal-minded.
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How is that a "however?" Those are basically synonymous. Coordinating and uniting both require more than one entity. I guess you can say one person's effort can be organized, though.
It still feels wrong to me, but I'm literal-minded.
Was Eurus in Sherlock finale from the Doyle stories or another new family member?Let's take Sherlock Holmes for a moment. Writers after Doyle have invented a number of family members that aren't in the Canon. There's the much older brother Sherringford (from William S. Baring- Gould), a much younger sister Enola (from Nancy Springer), a completely different younger sister Violet (from Andy Lane), plus his son Raffles (from John Kendrick Bangs), and his daughter Lucy (from Charles Vesey and Anne Elliott). None of these go together, or were ever intended to go together, yet I like imagining that they can and do fit together in various combinations. Just for myself, and only for fun. Enola and Raffles together would be hilarious.
And that quote leads to the logic behind the hypothesized even older Holmes brother, because Mycroft is very clearly not a "country squire," so who inherited the estate in the country? That led William S. Baring-Gould to hypothesize Sherringford, the Holmes country heir.
There are other ways of answering the question, such as a Pride & Prejudice inheritance situation where Holmes' mother was the only living child of the "country squire" and she was unable to inherit, so the estate went to a distant cousin.
Couldn't Mycroft own the estate but live in the city by preference? He seems just the type who'd see maintaining a large country estate to be an intolerable bother and leave it in the hands of a caretaker or let the bank administer it or something.
For that matter, since there's no canonical mention one way or the other of Holmes's parents, couldn't his father still be alive? I mean, the series starts when Holmes and Watson are in their late twenties, and they're probably in their thirties for most of it, so it's entirely possible they could have living parents, even if that was statistically less likely then than it would be today. Certainly a number of adaptations such as Sherlock, Elementary, and Enola have given Holmes at least one living parent in his adulthood (with Cumberbatch-Holmes's mother being played by his real-life mother, UFO's Wanda Ventham).
I'd always read this as meaning more distant ancestors.
Yes, I guess that could be it too, that the family lost the estate in some intervening generation.
I was thrilled when "Ex Machina" unexpectedly came out as a trade-sized reprint, because now it displays very nicely next to the 40th anniversary of the novelization of TMP, and Christopher L Bennett's "The Higher Frontier". (And now also "Living Memory".)
New Trek stuff by Ian McLean, on Flickr
I bought "New Frontier: Rückkehr" (Cross Cult, 2022) by Peter David, a German-language hardcopy version of "The Returned". The only English-language version is in three eBook volumes. But I would really love this as a trade paperback:
"New Frontier: The Returned" by Ian McLean, on Flickr
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Hmm. I wasn't aware that Billy Van Zandt was a writer and a producer; I thought he was just a character actor who had a walk-on in TMP.
As to the TMP novelization being reissued in TPB, not interested: I have the movie novelizations (at least through TVH except for TFF and TUC) in hardcover, and TMP and the TNG movies specifically in publisher hardcover, rather than SFBC hardcover. As to the TPB reprint of Ex Machina, it's been so long since I read it that I don't even remember what it's about, and to me, a TPB (unless printed on really nice, archival-grade paper, with a Smyth-sewn binding) is just a more expensive verson of a MMPB.
As to the TMP novelization being reissued in TPB, not interested: I have the movie novelizations (
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You had to bring that up, didn't you? After saying in this thread that I wouldn't rebuy a TPB of a PB I already owned... that's exactly what I did with the TMP 40th anniversary rerelease. Now I look like a hypocrite.
(In my defence, my PB of the TMP novelization was second-hand, and wasn't really in the greatest of shape. The TPB was the first time I had bought it new.
)TBH, I don't really like those TPB "reprints" that you mentioned (Ex Machina, etc), because IIRC, they are overpriced print-on-demand books. And then they turn around and base their ebook price off the overpriced POD price, which makes the ebooks way overpriced too, which causes trouble for people trying to get the books now if they didn't get them while they were new. I can honestly say I haven't rebought any of my books in a POD version.
You had to bring that up, didn't you? After saying in this thread that I wouldn't rebuy a TPB of a PB I already owned... that's exactly what I did with the TMP 40th anniversary rerelease. Now I look like a hypocrite.
(In my defence, my PB of the TMP novelization was second-hand, and wasn't really in the greatest of shape. The TPB was the first time I had bought it new.
And several annoying errors are corrected.
Billy and his writing partner were writing and producing comedy plays annually. His three months on the bridge of the Enterprise, with nothing much to do, gave him amazing access to watch the director, Robert Wise, at work.
"Ex Machina" is a direct sequel to TMP, set ten days (EDIT) after, and is also a sequel to "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky". Dialogue for many of TMP's new alien crewmembers!
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The only POD editions I have are Barbara Owen's biography of organist E. Power Biggs (the first edition was unobtainable at any price at the time; this was a very expensive offprint by University Microfilms, in hardcover -- not Smyth-sewn, but at least on some nice, acid-free paper, and they didn't skimp on the padding compound), and ADF's two most recent anthologies (TPBs, not nearly as nice, and the copy-editing was lousy).
It begins ten days after TMP ends and spans about a month.
This really pisses me off, I don't think it's fair that us e-book readers should have to pay more for exact same book that was $7.99 or $8.99 just because they switched the paper back over to print on demand. If they at least added something to the e-books too I wouldn't mind the price change, but does absolutely nothing to them.
I can see when they're the new hardcover or trade paper backs since they like the prices to be close, but IMO they only go down after the original release not up.
going back to the revision discussion for a second.
Halo did actually do that when the game Halo: Reach came out.
They released a revised edition of the novel of the same name which came out almost a decade earlier, which was edited to try and fit how the game's canon had changed since then, though apprently there were still some issues. I haven't read the revised version, but I do own the original still, I think.
I heard of a Star Wars example recently that apprently almost happened. In the Pre-Disney era The Clone Wars cartoon changed the lore of character and LucasFilm considered released a revised version of a comic that featured them, but decided against it.
Halo did actually do that when the game Halo: Reach came out.
They released a revised edition of the novel of the same name which came out almost a decade earlier, which was edited to try and fit how the game's canon had changed since then, though apprently there were still some issues. I haven't read the revised version, but I do own the original still, I think.
I heard of a Star Wars example recently that apprently almost happened. In the Pre-Disney era The Clone Wars cartoon changed the lore of character and LucasFilm considered released a revised version of a comic that featured them, but decided against it.
Dark Horse did this with the Aliens comics in the early 90s. They published a trilogy -- Aliens, Aliens, and Aliens: Earth War (yes, the first two titles are correct) -- that took place after the film Aliens and the Sulaco's return to Earth, and Hicks and Newt (now a young adult) become involved in events that lead to the United States unleashing xenomorphs on Earth, and Earth becomes a giant xenomorph hive, until Ripley returns to save the day.
As you can sense from that description, this story does not fit with Alien 3 at all. So, Fox had Dark Horse change the characters' names. Within the comics continuity -- and Dark Horse had one -- the events happened, but different people were involved. Steve Perry's novelizations also use the new names.
Dark Horse was allowed to use the original names in some anniversary hardcover reprints before they lost the license due to Marvel buying Fox.
If they wanted it to be consistent, they really needed a page-one rewrite rather than cleaning up some rough edges. The Fall of Reach had a lot of early-installment weirdness owing to it being produced under duress without cooperation from the actual developers of the game (the short version is, Microsoft wanted a tie-in novel to promote the game, Bungie didn't want one written, Microsoft's transmedia people offered a quid-pro-quo where they'd complete the game's dialog scripts if they were allowed to write the novel, and then withheld those scripts unless Bungie allowed the novel to be published, basically holding the game hostage).
I find it pretty frustrating how influental TFoR ended up being on the lore and fandom, considering it introduced a lot of the worst elements of the Halo universe and pushed it far off-track from the spiritual (and possibly actual) sequel to the Marathon series that it started as. It's very annoying for everyone involved, but I never hesitate to point out that all the things people hated about the TV adaptation is the stuff that draws on TFoR, the fandom darling, rather than the games themselves.
I'm reminded of cases where Star Trek novels were revised at the last minute to reconcile with episodes that had come out after they were written, which was sometimes quite clumsy and didn't fit the story. For instance, DS9: Valhalla was delayed a couple of years and was revised to incorporate a reference to the Defiant, even though it explicitly took place before the first-season novel Betrayal.
You can update a novel, but it won't necessarily be good for the novel, since you can end up with a Frankensteinian mismatch between the story's original intent and the later alterations. It's probably better just to let the book be true to itself, and if you want something more up-to-date, just write something new.
You can update a novel, but it won't necessarily be good for the novel, since you can end up with a Frankensteinian mismatch between the story's original intent and the later alterations. It's probably better just to let the book be true to itself, and if you want something more up-to-date, just write something new.