Oh no it's another Trek XI thread: Novel Author?
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I was born 2 years 2 months 2 days before TMP hit theaters.
I was born during TNG's second season.
I'm betting that since no one has actually answered the question from the orignal thread that Pocket is waiting closer to May to make an announcement. Since in the Star Trek 11 thread I posted a few months back KRAD I belive pointed out that someone had been picked already but he couldn't say who (or am I wrong Keith?), its been a few months since I looked at that thread if its still around. My thread is called No Star Trek XI Novelization I think.
I think you have it exactly right, Admiral Young. The writer would have been picked a long time ago, back when the film was planned to come out, oh, in about two weeks. It's entirely possible that the manuscript is already written.
It may strike some as strange that the author hasn't been announced, but I can see one very good reason for it that no other Trek film novelization would have faced -- the Internet makes authors so much more accessible, and I imagine that if everyone knew that, say, Ronald Chevalier were writing the novelization (and no, I don't want the author of that piece of garbage Space Harpies writing the novelization, I'm just pulling his name out of the air), then fans would probably be bombarding the author with questions about the film. "Is it a reboot?" "How do you account for 'A Piece of the Action'?" "Is an Orion or Uhura that Kirk is getting his groove on with?" That sort of thing. The anonymity is a defensive move.
Sure, I'm as curious as everyone else who's writing the novelization, but I can be patient.
It may strike some as strange that the author hasn't been announced, but I can see one very good reason for it that no other Trek film novelization would have faced -- the Internet makes authors so much more accessible, and I imagine that if everyone knew that, say, Ronald Chevalier were writing the novelization (and no, I don't want the author of that piece of garbage Space Harpies writing the novelization, I'm just pulling his name out of the air), then fans would probably be bombarding the author with questions about the film. "Is it a reboot?" "How do you account for 'A Piece of the Action'?" "Is an Orion or Uhura that Kirk is getting his groove on with?" That sort of thing. The anonymity is a defensive move.
Sure, I'm as curious as everyone else who's writing the novelization, but I can be patient.
Since when? JM Dillard wrote The Undiscovered Country, Generations, First Contact, Insurrections and Nemesis' novelizations and Vonda N. McIntyre wrote the Novelizations for Wrath of Khan, Search for Spock and Voyage Home, as for Motion Picture and Final Frontier, I'm not sure who wrote them!
If Pocket did use an established Trek writer, my monies on KRAD given his Serenity novelization a few years back.
I didn't mean Trek movie novelizations, I meant movie novelizations in general. I'm sure the number is not in the hundreds or anything like that, but exaggeration IS the essence of comedy, you know.
I never thought about that, but you do have a good point there. The only reason I was wondering was because we are now starting to get alot more info on the movie, and even some of the merchandising. So I thought that since all of this stuff had been revealed, that maybe the announcement of who was writing the book was coming up soon too. But apparently not.I think you have it exactly right, Admiral Young. The writer would have been picked a long time ago, back when the film was planned to come out, oh, in about two weeks. It's entirely possible that the manuscript is already written.
It may strike some as strange that the author hasn't been announced, but I can see one very good reason for it that no other Trek film novelization would have faced -- the Internet makes authors so much more accessible, and I imagine that if everyone knew that, say, Ronald Chevalier were writing the novelization (and no, I don't want the author of that piece of garbage Space Harpies writing the novelization, I'm just pulling his name out of the air), then fans would probably be bombarding the author with questions about the film. "Is it a reboot?" "How do you account for 'A Piece of the Action'?" "Is an Orion or Uhura that Kirk is getting his groove on with?" That sort of thing. The anonymity is a defensive move.
Sure, I'm as curious as everyone else who's writing the novelization, but I can be patient.
Given how secretive Abrams is, I wouldn't be surprised if anyone involved with the novelization was required to sign a non-disclosure agreement and isn't allowed to talk about it at all.
I wonder if Pocket even has the script yet. Were I a betting man, and given JJA and Company's actions to date, I'd bet against it.
On a side note, it looks (according to Amazon) as if Tokyopop has done a manga adaptation or tie-in written by a name familiar to Trek fans... I doubt that has any bearing on the matter, though...
Is that someone with the initials DG? I think that's an omnibus of the three volumes of TOS manga Tokyopop has already published.
Ah, it is, and that sounds reasonable - I assumed it was a new thing because they've just titled it "Star Trek" like the movie...
Ah well, Amazon's accuracy strikes again (I mean, the buggers have got the publisher of my next book listed as the author, instead of me, and instead of as the publisher!)
Star Trek Ultimate isn't a complete collection of the three Tokyopop manga volumes. It's a "Best Of" compilation (hence, the lower price as compared to, say, WarCraft Ultimate), with "Side Effects" colorized and an Art Adams poster.
If it's a "Best Of," then it ought to be a very slim volume indeed. **rimshot!**
LOL!!!!! You must have been thirsty to drive that far. And yes, I do know exactly why you drove 30 miles to get some beer...I'm surprised you didn't get caught.
Hey, no judging here... think the Honor Code in Provo's not all that great, could you imagine attending BYU-Idaho up in Rexburg? (But I'm left to wonder...surely there was somewhere in Provo you could have found some hooch....well maybe NOT Provo, but perhaps Lehi or even American Fork?)Anyways, after seeing the trailer for the new movie, I'm excited to find out who the author for the movie novelization will be, and can remember my first 'Trek' book that I owned was "Star Trek Generations", and then the next book I got was 'The Search' (DS9). For Christmas, I received "Blaze Of Glory" and then after that, I got my copy of 'Sarek', 'The Ashes Of Eden' and 'The Romulan Prize'. The rest is history.
Oh, I can not only imagine it, I can remember it. Except it was called "Ricks College" when I did my single semester at Upper Valley High in 1979. For excitement, we used to drive to Idaho Falls.
Let me repeat that:
Idaho.
Falls.
After one semester, I had to flee at the risk of my sanity.
BTW I can totally understand the need to know who is writing the novel. My thread as I stated was about the lack of information regarding a novelization in the first place which hadn't really been talked much about in here. So thankfully it was confirmed that there is indeed one, the writer was selected (again someone from Pocket can correct me) and finally that I'll be hounding my Chapters every day in May until the 9 to buy myself a copy once it comes out. I just hope its not released in Hardcover, also I'm curious is Pocket is planning any Making of coffee table books for Star Trek as well as the novelization.
Unless it was election day (when you can't buy beer in Utah County) I think it is more of not wanting some self righteous student to recognize you and report you to the Honor Code Office. Much safer if you drive 40 miles, I would imagine
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