The list of Trek novels and authors....

[Joel_Kirk]

What happened to that nice list on the back of the Trek books...? (That one that lists the author and title of each Trek novel)...

Granted we're in the age of the internet where one can find reviews and lists, but sometimes having a list at your fingertips is helpful...

(Yes, one could actually print out a list online, but that's not the point; that leads into an argument of being 'green').

Too, not everyone would know where to look for these lists...

All in all, that growing list was helpful and cool. (I'm assuming because it was growing was the reason it was cut?)

 

[Thrawn]

Yep. It was really long, to the point where it saved them a measurable amount of money to cut it (iirc), and so they did. Not to mention just generally intimidating readers, and having less and less relevance in this age of crossovers and multi-series collections (like MU and MyrU), etc.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

^^

That is true....

 

[Therin of Andor]

What happened to that nice list on the back of the Trek books...? (That one that lists the author and title of each Trek novel)...

Granted we're in the age of the internet where one can find reviews and lists, but sometimes having a list at your fingertips is helpful...

But it's immediately out of date twelve times a year, took up a huge number of pages every time - an ever increasing number of pages - and people argued about the "correct" order in which the titles appeared, and which titles needed to be repeated in different sections.

Not to mention that, when a book went into reprint, it would get the newest booklist, so page counts of old titles would get artificiallly inflated... by pages and pages of quickly-redundant book lists.

 

[Nardpuncher]

I liked it too...but it was also a tease for new readers I guess.
I mean you'd see a list of all these Trek books that you can't buy anymore without difficulty as they were out of print.

 

[LightningStorm]

Too, not everyone would know where to look for these lists...

I don't know, Google is pretty widely known. And for anyone who doesn't know about that knows about Yahoo.

 

[Thrawn]

Yeah, just google "list of all star trek novels" and you get the wiki page instantly.

 

[seigezunt]

there's always Steve Roby's great site.

The list was getting sooo long. Maybe they could have put a pdf on the S&S website every year...yeah, right.

 

[ronny]

I just find this to be an odd topic to be created by someone whose signature is a link to is Wikipedia user page.

 

[PaulSimpson]

I like the new version where books linked to the one you're reading are listed - I don't know who started that off, but it's handy.

P

 

[Joel_Kirk]

I just find this to be an odd topic to be created by someone whose signature is a link to is Wikipedia user page.

Just laziness on my part...

 

[21Spike65]

I like the new version where books linked to the one you're reading are listed - I don't know who started that off, but it's handy.

P

Not sure what you're referring to...where is this new version? Sounds interesting.

 

[Christopher]

^Many of the current books contain listings of other books in the series or by the same author. For instance, The Soul Key has a listing in the front of all the post-finale DS9 books. Over a Torrent Sea lists the previous Titan books on the inside front cover, and opposite the title page is a bibliography of my other Pocket fiction.

 

[seigezunt]

oh, that's even better.

 

[21Spike65]

^Many of the current books contain listings of other books in the series or by the same author. For instance, The Soul Key has a listing in the front of all the post-finale DS9 books. Over a Torrent Sea lists the previous Titan books on the inside front cover, and opposite the title page is a bibliography of my other Pocket fiction.

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, that actually makes more sense, and I could see it being more helpful than a full list of the books published over the last 30 years.

 

[Nardpuncher]

^^^ Oh My GOd you're right....30 years!!!

 

[Joel_Kirk]

^^^ Oh My GOd you're right....30 years!!!

Time passes by when you don't even know it....