Agreed. Inception is the best movie I've seen all year.
Why the sudden lack of new releases?
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Agreed. Inception is the best movie I've seen all year.
Inception took a long time to throw out its 'hook,' I think. I think part of my problem with it was that Leila was a major character and I... Honestly, I wasn't that fond of her. It may have been the fact that her feelings for Spock felt too much like her being on the rebound to me. And the fact that a decent chunk of the early part of the book focuses on her made it something of a struggle to get through for me.
I work for a railroad, actually...not to paraphrase you out of context, but you're spot-on, dude.
But there was a back up plan. Two CoE trade omnibuses of previous eBook stories, MMPB reprints of the JJ novelization and a Laurell K Hamilton title, and two new YA titles, all announced after the four JJ tie-in novels were put in limbo.
Do you really expect Pocket to have four all-new novel manuscripts waiting in reserve just in case four other novels are put on hold?
For what it's worth, no publisher I've ever worked at has "stored" back-up books for emergencies. That's just not how it works. If a book falls out of the schedule, because an author got sick or whatever, you just shift things around to make do.
In general, accounting departments HATE to have unpublished books sitting around in inventory, not making money. After all, you've already paid the author for the book, so you want to get it out there and generating income as soon as possible. Otherwise you're just losing money.
Back when I was the traffic manager for CONAN, I used to keep a couple of generic CONAN covers in stock, just in case we needed one in a hurry, but never any actual manuscripts.
In my local bookstores SW novels are now outnumbering Trek ones at least 5 or 6 to 1. Trek used to have its own shelf, now it has about half a shelf that melds into the beginning of the SW books, so that you can barely tell where one part begins and one ends.
I also really think that Paramount or whomever really missed the boat with the lack of books to tie in with the movie. Star Wars had a billion different things back when the prequels were still coming out. Star Trek had the novel adaptation and the 'Making of' art book, and that was about it.
Well, someone must have had a good stock of V.C. Andrews manuscripts piled up somewhere. She's been dead for what, 25 years, and she STILL puts out a couple new books a year...
Well, someone must have had a good stock of V.C. Andrews manuscripts piled up somewhere. She's been dead for what, 25 years, and she STILL puts out a couple new books a year...
If you look closely at the covers, they're credited to "V. C. Andrews (TM)." She's not even an author anymore. She's a trademark.
At this point, I imagine that "V. C. Andrews (TM)" has written way more novels than Virginia Andrews ever did!
In my local bookstores, I can remember when ST had multiple shelves and SW didn't even fill a single shelf. Now, it's the opposite.
The Destiny trilogy was timed to coincide with the original December 2008 release of STXI, with the plan being that the books and films get a shake up at the same time. The film was obviously delayed.
Pocket kept away from TOS era novels around the time because no-one was sure how events of STXI would play out, and what elements of TOS (if any) were going to be retconed or changed by Bad Robot. It was only a few months before the film's release they said that most of the movie takes place in an alternate timeline.
Now there's somewhat of a blackout on STXI merchandise. With the exception of the art book, the novelization, the Countdown and Nero comics and the forthcoming YA books, all is quiet. It's such a shame.
The STXI Enterprise is even absent from the forthcoming Haynes' Enterprise manual - and it's not by accident or oversight. My guess is that either the license for the new film was too great, or they are deliberately distancing old Trek from new.
Pocket kept away from TOS era novels around the time because no-one was sure how events of STXI would play out, and what elements of TOS (if any) were going to be retconed or changed by Bad Robot. It was only a few months before the film's release they said that most of the movie takes place in an alternate timeline.
Now there's somewhat of a blackout on STXI merchandise. With the exception of the art book, the novelization, the Countdown and Nero comics and the forthcoming YA books, all is quiet. It's such a shame.
The STXI Enterprise is even absent from the forthcoming Haynes' Enterprise manual - and it's not by accident or oversight. My guess is that either the license for the new film was too great, or they are deliberately distancing old Trek from new.
Well, someone must have had a good stock of V.C. Andrews manuscripts piled up somewhere. She's been dead for what, 25 years, and she STILL puts out a couple new books a year...
If you look closely at the covers, they're credited to "V. C. Andrews (TM)." She's not even an author anymore. She's a trademark.
At this point, I imagine that "V. C. Andrews (TM)" has written way more novels than Virginia Andrews ever did!
By a long way. I think she only finished 8 or 9 before her death. In the UK, where she was published as Virginia Andrews, her posthumous books are bylined "The New Virginia Andrews." Clever!
At least most of the posthumous Darkover books include the name of the actual writer on the cover: "by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross," for instance.
If they are republishing old books, like Nightshade, they should republish Vonda McIntyre's Enterprise: The First Adventure. I loved that book when I was a kid, and it offers an interesting take on how the Ent 1701 crew first came together in the Prime Universe, which would be interesting to reflect upon compared to the new Trek movie.
They republished Nightshade because Laurell K. Hamilton is a very famous and successful author now. So it's not like they're just republishing old Trek books for their own sake.
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And yet, other than owning Nightshade, I've never heard of her.
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