Why?
Collision Course and Destiny
- Thread starter Man of Steel
- Start date
Is the expansion more likely to be before or after the movie? I would think it would be before, myself.
The Barnes and Noble bookstore near me used to have a HUGE section of Star Trek books. Its down to about two shelves. They used to have about two book cases. The Walden books store that used to be at the mall used to be the same way.
Yeah. I remember the glory days of going into Barnes and Nobles and drooling over all the Tech manuals, encys, companion and other books. Then I'd drool even more at all the titles I didn't own. Now I walk in and look only to see I own all of what they are selling.
Well, before I self-edited, I attempted to speculate March, then April, then early 2009, and figured someone would question the date no matter what I chose. Isn't the "Crucible" Hardcover Omnibus slated for May? Bookstores probably won't stock the individual "Countdown" comics, but only the trade omnibus. Isn't that April? I assume with all the secrecy a novelization won't turn up till the beginning of May.
I'm sure it'll vary from chain to chain, and shop to shop, and will also reflect the biases of various managers. As it always has.
Well if I read the entire novel in a day, then I'd be itching to read book 3 right away. At least dragging it out over the course of 4 or 5 days gives me time to enjoy the book and it doesn't feel so rushed.
The novelizations for the last four movies had hard street dates of the movie's release date. I'd expect the novelization for the new film to likewise have a hard street date for the film's release.
You still paid $5.99 too much for Collision Course.
Why not do an online reserve? Then you could go into the shop and the book would be waiting for you.
I try that too... it never works.
Start making the books with alternating sections of boring and interesting maybe...
You know, I can't agree with this. Admittedly, I read this hardcover while on vacation, so I was relaxed and in the mood to enjoy it. Knowing my opinions of Shatnerverse instalments have been quite varied, and after reading some very negative reviews of this one, I expected the worst.
While I have reservations about some of Shatner's choices, it's a fun, fast read.
BTW, the MMPB version still carries the promotion line for a future Volume 2, so I guess Shatner's highly-publicised complaining that the second book might not happen because Pocket failed to market the first one may be all hot air and bluster. If sales of the hardcover were dismal, I'm sure that line would have disappeared from the MMPB.
Shatner full of hot air and bluster! 
Surely not!
Surely not!
Whats funny about this is that the large Chapters in my town, with its... I dunno, maybe 2 or 3 so rows of books (sometimes they're mixed with SW, so its hard to tell)... still rarely gets 5 copies of anything that I've seen!! Maybe... I've had to get books there since... Gateways? Or before that... maybe once or twice they've gotten more than 4 of anything. (The fact they look like they've been attacked by beavers aside).
I just read an interview yesterday where Shatner mentiones that there won't be anymore books.
UGO: Well, the fans refer to that as the Shatnerverse. I don't know if you're familiar with that term.
WS: Yeah, the Shatnerverse has probably come to an end, but that's my Shatnerverse.
So what's the deal with this? Can we get any offical word? Another book was planned. Has any work started on that? Will it go ahead?
UGO: Well, the fans refer to that as the Shatnerverse. I don't know if you're familiar with that term.
WS: Yeah, the Shatnerverse has probably come to an end, but that's my Shatnerverse.
So what's the deal with this? Can we get any offical word? Another book was planned. Has any work started on that? Will it go ahead?
