Stargazer TPBs

[Therin of Andor]

Not really possible in my part of the world. London just doesn't have a decent stock of new or second hand ST books anyway, even Forbidden Planet is starting to reduce their stock. The only place I might find them is in my local secondhand sci fi and fantasy bookshop, but even that is unlikely, they tend to stock more of the TOS and TNG than any of the others.

I find it really hard to believe that London (and suburbs) has less second hand bookstores than Sydney. (While our second hand stores have slowly vanished, especially from the CBD, I still know about four with huge ST sections.)

A lot of second hand sellers have gone exclusively online these days. Sure, some ST novels are perceived as "rare" ("Mission: Gamma #1" before the recent tpb reprint) and command high prices, but I'm sure most Stargazer titles would be quite reasonable online. And online searching is so efficient!

 

[BrotherBenny]

Not really possible in my part of the world. London just doesn't have a decent stock of new or second hand ST books anyway, even Forbidden Planet is starting to reduce their stock. The only place I might find them is in my local secondhand sci fi and fantasy bookshop, but even that is unlikely, they tend to stock more of the TOS and TNG than any of the others.

I find it really hard to believe that London (and suburbs) has less second hand bookstores than Sydney. (While our second hand stores have slowly vanished, especially from the CBD, I still know about four with huge ST sections.)

A lot of second hand sellers have gone exclusively online these days. Sure, some ST novels are perceived as "rare" ("Mission: Gamma #1" before the recent tpb reprint) and command high prices, but I'm sure most Stargazer titles would be quite reasonable online. And online searching is so efficient!

London has hundreds of secondhand bookstores, but less than one in ten stock star trek books. the majority of what they do hold is general fiction, crime and women's fiction. I have to hunt through every street market to find star trek books. and some of the older ones are going to be almost impossible to find.

 

[Brendan Moody]

Wow, only seven posts to get to the e-book debate from a completely unrelated topic. And we didn't even need to use Kevin Bacon.

Actually, it was related to the topic, since I was suggesting an option for getting hard-to-find Star Trek books.

"Humor... It is not logical."

 

[Therin of Andor]

I have to hunt through every street market to find star trek books. and some of the older ones are going to be almost impossible to find.

It's called the "thrill of the hunt". I did it for my first four or five years of collecting in the early 80s (every Thursday night and Saturday morning, for many months at a time, until all the shops knew me by name or at least reputation, and they'd often "save" things for me!) - and, you know, I still pick up the odd gap in my collection, but now using Steve Roby's Complete ST Library listings and the online searching facility at Amazon.

These days many second hand stores have their entire collection on a database and, even if you are browsing in their bricks and mortar store, they can often tell you, as you walk in, whether the book is somewhere inside!

As for early Pocket ST novels, many of these were on the bestseller lists, where kept "in print" for ages, and are in larger quantities than you'd imagine. Every ST novel turns up somewhere, sometime!

 

[BrotherBenny]

I have to hunt through every street market to find star trek books. and some of the older ones are going to be almost impossible to find.

It's called the "thrill of the hunt". I did it for my first four or five years of collecting in the early 80s (every Thursday night and Saturday morning, for many months at a time, until all the shops knew me by name or at least reputation, and they'd often "save" things for me!) - and, you know, I still pick up the odd gap in my collection, but now using Steve Roby's Complete ST Library listings and the online searching facility at Amazon.

These days many second hand stores have their entire collection on a database and, even if you are browsing in their bricks and mortar store, they can often tell you, as you walk in, whether the book is somewhere inside!

As for early Pocket ST novels, many of these were on the bestseller lists, where kept "in print" for ages, and are in larger quantities than you'd imagine. Every ST novel turns up somewhere, sometime!

I love hunting for books, which is why my parents stopped going to boot sales. Now, when I'm out, I tend to pop into bookshops all the time and see what they have. And if I see a market, I'll see what they have, drives my friends crazy

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Wow, only seven posts to get to the e-book debate from a completely unrelated topic. And we didn't even need to use Kevin Bacon.

Actually, it was related to the topic, since I was suggesting an option for getting hard-to-find Star Trek books.

"Humor... It is not logical."

"We learn by doing."

 

[tenmei]

Hopefully the PM I've just sent you, Xeris, should help.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Hopefully the PM I've just sent you, Xeris, should help.

It does

 

[JWolf]

*cough*Still available as eBooks*cough*

Well the price of Kindle ebooks at least has jumped by a few dollars a book in the last few month -- especially on the older star trek books making e-books a less enticing option imo. I was planning on buying a kindle but if I was looking for out or print books now I would just buy them used or check your local used bookstores.

For the cost of the Kindle, you can get a Sony PRS-505 and have mony left over for the Stargazer eBooks.

 

[JWolf]

I can't stand reading an e-book, I just can't sit looking at my computer screen for long enough to make headway on a book. I can sit and read a message board or e-mails because I can look away constantly - but a book demands a bit more attention!

A Kindle uses "digital paper," a technology that uses tiny balls of black ink against a white surface rather than a bright flickering screen. It's no harder on the eyes than actual paper.

Just as a quick note, the Sony Reader PRS-505 uses the same screen as the Kindle.