And crews full of create-a-character random aliens all wearing different make-your-own-uniforms!
STO: The Needs of the Many cover.
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And crews full of create-a-character random aliens all wearing different make-your-own-uniforms!
I got 43,000,000 hits for star trek books; 3,720,000 for star trek novels; and 27.700,000 for star trek online. books has got it beat. how did you type it in? I did all lowercase words with spaces between them. You get different results depending on what you do, obviusly. But i'm interested in how you entered the search parameters
It will be bought by all of the completists, of course, but also by people who are intrigued by ST gaming. Potentially a different demographic.
I was surprised when the "Star Trek: Klingon" and "Starfleet Academy" CD-ROM games were novelized. I don't play the games (but I did buy these two as games, and "Star Trek: Borg", anyway) but the novelizations were great.
And Pocket's always been concerned with sales.
If you just enter it that way, without quotes, then it's not searching specifically for the phrase, just for any site that contains all three words, not necessarily in that order or anywhere near each other in the document. So that would give you a ton of false positives, hits that have nothing to do specifically with Star Trek novels or Star Trek Online. To avoid false positives, I searched for the exact phrases, which you do by putting quotes around them.
Although, granted, given how common a word "online" is, I'm sure there are a number of sites that have the title Star Trek immediately followed by the word "online" without being specifically about the game Star Trek Online. So that figure is sure to include a fair number of false positives, but it's so much huger than the book results that the margin for error probably doesn't change the results.
Interesting, I always used to put periods between the words when I wanted an exact phrase match and I generally found what I was looking for fairly quickly.
Different strokes.
Different strokes.
I wasn't aware of the period thing, but I don't see why you'd think it would make any difference in search time. However, when I try it with the periods, I get about 11 million more results.
^It never really got an announcement the way the other 2010 novels did, but it began showing up on Amazon and such without ceremony a few months ago.
Ah, I see. Thanks, Christopher. On a side note: I'm planning on picking up The Buried Age in a couple of days(have to wait until I get paid, unforunately) since I've heard so many people saying good things about it.
A few years ago I might bought Star Trek Online, although I don't bother with PC games anymore now I have the PS3. What are the chances of a paired down version being released for the PS3 or XBox 360?
Does anyone know if the game can be played just as a single player game? I have zero interest in the whole gaming-with-people-around-the-world thing.
Yes, you can play alone all the concept missions and patrols. (but you are going to see ppl on space, starbases and all that), but i am not sure if only with missions and patrols you can complet the game.
BTW, i am going to buy the book. I cant stand that we dont have a TNG book this year (only a Titan book for all TNG fans??), looks like pooket forgot about TNG fans, well.. thats why i am more intresting on STO books now.
Sorry for bad english
That's really my thing about MMO's in the first place - if I wanted to interact with other people while I'm gaming, I wouldn't be playing a computer game.
Regardless, the combination of STO and Star Wars The Old Republic is wearing me down...
The concluding Typhon Pact novel, published in January 2011, will be a TNG novel. A publishing year pretty much runs from one February to the following January, so in a way, the year ends with a TNG novel. (And a January book will generally begin going on sale in late December anyway.)
And just because a single year is lean on a certain series doesn't mean Pocket has "forgotten" that series. Every year is scheduled differently, and if a given series is underrepresented one year, it may have a large presence a year or two later. Nothing is "forgotten," because in publishing you need to have a long attention span and plan well in advance. But you can only fit so much in a mere twelve months.
Well, i just hope that in 2011 we get a bit more TNG.. but with all the new JJTrek movie thing and all the hate that Star Trek has now (when i said Star Trek i mean old and "real" time line, new time line its not Star Trek to me) , mi hopes are really dawn..
What hate?
Maybe there's a language issue here... you don't seem to understand yet that Pocket will not be publishing books based on the new movie. They were going to, but the books were removed from the schedule.
And interest in something new does not equal hate for something old. It's possible to love more than one version of a story at the same time.
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