Trek audiobooks back on the menu!

[Defcon]

If you dig those, you REALLY need to check out the stuff the crew over at Big Finish have done. New stories, Classic Doctors. Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann (Who made the Eighth Doctor AWESOME with his audios), David Tennant, and John Hurt have all participated. Plus spin-off series for UNIT (Featuring Kate Stewart), Countermeasures (From Remembrance of the Daleks), River Song, and the audio revival of Torchwood!

(I swear, I don't work for Big Finish, I just adore what they've done and wish someone could do the same thing for Prime Universe Trek)

Trust me, @Stevil2001 is aware of those, as he reviews them for Unreality SF.

 

[DantePD]

Trust me, @Stevil2001 is aware of those, as he reviews them for Unreality SF.

.....oh. Carry on then :P

 

[Stevil2001]

.....oh. Carry on then :P

No harm, no foul! But you may also note that my avatar is the Eighth Doctor and Charley in Scherzo-- my favorite Doctor/companion team.

 

[Markonian]

I just started audiobooks, with Jeri Taylor's Pathways. I like it a lot, and jumped straight into
Audible's Destiny: Gods of Night.
It's a blessing that most German translations receive unabridged (13h!) audiobook treatment. The Face of the Unknown is next on my list.

 

[Csalem]

No harm, no foul! But you may also note that my avatar is the Eighth Doctor and Charley in Scherzo-- my favorite Doctor/companion team.

I always thought that was from Star Trek comic set in the TMP era. First new thing I have learned in 2017.

 

[Stevil2001]

I always thought that was from Star Trek comic set in the TMP era. First new thing I have learned in 2017.

Oh, I can see it!

 

[Extrocomp]

Anyone know how many times an audiobook needs to sell to make a decent profit?

I'm still hoping that someday, maybe decades from now, Pocket will release their entire Star Trek catalogue as audiobooks like Wizards of the Coast has done with their Dungeons & Dragons catalogue.

 

[Starbreaker]

That's never going to happen. Also, S&S doesn't release any sales figures.

 

[Defcon]

StarTrek.com has posted an article with the following short youtube video, in which the narrator of the Legacies trilogy's audio books talks about his work on the books:

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[ATimson]

StarTrek.com has posted an article with the following short youtube video, in which the narrator of the Legacies trilogy's audio books talks about his work on the books:

Bringing in a light-up model of the ship to the recording studio? Now that's dedication.

S&S is also listing an audiobook for the first Star Trek: Discovery novel, although its release date is obviously suspect at this point...

 

[JD]

Wow, I'm surprised I missed that.

 

[ToddCam]

Very happy to see audiobooks for general releases now. I have not been a regular Trek novel reader for years, mostly because my time is limited for reading. I listen to Big Finish audio dramas while traveling to and from work. I just bought my first Trek audiobook of the Bennett TOS novel. I hope they will go back and do audiobooks for other recent releases.

 

[Jinn]

And now the VGR relaunch novels get German audibook releases.

(And I apologize to everyone who hoped for an English release after the first seven words.)
https://www.facebook.com/startrekromane/posts/10154391979713231

 

[Danlav05]

And now the VGR relaunch novels get German audibook releases.

(And I apologize to everyone who hoped for an English release after the first seven words.)
https://www.facebook.com/startrekromane/posts/10154391979713231

They need to go back and do a load of these in English - Destiny, Titan, Typhon Pact etc

 

[JD]

That would be cool, but I don't think they usually do audiobooks of old books like that. If it doesn't come out alongside the paperback/hardcover then it usually doesn't come out at all.

 

[Smitty]

Is is unfortunate that it seems that the "older" releases (Destiny, typhon, Titan, etc) will never see english audiobook additions. I love to read Star Wars books too (old EU and New EU) and having them available as unabridged audiobooks is wonderful!

 

[rngwrldngnr]

I don't know. They seem to be trying for 1 book per month, though it's hard to say for sure. And they seem to want to avoid the middles of the more serialized series like DS9 and Voyager. I fully expect to see the Discovery Novel adapted, along with any sequels there, and I could also see that bringing in new blood from Audible users getting introduced to Star Trek. But that still leaves months free, and since TOS and TNG seem to be their targets, I could very much believe they would release a foundational early crossover like Destiny to test the waters for larger old releases, and Vanguard could be a TOS/Discovery era supplement.