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Upcoming Publications: March/April 2011

Rosalind

Rosalind

TrekLit's Dr Rose Mod
Admiral
March 2011
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Star Trek: Enterprise


April 2011
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Star Trek


Note: This list is subject to change.
Note2: For Dec 2010 - Feb 2011 publications, see next post
 
December 2010
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Star Trek: Typhon Pact
  • Seize the Fire
    (Mass paperback) by Michael Martin
    ISBN-13: 9781439167823
    note: featuring the crew of Titan

Star Trek: Myriad Universes
  • Shattered Light
    (Trade paperback) by David R. George III, Scott Pearson, and Steve Mollmann & Michael Schuster
    ISBN-13: 9781439148419

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
  • The Delta Anomaly
    by Rick Barba
    ISBN-13: 9781442414099 (Hardback)
    ISBN-13: 9781442412415 (Trade paperback)


January 2011
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Star Trek: Typhon Pact
  • Rough Beasts of Empire
    (Mass paperback) by David R. George III
    ISBN-13: 9781439160817
    note: featuring Ben Sisko

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
  • The Edge
    by Rudy Josephs
    ISBN-13: 9781442414082 (Hardback)
    ISBN-13: 9781442412408 (Trade paperback)


February 2011
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Star Trek: Typhon Pact
  • Paths of Disharmony
    (Mass paperback) by Dayton Ward
    ISBN-13: 9781439160831
    note: featuring the crew of Enterprise-E
 
Recently in, but easily overlooked is "Infestation Sketchbook", 16 b/w pp, which wasn't included in the code for IDW's "Invasion" crossover mini-series in my standing order. Contains four Star Trek sketches, among the "Transformers", "Ghostbusters", etc., but not actual images from the comics.

TOS McCoy as a zombie by Woodward; TMP Kirk as a zombie by Purcell; ST III Spock rising, up as a zombie from his burial tube to take on the Genesis microbe/snakes by Maloney, and TOS Uhura as a zombie at her bridge station by Messina. Cool stuff.
 
IFM is mass market. I think Admiral Young was referring to the reprint of the first Romulan War novel.
 
The MMPB novel for May, "Department of Temporal Investigations: Watching the Clock" by Christopher L Bennett has just arrived in Australia (Galaxy Bookshop, Sydney), and "New Frontier: Blind Man's Buff", the trade paperback by Peter David arrives next week.

How nice to pay only $13.95 for a just-of-the-plane ST novel, arriving a few days before the US publication month. Our Aussie dollar is performing well, so prices have dropped. It wasn't very long ago that air-freighted ST MMPB novels were nudging $18 each.
 
to therin of andor and csalme if the covers of ifm or any other star trek novel are different than here in the usa could you post the cover thank you ?
 
The only country that gets different covers is Germany, and I think that is just the translated versions, which are published by a different company.
 
timothy said:
to therin of andor and csalme if the covers of ifm or any other star trek novel are different than here in the usa could you post the cover thank you ?
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Simon & Schuster Australia have always imported US editions. Some novelizations have been from different publishers. We had local Futura editions of ST:TMP (with a section of captioned colour plates and a few revised chapters with extra sentences) and ST II, a UK edition of ST IV and international Pocket paperback editions of "First Contact" (trade) and "Nemesis" (MMPB).

Early Canadian editions of ST novels had little maple leaf icons.
 
Yeah our covers are the same too as the books that come from USA, some by plane, some by boat. Plane books are 50% dearer than boat books, though they also go to different shops.

Interestingly, I was looking at the price of a Trek book I got in 2000 recently. When the conversion is done from Irish pounds into Euros, books are actually cheaper now. Though one shop back then use to do a one for one exchange between Irish pound and British pound which made books even cheaper.
 
JD said:
The only country that gets different covers is Germany, and I think that is just the translated versions, which are published by a different company.
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Yes, they are translated versions and they only create new covers for those books where they don't like the original one.
 
JD said:
The only country that gets different covers is Germany, and I think that is just the translated versions, which are published by a different company.
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Germany has been getting nicer covers then the USA.
 
timothy said:
okay that's cool why deos germany the only country that gets different covers?
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I guess because they're translations, Australia, UK etc. all get books printed by Simon & Schuster, so why should there be different covers?

And it's only since the current publisher (Cross Cult) has picked up the license that there are different covers for a number of the novels (not all, Vanguard & Titan all have the original covers for example) here in Germany, the former publisher (Heyne) used the US cover for almost all their releases.

You can see thumbs of all Cross Cult Star trek covers here.
 
timothy said:
okay that's cool why deos germany the only country that gets different covers?
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Well, the German company that bought the rights to translate the US-published novels into the local language has to print them, too, so the opportunity is taken to replace the cover art if they don't think the original artwork will appeal to the German readers.

Since Australia just imports the US product, there's no opportunity to create new cover art.

In the 70s and early 80s, Bantam (US) ST novels and Ballantine/Del Rey (US) TAS adaptations were all reprinted by Corgi (UK), and most of those editions had brand new cover art. Sometimes this was because the international rights for cover art are separately arranged, and sometimes because the publisher feels that the local market would respond to different covers. When Orbit (UK) and then Titan (UK) began republishing Pocket (UK) material, the original cover art was used, but sometimes with some tinkering to layout, title font styles and sizes, etc.

When there were Japanese language editions being published, these, too, often had new cover art commissioned.
 
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