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Therin I just got it launched I'll ask create space tomorrow if I could use an image from the book like a look in side OK.

I wrote my Bio to explain where I came from,and where my journey in life took me to so far as to pointing out my parents occupations is to show where I got the talent to write the book in the first place. I'll check with one of the mods if I can post a image or a link so you can see a series of images OK.

Signed

Buck Rogers
 
Buck Rogers said:
I wrote my Bio to explain where I came from,and where my journey in life took me to so far as to pointing out my parents occupations is to show where I got the talent to write the book in the first place.
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I fully realise that but, as it stands, that bio means something only to you. It's not your biography at all, it's more like the dedication page that might appear inside the book.

I'd rewrite the biography to tell us who you are, and what your artistic credentials are.
 
Not a book, but if you don't know about this:
http://filmscoremonthly.com/cds/detail.cfm/CDID/454/

please let me just say that my air-freighted "newly expanded edition" of the Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" double CD was waiting for me on Thursday night when I arrived home from my regular CBD books & comics run! Excellent soundtrack!

I absolutely love the intact final track, which has the three old tunes that were used as background mood music in the Earth bar. Great to hear them unencumbered by dialogue; I'd only ever been able to hear tiny snippets of each one before.

And yeah, and the track called "A Fighting Chance to Live" (3:54) is amazing!
 
The whole soundtrack gets a thumbs-up from me. I hope they continue with expanded/complete scores for all of the Trek films, and I also have a long list of other movies for which I would like more comprehensive soundtracks.
 
Dayton Ward said:
The whole soundtrack gets a thumbs-up from me. I hope they continue with expanded/complete scores for all of the Trek films, and I also have a long list of other movies for which I would like more comprehensive soundtracks.
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Me too, such as Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Some of the best Star Wars music were in those two movies.

Hey, they gotta be remembered for something, and not just as bad films.:bolian:
 
Therin of Andor said:
please let me just say that my air-freighted "newly expanded edition" of the Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" double CD was waiting for me on Thursday night when I arrived home from my regular CBD books & comics run! Excellent soundtrack!
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And now I report the arrival, direct from Varese Sarabande, the "Deluxe Edition" of Michael Giacchino's 2-disc soundtrack to JJ's "Star Trek". Limited to 5000 copies, it comes in a landscape-oriented hardcover book, filled with 26 glossy pages of photos and production notes. Handsome! I'd guess that Steve Roby might wish to add it to his website of ST publications. At first glance you'd barely think of this as a CD.

Off to play it now!
 
Therin of Andor said:
Therin of Andor said:
please let me just say that my air-freighted "newly expanded edition" of the Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" double CD was waiting for me on Thursday night when I arrived home from my regular CBD books & comics run! Excellent soundtrack!
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And now I report the arrival, direct from Varese Sarabande, the "Deluxe Edition" of Michael Giacchino's 2-disc soundtrack to JJ's "Star Trek". Limited to 5000 copies, it comes in a landscape-oriented hardcover book, filled with 26 glossy pages of photos and production notes. Handsome! I'd guess that Steve Roby might wish to add it to his website of ST publications. At first glance you'd barely think of this as a CD.

Off to play it now!
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Just got shipping confirmation for mine the other day. I can't friggin' wait for it to get here...
 
Call me crazy, but I bet those Abrams' universe Star Trek books will never see the light of day. It is too bad because it would have been great to expand the new series and help the hesitant fans warm up to that other world.
 
Xenu Cruise said:
Call me crazy, but I bet those Abrams' universe Star Trek books will never see the light of day. It is too bad because it would have been great to expand the new series.
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???

It's hardly the first time a ST tie-in has been held up.

Pocket Books' first original novel, "The Entropy Effect", was all ready to go - the pre-publicity was already out there, and the controversy over Kirk's death was already raging - when it was discovered that Bantam Books, by the nature of their contract, had to be permitted the right to release all manuscripts they still had in train. ("Perry's Planet", "The Galactic Whirpool", "Death's Angel" and "Star Trek Maps".) We waited an agonising 17 months more until "The Entropy Effect" was finally allowed to be released.

Pocket has paid for four JJ ST tie-in manuscripts. That's a lot of money doing nothing for Pocket (or CBS). They will want to be recouping that outlay if at all possible. Be patient.

... and help the hesitant fans warm up to that other world.
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They aren't aimed at the "hesitant" fans. In any case, those fans will remain "hesitant" until at least after the next movie. Plenty of time.
 
Therin of Andor said:
They aren't aimed at the "hesitant" fans. In any case, those fans will remain "hesitant" until at least after the next movie. Plenty of time.
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I'd consider myself somewhat of a hesitant fan. I liked the movie well enough on its own, but it wasn't "Trek" enough for me, if that makes any sense. I like the deep mythology that the old universe had and we know so little about the new timeline. That is really what I'm looking for, a more established universe and that is what I'm hoping the books would help provide. Obviously, the old Trek has a 40 year head start, so it won't be overnight.

When do you imagine those books will get released? After the new movie in 2 or 3 years?
 
Therin of Andor said:
They aren't aimed at the "hesitant" fans. In any case, those fans will remain "hesitant" until at least after the next movie. Plenty of time.
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The books were aimed at any and all fans of the Abrams movie, hesitant or otherwise. The idea was to make them accessible to the novice Trek reader who's only familiar with the movie. If anything, they were more "aimed at hesitant fans" than the normal Trek books are.


Xenu Cruise said:
When do you imagine those books will get released? After the new movie in 2 or 3 years?
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We're hoping so, but there's no way to know at this point. Bottom line, it's the filmmakers' decision, and they have a lot of other priorities right now.
 
Christopher said:
The books were aimed at any and all fans of the Abrams movie, hesitant or otherwise.
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Well, you'd know, since you wrote one of them, but it's my understanding that ST media tie-ins are read by approximately 1-2% of the viewing audience. I would think licensed tie-ins in general are marketed at the avid fans with plenty of disposable income rather than "hesitant" ones.

I certainly knew of "Star Trek" novels and TAS long before becoming an avid fan (in Dec 1979). After ST:TMP, I had become an avid - perhaps rabid - fan (or perhaps fanatic) and began collecting everything with "Star Trek" on the cover.

I might describe myself as a hesitant "Doctor Who" fan, having seen a few recent episodes that seemed extremely well done, but I've never been tempted to buy a DW tie-in. I'd also describe myself as a hesitant "Star Wars" fan, having seen each of the six movies and bought the "Making of..."s, a few short story anthologies and the Episode 4-6 novelizations, but I've never been tempted to buy a SW Extended Universe original novel, not even the ones by known and popular "Star Trek" authors.

The idea was to make them accessible to the novice Trek reader who's only familiar with the movie.
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Sure, but a novice fan is not necessarily "hesitant". I've already met some novice fans of the JJ movie and they were quite avid about finding the phenomenon.

If anything, they were more "aimed at hesitant fans" than the normal Trek books are.
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"Hesitant" about what, though? Liking the movie, liking the tie-in books or sampling other universes of "Star Trek"?
 
Therin of Andor said:
Well, you'd know, since you wrote one of them, but it's my understanding that ST media tie-ins are read by approximately 1-2% of the viewing audience. I would think licensed tie-ins in general are marketed at the avid fans with plenty of disposable income rather than "hesitant" ones.
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Licensed tie-ins are marketed at anyone who's curious enough to pick them up. That includes a much broader group of people than you're specifying here. I've never had "plenty of disposable income" but I still read tie-in books when I can. And the whole point of this relaunch of Star Trek is to create a new fanbase, to introduce the franchise to people who haven't been engaged in its fandom before. That's true of the entire merchandising strategy for the franchise, not just the film itself. It would be self-defeating to target only "avid" fans, because they're already Trekkies anyway. That's no way to grow the audience.



Sure, but a novice fan is not necessarily "hesitant". I've already met some novice fans of the JJ movie and they were quite avid about finding the phenomenon.
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"Hesitant" about what, though? Liking the movie, liking the tie-in books or sampling other universes of "Star Trek"?
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Oh, let's not split hairs over how a single word is defined. I don't remotely have the time or energy for that now.
 
Ugh... At least the dead period is half over, now. Been a good chance to jump into the library and read some non-trek classics that I've managed to miss, I suppose.

Nothing in June, July's a reprint of ebooks, what's on tap for August? Can't remember if it was August or September when new MMPBs came out again...
 
August is another reprint, late August is the MMPB reprint of the Trek novelization (actually the September release, but they hit a little early); late September is a reprint of an old TNG novel - Nightshade, by Laurell K. Hamilton (again, actually the "October" release) and then Typhon Pact starts in late October ("November").
 
Yep.

In all fairness though, it's a pretty busy few months after that - the four Typhon Pact books, the next Myriad Universes book, the next New Frontier book, and the first two YA Abramsverse books all hit in the next 4 months.
 
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