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Upcoming Publications: October/November 2010

Rosalind

Rosalind

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October 2010
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • Nightshade
    (Mass paperback reprint) by Laurell K. Hamilton
    ISBN-13: 9780671795665


November
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Star Trek: Typhon Pact
  • Zero Sum Game
    (Mass paperback) by David Mack
    ISBN-13: 9781439160794
    note: featuring the crew of Aventine


Note: This list is subject to change.
Note2: For July-September publications, see next post
 
July 2010
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Star Trek: Corps of Engineers
  • Out of the Cocoon
    (Trade paperback) by William Leisner, Kevin Killiany, Phaedra M. Weldon and Robert T. Jeschonek
    ISBN-13: 9781439148426


August 2010
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Star Trek: Corps of Engineers
  • What’s Past
    (Trade paperback) by Terri Osborne, Steve Mollmann, Michael Schuster, Richard C. White, Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore
    ISBN-13: 9781439194867

Star Trek
  • Star Trek 365
    (Hardcover) by Paula M. Block
    ISBN-13: 9780810991729


September 2010
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Star Trek
 
Two things happened:

One: The four scheduled novels tying into the 2009 movie continuity were shelved because the filmmakers wanted to take a different route; this left a four-month gap in the schedule that had to be filled with reprints.

Two: In the years since 1992, Laurell K. Hamilton became reallllly successful and famous. So reprinting an old book with her name on it is a pretty good marketing move.
 
Therin of Andor said:
Rosalind said:
Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • Nightshade
    (Mass paperback reprint) by Laurell K. Hamilton
    ISBN-13: 9780671795665
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Do we know yet if there is a new introduction or afterword? I don't usually buy reprints just because of a cover art change, pretty though it is.
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There is nothing new in the reprint except the ads at the back (including one for Hamilton's latest Anita Blake hardcover, Bullet.)
 
Christopher said:
Two things happened:

One: The four scheduled novels tying into the 2009 movie continuity were shelved because the filmmakers wanted to take a different route; this left a four-month gap in the schedule that had to be filled with reprints.

Two: In the years since 1992, Laurell K. Hamilton became reallllly successful and famous. So reprinting an old book with her name on it is a pretty good marketing move.
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I know it makes sense because she is now a popular author. But from a story standpoint, it's just so-so. It's not reprint-worthy other then her name. People are going to buy it because of her name and not like it because of the story.
 
JWolf said:
Christopher said:
In the years since 1992, Laurell K. Hamilton became reallllly successful and famous. So reprinting an old book with her name on it is a pretty good marketing move.
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I know it makes sense because she is now a popular author. But from a story standpoint, it's just so-so. It's not reprint-worthy other then her name. People are going to buy it because of her name and not like it because of the story.
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That's still a win from a marketing perspective. They bought the book. Doesn't really matter if they like it or not -- frankly, it doesn't matter if they read it or not. It matters that copies were sold.

Hamilton's name on the cover will sell copies of that book to people who otherwise would NEVER pick up a Star Trek book. If even one of those new readers picks up a subsequent Trek title, it's a win for Pocket Books.
 
JWolf said:
It's not reprint-worthy other then her name. People are going to buy it because of her name and not like it because of the story.
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I don't recall Hamilton's TNG novel being all that bad. I don't remember all the plot details (not a terribly good sign), but it wasn't poorly written. And it has to be the wider Hamilton audience who'll buy it because the ST completists bought it years ago as a first printing. (If it had a new introduction, I'd have bought it again this month.) I'm surprised Greg Bear's ST novel hasn't been reprinted yet, since he's come a long way since "Corona" and some fan art in the original "ST Concordance".

So long as they don't feel an urge to reprint the late Robert Sheckley's "DS9: The Laertian Gamble".
 
I noticed that a paperback version of Nicholas Meyer's "The View from the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood" has just come out:
http://www.amazon.com/View-Bridge-Memories-Star-Hollywood/dp/0452296536/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
although the hardcover has been reduced to a cheaper price.

Also, I picked up "Visions of Tomorrow: Science Fiction Predictions That Came True" (Skyhorse, 2010), which has newly-collected, older speculative writings by numerous SF authors, including David Gerrold (predicting biological virus engineering in 1972), Robert Sheckley (predicting reality TV in 1958) and Vonda McIntyre (predicting in 2008 the possibility of 3D printing of living things).
 
Why couldn't they reprint some of the DS9 relaunch stuff instead? That stuff nis next to impossible to find these days.
 
Freman said:
Why couldn't they reprint some of the DS9 relaunch stuff instead? That stuff nis next to impossible to find these days.
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The first reprint volume of "Mission Gamma" ("These Haunted Seas") was committed to press too fast after the first batch of relaunch stories in omnibus form (and when the numbers did come in for "Twist of Faith" they weren't very good).
 
Freman said:
Why couldn't they reprint some of the DS9 relaunch stuff instead? That stuff nis next to impossible to find these days.
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Because none of it was written by a NYT #1 bestselling author, that's why.

The fact it was a TNG novel is a fairly minor consideration compared to the fact it was written by LAURELL K. HAMILTON!!!!!
 
Freman said:
Why couldn't they reprint some of the DS9 relaunch stuff instead? That stuff nis next to impossible to find these days.
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There are ooddles in local used book stores usually, and my local book store somehow got a bunch of stuff, including older DS9 PF when ST11 hit theatres.
 
Marie1 said:
There are ooddles in local used book stores usually
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It varies, sure, - but, on the last day of JJ's movie cinema screening here, I found remaindered copies of all four "Mission Gamma" novels for very small prices. Knowing that Book 3 and 4 still often go for a fortune on Amazon resellers' sites, I picked up some as spares.
 
Therin of Andor said:
Marie1 said:
There are ooddles in local used book stores usually
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It varies, sure, - but, on the last day of JJ's movie cinema screening here, I found remaindered copies of all four "Mission Gamma" novels for very small prices. Knowing that Book 3 and 4 still often go for a fortune on Amazon resellers' sites, I picked up some as spares.
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Feel like sending them to me? lol
 
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