I have some of them. Though I haven't read them, most of them were my mom's.
What do you do with Star Trek novels?
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I have some of them. Though I haven't read them, most of them were my mom's.
Ditto that, although it's probably closer to 30 years in my case. I actually have two copies of Star Trek 1. The first copy is the one my mother gave me when I was 8 that started me on reading Trek books; the other is an earlier printing which was titled simply Star Trek. The idea of a Star Trek book with no number or other title to it at all just blew my mind! So it sits at the very front of my Trek library.
I hang my head in shame to admit that I have created an Access database where I chronicle my Trek collection. It includes episodes, movies, books, comics and audiobooks, with coded GUIDs that indicate whether its an episode, book, comic... etc. etc.
My want list grows and shrinks depending on recent purchases, and new stuff I discover exists -- but don't have. My most recent acquisition (apart from new comics and books) is a copy of the Macdonald & Co. hardcover edition of Vonda McIntyre's novelization of TWOK.
My most-wanted "Want" is the Firecrest HC reprint of Barbara Hambly's Ishmael, published in 1987 (along with HC reprints of Shadow Lord, Killing Time (the K/S version) Pawns and Symbols and Mindshadow.) These are extremely rare -- most copies were sold to libraries in the UK and Australia, and subsequently beat to death. I've been looking for Ishmael for over 2 years, and have never seen a copy show up on ANY online retailer. **SIGH!**
Do any of you have family members who are interested in Star Trek?
I am the lone Trek fan in my entire family!
I am the lone Trek fan in my entire family!
I have most of mine, what I did get rid of I donated to the library.
No one is as into Trek as I am, but my mom, and my sister and her husband do occasionally watch Trek. I've tried to get my mom to read some of my Trek books, but she's never gotten very far in any of them. My sister reads alot, but she hates the fact that I read TrekLit, so there is now way she would touch a Trek book with a hundred foot pole. For years I would give her lists of books for birthdays and Christmas, mostly Trek, and she would refuse to buy any of them because she didn't want to "encourage me".
all of my family like trek to varying degrees. Dad watched TNG, VGR and half-watched ENT. Eldest sister watched TNG, DS9 and VGR. Younger Sister watched TOS reruns, TNG, DS9, VGR and reads some of my books. Mum watched TNG, VGR and ENT. Parents have watched TOS in the past.
It's a third printing. Close enough for me!
Yeah, and that was hard enough for me to imagine back when there was less than 30 Pocket novels! Does anyone know when they decided to add the "1"? I'd guess it wouldn't have seemed necessary until the adaptation line got up to the higher numbers and they started doing more of the original novels, but I honestly have no idea.
As I mentioned earlier, my mother gave me my very first Star Trek book. She did wish I would expand and start reading non-media tie-in books (she was especially frustrated that I never made it through the copy of Dune she bought me), but she was just grateful that I was reading at all and was always supportive.
My mother and step-dad are both big Trek fans. Since starting my own family I'm pretty much the only one, though. My wife will watch it with me; she enjoys it, but she's not really a fan. And sadly I've never been able to get my daughter into it at all, although she does at least like Doctor Who.
As I mentioned earlier, my mother gave me my very first Star Trek book. She did wish I would expand and start reading non-media tie-in books (she was especially frustrated that I never made it through the copy of Dune she bought me), but she was just grateful that I was reading at all and was always supportive.
My mother and step-dad are both big Trek fans. Since starting my own family I'm pretty much the only one, though. My wife will watch it with me; she enjoys it, but she's not really a fan. And sadly I've never been able to get my daughter into it at all, although she does at least like Doctor Who.
My situation sounds similar. My wife enjoys Trek (after over a decade), but I'd be astonished if she ever took up a Trek novel.
When my daughter starts to read novels (she's only three now), I doubt she'll be reading Trek. My son, who's six, is interested in a Voyager novel. We'll see...
My sister enjoys Star Trek (she's watched most of TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise with me), and read some of the novels from time to time. Not of late, because she's busy with other things. She enjoyed the ones she read, though.
My mom and her sister both loved TOS back it's it's first run, and mom is the one who got me into it as a baby (it's first run through in syndication). Sadly, they're both dead now.
I'm not alone in the family though one of my cousins (the son of mom's dead big brother) is also a fan.
My girlfriend is also a fan, although we differ on which of the series we like the best.
My mom always mentions how her mother had a crush on Mr. Spock. She herself does not care much for Trek, however, so the fandom skipped a generation on that side (though the enjoyed the 2009 movie, I think largely due to the genius idea of showing Kirk's mother in labor in the first five minutes, connecting to her on a human level before the dreaded tune-out time threshold). Now, my mom is a highly-educated engineer (construction), so you'd think she'd be receptive to scifi in general, but alas, no ...
My late father did like Trek and in fact was the one who turned me on to TNG, but also had his moment of doubt when I turned full-on fan, going as far as briefly withholding my TNG Tech Manual when it arrived in the mail because he was upset at the notion of me studying what seemed like made-up technology to him (grounded as he was in real-world technology as another construction engineer). I guess he subsequently came around to seeing it as an acceptable source of inspiration for a young mind though.
No siblings.
My late father did like Trek and in fact was the one who turned me on to TNG, but also had his moment of doubt when I turned full-on fan, going as far as briefly withholding my TNG Tech Manual when it arrived in the mail because he was upset at the notion of me studying what seemed like made-up technology to him (grounded as he was in real-world technology as another construction engineer). I guess he subsequently came around to seeing it as an acceptable source of inspiration for a young mind though.
No siblings.
Ditto.
Hell, I'm pretty much the lone fiction fan in my family. The closest is my mom having read all the Anne of Green Gables books when she was young (and only then because she's from the maritimes). Other than that, it's the Weather Network, the News, the local paper, and the Catholic Register. And Family Gossip.
I was raised by Hobbits (and am probably the only person in my family who knows what a Hobbit is).
I had to introduce myself to Geek culture.
As a weekly church attendee I did not see anything that would elicit such a reaction. As a former Marine I have some bones to pick with the marksmanship portrayed in the subway shootout (especially Detective Bailey). Even so, please write a sequel; it was an awesome book.
^No, that's Pocket. Fer is asking about the original James Blish adaptation volume from Bantam, which was called simply Star Trek in its initial 1967 release and then titled Star Trek 1 in later editions (once there was a Star Trek 2 and Star Trek 3 and so on).
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