What do you do with Star Trek novels?
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Are there any novels of TNG, Voyager, DS9 or Enterprise like the novels written by James Blish of TOS?
Does anyone have Star Trek The Animated Series in book form?
James
Does anyone have Star Trek The Animated Series in book form?
James
^ You mean novelizations of episodes? If so, yes there are, but only for some episodes.
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Novelization
ETA: That link has a list of episodes that got the novelization treatment.
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Novelization
ETA: That link has a list of episodes that got the novelization treatment.
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Only of selected episodes; novelizations are less common in the age of home video.
Yes, Ballantine/Del Rey's Star Trek Log One through Log Ten by Alan Dean Foster, which expand considerably upon the episodes. The last four volumes contain only one episode adaptation each, plus an original follow-up story (or in the case of Log Ten, three original stories set respectively before, during, and after the episode).
Christopher's got it exactly right. I checked the dates on my copies. While the Star Trek copy says it's a third printing, it doesn't give any date beyond simply 1967. However the Star Trek 1 copy not only says that it's the 25th printing in February 1977, it also gives dates for all the previous 24 printings! Apparently the first printing was January 1967, and both the second and third printings were February 1967.
(Incidentally, the list of other available books in the beginning lists Star Trek 1-11, Spock Must Die!, Star Trek: The New Voyages and Star Trek Lives!. According to the Complete Starfleet Library, Spock, Messiah! was also out by that point.)
Anyone else willing to check the printings on their copies and see if we can nail down when they changed the title? Or am I the only one who's really curious about this?
Oh yeah, sorry, I got confused by the mention of "less than 30 Pocket..."
I don't have any copies of Star Trek 1, just several copies of Star Trek. ISFDB suggests that the 21st printing (May 1975) was Star Trek 1, but also lists a 1977 printing as Star Trek.
The Star Trek Reader II was published in May 1977, and lists its contents as Star Trek 1, Star Trek 4 and Star Trek 9, so the title change seems likely to have happened no later than May, 1977. We need more data points to make an accurate assessment of when Bantam changed the title.
In any event, it appears that the title was first changed in the UK, where Corgi published Star Trek 1 in 1972.
I used to have several of those when I was very young and had no idea they were adaptations of the animated show until years later. I wish I'd kept them, because I remember rather enjoying them.
Thanks for posting the link, I'll go through my library of Star Trek books and see if I have any from the later series.
I thought Steve Roby might have tracked the reprints here:
http://www.well.com/~sjroby/lcars/1967.html#1967stjb
but no.
I started collecting ST books in 1980, mostly secondhand for the Bantam stuff, but the first Blish collection was very elusive. I ended up getting a then-recent new edition printing from a specialist bookshop, but it was from the run that had standardized the cover logo in black with the volume number "1" printed in red. As such, it didn't match the other eleven volumes in my collection. (Neither did the Corgi UK reprints, and it took a while to standardize me collection.) The cover art - that very cool, old, advertizing artwork - was greatly reduced in size. The only benefit was the bound-in, fold-out coupon promoting the Tuttle & Bailey limited cels of TAS artwork!
A few years later, I realized that the regular huckster at our monthly ST marathons (five episodes per month on the big screen!) had a bagged copy of "Star Trek" (no number) for a very reasonable price. I bought it because it had the larger version of the artwork, but was thrilled to find it was a mint-condition first edition.
Speaking of the old Bantams, I wonder how big the printings were back in the '70's. I mean, they had at least 24 printings of the first book in 10 years, so they were going back to press every 4-5 months. That doesn't happen any more.
^People read more back then.
Awesome!
And as Christopher pointed out earlier, it was before VCRs. I reread the novelization of Wrath of Khan over and over and over again because it was the only way for me to revisit it.
You just prompted me to read over part of this National Endowment for the Arts report on reading in the USA.
I don't know how accurate the figures are, but they're disturbing.
I was eleven when Max Headroom began. I loved it. Some part of my psyche owes something to that show.
Every time I see Matt Frewer I think back...
Same here, except I was 18. I made that image after I rewatched the show when it came out on DVD. It's amazing (and somewhat scary) how well it holds up.
Reg later claimed in his final episode that he couldn't read, but he followed that up with something like "No one in the Fringes can... officially," so I figure he was lying. But when I see how people are reading less and less every decade, I really do worry that this is where we're headed.
But they're definitely reading less books, which is important. Plus I keep hearing that people are reading less newspapers and magazines, as well. (I certainly am.) While the latter two can be blamed on getting more up-to-the-second news on the Internet, I'm not convinced that an increased Internet presence means that the amount of actual reading is still equal to what it once was.
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