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Your first Trek novel?
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The Q-Continuum Book One... I had never even seen an episode of Star Trek before. I was just big into reading and the cover looked cool. I was hooked. I credit Greg Cox for getting into Star Trek. I was 12 at the time, if that makes you feel old. 
Mwah ha ha. They called me mad. Mad, you say? Would a madman write tie-ins? HAHAhahagigglesnort.
*ahem*
'Course not. He'd write romances.
I can't remember, what with it being over thirty years ago. One of the Bantam titles, obviously. Wish I had the time to reread some of those old titles from an adult/old man perspective . . .
Ghost Ship, the first Next Gen novel. I'd just gotten into TNG, and, upon a trip to the library, discovered the series's book-presence. #1 seemed like a logical place to start.
I think Price of the Phoenix was the first one for me. My dad had 3 Star Trek books: Price, Star Trek 12 (Blish), and the "A Piece of the Action" Photonovel. I read and re-read those.
A few years later I discovered that Pocket was also publishing books, and I bought Deep Domain, which I really enjoyed. That was the first one I personally owned. And of course, now I have hundreds of them.
I am one of those odd people who really enjoyed Price of the Phoenix and its sequel. Maybe because it was my first trek book and I read it when I was 9 years old. I've re-read it a few times over the years. Their writing style is very odd, and I would probably pan it if they wrote a novel today, but there was a lot of quirky charm in their books.
A few years later I discovered that Pocket was also publishing books, and I bought Deep Domain, which I really enjoyed. That was the first one I personally owned. And of course, now I have hundreds of them.
I am one of those odd people who really enjoyed Price of the Phoenix and its sequel. Maybe because it was my first trek book and I read it when I was 9 years old. I've re-read it a few times over the years. Their writing style is very odd, and I would probably pan it if they wrote a novel today, but there was a lot of quirky charm in their books.
my first trek novel was "Star Trek the Next Generation: Starfleet Academy #1 Worf's First Adventure" by Peter David
then there were the Geordie ones
"Star Trek the Next Generation: Starfleet Academy #4 Capture the Flag" and "Star Trek the Next Generation: Starfleet Academy #5 Atlantis Station"
by John Vornholt and V.E Mitchell respectively
do they even make trek novels for adolescents anymore?
then there were the Geordie ones
"Star Trek the Next Generation: Starfleet Academy #4 Capture the Flag" and "Star Trek the Next Generation: Starfleet Academy #5 Atlantis Station"
by John Vornholt and V.E Mitchell respectively
do they even make trek novels for adolescents anymore?
do they even make trek novels for adolescents anymore?
No, just ones by adolescents.
And make more money too but then we'd lose a great Star Trek writer. Hey...maybe he could combine the two genres and make twice as much money by writing a Romance novel with a Star Trek theme or visa versa?
Anyway, I remember when I was a teenager, in the 1970's, I acquired a rather large library of science fiction books (over 1000) for $100.00 in a garage sale and the Blish novelizations were among the many treasures I discovered. However, it was not until Imzadi that I started collecting Star Trek books in all seriousness and have not stopped since.
Kevin
It was either one of the Blish books or the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Interesting idea. One of the things the Blish and Foster adaptations had going for them was they preceded things like VCRs and DVD players, so they provided a way to relive your favorite stories without having to wait for it to come around on the rerun schedule again. Given how readily available all episodes are now, I wonder if that would hurt the market for a similar project on the other series.
Having said that, I'd buy it.
Having said that, I'd buy it.
Not really, because, as was stated, this was in the pre-home-video age. Also one of the reasons why so many have the Blish/Foster adaptations listed is because the majority of the Trek books published between 1967 and 1980 were those adaptations. There were a dozen Blish books, and ten Foster books, as opposed to only 15 original novels (one of which was Blish's Spock Must Die!). And it was a time when the only new Trek available was the animated series.
Thanks to cable reruns, DVD sales, and the increase in original novels, those circumstances aren't really replicable.
My first book was Spectre. I remember thinking it was cool that Kirk was still alive (although I thought I had missed a TV episode or something) and having all the characters from the different series in it.
Mine was either "Final Frontier" by Diane Carey or "Vendetta" by Peter David. I remember getting both from the library as a kid.
Another lost phenomenon, along with the need for Fotonovels - and which died out once videotape became feasible - was the concept of pre-photocopier "script swaps". In the 70s, it was quite common for a US fan, who'd bought a rare script of TOS, from a US convention auction, to copy type it as a bootleg and swap the copy with another fan for their copy typed script.
There were also fan audio swaps (reel-to-reel or cassette bootleg dubs of TV broadcasts of TOS), which is how Bjo Trimble and Dorothy Jones Heydt completed a lot of their first draft of the old "ST Concordance", IIRC.
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