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Post by Pinwig on Aug 29, 2019 20:35:58 GMT
I found a second hand bookshop today. Bizarre place. So heavily packed with books over three floors that it was hard to move without tripping over boxes of them. The sort of place that the owners make you feel you're an inconvenience. No Who books of course, but a small room's worth of various old annuals (no exaggeration, no TF ones) and a six foot shelf double stacked with Trek novels. Arm loads of them! If only they'd been Target novels.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 29, 2019 20:41:31 GMT
Next time lmk. There are some books, not Trek, I'm after copies of in pbk cheap.
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 29, 2019 20:50:05 GMT
Sure. Be a while for that one, but I do try to find second hand book shops when I can.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Aug 29, 2019 21:47:55 GMT
Where was this?
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 29, 2019 21:51:32 GMT
Isle of Wight. Found it in Ryde when I was looking for the Who shop.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 29, 2019 21:54:32 GMT
Pre-ordered the book about the 70's animated show. At long !^@^@^ last it gets a book.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 10, 2019 9:03:59 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 13, 2019 15:42:17 GMT
Motion Picture novelisation has been reprinted. Never read it before. It is as legendarily mad as the reputation it has says. Prime Roddenberry. The first paragraph tells us Kirk is named after his mother's 'first love instructor'. A later footnote tells us whether Kirk and Spock were lovers. Kirk's genitals 'stir' at one point. Lots of guff about 'new humans'. Mesmerising madness.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 16, 2019 13:07:41 GMT
Picked up the hardcover 'Star Trek: The Classic Episodes'. 700 pages. Contains 45 of the old James Blish novelisations of episodes which were published in 'Star Trek Logs' books (and later reprinted across 3 bumper paperbacks in 1991). I have a great fondness for these old adaptations so it's nice to have some of them again. Alas, this HC was a one-off published in 2016 so the remaining TOS/TAS adaptaions remain out of print.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Nov 17, 2019 11:56:14 GMT
Did Blish do one for every episode? I have two volumes of the old collections.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 17, 2019 12:28:50 GMT
If he didn't there weren't that many missing cos he did loads. I recall there being a dozen or so editions in the 80s
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 17, 2019 13:23:12 GMT
Did Blish do one for every episode? I have two volumes of the old collections. Yes. All of TOS and TAS were novelised. Bantom (the original publisher) just kept going until they ran out of episodes to do. IIRC Blish did most of them. A JA Lawrence is credited with some of them. If your volumes say '25th anniversary' on the front they will be the 90's reprints. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 17, 2019 13:25:11 GMT
If he didn't there weren't that many missing cos he did loads. I recall there being a dozen or so editions in the 80s Also published as 'Star Trek Logs' in 12 volumes. I recall them being a staple of libraries. -Ralph |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Nov 17, 2019 16:39:22 GMT
Did Blish do one for every episode? I have two volumes of the old collections. Yes. All of TOS and TAS were novelised. Bantom (the original publisher) just kept going until they ran out of episodes to do. IIRC Blish did most of them. A JA Lawrence is credited with some of them. If your volumes say '25th anniversary' on the front they will be the 90's reprints. -Ralph They are. Are they all in the reprints? Hadn't realised they'd done the TAS ones. |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 17, 2019 16:53:24 GMT
If you have two, you need the third to complete the set. I don't recall if the TAS stuff from the Logs were in those reprints.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 17, 2019 16:57:23 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 17, 2019 17:22:00 GMT
I read them in the Corgi editions. Circular space pic at top, a "Star Trek" logo across it and a picture of the Enterprise. Painted covers. A brief bit of research suggests they'd had several prior UK editions.
Each episode is rather brief.....
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Nov 17, 2019 17:45:30 GMT
So I need to get Vol.3 and Log 10 to complete the set?
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 17, 2019 19:38:56 GMT
I need to research this further!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 17, 2019 19:48:48 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 17, 2019 19:52:22 GMT
Alas digital prose longer than a short story is against the laws of nature!!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 10, 2019 14:18:55 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 10, 2019 18:26:00 GMT
I do hope so!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 10, 2019 23:59:54 GMT
It's on next week's Previews list so.....
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 11, 2019 8:02:27 GMT
I must have it.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 22, 2019 15:02:38 GMT
No copies to be found in Manchester so have ordered one from an online store! Something to look forward to in the new year. -Ralph |
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Post by Stomski on Jan 30, 2020 8:35:51 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 30, 2020 12:24:28 GMT
No copies to be found in Manchester so have ordered one from an online store! Something to look forward to in the new year. -Ralph Which never arrived. I must chase that up. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 13, 2020 12:10:30 GMT
The audiobook of the Prometheus trilogy was on sale. It is a few seconds shy of THIRTY HOURS LONG.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 13, 2020 12:11:13 GMT
No copies to be found in Manchester so have ordered one from an online store! Something to look forward to in the new year. -Ralph Which never arrived. I must chase that up. -Ralph Which I again forgor to do! In light of COVID-19, I'll let it go. -Ralph |
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