Star Trek books out of print???
Daniel Zuckerman
>Let us see if anyone can help me with this one:
>When I was younger I collected several Star Trek books. I have noticed
>in recent years that these books are no longer available. The only ones
>I find now are published by Pocket Books (I think) in the U.S. I think
>that there are 70 or so of this series (including the movie tie-ins).
>Yet in my library I have some Star Trek paperbacks like: "Trek to a Mad
>World" and "Spock Messiah." Do these books belong to another series of
>Star Trek books that are no longer published or what???? No one I have
>asked seems to know what I am talking about.
>If anyone knows something about this series please post or send me info
>to my e-mail address.
>Thanks,
>Jack
the bantam books came out long before pocket started publishing (starting
with The Entropy Effect, i believe). as it happens, i've noticed that
there are new printings of some of the older books available again. i
saw The Price of the Phoenix in bookstores last month. This wouldn't be
so significant, but that i had the sequel (The Fate of the Phoenix) for
three years and didn't want to read it until i got a copy of the the Price.
i finally tracked one down at a convention, and paid quite too much for it.
especially knowing that i could have gotten it not too long after. on the
other hand, mine is from the original release, so that's got to be worth
something. but you didn't call to ask about that. there are all sorts
of books from before the days where pocket got the monopoly. titles that
spring to mind (from various publishers) also include:
novels:
Spock Must Die
Galatic Whirlwind (i think?)
Star Trek, The New Adventures (I & II)
info:
The Making of Star Trek (TOS)
The Trouble with Tribbles (story behind the episode)
The World of Star Trek
there are plenty more, but i'm at my office and can't think of any. the
upshot is that pocket is the only publisher currently authorized to publish
*new* non-episode stories. The Best of Trek #n (signet) doesn't count, since
those books are compilations of stories from the Trek fanzine.
daniel
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>Let us see if anyone can help me with this one:
>
>When I was younger I collected several Star Trek books. I have noticed
>in recent years that these books are no longer available. The only ones
>I find now are published by Pocket Books (I think) in the U.S. I think
>that there are 70 or so of this series (including the movie tie-ins).
>
>Yet in my library I have some Star Trek paperbacks like: "Trek to a Mad
>World" and "Spock Messiah." Do these books belong to another series of
>Star Trek books that are no longer published or what???? No one I have
>asked seems to know what I am talking about.
>
>If anyone knows something about this series please post or send me info
>to my e-mail address.
I have all of these with the exception of "Spock Must Die". You are right
in that I don't believe that these are being published anymore. My guess
is that after some period of time, Pocket Books started publishing the
Star Trek novels, instead of Bantam doing it. Other than that I can't tell
you much. It has been a while since I have read them. I'm sure you could
probably find some of them for sale at any Trek convention.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jack
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Cindy Tittle Moore
>Jack Ruiz <j...@utrc.utc.com> writes:
>>
>>When I was younger I collected several Star Trek books. I have noticed
>>in recent years that these books are no longer available. The only ones
>>I find now are published by Pocket Books (I think) in the U.S. I think
>>that there are 70 or so of this series (including the movie tie-ins).
>>
>>Yet in my library I have some Star Trek paperbacks like: "Trek to a Mad
>>World" and "Spock Messiah." Do these books belong to another series of
>>Star Trek books that are no longer published or what???? No one I have
>>asked seems to know what I am talking about.
>I have all of these with the exception of "Spock Must Die". You are
>right in that I don't believe that these are being published anymore.
>My guess is that after some period of time, Pocket Books started
>publishing the Star Trek novels, instead of Bantam doing it. Other
>than that I can't tell you much. It has been a while since I have
>read them. I'm sure you could probably find some of them for sale at
>any Trek convention.
I have all of them, since I was fortunate enough to start collecting
them back in the seventies (yes, I was in jr. high school then!). I
have seen them reissued from time to time, but the main story is that
they're Bantam publications, and Pocket Book has some sort of
copyright agreement with Paramount such that they're the only
authorized outfit to publish ST books.
If you look around, you should be able to find some of the reprints.
I have seen Spock Must Die, the Phoenix books, Mudd's Angels, Vulcan!
in reissue.
The Bantam books include:
Spock Must Die by James Blish
Spock, Messiah! by Theodore Cogswell and Charles Spano, Jr.
Planet of Judgement by Joe Haldeman
Star Trek: The New Voyages edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath
Star Trek: The New Voyages II edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath
The Price of the Phoenix by SM & MC
The Fate of the Phoenix by SM & MC
Mudd's Angels by J.A. Lawrence (James Blish's wife)
Vulcan! by Kathleen Sky
The Starless World by Gordun Eklund
Trek to Madworld by Stephen Goldin
Devil World by Gordun Eklund
World Without End by Joe Haldeman
Perry's Planet by Jack C. Haldeman II
The Galactic Whirlpool by David Gerrold
Death's Angel by Kathleen Sky
There is one other novel I have heard of, which I forget the title
of but was published prior to 1970 in hardback as a young adult story
which appears to be the only ST novel that I do not own. I am uncertain
of the publisher of this book. It commands $$$ at cons, as I understand.
--Cindy
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Christian Simons
>The Bantam books include:
>Spock Must Die by James Blish
>Spock, Messiah! by Theodore Cogswell and Charles Spano, Jr.
>Planet of Judgement by Joe Haldeman
>Star Trek: The New Voyages edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath
>Star Trek: The New Voyages II edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath
>The Price of the Phoenix by SM & MC
>The Fate of the Phoenix by SM & MC
>Mudd's Angels by J.A. Lawrence (James Blish's wife)
>Vulcan! by Kathleen Sky
>The Starless World by Gordun Eklund
>Trek to Madworld by Stephen Goldin
>Devil World by Gordun Eklund
>World Without End by Joe Haldeman
>Perry's Planet by Jack C. Haldeman II
>The Galactic Whirlpool by David Gerrold
>Death's Angel by Kathleen Sky
Here is an information for all German speaking or learning book-trekkies.
All 28 volumes of the old Bantam series are currently available as German
paperbacks. The publisher is the Goldmann-Verlag, Munich.
The titles are:
Die Original Abenteuer des Raumschiffs Enterprise
1.James Blish Der unwirkliche Mc Coy (Star Trek 1)
2. " " Strafplanet Tantalus ( " " 2)
3. " " Spock laeuft Amok ( " " 3)
4. " " Das Silikonmonster ( " " 4)
5. " " Der Asylplanet ( " " 5)
6. " " Die Lichter von Zhetar ( " " 6)
7. " " Das Paradies Syndrom ( " " 7)
8. " " Der Doppelgaenger ( " " 8)
9. " " Rueckkehr zum Morgen ( " " 9)
10." " Ein kleiner Privatkrieg ( " " 10)
11." " Der Tag der Taube ( " " 11)
12." " Spock muss sterben (Spock Must Die)
13." " Jenseits der Sterne (Star Trek 12)
14.Marshak/Culbreath Klingon Gambit (The New Voyages)
15. " " Galaxis in Gefahr (The New Voyages II)
16.Judith A. Lawrence Die falschen Engel (Mudd's Angels)
17.Cogswell/Spano Spock,Messias (Spock, Messiah!)
18.Marshak/Culbreath Wie Phoenix aus der Asche (The Price Of The Phoenix)
19.Gordon Eklund Der Teufelsplanet (Devil World)
20.Stephen Goldin Gefangene des Wahnsinns (Trek To Madworld)
21.Joe Haldeman Welt ohne Ende (World Without End)
22.Marshak/Culbreath Das Phoenix-Verfahren (The Fate Of The Phoenix)
23.Kathleen Sky Planet der blauen Blumen (Death's Angel)
24.Joe Haldeman Grenze zur Unendlichkeit (Planet Of Judgement)
25.Kathleen Sky Die Expertin (Vulcan!)
26.David Gerrold Zwischen den Welten (The Galactic Whirlpool)
27.Gordon Eklund Welt ohne Sterne (The Starless World)
28.Jack C. Haldeman III Perry's Planet (Perry's Planet)
Also available from the same publisher are the first two volumes of the
Star Trek-Log-series, based on the episodes of the animated series.
The remaining 8 books will be published within the next two years.
The titles are:
Die neuen Abenteuer Des Raumschiffs Enterprise
1.Alan Dean Foster Todeszone Galaxis (Star Trek Log 1)
2. " " " Der Ueberlebende ( " " " 2)
A comment to the Bantam books:
I think, that this series doesn't reach the quality of the Pocket books,
except Spock Must Die (Forgive the author, what he does with the Klingons
at the end. It was one of the first Trek-novels, and nobody could foresee
the role of the Klingons in the movies and TNG at this time)
and The Galactic Whirlpool (excellently written by Tribbles-author David
Gerrold)
Most of the other novels are average. The famous Jack Haldeman delivers
two disappointing works and the two Marshak/Culbreath novels about the
black Omne, the Romulan commander from The Enterprise Incident, and
another double of Captain Kirk are the worst and most embarrassing
Star Trek novels ever written. On almost every page we learn, how much
Kirk and Spock like each other. Never before and afterwards a marriage
between Captain and First Officer was so near like in the Phoenix-novels.:-)
>There is one other novel I have heard of, which I forget the title
>of but was published prior to 1970 in hardback as a young adult story
>which appears to be the only ST novel that I do not own. I am uncertain
>of the publisher of this book. It commands $$$ at cons, as I understand.
It's Star Trek - Mission To Horatius written by Mack Reynolds
published by Whitman and in Germany by Franz Schneider-Verlag (also out of
print)
Here's the plot:
The Enterprise gets the assignment to investigate the Horatius-system,
which was the source of a distress-call.Reaching the system the scanners
show, that three worlds are inhabited by human-like people.
The first is a stone-age-world, where the landing party meets a young
warrior, who finally ends on board of the Enterprise (Prime Directive
violation of Chekhov and Sulu)
The second is a middle-age-world, where the crew is forced to drink a
strange potion, which makes them to slaves of an oppressive religion.
(Chekov drinks the juice before Bones can scan it)
Finally the third world is ruled by a dictator, who creates armies of
clones, which terrorize the other two worlds. Kirk and Co. are forced
to fight as gladiators against the clones until they are saved by the
dictator's daughter, who also send the distress-call.
Back on board of the Enterprise, another troble is waiting. Mickey, the
rat (one of Sulu's and Chekov's pets) is missed. When some crewmembers
watch the rodent dancing on the corridors, the doctor diagnoses plague.
After a long chase through the whole ship, the rat is finally killed.
Finally it's revealed, that Dr Mc Coy is the guilty person: he teached
the rat to dance, so that the exhausted crew would have fun by chasing
a contaminated rat (ha, ha, ha)
The whole story (also known as "Always trouble with Chekov and Sulu")
is a mixture of several epiosodes of TOS. You find the plots of
"The Return Of The Archons", "Bread And Circuses", "Spock's Brain"
and "Patterns Of Force" in it and the whole thing is very childish.
but nevertheless it's the first Star Trek-novel ever written and a
collector's item of high value
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