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A bit of housekeeping:

First, Jackie Bundy's review of the Star Trek: Constellations anthology has been posted on Trek Today. Many thanks to Jackie!

Next, I learned from a thread on the TrekBBS that SFX Magazine has released a special issue devoted to Star Trek's 40th anniversary. The magazine comes poly-bagged, and included with each issue is one of 16 different Star Trek novels. I don't have a complete lineup, but here's 14 of the 16:

Being Human (New Frontier) by Peter David
The Case of the Colonist's Corpse by Bob Ingersoll & Tony Isabella
Catalyst of Sorrows (The Lost Era) by Margaret Wander Bonanno
Foundations (S.C.E.) by me and Bubba
Garth of Izar by Pamela Sargent & George Zebrowski
Genesis Force by John Vornholt
A Good Day to Die (IKS Gorkon) by Keith R.A. DeCandido
A Hard Rain by Dean Wesley Smith
In the Name of Honor by me
No Surrender (S.C.E.) by Mike Collins, Ian Edgington, Robert Greenberger, Glenn Hauman, and Jeff Mariotte
Oblivion (Stargazer) by Michael Jan Friedman
Serpents Among the Ruins (The Lost Era) by David R. George III
Stone and Anvil (New Frontier) by Peter David
The Valiant by Michael Jan Friedman

If anyone can provide the other two titles, I'd appreciate it. The magazine is a UK publication and so is somewhat delayed getting to US bookstores.

(Note: List of books updated 9/24/2006.)

Finally, I discovered during a trip to the nearby Borders that The Last World War has quietly reached its fifth printing. So, uh....go me!

posted by Dayton Ward # 2:20 PM

Comments:

Do you pay for the mag and get the book free or is it a jacked up magazine price?

-Wes

# posted by

Anonymous : 9/15/2006 6:12 PM

SFX Magazine (and similar UK mags) often has promotional freebies in a polybag. Sometimes folded posters, sometimes large trading cards, sometimes a CD of music - and sometimes paperback books. There have also been a few issues that have included a specially published slim book on TV or movie trivia. Newsstand proprietors must hate them!

# posted by

Therin of Andor : 9/15/2006 6:37 PM

"Do you pay for the mag and get the book free or is it a jacked up magazine price?"

As I recall, the Doctor Who special I bought that featured the "free" book was more expensive than the regular issue, but I don't know if that was normal because of the larger page count or not.

"There have also been a few issues that have included a specially published slim book on TV or movie trivia. Newsstand proprietors must hate them!"

I think one of their recent "regular" issues had a trivia book like you're describing. They seemed to do okay with the Doctor Who specials, so I figure the same'll happen with the ST issue.

Here's hoping! I'm always on the hunt for copies of In the Name of Honor, as I like to have them on the table whenever we do cons and such.

# posted by

Dayton Ward : 9/16/2006 9:07 AM

Holy Crap!! 5th printing?? That is awesome. I dont understand why you cant do a sequal. It obviously sells.

# posted by

Anonymous : 9/16/2006 9:17 AM

Obviously one of the three others is Catalyst of Sorrows as someone on the trekbbs said he/she got it with the mag.

# posted by

Anonymous : 9/18/2006 12:43 AM

Thanks for the heads-up. It's "obvious" if you've been keeping up with the thread, which I haven't.

# posted by

Dayton Ward : 9/18/2006 7:24 AM

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