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in this thread at TrekBBS, Pocket Books poobah Margaret Clark confirms that a book reprinting artwork from the SotL calendars will be coming out this fall. Formal announcement next week.
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Will there be anything new though? Seems a far cry from matt's "126 pages of CGI goodness", but if it's only limited to the SOTL calanders, it's gonna be a thin book!
Hopefully they wont split the images between two pages- that would seriously suck.
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I've got little interest in repurchasing copies of the stuff that I already bought a while back. I'd much rather be interested in new artwork and actual content (i.e. textual descriptions and information) to accompany the pretty pictures themselves.
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I agree, I have the artwork in large format as calendars, why would I buy them again unless there was something different about the whole thing... maybe they corrected all the errors with ship naming and registries... Wasn't the Honshu named with like 4 different ship names/registries?
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Yeah- but only if the book contains anything as yet "unseen".
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Who keeps calendars, though? I mean, I guess if you've got them stored away somewhere than this isn't going to be a product you're interested in, but I can only imagine that's a tiny segment of the market. Coffee table art book > wall hanging intended to be disposable.
In any case, I haven't actually bought any of the calendars, so that is a plus, but then I haven't bought many of the previous art books either.
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There have been 4 SotL Calendars(iirc), each with between 13 and 14 images. Most had a centrefold pic and a unique front cover pic. That's already about 50 images. Plus there are the ones from the other calendar centrefolds and front covers. Times that by two to account for the pages with text that details what the images are of and you already have nearly 126 pages. They might not even need any new pictures.
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Will there be anything new though? Seems a far cry from matt's "126 pages of CGI goodness", but if it's only limited to the SOTL calanders, it's gonna be a thin book!
Hopefully they wont split the images between two pages- that would seriously suck.
126 pages of cgi goodness, where?
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I've kept all my calendars - why wouldn't you - I don't buy them to know the date. I've still got all my Tolkien Calendars back till 1992 - althought i didn't end up getting the 2004?? calendar with Tolkien's own artwork - I already have "pictures by j.r.r. tolkien".
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I think I still have my Prince Caspian calendar from 1983 or so... Have all of the SotL calendars, too. Remember, not counting leap years, every seven years the calendars cycle. So I can use the '01 calendar again in '09 (I believe).
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Will there be anything new though? Seems a far cry from matt's "126 pages of CGI goodness", but if it's only limited to the SOTL calanders, it's gonna be a thin book!
Hopefully they wont split the images between two pages- that would seriously suck.
126 pages of cgi goodness, where?
It's quoted my Masao (in the linked thread) as supposedly being quoted by MattC from here.
As Johnny pointed out, if you combine all the calanders, you almost get than many pages (and there'll likely be an original cover to the book).
The only calander I've kept was the '01 and this years (so far). The others I gave away, except for that awful "pop art" year- that got trashed.
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