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Hello: The long awaited Star Trek starship book, "The Unseen Frontier: Declassified Images from the History of the Federation", by Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz has been cancelled by Pocket Books. The book has been advertised for several years on the Ships of the Line calendars and was to be published later this year. For reasons unknown, Pocket Books has decided to cancel the project. There are a great many Star Trek fans who were very interested in this book and an email campaign to try and save the book is being organized across several Star Trek websites. Please go to the following link: http://www.simonsays.com/feedback_form.cfm
select SimonSays site: Star Trek and post a request to have the book put back on Pocket Book's schedule. If anyone is unfamiliar with the book I would encourage them to follow this link:
for a description of the book's content. This books has the potential to be one of the greatest Star Trek reference books ever produced and it needs to be saved!
Thank you in advance for any help with this effort.
Best regards, Richard Knapp
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This is certainly new information, sir, and could not have possibly been brought to my attention in any other way!
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Well, I went and posted a message. I let them know how much OTHER bloody Trek 'coffee-table-like' books I had bought over the years.
2 hardcover encyclopaedias (1st and 2nd editions) 2 versions of the History in Pictures The Art of startrek Continuing Mission Making of DS9 TOS companion TNG compendium (two versions) DS9 companion Voyager making of Phase II TOS Sketchbook Bluebrints Science of Star Trek Klingon for the Galactic Traveller TNG Tech manual DS9 Tech manual Omnepaedia TNG virtual Tech manual guide Starship Spotter Rules of Aquisition Legends of the Ferengi Chronology (two types) All the Calendars from the last Decade! Q Scripts Book
plus more (some things in that list I just remembered).
And I said I didn't want to see the work being broken up and put into 3rd rate publications like the fact-files.
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Read the fraggin' other threads! __________________________________________________
I have read them and they all seem to just fade out with the assumption that the book is dead. None of them indicate that there has been any concerted effort to lobby Pocket Books on getting "The Unseen Frontier" back on their schedule. That is the thrust of my message so I would encourage you to READ what I wrote.
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Rich HAS seen the other threads, and posted on them. I believe he wants to start up DOING something, hence the new thread.
I wish you luck on this - really. Nothing would please me more than to get some of my writing and contributions published in a book! But the odds are against you, and Pocket has all but buried the project.
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Thanks Mark! I keep hoping that if the Ships of the Line 2003 calendar sells well AND Enterprise's ratings continue to be good AND a new movie, that this, coupled with a support campaign from the fan base, might be enough to change the minds of some people at Pocket Books.
I long shot to be sure but one I feel is worth the try.
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So your theory is that they should NOT sell the things that people want to buy, but instead the things people don't want to buy. Excellent strategy.
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One must assume these people prefer to taste the sour flavour of defeat and disappointment only when it refers to their love lives. . .
I mean, most other SF fans have had to. I'm an average SF fan - actually, no I'm not, I'm an exceptional SF fan. Yet in the past few years I've had to put up with:
Space: Above and Beyond getting cancelled just as it started to get good.
Babylon 5 hiccuping over the whole season 4/5 thing.
Stephen King's books starting to get just a bit crap.
The X-Files dragging on way beyond the point when I didn't care anymore.
Voyager failing to stop being shite.
Discovering that as a grown man I know longer really care abnout the adventures of a vampire-slaying American teenager.
And many, many, many more. . .
So, you'll excuse me if compared to that lot I don't view the non-publication of a book with lost of non-canon starship pictures in it as the greatest tragedy ever faced by modern man.
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: So your theory is that they should NOT sell the things that people want to buy, but instead the things people don't want to buy. Excellent strategy.
Hello, there IS an audience out there for that book.
I mean why did they keep pumping out half the shite they have over the years - hello - Klingon Hamlet?
If you don't give a rats about the book being published or not - why do you have to comment? Basically if it's out there or not - you don't care.
Vogon... we've all had to deal with most of these... The Steven King or Buffy references don't hold. 1. Don't read his works. 2. Yeah right... maybe you should try watching Angel... a more 'adult' show.
Angel season 1 was better than Buffy season 4 Buffy season 5 was better than Angel season 2 Angel season 3 was better than Buffy season 6
And season 2 of Angel wasn't shabby either - it's just that the entire season 5 was brill.
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