9780525209621 - The Star Trek Reader IV von Blish, James; Roddenberry, Gene (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. S. Fantoni (illustrator). First printing of this edition. Dust jacket has edge wear; now in new removable protective cover. Black boards with gray print on spine. Spine is lightly bumped, and two corners are also lightly bumped. Pages are clean, and unmarked. Dutton / Science Fiction Book Club hard cover with dust jacket, first club printing Aug. 1978 (code I24), ISBN: 9780525209621, SFBC # 3319, 409 pages, cover art by SFantoni. 8vo (8.5" x 5.75") Omnibus edition of two paperback story collections: Star Trek 10, and Star Trek 11, and the original Star Trek novel, Spock Must Die!, each originally published separately in mass paperback. Award winning science fiction author James Blish turned 12 episodes of the original Star Trek into short stories, using the original scripts and not the final shooting scripts. The episodes present include: The Alternative Factor; The Empath; The Galileo Seven; Is There in Truth No Beauty?; A Private Little War; The Omega Glory; What Are Little Girls Made Of?; The Squire of Gothos; Wink of an Eye; Bread and Circuses; Day of the Dove; and Plato's Stepchildren.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1978. First edition. First printing (with full number line including the 1). Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A tight, clean, extremely fresh copy. Publisher's original price intact on front jacket flap ($9.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 472 pages. Quarter black cloth over purple paper-covered boards, with silver spine lettering. THE STAR TREK READER IV collects twelve short stories adapted by James Blish from Star Trek television episodes created by Gene Roddenberry. The stories include "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", "The Squire of Gothos," "Wink of an Eye," "Bread and Circuses," "Day of the Dove," "Plato's Stepchildren," and others. Blish (1921-1975) was a Hugo Award-winning science fiction author and critic best known for his Cities in Flight novels and for pioneering the prose adaptations of Star Trek. This was the concluding volume in the four-volume Star Trek Reader omnibus series, following The Star Trek Reader (1976), The Star Trek Reader II (1976), and The Star Trek Reader III (1977). The four Dutton hardcovers reprinted in sequence the twelve original Bantam paperback collections: Star Trek 1 (1967), Star Trek 2 (1968), Star Trek 3 (1969), Star Trek 4 (1971), Star Trek 5 (1972), Star Trek 6 (1972), Star Trek 7 (1972), Star Trek 8 (1972), Star Trek 9 (1973), Star Trek 10 (1974), Star Trek 11 (1975), and Star Trek 12 (1977). The present volume thus marks both the end of the Reader omnibus sequence and the culmination of Blish's pioneering effort to translate the Star Trek universe from screen to prose, a feat that laid the foundation for decades of franchise fiction to follow.