Series:Star Trek Bantam Books (1970-1981)

Bibliographic comments for the Star Trek Bantam Books (1970-1981) series

I don't understand the ordering of this series, or its separation from the other Star Trek Bantam Series. Has someone just used date order? BLongley 12:56, 27 Jan 2008 (CST)

Some more sensible (to me anyway) groupings would be the numbered 'Star Trek Adventures': I know the first 8 of these are numbered in the Titan edition at least (12 if you believe Fantastic Fiction), although number 5 is currently in the other Bantam series (looking rather stuck on as an afterthought):


 * 1)  The Galactic Whirlpool (1980) by David Gerrold
 * 2)  The Price of the Phoenix (1977) by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath
 * 3)  The Starless World (1978) by Gordon Eklund
 * 4)  Perry's Planet (1980) by Jack C. Haldeman, II
 * 5)  Mudd's Angels (1978) by J. A. Lawrence
 * 6)  Trek to Madworld (1979) by Stephen Goldin
 * 7)  Planet of Judgment (1977) by Joe Haldeman
 * 8)  Devil World (1979) by Gordon Eklund
 * 9)  The Fate of the Phoenix (1979) by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath
 * 10)  Death's Angel (1981) by Kathleen Sky
 * 11)  Vulcan! (1978) by Kathleen Sky
 * 12)  World Without End (1979) by Joe Haldeman

These look like a matched pair:
 * 1) 1 Star Trek: The New Voyages (1976) by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath
 * 2) 2 Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 (1978) by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath

I'm tempted to combine the two Bantam Series, setting up the two sub-series mentioned above, let 'Classic Episodes' and 'Star Trek Reader' and the Blish 'Novelizations 1-12' stand as sub-series too. Then there's only a few oddities left over. Any comments? BLongley 12:56, 27 Jan 2008 (CST)


 * I would agree that the source of this series and ordering is unknown and possibly a fan invention rather than something published by Bantam. I came upon this series as I was verifying The Price of the Phoenix and saw that it's listed as #3 in the series but the publication does not state this. Before the title page of this publication is a page that lists "Bantam Star Trek titles". These are:
 * The Price of the Phoenix by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath
 * Spock, Messiah! A Star Trek Novel by Theodore R. Cogswell and Charles A. Spano, Jr.
 * Spock Must Die! by James Blish
 * Star Trek 1 by James Blish
 * Star Trek 2 by James Blish
 * Star Trek 3 by James Blish
 * Star Trek 9 by James Blish
 * Star Trek 10 by James Blish
 * Star Trek 11 by James Blish
 * Star Trek: The New Voyages by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath
 * About Star Trek
 * Star Trek Lives! by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Sondra Marshak Joan Winston
 * Note that Bantam just lists the books without bullets or numbering.
 * Note that Bantam just lists the books without bullets or numbering.


 * Star Trek fan Steve Roby has a list at http://www.well.com/~sjroby/lcars/tosindex.html (search for Bantam Books, 1970-1981 on the page) though he does not include the well known Star Trek # by Blish books as part of this intersection of Star Trek, Bantam Books, and 1970-1981. Ideally we'd add multiple series support to ISFDB and then could construct this intersection series without worrying that some of the titles may be used in other series. Marc Kupper (talk) 19:42, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


 * The biggest difference between the two "series" is that the one is only novelizations of the actual episodes, with the exception of Mudd's Angels which novelizes the two episodes and adds an original Mudd novella. The two Mudd episodes were not given to Blish for inclusion in the Reader/1-12 series for contractual reasons (I don't know the exact details). If not for the fact it's one publisher, there would be no reason to combine the two series. It's convenient to add the 'Bantam' as a clarifier, but the one could be set up as TOS Novelizations just as easily and the other absorbed into the generic TOS. I like them separate as the Bantam Books had more freedom in plot than the Pocket line, though that is a bibliographically meaningless reason. Each of the Bantam editions listed the previously published books in alphabetical order, so no help in establishing 'numbering' from any lists. Only the two Phoenix books are related. The Titan series numbers have no basis beyond marketing but may force the issue in a bibliographic sense as any list that ends up with their numbers out of sequence for no other reason than the original publication dates will look contrived. Maybe they used Stardates? ~Bill, --Bluesman 20:41, 12 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I think my proposal over merging the Bantam series but keeping the Blish novelisations as a sub-series is still valid - I'd prefer to lose the "Bantam" name as that covers the US titles only, whereas a "Transworld" name would be more accurate, or maybe a "Bantam/Corgi" designation would be clearer. BLongley 22:30, 12 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I have no intention of merging the Pocket series with the Bantam ones though. Nor of making the Titan numbering override the Pocket one. BLongley 22:30, 12 July 2009 (UTC)