Star Trek memories/movie memories

[BrentMc]

Itunes has Shatner's Star Trek Memories and Movie Memories. They are both abridged. before I buy them I was wondering if you guys knew if they were ever recorded unabridged?

 

[Man of Steel]

Sadly Brent, it's only available in that one format and I looked everywhere. However, you can get the gist of the book regardless. I would say go and purchase it from ITunes if you have that chance.

Hope you enjoy.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Itunes has Shatner's Star Trek Memories and Movie Memories. They are both abridged. before I buy them I was wondering if you guys knew if they were ever recorded unabridged?

The originals were commercially-available audio tapes, and yes, they are abridged versions of the books:

"Star Trek Memories" by William Shatner with Chris Kreski, read by William Shatner, Harper Audio, 1993, 270 min. (based on the non-fiction hardcover.)

"Star Trek Movie Memories" by William Shatner with Chris Kreski, read by William Shatner, Harper Audio, 1994, 300 min. (based on the non-fiction hardcover.)

 

[Tino]

Have they recorded the entire novels or shortened them down?

How much content is lost in such a process? More than 50%?




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[Therin of Andor]

Have they recorded the entire novels or shortened them down?

They're not novels; they are non fiction anecdotes about the making of Star Trek, narrated by Shatner. Abridged means that, yes, they are only highlights, not every word on the page.

I haven't bothered comparing the two versions, but the books are quite long, so the tapes give you the highlights of each chapter.

 

[OmahaStar]

Have they recorded the entire novels or shortened them down?

They're not novels; they are non fiction anecdotes about the making of Star Trek, narrated by Shatner.

I dunno about that ... Sure they're not novels, but I wouldn't call them non"fiction" either.

If one were to believe everything in these books, one would thing Shatner made every single decision related to everything Trek from the original pilot onwards, and believe he was in the room when everything behind-the-scenes happened as well.

Don't get me wrong, they are fun reads, but there is a bit of fiction involved. Not that that's a bad thing. After all, these "memories" are 40+ years old.

 

[BrentMc]

Thanks for the help. I read them both years ago, but I thought it would be fun to hear Shatner read them. I didn't want to get the abridged versions and find out later I could have bought the unabridged versions. Funny how the spell check on this site doesn't recognize Shatner! lol

 

[Sephiroth]

why bother abridgeing audiobooks at all?

 

[KRAD]

why bother abridgeing audiobooks at all?

Because until very recently, the medium of choice for audiobooks was the cassette tape. There were packing limitations, since a fully unabridged book would take up six or seven cassettes.

With digital storage media taking over, you're seeing more and more unabridged audios, but publishing has always been slow to change and adjust to new things. (Took the industry ages to get the hang of the whole "computer" thing....)

 

[Rosalind]

but publishing has always been slow to change and adjust to new things. (Took the industry ages to get the hang of the whole "computer" thing....)

so when did the publishing industry start to accept things through emails?

 

[OmahaStar]

but publishing has always been slow to change and adjust to new things. (Took the industry ages to get the hang of the whole "computer" thing....)

so when did the publishing industry start to accept things through emails?

Next Tuesday.

 

[KRAD]

but publishing has always been slow to change and adjust to new things. (Took the industry ages to get the hang of the whole "computer" thing....)

so when did the publishing industry start to accept things through emails?

Depends on the editor. Most at this point do, though I've known plenty who won't.

And a lot of places still won't accept unsolicited submissions through e-mail, not due to any technophobia, but because people are understandably reluctant to receive lots of attached files from unknown sources.

By the same token, of the 33 novels I've written, I've e-mailed 32 of them. Only my Farscape novel was turned in on a printout, as the British publisher required it back in 2000.

 

[Rosalind]

^ thanks for the answer, KRAD, that's very interesting.

as for unsolicited submissions through emails, that's totally understandable, I never open attachments when it's emails from people I don't know.

actually, I shouldn't've say publishing industry, should've said fiction publishing industry. since I have to deal with the publishers of the technical journal types. Everyone of them I've dealt with has an online submission system, which certainly makes things easier when there's a deadline.

 

[Trent Roman]

Bah. I think it's an exagerated concern. Most every story I've had published (and the exponentially larger number that I've failed to sale) began as an unsolicited e-mail (though, granted, not always with attachments). It's how a lot of us marginal writers and/or editors get things done.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[KRAD]

Bah. I think it's an exagerated concern. Most every story I've had published (and the exponentially larger number that I've failed to sale) began as an unsolicited e-mail (though, granted, not always with attachments). It's how a lot of us marginal writers and/or editors get things done.

It's the attachments that are the issue. And it's real easy to say it's exaggerated (which has two G's, BTW) if you haven't had your hard drive fragged by one.