For those who didn't see the news over the weekend...
02.03.2026 10:28
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At 4pm on Saturday the 7th, BBC Radio 4 Extra are re-broadcast my adaptation of Iain M. Banks’ ‘The State of the Art’ starring the late Sir Antony Sher as the ship. So pleased that’s going to be out there again.
04.03.2026 15:04
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I guessed you would say that.
03.03.2026 22:43
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Death in Paradise uses one pretty much every episode
03.03.2026 22:35
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02.03.2026 20:59
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02.03.2026 15:38
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Very odd - but then we got loads of tie-in stuff sent over for shows hardly known here, if at all!
02.03.2026 13:25
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As with old DWs, I have the books here if you need stuff checked
02.03.2026 13:09
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Are you sure there was a Corgi edition over here in 1967 for a show that wasn't on TV?
02.03.2026 13:08
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IIRC I think she was writing a lot of the first drafts of the later adaptations anyway?
02.03.2026 13:02
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Which isn't too surprising, as the books were continuing to come out
02.03.2026 13:01
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Oh he definitely did - we have Sulu in stories where he was replaced in the final versions by Chekov. Only once did he rewrite the ending cos it was stupid...
02.03.2026 12:41
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A factor here is also that we're talking 1969-70-71; the books were published by Bantam in New York, with Blish living over here. I would be very surprised if he saw that many revised versions once it was in the system there.
02.03.2026 12:30
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What's dafter about this change (Blish just says it goes through various hands, rather than actually blaming the copyeditor) is that the first chapter is called McCoy Without Bones...
02.03.2026 12:11
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Intro to Star Trek 6
02.03.2026 12:03
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Books currently behind something I can no longer easily move but will check when I can 2/2
02.03.2026 12:00
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Memory Alpha: An editor at Bantam copyedited Kirk's reference to McCoy from "Bones" to "Doc", apparently being unfamiliar with the reference to McCoy's oft-used on-screen nickname. Author James Blish wrote a piece about the error in the introduction of a later novelization. 1/2
02.03.2026 11:59
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In one of the intros to the later Trek books.... let me check
02.03.2026 11:44
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When I moved after my marriage breakdown passed loads of my Trek stuff to other people, but kept all the Blish adaptations, Alan Dean Foster Logs, and the Corgi/Bantam books... can't say I'll ever put myself through The Fate of the Phoenix again though
02.03.2026 10:54
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Blish himself noted that there was a lot of editorial interference in this - Bones is incorrectly addressed etc. I think it's a little better than suggested here, but I wholeheartedly agree that Planet of Judgment is the standout of those early Bantam/Corgi novels
02.03.2026 10:36
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For those who didn't see the news over the weekend...
02.03.2026 10:28
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Lord help us if he ever leaves the country…
01.03.2026 19:03
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