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Star Trek: Picard
A deluxe collector's edition hardcover offering a behind-the-scenes guide to the brand new Star Trek TV show, following the adventures of Patrick Stewart's fan-favourite Star Trek character, Jean-Luc Picard! Featuring interviews with Star Trek legends Sir Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner (Data), Jonathan Frakes (Riker), Marina Sirtis (Troi), plus the new castmembers Isa Briones (Dahj/Soji), Michelle Hurd (Raffi), Harry Treadaway (Narek) and many more. Plus Showrunner Alex Kurtzman, showrunner Michael Chabon and director Hanelle Culpepper reveal behind-the-scenes secrets.
- GenresScience FictionStar Trek
112 pages, Hardcover
Published April 24, 2020
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About the author
Michael Chabon
145 books8,967 followersMichael Chabon is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, D.C., he spent a year studying at Carnegie Mellon University before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1984. He subsequently received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine.
Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when he was 24. He followed it with Wonder Boys (1995) and two short-story collections. In 2000, he published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a novel that John Leonard would later call Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001.
His novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 and won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards; his serialized novel Gentlemen of the Road appeared in book form in the fall of the same year. In 2012, Chabon published Telegraph Avenue, billed as "a twenty-first century Middlemarch", concerning the tangled lives of two families in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004. He followed Telegraph Avenue in November 2016 with his latest novel, Moonglow, a fictionalized memoir of his maternal grandfather, based on his deathbed confessions under the influence of powerful painkillers in Chabon's mother's California home in 1989.
Chabon's work is characterized by complex language, and the frequent use of metaphor along with recurring themes such as nostalgia, divorce, abandonment, fatherhood, and most notably issues of Jewish identity. He often includes gay, bisexual, and Jewish characters in his work. Since the late 1990s, he has written in increasingly diverse styles for varied outlets; he is a notable defender of the merits of genre fiction and plot-driven fiction, and, along with novels, has published screenplays, children's books, comics, and newspaper serials.
Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when he was 24. He followed it with Wonder Boys (1995) and two short-story collections. In 2000, he published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a novel that John Leonard would later call Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001.
His novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 and won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards; his serialized novel Gentlemen of the Road appeared in book form in the fall of the same year. In 2012, Chabon published Telegraph Avenue, billed as "a twenty-first century Middlemarch", concerning the tangled lives of two families in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004. He followed Telegraph Avenue in November 2016 with his latest novel, Moonglow, a fictionalized memoir of his maternal grandfather, based on his deathbed confessions under the influence of powerful painkillers in Chabon's mother's California home in 1989.
Chabon's work is characterized by complex language, and the frequent use of metaphor along with recurring themes such as nostalgia, divorce, abandonment, fatherhood, and most notably issues of Jewish identity. He often includes gay, bisexual, and Jewish characters in his work. Since the late 1990s, he has written in increasingly diverse styles for varied outlets; he is a notable defender of the merits of genre fiction and plot-driven fiction, and, along with novels, has published screenplays, children's books, comics, and newspaper serials.
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April 13, 2020
It's nice to have some pictures and early info about the series. But it came out after the first season ended, and doesn't take that into account. Not much useful info here.
May 28, 2020
Nothing wrong with this book apart from ......
The articles are all good but it’s quite clear that they have been lifted from those previously appearing in Star Trek Magazine. In that sense it’s a rip off in order to make money from the new TV series Picard. It’s also quite thin and I was expecting a lot more. So if you haven’t come across the articles before you might like this but keep in mind that Picard has already been on Amazon Prime and the book was obviously written before then. That’s my next gripe the release of the book was meant to coincide with the TV series mine arrived well after I had seen it. Still if you can get a copy at a reduced price and don’t mind the fact it’s full of old, out of date articles you might just like it!
The articles are all good but it’s quite clear that they have been lifted from those previously appearing in Star Trek Magazine. In that sense it’s a rip off in order to make money from the new TV series Picard. It’s also quite thin and I was expecting a lot more. So if you haven’t come across the articles before you might like this but keep in mind that Picard has already been on Amazon Prime and the book was obviously written before then. That’s my next gripe the release of the book was meant to coincide with the TV series mine arrived well after I had seen it. Still if you can get a copy at a reduced price and don’t mind the fact it’s full of old, out of date articles you might just like it!
April 9, 2021
A nice collection of articles and interviews with cast and crew of the new series.
December 20, 2021
A bit light on the story details.. Feels like broad stokes of the plot were told..
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