They are available at Drive-thru RPG ( $12 for all four books-pdfs) and you can still find the original paper-bound copies on amazon and ebay for about $7-10 each. The thing is is that there are two versions of the final novel: "The Backwards Mask" and "The Errand" by Marc Miller and Matthew Carson. Both of them are excellent and reflect much of their author's style and impressions of the New Era setting. There is also great debate concerning which one of the final two books offer the better conclusion to the trilogy. The PDFs of the original books, To Dream of Chaos and "The Death of Wisdom" are scanned to PDF but not OCR'ed and thus do not convert to kindle format (or epub, for that matter) very well at all. There are extra materials in the front of both of the first two books that need to be seen by the reader. They just don't convert well to azw or epub.
--- On Mon, 1/28/13, Charles Popp > wrote:
From: Charles Popp >
Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Re: COTI
To:
Date: Monday, January 28, 2013, 4:15 PM
Where can I find the TNE novels?
Wherever you go there you are-Buckaroo Banzai
We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. (Winston Churchill)
My brother is so stupid he sold his truck for gas money
From: Hyphen_DJW >
To:
Sent: Mon, January 28, 2013 6:08:06 PM
Subject: [Traveller_TNE] Re: COTI
Dear Folks -
Well, _Survival Margin_ (and _Arrival Vengance_*) are two of my favourite Traveller books. I agree with Doug Berry: the restoration of Strephon was the most skillful retcon I've ever seen.
(*)Plus Doug's addendum to AV (which I can't find now, grr) where his TNE group landed outside Strephon's palace at Usdiki, only to find a tomb (like Balin's) with the inscription: "Here lies Strephon Aella Alkhalikoi, Emperor of the Third Imperium. The Gods Punish Those Who Grow Too Proud.".
Doug said his group were silent for five minutes after that.
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David "Hyphen" Jaques-Watson ..at.. Beowulf Down (Tavonni/Vilis/SM 1520)
http://www.tip.net.au/~davidjw
"I file things in historical order, with a hashing algorithm of gravity"
--- On Mon, 1/28/13, Charles Popp > wrote:
From: Charles Popp >
Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Re: COTI
To:
Date: Monday, January 28, 2013, 4:15 PM
Where can I find the TNE novels?
Wherever you go there you are-Buckaroo Banzai
We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. (Winston Churchill)
My brother is so stupid he sold his truck for gas money
From: Hyphen_DJW >
To:
Sent: Mon, January 28, 2013 6:08:06 PM
Subject: [Traveller_TNE] Re: COTI
Dear Folks -
Well, _Survival Margin_ (and _Arrival Vengance_*) are two of my favourite Traveller books. I agree with Doug Berry: the restoration of Strephon was the most skillful retcon I've ever seen.
(*)Plus Doug's addendum to AV (which I can't find now, grr) where his TNE group landed outside Strephon's palace at Usdiki, only to find a tomb (like Balin's) with the inscription: "Here lies Strephon Aella Alkhalikoi, Emperor of the Third Imperium. The Gods Punish Those Who Grow Too Proud.".
Doug said his group were silent for five minutes after that.
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David "Hyphen" Jaques-Watson ..at.. Beowulf Down (Tavonni/Vilis/SM 1520)
http://www.tip.net.au/~davidjw
"I file things in historical order, with a hashing algorithm of gravity"