The Energon Pub

News Credits: 3 · by **LuckytheWonderLlama** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 4:53 pm

I pulled the book out of my store's weekly shipment yesterday!

The prequel novel is out and for sale! Head to your local Borders or Waldenbooks and pick them up!

David Cian
Format: Paperback: 304 pages.
Publisher: Del Rey (02/27/2007)
ISBN: 0345497988
List price: $6.99

News Credits: 38 · by **TheMuffin** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:01 pm

It's only $7.00?! Sweetness!

News Credits: 1 · by **Leonardo** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:11 pm

TheMuffin wrote:It's only $7.00?! Sweetness!

It's even less than that! It's $6.99!

by **Nemesis_Apoc** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:24 pm

I'm pretty psyched about this. Can't wait to pick it up. I wonder if Wal-Mart will carry it...

News Credits: 2024 · by **Hotrod** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:55 pm

Awsome news! Front paged and credited!

by **Salazaar** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:56 pm

I thought it came out the 27th.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Pepsimus · by **Black Bumblebee** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:23 pm

I actually got mine two days ago... for those interested, the novel is still listed as being by Alan Dean Foster, with an inside credit stating "based on a story by David Cian."

So far I'm only about 100ish pages in, but it's clear that most of the work had to be Cian, as there are refrences to The Ark and The Nemesis, and Foster has already admitted that he didn't do any research for the book itself, other than reading the screenplay...

I don't know how to do spoiler tags, so I won't give any spoilers.

News Credits: 972 · by **i_amtrunks** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:38 pm

$7 is pretty cheap, but 304 pages is a decent length, is the writing font huge, or is it somewhat a normal size?

News Credits: 1 · by **Ninja Sixshot** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:09 pm

did you say borders and walden books?! if so i hope my borders got a shipment

http://www.youtube.com/user/Pepsimus · by **Black Bumblebee** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:01 pm

The actual page count is 286 (the rest of the pages are advertising). The number of text pages from that is then reduced again as there's usually a blank page between chapter breaks (16 chapters). The size of the text on the page is "average," though when compared to the text size used in the other TF novels, the text is slightly larger in "Ghosts."

I'm about half-way through it, and so far my major "hmm" factor has been due to the fact that most of the dialogue makes the TFs (both Autobot and Decepticon) sound like Frasier.

News Credits: 20 · by **Neko** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:14 pm

I got my copy not four hours ago. I'm trying to pace mysekg because whenever I get a new book I'm excited about I usually finish it within one to two days depending. I want to make this one last a couple days. So far it's good.

by **Salazaar** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:24 pm

couldn't find it at Wal-mart. It'll take a good few days before it gets to Ohio.

News Credits: 38 · by **TheMuffin** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:40 pm

Salazaar wrote:couldn't find it at Wal-mart. It'll take a good few days before it gets to Ohio.

Bah go to a real book store. I went to Borders in Elyria today and picked it up. They had it in their front display case.

by **Salazaar** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:07 pm

TheMuffin wrote:
Salazaar wrote:couldn't find it at Wal-mart. It'll take a good few days before it gets to Ohio.

Bah go to a real book store. I went to Borders in Elyria today and picked it up. They had it in their front display case.

good God. a fellow Ohioan! I live right around there, too.