X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Pocket Books


Philip MacDonald

X v. Rex (a.k.a. The Mystery of Mr. X and Mystery of the Dead Police) (1933) (Later republished as Mystery of the Dead Police by Philip MacDonald as Pocket Books #70, 1940)

The Greek Coffin Mystery

A contemporary reviewer, Will Cuppy of the Herald Tribune Books, said "The Greek Coffin Mystery is a lively and well-constructed yarn containing unusual setting, ingenuity of plot, a surprise solution and legitimate use of the analytico-deductive method." (Quoted in the first paperback edition, Pocket Books #179, in 1942.)


Apple to the Core

Apple to the Core: The Unmaking of the Beatles (ISBN 0671781723) is a rock music history book by Peter McCabe and Robert D. Schonfeld, published in New York by Pocket Books in 1972.

Ezri Dax

In Pocket Books' non-canon DS9 Relaunch novels, Ezri remains on Deep Space Nine but moves from counseling to command, receiving a promotion to lieutenant and becoming executive officer of the USS Defiant.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual

Authored by Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda, who both worked in the art department on the television series, with a foreword by series creator Gene Roddenberry, the first and only edition was published in 1991 (ISBN 0-671-70427-3) by Pocket Books, and Paramount Pictures holds all copyrights.

Thomas Scoville

Two major works render an insider's perspective on life in technology startups: The satirical Silicon Valley Tarot published in 1998 and Silicon Follies, an online serial novel running on Salon.com in 1999, eventually finding its way to hardcover publication by Pocket Books and a television pilot by Ron Howard's Imagine Television.


see also

Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology

In 2006, Pocket Books published Voyages of Imagination, which expanded Star Trek Chronology to include the events of all of the Star Trek novels.