Former Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel’s memoir, Script Doctor: The Inside Story of Doctor Who, 1986-1989, is published. 
Former Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel’s memoir, Script Doctor: The Inside Story of Doctor Who, 1986-1989, is published.
8-Bit Weapon releases the album The Vaporware Soundtracks at the 2005 Classic Gaming Expo.
Rolenta Press publishes Confessions Of The Game Doctor, the memoirs of Bill Kunkel (1950-2011), one of the founding editors of Electronic Games Magazine.
Big Finish Productions releases the autobiography of Blake’s 7 actor Paul Darrow, You’re Him, Aren’t You?
Benbella Books releases the non-fiction Star Trek essay anthology “Boarding The Enterprise”, edited by and featuring contributions from David Gerrold. Other contributors include Norman Spinrad, D.C. Fontana, Paul Levinson and Eric Greene. (theLogBook.com webmaster Earl Green aided with this book’s fact-checking and editing.)
The trade paperback collection Powers: Who Killed Retro Girl? is published.
Cheap Lullaby Records releases the L.E.O. album Alpacas Orgling, an assembly of indie label power pop musicians creating new material in the style of ELO.
IDW Publishing releases the collected trade paperback edition of its Star Trek: The Next Generation comic series “The Space Between”.
Harper publishes the non-fiction book Season Finale: The Unexpected Rise and Fall of the WB and UPN by Susanne Daniels and Cynthia Littleton, who had first-hand knowledge of both short-lived television networks’ dealings.
Phantom Records releases Roger Joseph Manning Jr.’s solo album Catnip Dynamite.
Pan Macmillan Australia publishes music journalist Chris Bourke’s biography of the recent-disbanded NZ/Australian rock band Crowded House, written with extensive interview access to all of the members (as well as colleagues and family members) of the band’s original lineup.
The University of Nebraska Press publishes Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story, a comprehensive history of the American Skylab space station program written by David Hitt and Skylab astronauts Owen Garriott, Joe Kerwin, and Alan Bean. The book is part of University of Nebraska Press’ Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight series.
MIT Press publishes the non-fiction book Racing The Beam: The Atari Video Computer System by Nick Montfort & Ian Bogost, a technically-oriented overview of the historic home video game system.
Story: Three books tell the story of legendary punk band the Sex Pistols.
Review: My fascination with the Sex Pistols began with my brother giving me the documentary The Filth and the Fury for either my birthday or Christmas one year with the cryptic words “You don’t know you want this.” He followed that up with John Lydon’s autobiography, “Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs”, but I just couldn’t get into it, not getting past the first few pages before I put it down. But about a year later, I acquired a different book on the Sex Pistols by their US tour manager, Noel Monk; “12 Days on the Road”, the story of the band’s raucous career-ending tour. With its much more visceral feel and crazy stories right off the bat, it was much easier to get into. So after finishing that, I went back to “Rotten” and then bought original bass player Glen Matlock’s autobiography “I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol”. Three very different perspectives on the story of the band lead to three very different books. Ultimately, they compliment each other, helping to give a more rounded view than any one book would have done alone.
IDW Publishing releases the collected trade paperback edition of its four-issue Star Trek comic miniseries “Countdown”. This story ties the post Star Trek: Nemesis 24th century in to the plot of the 2009 J.J. Abrams Star Trek film.
The University of Nebraska Press publishes Ambassadors From Earth: Pioneering Explorations With Unmanned Spacecraft, a comprehensive history of American robotic outer solar system missions written by Jay Gallentine. The book is part of University of Nebraska Press’ Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight series.
Greenleaf publishes Mike Smith’s book Warnings: The True Story Of How Science Tamed The Weather, serving both as a history of severe weather forecasting in the U.S. and the evolution of the modern-day watch/warning system, and Smith’s memoir about his weather-related business ventures.
theLogBook.com releases its first book, VWORP!1 by Earl Green. Spanning nearly 400 pages, the book covers Doctor Who on TV from 1963 through 2011, with an emphasis on story threads that hold “classic” Who (1963-1989) and “new” Who (2005-present) together. The book makes its “live” debut at the 2012 Oklahoma Video Gaming Exhibition (OVGE) in Tulsa a few days later; an ebook version is released at a later date.
The first of a series of Doctor Who shorts, starring Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill, is made available on the BBC Red Button service. Five shorts in total are made available on a daily basis as a build-up to Asylum Of The Daleks.
Bloomsbury Academic publishes Paul Atkinson’s well-illustrated non-fiction book Delete: A Design History of Computer Vapourware, detailing never-made hardware platforms from computer manufacturers both well-known and obscure.
The University of Nebraska Press publishes Wheels Stop: The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986–2011, a comprehensive history of the American Space Shuttle program written by Rick Houston. The book is part of University of Nebraska Press’ Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight series.
The University of Nebraska Press publishes Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986, a comprehensive history of the development and early flights of the American Space Shuttle program written by David Hitt and Heather R. Smith. The book is part of University of Nebraska Press’ Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight series.
Dutton Books publishes The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty Year Voyager Mission, Prof. Jim Bell’s history of NASA’s Voyager mission to the outer solar system and beyond.
Abrams Books publishes Star Wars: The Original Topps Trading Card Series, Volume One by Gary Gerani, which both reproduces and reviews every card in the Topps trading card set chronicling the first Star Wars film.
Not Lame Media publishes Craig Dorfman’s non-fiction book Brighter Day: A Jellyfish Story, a biography of the power pop band’s collective career and its individual members.
The non-fiction book Fallen Down: Heartache & Compassion in Undertale by Joel Couture is published as party of a StoryBundle release.
Schiffer publishes David L. Craddock’s non-fictional collection of essays on the stories and creators behind Apple II computer games, “Break Out: How The Apple II Launched The PC Gaming Revolution “. The book profiles the creators and the stories behind such popular titles as Ultima, The Oregon Trail, Pinball Construction Set, Wizardry, Zork, Lode Runner, and more.
Picador publishes the non-fiction book Chasing New Horizons: Inside The Epic First Mission To Pluto by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon, an insider’s-view history of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto.
Former Atari game designer and programmer Howard Scott Warshaw self-publishes his memoir, Once Upon Atari: How I Made History By Killing An Industry.
The University Of Florida Press publishes the non-fiction book Picturing The Space Shuttle: The Early Years by John Bisney and J.L. Pickering, a photographic history of the development and earliest launches of NASA’s Space Shuttle program.