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I just noticed the topic about a few last copies of Miss Freedom being sold on eBay, but I don’t see any there now. I’ve been waiting for the chance to buy this book for a few years now. Are there any original copies left? Will it be available through Lulu at some point?
(It’s usually not so hard to get people to take my money.)
Powys Media has no copies of Miss Freedom left. Though we will be republishing it. Right now we are busy with getting Year One (and a couple of surprises) ready for publication.
Miss Freedom on eBay? The licensing agent that handles our licenses with ITV for Space: 1999 and The Prisoner, has asked us to handle the auctioning of his overstock samples. To that end we have been making his books available on eBay. There were four copies of each title available.
There are still three copies of Miss Freedom available. The first one sold yesterday. The starting bid was a mere $20 (the cover price). Once I ship that book out, I’ll put up another.
These copies of Miss Freedom are from the FIRST edition of 100, made specifically to be sold at two conventions: Gallifrey in L.A. and Six-of-One’s in Portmeirion. Author Andrew Cartmel was present at BOTH conventions to do personalized signings. However, these agent copies are unsigned.
Mateo
[b]Steve Roby wrote:[/b]
[quote]I just noticed the topic about a few last copies of Miss Freedom being sold on eBay, but I don’t see any there now. [/quote]If it was put up with a Buy it Now option (like Mary’s Monster was), I think if somebody buys it, it disappears. I don’t know for certain about that being eBay’s policy, but it would make sense.
-P.
Actually, it was on eBay for the full five days and was bid on (which also takes away the Buy-It-Now feature) by multiple bidders and eventually won.
A new copy of The Prisoner: Miss Freedom is NOW up on eBay. There is no Buy-It-Now option, so the auction will last the full five days.
UPDATE: I started out the auction at the cover price of the book when it came out: $20.
Says “Ships to: United States.” Any problem bidding from Canada?
Well, this auction is looking like it’ll be too expensive for someone who’s already had his one big extravagance this year (the Space: 1999 Year Two book) without steady employment.
“A second edition of 100 was printed for a third convention, but featured a different cover and other graphic changes.”
Any of those still available?
There are only two copies of Miss Freedom (property of our licensing agent) still available. I put one of them up on eBay just a few minutes ago. There is a Buy-It-Now option, set at roughly the middle point of what the book has been getting as an auctioned item. As you probably know, once a bid is placed, the Buy-It-Now option goes away automatically.
If anyone is interested, just search for “Miss Freedom”
Mateo
Miss Freedom arrived in yesterday’s mail! Thanks, Mateo. I’m going to start reading it tonight.
Sad to say that I didn’t enjoy this book very much. It was quite a let down after the brilliance of the previous Prisoner novel, The Prisoner’s Dilemma.
I enjoyed it. No, it didn’t blow me away like The Prisoner’s Dilemma did, but not every episode of the series played with the show’s format or messed with your head. Some told solid, interesting, entertaining stories about life in the Village and added a few new ideas into the mix. Cartmel delivered that. Much better than what I recall of the old novels by Stine and McDaniels (iirc). Disch’s was a trip, though…
Our Prisoner books are more idiosyncratic than our 1999 novels. There is no real overarching continuity. In a sense, I’ve asked each author to give me THEIR interpretation of the Prisoner, in their own style, without having to pay a lot of attention to what the other authors have done. Andrew Cartmel is a fan of the 60s spy novel and wanted to tell a Prisoner story (in part) in that style. There are one or two Prisoner episodes that did the same (The Girl Who Was Death, for example). So his story within a story within reality serves to blur the line between dreams and fiction and reality, each affecting the others. A very different take from that of Jonathan Blum and Rupert Booth, but no less valid. In a real sense, it is a mirror of what the Prisoner felt upon waking up in his home in London, but looking out the window and seeing the Village–realizing that he is NOT home at all.
In Miss Freedom, the reader starts off in the Village, but it IS and it ISN’T the Village as depicted in any other Prisoner story, it’s a new “Cartmelian” nterpretation of the Village, of the series, of the Prisoner.
Why the heck would you only print 100 copies??? That makes me so mad–I am a fan and cannot get a hold of a book, for Pete’s sake.
You guys make me sick.
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