The Morcai Battalion by Diana Palmer
Originally published in 1980 by Manor Books, writing as Susan S. Kyle
A rag-tag band of humans from the Terravegan colonies fights the Rojok invaders and their ship is destroyed. Rescued by the Centaurian commander of the terror-inspiring Holconcom, the humans must learn to live with their hostile alien counterparts when they are captured by the Rojoks and thrown into the galaxy’s most horrible prison camp. The female exobiologist has to save the life of the alien commander in order to save her captain, her comrades, and herself.
A rocket ride full of action, humor, and sacrifice.
Interesting… Diana Palmer does the Future. This was first published in 1980 by Manor Books under the name Susan Kyle. Soon after publication the company went bankrupt. It is very hard to find and looks like it is one of those books that resold anywhere from $200 to $500.
There are MB posts from her old board as far back as 2004 talking about it being reissued. It will come out in December 2007 in the Luna line as a hardcover. I think she has added chapters and will have another book follow it in 2008.
Harlequin, from my understanding, generally doesn’t do ARC’s for reissues. But one would think they would for this one. I am pretty sure they are already sending ARC’s for 2008, so anyone get this? Or read the old version? It will be interesting to see how this does and how different it is from her contemporary novels and categories. They are still reissuing her old historical novels that were first published by Ivy Books and they are doing it under the HQN line in Tradesize. So I would think they are seeing pretty good sales. Is there anyone here beside CindyS, Mad and Erika that even read Diana Palmer?
I admit she is a pretty straight up guilty pleasure read but I don’t see her catching the eye of new readers or younger readers. Or is she? With the paranormal boom maybe this futuristic will bring her more fans. Or will it be Jacobsville in space? I want to say it was written in 70something, so it must be wicked unPC. Wonder if she will fix that but that does seem to be a large part of the appeal in science fiction and futuristics. Sort of makes me wonder why they waited so long to publish it. ::shrug:: ten to one I will like it cuz I am just a sick puppy like that…
Diana Palmer has four books coming out from October to December of 2007. Three are reissues: one in trade, two in hardcover. The other is a category. Pretty sweet deal there… am I the only one who thinks if Harlequin were to stop publishing any new books and just reissue Nora Roberts, Diana Palmer, Elizabeth Lowell, Linda Howard, Jayne Anne Krentz and Catherine Coulter they would still make a nice profit.
dayumn she wrote futuristic. I missed this one but that was when I was 12 and had just started in romance. I can’t wait. She is a guilty pleasure for me.
Just when I thought I was cured from Diana Palmer….Do you know how long it took me to stop buying her stuff? Every once in a while I lapse a little, but dang it, I thought I was over it! If the exobiologist turns out to be 22 years old and on the shelf, I’m not buying it! I also won’t buy it if the alien commander only eats steak and goes on and on about Native Americans. He’ll treat her badly, cuz he hates her, but no he really doesn’t hate her, but still treats her like crap,then they end up happily ever after. Diana Palmer in a nut shell.
Squeeeeee!!
Uh, nope, that wasn’t me.
Guilty pleasure for sure – I gave her books away years ago thinking I was over her. Now I want to re-read some of the ones I remember.
DP I wish I could quit you!!!
CIndyS
I am an avid Diana Palmer fan even though she is not writing as much and the stories have sort become a bit stale. A long time ago, I read some of her work as “Susan Kyle” and this book storyline seems familiar..maybe just renamed.
I’d say I read about four books of Diana Palmer so far. I just read one when I need a cowboy fix 😀 I just haven’t known where to start with her books with there being so many. But the four I read, I really enjoyed! I’d be interested in reading a futuristic of hers. Too for those that are avid fans of hers, this is great they publish one that really never got out or can be found. I’m in for those being re-issued, but I do get tired of books being re-issued over and over. I rather see more new authors and new books getting the space on the shelf.