Browne Press and Starship Locations has finally disclosed a main reason why there has been no sign of a reprint of Distant Destinies in 2018, thus far. Brand confusion.
From the original title, which wasn't original, in 1984, Space The Final Frontier, (obviously from Star Trek)...
To Plantcom, 1984 title, the story of space flight, rebranded in 1986...
To Planetcom, or Planet Com, in 1986, which shortly later had problems, due to Rendesvous with Rama calling their version of the Internet that, Planet com, should for planet communications. In 1986, Adam had not yet read Rama).
To Distant Cousins in 1992, which within a year was confused for a horror movie, Distant Cousins, and also it sounds like a soap opera.
To Distant Planets, which sounds a little like a Cosmos rip off.
To Distant Journeys, which also was like a spiritual walk thing in 1997.
On to Distant Destinies, 2008, which sounds like, Distant Desinty, a musical album, 2011, having nothing to do with this, to the awful space video game, Destiny and Destiny 2, 2016, 2018.
They are even confusing the author, Adam Browne, with another two authors, one of which wrote fantasy, about dragons, and another, historic fables about Quixote!
Several of the alien names were also changed over the years.
They might use the alien name in the title of each.
This is to be announced.
A title alteration is actually the last step. The stories are finished. Then they would look for self publishers.
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