Zottola Publishing, , a small operation run by one of Professor Barker's own players, was created to print the later 3 novels, and has said in the past that they were going to republish the first two Tekumel novels. That was several years ago, and nothing has come of it.

For what it's worth, in the US Man of Gold is pretty easy to find online and in many used bookstores, and is usually inexpensive. Flamesong apparently had a smaller print run, it is more rare and more expensive.

The later 3 novels, Prince of Skulls, Lords of Tsamra, A Death of Kings, have only ever been published by Zottola Publishing, 7 or 8 years ago. The copies sold by Tita's House of Games (and a few other places) are new, from the original printings.

Last I checked all of them are availble on Amazon. MOG and Flamesong are used but go for about $3.

The Man of Gold is being proofed right now - with reprinting due in 2011.

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Howard Fielding

The Tekumel Project:
http://thetekumelproject.blogspot.com/
http://thetekumelclub.blogspot.ca

My Tekumel gaming blog:
http://heroesoftheage.blogspot.ca

My non-Tekumel gaming blog and The Garden of Kama:
http://lohwand.blogspot.ca

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"We wade in imperfect solutions"

Great to hear a reprint is in the process as I wasn't born at the time when the books were first written and printed. I hope there will be even more reprints in the years to come.

Is there any word on the reprints of MOG and Flamesong? I too feel these are wonderful springboard novels for new players, and having them only available in used (sometimes tattered) form is a detriment to bringing new players and fans into the fold.

Also, PDF of the Tekumel Source Book? Any word on their ability to scan these into a searchable PDF form? Something the Tekumel Project folks might want to check into is Google's offering of OCR:
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answ ... wer=176692
Just a suggestion. I think the OCR technology over the past couple years has grown significantly in it's accuracy and ease-of-use. It really should not take very long to scan each page into an OCR capable application (Google or otherwise) and then make the small corrections as needed on a pay-for final PDF version. Anyhow, just my 2 cents. Heck OCR might help the MOG and Flamesong conversions as well? Just a thought.

Joe Zottola of Zottola Publishing announced last month that he was ending the business. At the time a couple of other small game publishers expressed an interest in getting the novels into print again, but there haven't been any new deals announced yet.

Victor Raymond has been coordinating a project that did an OCR scan of the Tekumel Handbook (i.e. Swords & Glory vol. 1). The last we heard they were close to done, that was some months ago.

Lets hope these things comes together in a good fashion.