What authors (who do not write Trek lit) would you like to write it?

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page stretch much?

 

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I'd like to see Stephen King do a TOS short story or novella (I think most of his novels over the last 20 years have been overlong and padded) in the vein of some of the more eerie episodes of the original show.

It would be interesting to see what Iain M Banks would bring to Trek. His 'The Culture' is a little like the Federation - basically a huge benevolent quasi-socialist government, albeit fonder of interference with other societies.

 

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And perhaps more deliberately genocidal and the nihilistically purposeless? I think Banks in starting to write space opera in the late 80s was interested in undermining many of the then-cliches of interstellar organisations (that they must be imperial or benevolent), and to fuse in aspects of religion, sexuality and individualism that had perhaps (in his view) been lost. Lovely words from the Cambridge Companion to SF from 1980 onwards (p. 64 on text, 94 in adobe) & on space opera.

Banks is a also very Scottish writer, not so very different from Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod or Ian Rankin, or even Alasdair Grey and a dramatist like John Byrne, in his underlying world-depiction and tone. But great, nonetheless.

 

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You need to either get a new monitor or stop whinging when ever someone posts an image, that picture is perfectly reasonable in size.

As for the subject at hand, pretty much all the authors I would like to see write Trek has been discussed.

If it were some form of procedural following the DTI or a Planetary Law Enforcement, Ian Rankin could be good.

 

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that depends on your definition of 'reasonable size'.

 

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I assume you're aware that m'colleague Dan's written a series of Star Trek comics? But yeah, I agree, he'd be good with it.

I'd be interested to see Stephen Baxter's take on a Trek story, something classic TOS era maybe.

And I'm not going to name names, but those certain space opera writers who typically diss Star Trek as a barren narrative wasteland, I'd like to see them try to write a Trek tale, just from a "you say you could do better, so prove it!" standpoint...

 

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It's because his views and Star Trek views are so different I would love to read a Trek novel by him. Although I am a fan of technology to help people along, I don't like technology that takes something away from people. And I do believe that in Star Trek, technology has taken away part of what it is to be human. They aspire to be more then that are, but have technology to do just about everything for them. I don't understand science officers in Trek, usually any character can ask the computer to scan an anamoly and then tell them what it's all about. Even science officers let the computer tell them everything, instead of looking at the data from the scan and extrapolate.

I feel there is a middleground, and I can't help but wonder if these two clashing views can find that middleground. Probably not, because both views are to extreme (yes, I realize that calling Trek's point of view is extreme, but to me it is) but it could be a fun read.

 

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If the dead can be included in this, then Robert Heinlein. More to see his take on the Federation itself within his style, his interpretation of it. Plus he wrote a consistently good tale.

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^^^
Heinlein writing Star Trek. *sigh*

 

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I bet you say that to all the girls.

 

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With my software hat on, that of course reminds me of this paper on the identification of double entendres and the appropriateness of replying with "That's What She Said". You know, computer science.

 

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One vote for Tom Clancy

 

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A Prospero Burns or Eisenhorn approach to Trek would be very interesting, in which Dan deployed that deconstructive (or reconstructive) approach he does so well to established properties.

 

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Which of his novels are you referring to?

 

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USS The Gravitas Won't Be Here Until Tuesday.

 

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^ LOL.

 

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John Ostrander. He's currently writing Star Wars comics for Dark Horse. Plus he's one of my fave 1980s writers having delivered an acclaimed run on Suicide Squad (plus others in the 1980s/90s).

In the end, I think we need more Star Trek comics from IDW. I think they are quicker read than the novels. So, I like having more ST comic book "appetizers" alongside my ST novel "meals"

 

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Would love to see Robert J. Sawyer and Greg Bear take on Star Trek.

Also, I know he's dead, but I'd love to have seen Patrick O'Brian (Aubrey/Maturin aka Master & Commander) particularly because his take on the Captain and Doctor relationship resembled a lot like Star Trek. I'd just love to see any good naval writer tackle it as I think it would be an interesting angle to take.

 

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I was actually just about to post this. I love the Sigma series, and I think it could be cool to see his The Unit/Indiana Jones with some real world science style in the Trek verse.

 

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Hal Clement might have written a good Titan book ...