Any TrekLit authors who would write for StarWarsLit?

Freman · November 19 2009, 06:30 AM

I was just wondering if any of the Trek literature authors on here would, if given the opportunity, want to write a novel or two over in the Star Wars Expanded Universe.

I'm a huge fan of SW EU, and would love to see a Star Wars novel written by some of the Trek authors.

David Mack · November 19 2009, 06:45 AM

Sure I would, they've just never asked me. I've asked them, but the schedule always seems full. Hell, if the money was right, I'd write a novel one chapter at a time on the backs of Cheerios boxes.

Yes, I would write cerealized fiction.

STR · November 19 2009, 07:08 AM

David Mack wrote:

Yes, I would write cerealized fiction.

I'm never buying a book of yours again after that one.

kidding...

middyseafort · November 19 2009, 09:28 AM

David Mack wrote:

Sure I would, they've just never asked me. I've asked them, but the schedule always seems full. Hell, if the money was right, I'd write a novel one chapter at a time on the backs of Cheerios boxes.

Yes, I would write cerealized fiction.

A pun. I love it! A punny, you could say.

Freman · November 19 2009, 10:05 AM

David Mack wrote:

Sure I would, they've just never asked me. I've asked them, but the schedule always seems full. Hell, if the money was right, I'd write a novel one chapter at a time on the backs of Cheerios boxes.

Yes, I would write cerealized fiction.

Well, they should ask you then, because you're definitely on my list of ST authors that I would LOVE to write a Star wars novel. Just started Vanguard Book One, and so far, it is brilliant!

Andy Mangels · November 19 2009, 10:43 AM

Heck, I started out in Star Wars fiction. Well, sort of. I did the "non-fiction" Essential Guide to Characters, which was bios of fully fictional events, so it's kind of there. And I did one Star Wars comic, Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction, which was voted by 20,000 Star Wars fans as the BEST Single Star Wars comic ever done!

Lonemagpie · November 19 2009, 10:51 AM

David Mack wrote:

Sure I would, they've just never asked me. I've asked them, but the schedule always seems full.

Same here - actually I spoke to the editor just a couple of weeks ago and she said they're booked solid.

OTOH, I actually have done, sort of: contributed regularly to the Fact Files.

Dayton Ward · November 19 2009, 01:05 PM

Generally speaking? Sure. I think it'd be fun. It would depend on the story and the "era" within the SW timeline, though. I'm not all that enamored with much of the way-post-original trilogy period. Maybe something a bit more straightforward, like a Han Solo/Chewbacca "Before they met Luke Skywalker" sort of thing. Just a man and his Wookie, hot-roddin' through the galaxy, usin' words like "parsec" in all the wrong ways.....

trampledamage · November 19 2009, 01:16 PM

David Mack wrote:

Sure I would, they've just never asked me. I've asked them, but the schedule always seems full. Hell, if the money was right, I'd write a novel one chapter at a time on the backs of Cheerios boxes.

Yes, I would write cerealized fiction.

This is a market that has to be looked into! I know two Trek Lit fans (me and my dad) who do read the cereal box at breakfast when we haven't got anything else to hand. To have Trek fiction there would be fantastic!

Dayton Ward · November 19 2009, 01:22 PM

^ You may be on to something.....

"Dayton Ward, P.I., and the Mystery of the Disappearing Fruit Loops."

Christopher · November 19 2009, 01:45 PM

I don't think Star Wars is my cup of tea. One, it's about war, and I don't do war stories. Two, it's basically sword-and-sorcery fantasy transposed into space, and I'm a hard-SF guy. Three, it's all so solidly mapped out, this whole Expanded Universe where every writer has to honor every bit of continuity ever established in every book and comic and video game and trading card and action figure and bedsheet and PEZ dispenser ever made, so it doesn't seem like there'd be a lot of room for bringing my own creativity to the table. Maybe if I could take the approach of the old Marvel comics, say, tell a sidebar story that wasn't connected to all the war stuff and took place in some part of the galaxy that little has been established about so that I could do my own thing, I could do that, but I'm not sure the fanbase would be very interested in something like that.

Daddy Todd · November 19 2009, 01:54 PM

There's a bunch of writers who have written both Star Wars and Star Trek in the past, starting with Alan Dean Foster.

Off the top of my head, I can name A.C. Crispin, Vonda McIntyre, Greg Bear, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Kevin J. Anderson (who co-wrote a Star Trek GN for Wildstorm) and... hmmm, oh yeah, K.W. Jeter.

These days, there seems to be relatively little crossover between the writer pools of the two franchises, but it used to happen all the time.

Cicero · November 19 2009, 02:01 PM

Daddy Todd wrote:

There's a bunch of writers who have written both Star Wars and Star Trek in the past, starting with Alan Dean Foster.

Foster's The Approaching Storm was a good example of Star Wars without war - like several Star Trek stories, it featured a diplomatic mission that aimed to prevent a war from starting.

USS Hartington · November 19 2009, 02:43 PM

Peter David wrote Skippy the Jedi Droid... if that counts. And Michael Jan Friedman was supposed to write a New Jedi Order trilogy, but it was canceled. I believe he may have done work on the first book before it was given the axe.

Freman · November 19 2009, 02:44 PM

Christopher wrote:

I don't think Star Wars is my cup of tea. One, it's about war, and I don't do war stories. Two, it's basically sword-and-sorcery fantasy transposed into space, and I'm a hard-SF guy. Three, it's all so solidly mapped out, this whole Expanded Universe where every writer has to honor every bit of continuity ever established in every book and comic and video game and trading card and action figure and bedsheet and PEZ dispenser ever made, so it doesn't seem like there'd be a lot of room for bringing my own creativity to the table. Maybe if I could take the approach of the old Marvel comics, say, tell a sidebar story that wasn't connected to all the war stuff and took place in some part of the galaxy that little has been established about so that I could do my own thing, I could do that, but I'm not sure the fanbase would be very interested in something like that.

Actually, Christopher, the fanbase would be very interested in stuff like that. We thrive on smaller, character type stories, and love them just as much, if not more then the bigger 9-book series type stuff.