Former Trek authors you'd like to see write a new adventure

[hbquikcomjamesl]

...and that's before we start discussing Trek lit authors of colour...

Which is usually not so easy to tell from a name.

 

[Christopher]

Which is usually not so easy to tell from a name.

Tell that to D.C. Fontana, A.C. Crispin, M.S. Murdock, V.E. Mitchell, etc.

Not to mention Andre Norton or James Tiptree Jr. Heck, people couldn't tell my gender from my name alone if I went by "Chris Leslie Bennett."

 

[Saul]

Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens.

 

[Smiley]

Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens.

I'd like to see any new book by them. From their Wikipedia page, it looks like they last published in 2016 and have been working with Disney Imagineering in Asia.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

...and that's before we start discussing Trek lit authors of colour...

Purely out of my legendary insatiable morbid curiosity, what notable ST authors (other than Derek Tyler Attico) are African-American? Or Asian-American, Latin American, or Native American, for that matter?

 

[Corran Horn]

KRAD could write books in the Lost Era and I'd read every one of them.

 

[Greg Cox]

Purely out of my legendary insatiable morbid curiosity, what notable ST authors (other than Derek Tyler Attico) are African-American? Or Asian-American, Latin American, or Native American, for that matter?

This is admittedly going back a ways, but just off the top of my head: Steve Barnes is Black, S. P. Somtow (aka Somtow Suchartikul) is Thai, and Lawrence Yep is Asian-American.

 

[Christopher]

This is admittedly going back a ways, but just off the top of my head: Steve Barnes is Black, S. P. Somtow (aka Somtow Suchartikul) is Thai, and Lawrence Yep is Asian-American.

There's Geoffrey Thorne also.

 

[Steve Roby]

Give me another Diane Carey novelisation of an Enterprise episode.

I honestly can't recall if I read her Broken Bow novelization, but I applaud the quality pisstaking here.

...and that's before we start discussing Trek lit authors of colour...

There was a time when the novels were much bolder than the TV shows when it came to race, gender, orientation, etc, at least in terms of characters, if not always in terms of writers, but modern-day TV Trek has done a lot better before and behind the camera.

 

[Christopher]

There was a time when the novels were much bolder than the TV shows when it came to race, gender, orientation, etc, at least in terms of characters, if not always in terms of writers, but modern-day TV Trek has done a lot better before and behind the camera.

You mean it's done better than older TV Trek, right? I think the novels are still doing pretty well at that, at least on the page, though the shows are definitely doing better at diversity behind the scenes.