Old school Trek authors here?
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Alan Dean Foster is here. He hasn't posted much, though.
garamet often drops in. She's Margaret Wander Bonanno. She and her friend, Gene DeWeese (now deceased), used to contribute to Psi Phi and I think they both jumped across to here when that site declined.
Jill Sherwin has been here (she's written Trek non fiction). Also Heather Jarman, IIRC. And Susan Shwartz (although her writing partner, Josepha Sherman passed away).
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Ah, so Dean Foster and Bonanno come around and make cameo appearances.
I have a huge collection of Alan Dean Foster's books, so I'm a big fan of his.
I've also enjoyed Gene DeWeese's books.
You mention Jill Sherwin. I have a pretty extensive Trek library, but don't recall her name. What did she write?
I have a huge collection of Alan Dean Foster's books, so I'm a big fan of his.
I've also enjoyed Gene DeWeese's books.
You mention Jill Sherwin. I have a pretty extensive Trek library, but don't recall her name. What did she write?
Jill Sherwin wrote a short story in Constellations and a couple reference books: https://www.librarything.com/author/sherwinjill
That's crazy!
I must be getting old!
I was reading Trek books in the late 80s, and I believe you wrote your first Trek book around 97 or 98.
Time flies, but I still thought of you as a newer Trek author.
Good stuff.
And before that, she was executive producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe's assistant on Deep Space Nine and Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.
That's crazy!
I must be getting old!
I was reading Trek books in the late 80s, and I believe you wrote your first Trek book around 97 or 98.
Time flies, but I still thought of you as a newer Trek author.
Good stuff.
Tell me about it. But my first Trek book came out in 1995, so I was presumably writing it in '94--which would be twenty years ago!
But glad to know I'm not regarded as a fossil just yet!
I've seen his photo, and he's not that old (unless he's remarkably youthful-looking for his age)...
garamet has been quite regular at times. More than a cameo.
DeWeese is now deceased. I meant to mention that in my earlier post.
Three trivia books and a short story.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Jill_Sherwin
Although (IMO, at least) the final published novel still turned out way better than it had any real right to be, considering its tumultuous production-history -- Gene DeWeese really worked a miracle, despite being, I think, the third writer or something on the project (J.M. Dillard being number two), and he and Margaret actually formed a lasting friendship out of that whole event.
Re-read it about a year-and-a-half ago (hadn't picked it up in quite a few years), and had a helluva good time with it.
Probably because the editor at the time found her reliable and asked her to do the job. And after she did it once, it makes sense the editor would turn to her when it had to be done again.
You own Strangers From the Sky but haven't read it yet? You need to remedy that, stat!
(But be forewarned, it's not your typical Star Trek novel.)
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