Question for Trek Authors: Favorite work of your own?

[RonG]

Another thread with a question for Trek Authors \ Novelists \ Writers:

what is your *one* favorite Trek work (novel, multi-novel series, short story, etc.) of your own? and of course - why? (was it your "dream story"? something with personal emotional tone? etc.)

Looking forward to reading your replies (I'm sure I'm not the only one..)

 

[David Mack]

Good lord, that's like asking a father to choose between his children. Sorry, can't do it.

 

[RonG]

never said it was an easy question ...

 

[Greg Cox]

That is a hard one, but a while back, when I had to send in a sample book to "audition" for a possible tie-in gig, I submitted TO REIGN IN HELL . . . .

I was perfectly willing to be judged on the basis on that book.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

That is a hard one, but a while back, when I had to send in a sample book to "audition" for a possible tie-in gig, I submitted TO REIGN IN HELL . . . .

I was perfectly willing to be judged on the basis on that book.

It was a great book

Bought it in hardcover which was some obscene price in this country. HAD to read it immediately thanks to the ones that preceded it.

 

[Greg Cox]

That is a hard one, but a while back, when I had to send in a sample book to "audition" for a possible tie-in gig, I submitted TO REIGN IN HELL . . . .

I was perfectly willing to be judged on the basis on that book.

It was a great book

Bought it in hardcover which was some obscene price in this country. HAD to read it immediately thanks to the ones that preceded it.

Thanks! Glad you liked it. I'm proud of that book.

 

[TGTheodore]

While I hardly qualify to answer this question, my best Trek work is unpublished.

My sold-then-unsold episode of DS9 I wrote, "Omission", is probably my favorite piece of my Trek work. It would be a great novel, I think. But probably only if one of the real Trek novelists would have written it. (Too late for it now)

Star Trek Atlantis from around 1992 is second.

I have an interesting writer's trunk ...

--Ted

 

[Paris]

^Hopefully it's not full of junk . Get it?

 

[BrotherBenny]

While I hardly qualify to answer this question, my best Trek work is unpublished.

My sold-then-unsold episode of DS9 I wrote, "Omission", is probably my favorite piece of my Trek work. It would be a great novel, I think. But probably only if one of the real Trek novelists would have written it. (Too late for it now)

Star Trek Atlantis from around 1992 is second.

I have an interesting writer's trunk ...

--Ted

If "Omission" isn't too similar to what has already been done on DS9, why don't you try pitching it to Pocket?

 

[Geoff Thorne]

Good lord, that's like asking a father to choose between his children. Sorry, can't do it.

This.

But I have a very soft spot for THE SOFT ROOM (SNW6) because it got the ball rolling for me with Pocket.

 

[TGTheodore]

While I hardly qualify to answer this question, my best Trek work is unpublished.

My sold-then-unsold episode of DS9 I wrote, "Omission", is probably my favorite piece of my Trek work. It would be a great novel, I think. But probably only if one of the real Trek novelists would have written it. (Too late for it now)

Star Trek Atlantis from around 1992 is second.

I have an interesting writer's trunk ...

--Ted

If "Omission" isn't too similar to what has already been done on DS9, why don't you try pitching it to Pocket?

The DS9 lit is way past the time frame of the series. Mine actually starts aboard the Saratoga at Wolf 359 and then jumps to the series fifth season, so it's been covered more than a few times, I think.

--Ted

 

[BrotherBenny]

While I hardly qualify to answer this question, my best Trek work is unpublished.

My sold-then-unsold episode of DS9 I wrote, "Omission", is probably my favorite piece of my Trek work. It would be a great novel, I think. But probably only if one of the real Trek novelists would have written it. (Too late for it now)

Star Trek Atlantis from around 1992 is second.

I have an interesting writer's trunk ...

--Ted

If "Omission" isn't too similar to what has already been done on DS9, why don't you try pitching it to Pocket?

The DS9 lit is way past the time frame of the series. Mine actually starts aboard the Saratoga at Wolf 359 and then jumps to the series fifth season, so it's been covered more than a few times, I think.

--Ted

No harm in pitching, and you might get a shot at the relaunch with something else. Remember, Hollow Men is set during the series too, but came out afterwards. If they get good stories they might use them. I'd like to see more books set during all the series, not just moving further away from them like they are at the moment.

 

[Christopher]

^That's right. Just because there's a sequence of DS9 books that takes place after the TV series, that doesn't mean there's any rule prohibiting standalone books set during the series. We've had Hollow Men, we've had The Never Ending Sacrifice, we've had Prophecy and Change. If a story's good enough, it shouldn't matter when it's set.

 

[Dayton Ward]

I can't pick an ultimate favorite, for the same reasons already provided by other folks.

But, "Reflections" for the first SNW contest naturally holds a special place, as it was my first professional sale.

 

[Captain Randy Hall]

If "Omission" isn't too similar to what has already been done on DS9, why don't you try pitching it to Pocket?

The DS9 lit is way past the time frame of the series. Mine actually starts aboard the Saratoga at Wolf 359 and then jumps to the series fifth season, so it's been covered more than a few times, I think.

--Ted

No harm in pitching, and you might get a shot at the relaunch with something else. Remember, Hollow Men is set during the series too, but came out afterwards. If they get good stories they might use them. I'd like to see more books set during all the series, not just moving further away from them like they are at the moment.

And how about pitching it to IDW, which has just started a DS9 comic that apparently takes place during the TV series? Nothing ventured and all that...

 

[Lonemagpie]

Another thread with a question for Trek Authors \ Novelists \ Writers:

what is your *one* favorite Trek work (novel, multi-novel series, short story, etc.) of your own? and of course - why?

Only having done two (unless you count Delta Quadrant, which is nonfiction, in which case that), Reservoir Ferengi cos there's more of it. Or just flip a coin.

Though the Trek story I'd consider bound to be my best if ever it happens (cos I'll make another go at pitching it as soon as they tell us who the hell we're supposed to pitch *to* now) will be Planet Of The Tribbles. Oh yeah.

But I actually came in to reply more to the actual thread title, which doesn't specify that it has to be a Trek work, just from a Trek author.

So, in that case, I think I'm probably proudest of Beautiful Monsters, my nonfiction guide to the Aliens and Predator franchises. It took forever, but it was well worth it, got described as "remarkable scholarship" by dan O'Bannon, and is really beautifully produced, in the physical sense of layout, by Telos.

 

[TerriO]

The story you might have gotten to see if it hadn't been for the reduction from 2 books a month to 1. The story of the U.S.S. Manning, and the early Federation exploration of the Badlands.

Of the stories that made it through the editorial process to publication? Rough call. I like them all for different reasons. I think some of my best work was in "Eighteen Minutes," though. Why? I had a frustrating, but educational time with the worldbuilding on that.