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News R.I.P. - Margaret Wander Bonanno - 2021-04-08

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According to Michael Okuda on Facebook, the Vulcanesque author has passed beyond the Rim.

We have learned that acclaimed Star Trek novelist Margaret Wander Bonanno has passed away unexpectedly of natural causes, according to her family. Bonanno was widely recognized in the Star Trek community for such Vulcan-centric books as Strangers of the Sky and Catalyst of Sorrows. A longtime friend noted that Bonnano “loved nothing more than writing Vulcans.” Her non-Star Trek works included her 1980 mainstream novel, Ember Days, and Saturn’s Child, a science fiction story she co-wrote with Nichelle Nichols in 1995. Margaret Wander Bonanno, who was born in New York and was living in Los Angeles at the time of her death, was 71.
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Very sad news. I always enjoyed her books, esp. Strangers from the Sky. :wah:

Also sounded like a classy lady. I remember reading that while she wasn't thrilled about the situation surrounding Probe, mostly rewritten by the late Gene DeWeese (also RIP), she considered him a friend (I think she said he was a dear friend in fact). I never read anywhere where she encouraged people not read Probe or that it was a bad book, only that it mostly wasn't her work and she made her original story available to read to anyone that wanted to.
 
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Such sad news. I am a big fan of her works. Strangers From the Sky, Dwellers in the Crucible, Burning Dreams... all classics.
 
Sad news. I really enjoyed Strangers from the Sky. I own but have not read Catalyst of Sorrows, Unspoken Truth, and Burning Dreams, and this news has inspired to read Catalyst as my next Trek book instead of Architects of Infinity.
 
As I've posted elsewhere:

Others will deservedly praise her many classic TREK novels, including BURNING DREAMS, which, prior to the recent revival of character, was probably THE definitive book about Captain Christopher Pike, but I want to single out PRETERNATURAL, a book I edited for her back in the nineties: a weird, ambitious, metafictional, loosely autobiographical tour de force about a struggling midlist science fiction writer who may or may not actually be in contact with alien intelligences. The New York Times named it a Notable Book of the Year, and it's the book I will always remember when I think of Margaret.

She will be missed.
 
Damn. She and I were Facebook friends and had friendly interactions now and then. Her book Strangers From the Sky was one of my first introductions to Star Trek.

Rest in Peace. :(
 
This is saddening, I read most of her books when I was younger. My favorite was Stranger From The Sky, and she was one of my favorite Star Trek authors.
 
Such sad news! :( Her books were wonderful, and I always enjoyed reading her posts here. She will definitely be missed. My deepest sympathies to her family and friends.
 
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