Trek writers original works

[Isaac]

Well, here's a link to my full bibliography.................

Thanks, looks like some interesting stuff. Do you have a favourite from the original stuff you've done or a favourite from the marvel stuff?

 

[Greg Cox]

Along the same lines, here's my bibliography.

http://gregcox-author.com/bibliography.html

Although I need to update it to include the new omnibus edition of my X-Men/Avengers trilogy.

 

[Christopher]

My biblography:

https://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/about/bibliography/

Plus my new original novel Arachne's Crime should be having a Kickstarter in a month or two, hopefully, and coming out fairly soon thereafter.

 

[JD]

Are you only interested in Sci-Fi? If you are open to historical fantasy, then @David Mack's Dark Arts series is really good. It follows a group of sorcerers in WWII in the first book, and then in the second it jumps ahead to the 1954 and is based around the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests, and there's a third book coming out later this year, set in 1964 and based around the Kennedy Assassination. I really like this series and try to recommend it any chance I get.

Book 1: The Midnight Front
Book 2: The Iron Codex
Book 3: The Shadow Commission


I also read and enjoyed Peter David's Knight Life, which follows a resurrected King Arthur as he runs for mayor in modern New York.
I have read a few other tie-ins from our regular Trek writers, here are some that stood out for me:

The 4400 post finale duology
Welcome to Promise City by @Greg Cox
Promises Broken by @David Mack

Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Blackout by @KRAD - Focuses on Spike and former Slayer Nikki Wood in 1970s New York
The Deathless also by KRAD - Set during Season 3, and has the Scoobies encounter Koschei The Deathless

Wolverine: Road of Bones by @David Mack - I honestly don't remember much of this one beyond the fact that I enjoyed it. One bit of trivia I do remember is that the cover art is by the comic artist David Mack.
X-Men: Watchers on the Wall - by @Christopher L. Bennett - I don't really remember this one either, but I'm pretty sure I enjoyed it.

If you are a Star Wars fan and read comics, the @JJMiller's (John Jackson Miller) Knights of the Old Republic comic series is fantastic. It's a prequel to the video games, and features appearances by at least a couple characters from the games in supporting roles.

 

[tomswift2002]

You should also check out the 1990’s to early-2000’s Marvel novel line by Byron Preiss. The line was edited by Keith R.A. DeCandido and he even wrote a story or two. Plus there were other Trek writers like Greg Cox and John Vornholt. The line started with Diane Duane’s excellent Spider-Man: The Venom Factor (which was also boom 1 of a trilogy she wrote, plus she wrote Mutant Empire in the X-Men series.

Now then this is an old Trek author but Robert Vardeman (The Klingon Gambit/Mutiny On The Enterprise) also wrote the Tom Swift books Gateway To Doom (1983), The Microbots (1992) & Mutant Beach (1992) under the Victor Appleton pseudonym.

 

[Isaac]

Thanks for the recs JD and tomswift2002

If you are open to historical fantasy, then @David Mack's Dark Arts series is really good.

This especially sounds like a very fun series, I'll try it soon I should think.

 

[trampledamage]

This is the thread you were thinking of: Trek Writers' Original Works

I'll merge this one with that one


And there's a separate thread for tie-ins to other works written by Trek writers. It's here Non-Trek Tie Ins discussion but I won't merge that one - it does make sense to keep tie-ins and original works separate.

 

[KRAD]

Thanks, looks like some interesting stuff. Do you have a favourite from the original stuff you've done or a favourite from the marvel stuff?

Oooof, that's a tough question. It's like asking parents which one is their favorite child.....

The second question is a bit easier than the first -- my favorite of the Marvel stuff I've done is "Arms and the Man" in Untold Tales of Spider-Man, with "Diary of a False Man" in X-Men Legends close behind. Having said that, I'm also very pleased with both Spider-Man novels, as well......

 

[Greg Cox]

Now then this is an old Trek author but Robert Vardeman (The Klingon Gambit/Mutiny On The Enterprise) also wrote the Tom Swift books Gateway To Doom (1983), The Microbots (1992) & Mutant Beach (1992) under the Victor Appleton pseudonym.

This is where I cop to have written at least one TOM SWIFT book myself, also as "Victor Appleton."

TOM SWIFT: The Robot Olympics

 

[tomswift2002]

This is where I cop to have written at least one TOM SWIFT book myself, also as "Victor Appleton."

TOM SWIFT: The Robot Olympics

I read that back in 2006! Was it always meant to be #2 in the series, or was it to be #1? The ISBN’s indicate that your book was filed for first and I seem to recall that it was announced first, but the changed later on to book 2.

 

[Greg Cox]

I read that back in 2006! Was it always meant to be #2 in the series, or was it to be #1? The ISBN’s indicate that your book was filed for first and I seem to recall that it was announced first, but the changed later on to book 2.

Honestly, my memories are fuzzy, but I believe I wrote it with the idea that it would be the first one, but they ended up doing another one first for reasons I can't recall. Possibly a scheduling a thing where I was tied up with another project at the time.

 

[tomswift2002]

Honestly, my memories are fuzzy, but I believe I wrote it with the idea that it would be the first one, but they ended up doing another one first for reasons I can't recall. Possibly a scheduling a thing where I was tied up with another project at the time.

The first book, Into The Abyss was more of an action oriented story, so the theory I had with a few other people was that the two books were switched to lead with the action and then bring the less action oriented book out next after the audience had been hooked, since The Robot Olympics did have a slower plot and it felt more like an introduction book.

 

[JD]

You should also check out the 1990’s to early-2000’s Marvel novel line by Byron Preiss. The line was edited by Keith R.A. DeCandido and he even wrote a story or two. Plus there were other Trek writers like Greg Cox and John Vornholt. The line started with Diane Duane’s excellent Spider-Man: The Venom Factor (which was also boom 1 of a trilogy she wrote, plus she wrote Mutant Empire in the X-Men series.

Titan books is releasing a new omnibus edition of The Venom Factor trilogy this March.
They also recently released a new omnibus of @Greg Cox's The Avengers and X-Men: The Gamma Quest trilogy.

 

[tomswift2002]

Titan books is releasing a new omnibus edition of The Venom Factor trilogy this March.
They also recently released a new omnibus of @Greg Cox's The Avengers and X-Men: The Gamma Quest trilogy.

I don’t know—-compared to the original covers those covers just look off and generic. Especially the logo’s or lack of logo’s.

 

[Christopher]

In hopes of raising some much-needed extra funds, I've started a Patreon page:

https://www.patreon.com/christopherlbennett

I'm offering several membership tiers: a "tip jar" strictly for donations; a Reviews tier featuring TV, movie, etc. reviews (starting with a revisit of the 1990 The Flash from the perspective of its retroactive role as the first Arrowverse series), an Original Fiction tier featuring short stories and vignettes (debuting with the first story I ever tried to sell, "The Cat Who Chased Her Tail Through Time"), and a Behind the Scenes tier featuring annotations, worldbuilding notes, and the like.

Feel free to check it out, and let me know what you think. This is a new experiment for me, and there’s no doubt room for improvement.

 

[KRAD]

I've started up a YouTube channel called "KRAD COVID readings," where I'm reading my short fiction. Just a little something to keep people occupied while they're stuck at home.............

 

[Greg Cox]

If anyone's interested, the Chicago Tribune just posted a nice article about movie novelizations, quoting some of us Trek authors.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/ente...03U_6hMi8he-zoMWEV9zY_NY1mciYpdoI0uymeEHV2R44

 

[Christopher]

My second Patreon-original story, “The Moving Finger Writes,” is now up for subscribers at the Original Fiction tier and above. It's a time travel story taking a more hard-SF approach to the subject than my Department of Temporal Investigations books, so fans of my DTI work might want to check it out. My Patreon page is still new and I'm still hoping to recruit more subscribers.

 

[KRAD]

On sale today from the fine, feathered finks at Crazy 8 Press is ZLONK! ZOK! ZOWIE!: The Subterranean Blue Grotto Guide to Batman '66 -- Season One, edited by Jim Beard, with Rich Handley. This is a collection of essays about each episode of the 1966 Bat-TV show, which includes several Trek scribes in the table of contents:

• Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore
• Robert Greenberger
• Keith R.A. DeCandido
• John S. Drew
• Paul Kupperberg

There are also essays by Trek nonfiction writers Handley and Alan J. Porter, as well as contributions from Will Murray, Pat Evans, Steven Thompson, Chuck Dixon, Dan Greenfield, Mark Racop, Joe Crowe, Chris Franklin, Peter Sanderson, and Ed Catto.

The book's available right now from Amazon in trade and eBook form. Check it out!

 

[David Mack]

For those who have pre-ordered The Shadow Commission, my upcoming third Dark Arts novel from Tor Books, be informed that due to the effects of the ongoing pandemic on the publishing industry and related businesses, the release date of my book (and many others) has been delayed.

Originally scheduled to publish on June 9, 2020, The Shadow Commission is now scheduled to debut on August 11, 2020.