A quick Google:
Alan Dean Foster — Born: November 18, 1946
According to http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Alan_Dean_Foster
Vonda McIntyre talks Trek books
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A quick Google:
Alan Dean Foster — Born: November 18, 1946
According to http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Alan_Dean_Foster
And if what I saw last summer is any indication, he's in a lot better shape than people half his age.
Which makes him only 1 year, 9 months, and 10 days older than Vonda McIntyre.
I also loved her movie novelizations, especially Star Trek III. She made characters like Capt. Esteban seem like real people instead of exaggerated cardboard cutouts.
One of my favorite bits she added in the book is when the Grissom discovers Spock's tube on Genesis:
Wow. He actually got to see the movie before writing the book? That almost never happens!
^ From what I hear, he was treated like a rock star by the screenwriters. And deservedly so.
That's really a suprise Alan Dean Foster got to see the movie before writing the movie novelization.I thought it was just usually the author reads a finished script or revisions of a script before they write a novel.
That, however, is an aspect where the delay in release dates might have played in his favour: I imagine the film has been largely finished for some time now.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Thanks for the link! I ended up posting a comment and mentioned that those restrictive years are long gone.
The film has been finished since the last week of December including all post which is quick considering the release was changed during production.
And Alan Dean Foster writing the book version is surprising considering all past novelizations have been written by J.M. Dilliard or a current Trek writer. How did he get the gig?
Or Gene Roddenberry, or Vonda McInytyre, or Paul Ruditis, or LA Graf, or Steven Barnes, or Diane Carey...
Proven track record of work for JJ's team (eg "Transformers"), and on many other novelizations, long career as an SF writer, plus ten "Star Trek Logs" (TAS) plus several ST book/record sets, plus the story of ST:TMP...
I seem to recall reading somewhere that the film was still going to be ready if they had went ahead with their Christmas release date. I'm not 100% on if the extra time let them take a slightly more relaxed pace with the film or not, but I'm sure it's well long since done and in the can by now.
^^They pretty much stuck to the original schedule. According to Trekmovie.com and Memory Alpha, the movie's post-production wrapped on December 23, 2008, two days before its original Christmas release date.
A couple days ago, I posted the following for Vonda:
Vonda's response:
Interesting...if Grace liked it, too...that's one more endorsement for moi, using said backstory....
Vonda's response:
Interesting...if Grace liked it, too...that's one more endorsement for moi, using said backstory....
Very true. Would be nice to see some her original ST characters again, too. Like Capt. Hunter, and the Enteprise crew-folk she introduced in The Entropy Effect.
I emailed Vonda trying to convince her to come back into the Trek family and contact Margret and this was her response to me:
The chance of my writing another tie-in novel is
somewhere in the imaginary numbers. I never say never in
this business, but it's very, very unlikely.
The chance of my writing another tie-in novel is
somewhere in the imaginary numbers. I never say never in
this business, but it's very, very unlikely.
Still, very cool of her to write you back!Similar threads
