Your Top Five Trek Authors

[Cicero]

In descending order:

Andrew J. Robinson
David Mack
Heather Jarman
S.D. Perry
David R. George III

Honorable mentions:
Julia Ecklar
William Shatner and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore
Jeffrey Lang
Una McCormack
Diane Duane

(I've not read anything by Greg Cox or Armin Shimerman, among post-2000 authors.)

How did I forget D.C. Fontana?

 

[TigerBait]

David R. George III
Keith R.A. DeCandido
Martin & Mangles
David Mack
Peter David


prolly would have had McCormack in there if not for the New Frontier series, which i love

 

[David R. George III]

I am always humbled and honored to be included on such lists. Many thanks.

 

[trampledamage]

Had to put some thought into this because my list kept turning into my five favourite books, which isn't quite the same thing.

My list is skewed to the older novels, because I've only just started buying the novels again so most of my collection is old books.

1) L.A. Graf
2) the Reeves-Stevenses
3) Keith R.A. DeCandido
4) Diane Duane
5) Peter David (this position is based on his older books - Q-Squared, the Rift and the early New Frontier novels)


Believe me, it was hard cutting the list off at 5!

 

[Therin of Andor]

Ummm.... impossible to choose an order...

Peter David
Christopher L Bennett
David R George III
Vonda N McIntyre (pre "Enterprise: The First Adventure")
Andy Mangels & Michael A. Martin

and KRAD/GR/MWB/D&W/DG/DD/JL/HJ/DCF/DM/ACC/J&G R-S.... (Aaaaarrrrgggghhhh - can't choose)

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

In no particular order:
Christopher L. Bennett
David R. George III
David Mack
Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin
Margaret Wander Bonanno

 

[VanCardboardbox]

In no order:

David Mack
KRAD
Peter David
David R. George III
A.C. Crispin (largely because of Sarek)

 

[TGTheodore]

My favorites? Let's see now ... whose bribe checks have cleared.

Dayton! Dayton's always prompt with his payment (and includes baby pictures).

Although Bubba always wants to pay in green stamps ...

Greg Cox always pays in cash, and new bills, too! (Puts them inside a nice Hallmark card with Washington's face peeking through the oval)

Christopher always writes me a check on his Disneyland check series. (Got the "It's a Small World" check last month)

David Mack always pays me in pennies ... hmmph.

Keith offered me the first Desperate Housewives novelization.

So he's out ...

--Ted

 

[JD]

Just out of curiosity have any of you guys read the authors non-Trek books? Because I've read non-Trek tie ins from Christopher, KRAD, and David Mack, and found them to be just as enjoyable as their Trek work.

For anyone interested here's the stuff I've read
KRAD: Serentiy, Buffy: Blackout (focusing on Spike and Nikki Wood, DB Woodsies character's Slayer mother) and Buffy: The Deathless (a Season 2 or 3 story)
David Mack: Wolverine: Road of Bones
Chris: X-Men: Watchers on the Wall
All of these are great books, which I highly recommend fans of their Trek books check out. Trust me you won't be dissapointed.

 

[Cicero]

Just out of curiosity have any of you guys read the authors non-Trek books? Because I've read non-Trek tie ins from Christopher, KRAD, and David Mack, and found them to be just as enjoyable as their Trek work.

For anyone interested here's the stuff I've read
KRAD: Serentiy, Buffy: Blackout (focusing on Spike and Nikki Wood, DB Woodsies character's Slayer mother) and Buffy: The Deathless (a Season 2 or 3 story)
David Mack: Wolverine: Road of Bones
Chris: X-Men: Watchers on the Wall
All of these are great books, which I highly recommend fans of their Trek books check out. Trust me you won't be dissapointed.

I loved Road of Bones, but wasn't very fond of the others. Didn't Christopher also write a Spider-Man novel? And Greg Cox is the author of the novelizations of Infinite Crisis and Fifty-Two.

 

[JD]

Actually, both Christopher and KRAD wrote Spider-Man books, but I haven't read either of them, yet at least.

 

[Corran Horn]

In no order...

David Mack
KRAD
Christopher L. Bennett
David R. George III
Martin/Mangels

 

[captcalhoun]

the only non-Trek book by a Trek author i've read is KRAD's C&C3 novelisation. good book.

 

[By-Product]

Just out of curiosity have any of you guys read the authors non-Trek books? Because I've read non-Trek tie ins from Christopher, KRAD, and David Mack, and found them to be just as enjoyable as their Trek work.

For anyone interested here's the stuff I've read
KRAD: Serentiy, Buffy: Blackout (focusing on Spike and Nikki Wood, DB Woodsies character's Slayer mother) and Buffy: The Deathless (a Season 2 or 3 story)
David Mack: Wolverine: Road of Bones
Chris: X-Men: Watchers on the Wall
All of these are great books, which I highly recommend fans of their Trek books check out. Trust me you won't be dissapointed.

I loved Road of Bones, but wasn't very fond of the others. Didn't Christopher also write a Spider-Man novel? And Greg Cox is the author of the novelizations of Infinite Crisis and Fifty-Two.

I have to admit that I've only read Serenity (twice) but other than that I dont read a lot of other tie in books, they never seem to grab my attention for some reason and I end up reading the bad ones.

 

[Cicero]

^ A friend loaned me Serentiy and the Buffy books when I had nothing better to do, else I'd never have read them. I'd actually looked at Sereninty in the store, but

Spoiler: (Not a spoiler) Why I didn't buy Serenity

I didn't care for the very pedestrian narration. It was a long way down from the David Mack and Isaac Asimov books I'd been recently enjoying, which very skillfully show much more than they tell.

 

[By-Product]

^ Its not the best book I've read but I think it was a good 'book of the film' books.

 

[Defcon]

Just out of curiosity have any of you guys read the authors non-Trek books?

Keith R.A. DeCandido: Dragon Precinct, Supernatural: Nevermore (Spiderman: Down these Mean Streets and Buffy: Blackout will most likely be part of my next book order)

Peter David: Knight Life, Sir Apropos of Nothing, The Woad to Wuin, Tong Lashing

Dayton Ward: The Last World War, The Genesis Protocol

Christopher L. Bennett: X-Men: Watchers on the Wall

(Links to reviews)

Top 5 authors:

David Mack
Keith R.A. DeCandido
Margaret Wander Bonanno
Terri Osborne (only based on her magnificent short stories; I'm still mad that the editors where stupid enough to "let her go" without at least one proper novel, but at least I have the CoE reprints to look forward to)
Christopher L. Bennett

Honorable Mentions:

Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore, David R. George III, Una McCormack, Heather Jarman, S.D. Perry, Steven Barnes, Dafydd ab Hugh

 

[SpeedRacer]

Peter David
John Peel
John Vornholt (I actually used to e-mail him when I was a little kid; I'd ask him questions, tell him how excited I was about his new Star Trek: Starfleet Academy books, etc., until Cardinal Biggles told me to stop because he was probably a very busy man)

After that, I don't really recall much of my favorite Star Trek authors. I probably haven't picked up a Star Trek novel since I was in junior high. Almost ten years ago, geez...

 

[Therin of Andor]

Just out of curiosity have any of you guys read the authors non-Trek books?

Based on my delight in reading their early ST novels, I've tracked down and bought (and usually have now read) many SF or fantasy novel written by David Gerrold, Vonda N McIntyre, Peter David, John M Ford, Janet Kagan, DC Fontana ("The Questor Tapes" adaptation), and also Larry Niven (based on his kzinti work in TAS).

I've also bought Pocket Books' Marvel superheroes novels due to representation by ST authors, and numerous other movie and TV tie-ins. Years ago, I made a point of buying the "V" tie-ins to support AC Crispin and Howard Weinstein.

 

[Baerbel Haddrell]

Peter David
Keith R.A. DeCandido
David Mack
Christopher L. Bennett
Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin
Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore

These are my top six but there are certainly a lot of other authors I enjoyed, too.