Your Top Five Trek Authors

[KRAD]

LA Graf...I think the first book I read was Time's Enemy...3rd in a series that spans all four shows...

That was the Invasion! crossover, the first such that Pocket ever did, in 1997.

Michael Jan Friedman...Don't remember exactly the things he wrote...

Among many others: Double Double, Shadows on the Sun, the My Brother's Keeper trilogy, Reunion, Crossover, Kahless, The Valiant, Death in Winter, Starfleet Year One, Saratoga, and the Stargazer series.

A.C. Crispin...Same as MJF, but I remember her being quite good.

Yesterday's Son, Time for Yesterday, The Eyes of the Beholders, Sarek.

 

[phrog]

In no specific order...

David Mack
Martin/Mangels
David R. George III
S.D. Perry
Keith R.A. DeCandido

I'm tempted to put James Swallow on the list solely due to the extremely high quality of Day of the Vipers and Andrew Robinson on the strength of Stitch in Time, but the authors I listed have shown consistently very high quality across several titles. Another book like Vipers and my list will necessarily be a Top Six.

Peter David's far too hit or miss for me lately and I've lost my love for the Reeves-Stevens over the years.

 

[Star Treks]

There's one fairly prolific Trek writer who hasn't been mentioned in this thread once. I'm not saying anything else except that I have displayed incredible self-control in actually finishing a couple of this author's works (not that all are bad, just that a couple of them, well, were).

 

[TrekNut87]

David R. George III
S.D. Perry
Jeffrey Lang
Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels
Diane Duane

To continue the list
KRAD
David Mack
Christopher L. Bennett

 

[Therin of Andor]

I'm still pretty new to Trek Lite

What's "Lite" about ST books?

 

[Christopher]

^^I would imagine Divine meant to say "new to Trek Lit."

 

[Divine]

I'm still pretty new to Trek Lite

He must be a n00b

 

[Star Treks]

I'm still pretty new to Trek Lite

What's "Lite" about ST books?

C'mon now, I love Trek books as much as the next guy, but they generally are "lite" reading. However, if you mean they aren't "lite" as compared to the TV shows, then I understand where you're coming from there.

That said, it probably was supposed to be "Trek Lit" anyway.

 

[ancient]

William Shatner
John Dencie & Peter David
Andrew J Robinson
J & G Reeves-Stevens

Damn, the marketing is getting to me. Why are multiple authors so sweet?

Anyway, I'm not much into newer Trek books, I prefer stand-alones for the most part.

 

[Geoff Thorne]

Ward/Dilmore

Martin/Mangels

DeCandido

Bennett

McIntyre

next five:

Mack

Reeves-Stevenses

David

Lang

Swallow

Next week it'll likely shift. These things aren't static.

 

[Patrick]

I was rather surprised to see that Diane Carey had not cracked anyone's top five thus far. Admittedly, I have yet to read Ship of the Line which seems to have been universally panned on these boards, but I have very fond memories of reading Carey's books as an elementary/middle school student in the mid- to late-nineties. In particular, I would single out First Frontier and Best Destiny as among my all-time favourite Trek novels.

Rounding out my top five, in no particular order:
Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (for Federation and the early Shatnerverse)
Peter David (most of all for Q-Squared)
Greg Cox (Q Continuum)
S.D. Perry (her DSN Relaunch novels)

 

[Admiral_Young]

Here are my current top five Trek authors in no particular order:

-Keith R.A. DeCandido
-Peter David
-Christorpher L. Bennet
-Andy Mangles/Michael A. Martin (they should be four and five but everyone is lumping them in as one)
-Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens

 

[Bobatiel]

David R. George III
Sherman & Shwartz
Martin & Mangels
J&G Reeves Stevens
Keith R. A. DeCandido

 

[David R. George III]

^ Ah, how I've missed you, Bob...