mae@aplvax.UUCP (Mary Anne Espenshade) (07/15/85)
I attended Shore Leave VII over the weekend and have some news on
the Star Trek novels to report. Ann Crispin and Howard Wienstien
were both there. Ann is working on a sequel to Yesterday's Son,
called Time for Yesterday. She read the prolog and first chapter,
and it sounds good. It should be out in early '86. Howie's long
discussed novel involving Harry Mudd has finally been officially
rejected, which is a pity, since his readings from it over the past
few years have been quite funny.
If you haven't already gotten a copy of the newst ST novel, Killing Time
by Della Van Hise, you may have missed it. It is being recalled by
the publisher, at Paramount's insistance, to be destroyed. It seems
that Paramount officials read the book and demanded in no uncertain
terms that certain explicit scenes be removed. The publisher duly
removed them. Then some gremlins got into the works and the WRONG
VERSION was published. An expurgated version may be released later.
They were selling fast in the dealer's room (I got MY copy)!
I am most behind at getting these books, mainly because the first
ones I read were terrible. So I would like to poll net.startrek -
mail me your top 5 choices, in order, for the best original (leaving
out the movie novelizations) ST novels. I'll post the favorites
back to the net (and go out and get the ones I don't have).
Mary Anne Espenshade
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