Farpoint Twenty Six is quickly approaching and will be held February 8-10 at the Delta Hotel by Marriot in Hunt Valley, MD. There’s a huge list of guests, and for Star Trek book fans, here’s a sampling of the authors that are scheduled to be present: Aaron Rosenberg, Allyn Gibson, Dave Galanter, David Mack, Derek Tyler Attico, Glenn Hauman, Howard Weinstein, Keith R.A. […]
StarTrek.com recently spoke to Una McCormack about the recently published Star Trek: Discovery: The Way To The Stars: Una McCormack is boldly going where she’s never gone before. The British author, best known to Star Trekfans for her Deep Space Nine novels, including The Never-Ending Sacrifice and Enigma Tales, returns with her latest offering and her Discovery debut: the Tilly origin story, The Way […]
Continuing Mission recently interviewed Marco Rafala: The masterminds at Modiphius only want to deliver the best of the best to its players. Anyone who has picked up any of the Star Trek Adventure supplements has been wowed by the great setups that lead to wonderful storytelling. I was able to corner author Marco Rafalà as he was offloading […]
Literary Treks recently featured Michael Jan Friedman: In this episode of Literary Treks, special correspondent Brandon Shea-Mutala catches up with Michael Jan Friedman at the Northeast Trek Con in Albany. They discuss Friedman’s start in writing, how he got involved in writing Star Trek novels, the Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men crossover, his experience in writing Star Trek comics, the Star Trek: […]
StarTrek.com interviewed Ben Robinson back in 2010 and I’m just now getting around to reading it: The long-awaited U.S.S. Enterprise Owners’ Workshop Manual is just about here. We’ve been teasing it for a while, first with news about its upcoming publication and then with a conversation with Derek Smith, editor at the Book Division of Haynes Publishing. […]
Enterprising Individuals recently featured Alan Gratz: Get ready to evolve to the next level as we cross the barrier to reach “Threshold”! New York Times best-selling author Alan Gratz returns to the show to examine an episode of Star Trek: Voyager that sets a new low for the franchise. When Tom Paris dares to break […]
Around Cincinnati‘s Barbara Gray recently interviewed Christopher L. Bennet: It’s a bit edited down from what I remember, but most of it is there — my brief dramatic reading from Among the Wild Cybers, some talk about my origins and approach as a writer, and a bit more information about Star Trek: The Original Series: The Captain’s Oath. […]
Literary Treks recently featured David Tilotta and Curt McAloney: In this episode of Literary Treks, hosts Bruce Gibson and Dan Gunther speak with David Tilotta and Curt McAloney, authors of Star Trek: Lost Scenes. We discuss how they became fans of Star Trek, the origin of the book, their website startrekhistory.com, the process of researching the material, behind […]
Continuing Mission recently featured Sam Webb: The folks at Modiphius are working hard to produce a top-quality game. But who are the exact people who make it happen? I was able to corner Sam Webb, Star Trek Line Manager, in his geek cave (as seen in photo) to find out what makes him tick! Sam started tabletop gaming […]
StarTrek.com has announced that they’ve ordered a two season commitment for a new animated series by Mike McMahan, author of Star Trek: The Next Generation: Warped: An Engaging Guide to the Never-Aired 8th Season: CBS All Access has set phasers to funny with the announcement today that they’ve given a two-season commitment to Star Trek: […]
Manu Saadia was recently featured on Enterprising Individuals: It’s a wealth of discussion this week as Manu Saadia, author of Trekonomics, joins the show to talk about what’s in Picard’s wallet! The “no money” economy of the Federation has always been one of its major selling points, but how would a system like that actually […]
StarTrek.com interviewed Ben Robinson: StarTrek.com, for the past several months, has been previewing the release of each Star Trek model issue from Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection. But we thought we’d take a moment this week to introduce readers to Ben Robinson, the project manager at Eaglemoss, the company behind The Official Starships Collection. A longtime Star Trek fan and […]
David A. Goodman was featured on Ars Technica back in 2012: If humanity were to make contact with other intelligent life forms in the universe, how would our civilization respond? Would countries and individuals scramble for power? Or would humans band together to focus on the exploration of other planets and their cultures? The universe […]
Keith R.A. DeCandido was recently featured on The Writer’s Pane: Interviewing Keith was super interesting – he introduced me to Tie-In Fiction. Honestly, I hadn’t put much thought into who writes these novels that I see on shelves (personally I have C.S.I. novels), but whoa! So neat. Keith has written more than just tie-in fiction, […]
Robert Greenberger was recently featured on The Writer’s Pane: Are you a comic book fan? If so, you’re in for a treat! This week, The Writer’s Pane interviews Robert Greenberger, who has written and edited for both DC and Marvel comics, among many other achievements. Take a look at what he has to say about […]
Larry “Dr Trek” Nemecek will be attending 2018’s Destination Star Trek in Birmingham, UK (not Alabama!): As announced today by Showmasters/DST and CBS, I will indeed be back across the pond with all our UK Treklanders for Destination Star Trek— and my first time in Birmingham! Check out the Larry Nemecek author page to view other sightings […]
Larry Nemecek goes into deep details about his upcoming book, “Stellar Cartography” which is an update to a 2013 book that was well received. This 2018 UPDATE includes a complete add-on for every star or planet, starbase, and other stellar location mentioned through Season 1 of Discovery — with two exceptions that the writers want […]
Steve Mollmann was recently featured on Enterprising Individuals: Dr. Steven Mollman joins the show this week to talk about a classic episode of Star Trek: the Original Series that sees our heroes trade their phasers for tommyguns and their uniforms for zoot suits! When the Enterprise arrives at Sigma Iotia II, they discover that cultural […]
William Shatner was recently featured on StarTrek.com: William Shatner, the man, the myth… the machine. At 87 years old, Star Trek’s first and forever Kirk remains a guy in perpetual motion. He’s riding horses, raising money for charity, starring in films, recording albums, spending time with his family, and traversing the world for convention appearances and […]
David Mack just mentioned that he was recently featured on The Writer’s Pane: Literary blogger Anna Palij has published a new interview with me on her blog, The Writer’s Pane. It’s not a book-pimping exercise disguised as an interview. This is an honest-to-goodness “getting to know you” kind of interview. Check out the David Mack author page to view […]
