(From photographer Daniel Reichert for the bio of Ethan Phillips.) Happy birthday to Ethan Phillips! Ethan Phillips was born into a restaurant family. His father was the owner of the famous New York steak house Frankie and Johnnie’s, which still serves up the most delicious sirloin in all of Manhattan. Striking out on his own, […]
(Image Credit: Gage Skidmore) Happy birthday to Brent Spiner! Robot Author Check out the Brent Spiner author page to view more author updates and a full list of books! Find Brent Spiner’s work on Amazon.com
(no image available) Happy birthday to Jeffrey Lang! Jeffrey Lang is the author of several Star Trek novelizations. He currently lives in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania with his partner Helen, and his son, Andrew. He also wrote the short story “Dead Man’s Hand” in the DS9 anthology The Lives of Dax. Check out the Jeffrey Lang […]
(reading at 2023 Gaithersburg Book Festival ) Happy birthday to Alan Gratz! Alan Gratz is an author of novels, short stories, plays, magazine articles, and radio commercials. His short fiction has appeared in Metropulse magazine and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, among others. In addition, Gratz has taught writing to middle school students in Tokyo, Japan, […]
(Image Credit: Mike Muegel) Happy birthday to David Gerrold! David Gerrold is the author of the Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated The Man Who Folded Himself, When Harlie Was One, and the Chtorr, Dingillian, and Star Wolf series. He also wrote “The Trouble with Tribbles” episode of Star Trek, which was voted the most popular Star […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to John Peel! John Ronald Peel is a Star Trek author from Nottingham, England. He moved to the USA in 1981 and sold his first professional piece of writing to Marvel Comics. Over the next few years, he became friendly with Terry Nation (creator of Daleks for Doctor Who) through […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Derek Tyler Attico! Rebellious author, nÉ™rd, Trekkiest Trekker and scribe of caffeinated tweets! Check out the Derek Tyler Attico author page to view more author updates and a full list of books! Find Derek Tyler Attico’s work on Amazon.com
() Happy birthday to Geoffrey Thorne! Geoffrey A. Thorne is a prolific science fiction author and screenwriter who has written a number of short stories for the Star Trek anthologies and the novel Sword of Damocles. He also wrote an unproduced episode of TNG, The Rivals, not to be confused with the similarly titled episode […]
(Johnson at Swecon 2018)Happy birthday to Kij Johnson! Katherine Irenae “Kij” Johnson is an American fantasy and science fiction author. She co-wrote a Star Trek: The Next Generation novel with Greg Cox. Johnson was born in Harlan, Iowa. “Kij” is an abbreviation of her initials. She has been a director of the Center for the […]
(Larry Nemecek and Kim Stinger speaking at the 2013 Phoenix Comicon at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Photo by Gage Skidmore.)Happy birthday to Larry Nemecek! Larry Wayne Nemecek is a noted Star Trek author, editor, archivist, consultant, and producer. He is married to onetime script coordinator Janet Nemecek. A native Oklahoman, Nemecek began […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Jeff Yagher! Jeff Yagher played Iden in the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Flesh and Blood”. Check out the Jeff Yagher author page to view more author updates and a full list of books! Find Jeff Yagher’s work on Amazon.com
() Happy birthday to Una McCormack! Una McCormack is the British author of several Star Trek novels and stories. She has also written a number of Doctor Who novels and short stories. She lives and works in Cambridge, England, and has taught at the world-famous university there. Check out the Una McCormack author page to […]
(John Jackson Miller at the 2022 MidSouthCon in Memphis, Tennessee on 27 March 2022.) Happy birthday to John Jackson Miller! John Jackson Miller is an American science-fiction author, comic book writer, and commentator, known for his work on the Star Wars franchise and his research into comic book circulation history, as presented in the Standard […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Mark Allen! Mark Allen Shepherd is an actor and artist from Rockville Centre, New York who is best known for his portrayal of the Lurian freighter captain Morn in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Throughout the seven year run of Deep Space Nine, Shepherd never received official credit and […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Karen Haber! Karen Haber, full name Karen Lee Haber Silverberg is a Star Trek author and lives in the San Francisco area. She was born in Bronxville, New York, and married to the science fiction author Robert Silverberg in 1987. The couple have edited many SF anthologies together. She […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Robert E. Vardeman! Robert Edward Vardeman (sometimes credited as Vardebob) is a fantasy, mystery and science fiction writer who has also written a couple of Star Trek novels. Vardeman was born in Palo Pinto, Texas, but has lived much of his life in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has degrees […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Judy Klass! Judy Klass is a Star Trek novelist who pitched the story concept to the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine writers that Enabran Tain was Elim Garak’s father. Her idea was later used as part of DS9: “In Purgatory’s Shadow” and Klass received $1,000 for her pitch. (Voyages […]
(no image available.) Happy birthday to Susan Shwartz! Susan Shwartz is a novelist and short story writer. She and co-author Josepha Sherman have written several Star Trek books, mostly concerning Vulcans and their Romulan cousins. Check out the Susan Shwartz author page to view more author updates and a full list of books! Find Susan […]
(no image available.) Happy birthday to David A. McIntee! David A. McIntee is a Scottish author. He is fairly well known in the United Kingdom for writing a number of Doctor Who novels and audio episodes. In 2000, he wrote Delta Quadrant, a Star Trek: Voyager episode guide, for Virgin Books. This unofficial release caused […]
(no image available.) Happy birthday to George Zebrowski! George Zebrowski is a science fiction writer of over seventy short stories and forty books. He has authored a few Star Trek novels with his writing partner, Pamela Sargent. He was born Jerzy Tadeus Zebrowski in Villach, Austria, of Polish descent and has lived in the USA […]
