Okay, so at least this time it’s been less than a month since the previous installment of this “irregularly recurring” blog feature. Not too bad, when considering all the other things on my various plates. I originally thought “monthly” might be a good schedule for this sort of thing, but if I’m feeling froggy and…
A Brief Guide to the Extraordinary Fiction of Vonda N. McIntyre
“Vonda McIntyre writes science fiction.” So sings the author’s pithy bio at the magazine Strange Horizons. Yet the contributions of the science fiction and fantasy icon and founder of Clarion West throughout her career speak volumes, and encompass so much more than you might realize.
Bombshell in the Star Trek/Dr. Seuss MASH-UP infringement lawsuit: are SNEETCHES and ZAKS in the PUBLIC DOMAIN???
Copyrights don’t last forever. Unless they are properly renewed, they eventually expire. And when they do, the works those copyrights protected fall permanently into the public domain…
Greg Cox on Anchor.fm discussing “A Contest of Principles”
Greg Cox was recently featured on Anchor.fm to discuss A Contest of Principles: In this episode Roz and Michael are excited to welcome back to the show veteran Star Trek author; Greg Cox. Greg discusses his latest Star Trek: The Original Series novel; “A Contest of Principles”. Listen as Greg talks about how he conceived […]
RIP Margaret Wander Bonanno
Michael Okuda passed on the news on social media. Bonanno was well known for her contributions to the Star Trek range including Burning Dreams about Christopher Pike and Strangers from the Sky, an early novel about first contact. Among her other work she also co-wrote Saturn’s Child with Nichelle Nichols, and the Preternatural Trilogy.
KRAD COVID reading #94b: Star Trek: S.C.E.: Invincible Book 2, Part 1
For 2021, KRAD COVID readings is covering the only short fiction I didn’t read in 2020: my novellas for the Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers series, a monthly series of eBooks that ran from 2000-2007. I’ll have a new reading every #TrekTuesday. This week, we continue Book 2 of Invincible, which was a collaboration between me and David Mack.…
Myriad Universes: The Tears of Eridanus Original Pitch
In 2008, it seemed like Michael and I had a Star Trek writing career that was going somewhere. Our S.C.E. novella The Future Begins had come out in 2006; the Next Generation anthology The Sky’s the Limit had contained a pair of linked short stories by us in 2007. We began noodling around with novel […]
Star Trek’s John Eaves to receive Art Directors Guild Lifetime Honour
“For the past 36 years, John’s work as a Production Illustrator has been an integral part of over 100 films and television shows,” Tim Wilcox, ADG Illustrators & Matte Artists Council Chair explained. ” From props, to sets, to vehicles, to gadgets, and, most prominent and recognizable, a small fleet of starships for the Star […]
Star Trek Book Deals For March, 2021
E-books are on sale, click here for more details!
REVIEW OF CHRISTOPHER BENNETT’S “The Whole of the Law” MODULE
The crew of the USS Pioneer (my player group’s Intrepid-class starship) finished playing The Whole of the Law, a crazily fun and equally fearsome story created by Christopher L. Bennett for the Star Trek Adventures Roleplaying Game.
Out Today: “Star Trek Shipyards: The Borg and the Delta Quadrant Vol. 1 – Akritirian to Krenim: The Encyclopedia of Starfleet Ships”
Out today is another Star Trek: Guides / Star Trek: Shipyards book, titled “Star Trek Shipyards: The Borg and the Delta Quadrant Vol. 1 – Akritirian to Krenim: The Encyclopedia of Starfleet Ships“, by Ben Robinson. Featuring ships of the Borg and vessels of the Delta Quadrant, the first of two companion volumes of ships from STAR TREK: VOYAGER. […]
Keith R.A. DeCandido on Anchor.fm discussing “Art of the Impossible”
Keith R.A. DeCandido was recently featured on Anchor.fm to discuss Art of the Impossible: Roz and Michael are pleased to welcome back to the show Keith R.A. DeCandido. As well as writing for Star Trek, Keith has helped create a lot of stories and characters within the Star Trek Literature Verse including “The Starfleet Corp […]


















