Greg Bear (1951-2022)

Five-time Nebula winner Greg Bear died November 19, a week after heart surgery from which he never awoke. A CT scan showed stroke damage was caused to many parts of the brain by clots that had been hiding in a false lumen of the anterior artery to the brain ever since an earlier surgery eight […]

Greg Bear (1951-2022)

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.

RIP Margaret Wander Bonanno

RIP Della Van Hise

Though I can find nothing official about it anywhere else online, a member of Facebook’s Star Trek Books Community Group is reporting that Della Van Hise, author of the 1985 Star Trek novel Killing Time, died of heart failure on March 3. Assuming that is in fact the case, she was 65.

StarTrek.com Remembers TNG Writer David Bischoff, 1951-2018

StarTrek.com is saddened to report the passing of David Bischoff, a respected and prolific author who wrote the Star Trek: The Next Generation novel, Grounded, and also shared writing credits on the TNG episodes “Tin Man” and “First Contact.” Bischoff passed away in Oregon on March 19 at the age of 66, though word of […]

StarTrek.com Remembers TNG Writer David Bischoff, 1951-2018