I’ve always had a great fondness for the Romantic poets of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and one of my favorites is William Blake. It is from his America: A Prophecythat I took the titles of this book’s sections.
The continued support of the online community has been especially heartening, and I must thank all the good folks at the Star TrekBooks Bulletin Board at PsiPhi.org, the TrekLiterature Board at TrekBBS.com, Simon & Schuster’s discussion board at StarTrekBooks.com, the Star TrekBooks and Deep Space Nine AvatarYahoo! Groups at groups.yahoo.com, and the Federation Library at StarTrek-Now.com.
The usual gangs of idiots: the Malibu crowd, the Geek Patrol, the Forebearance (in particular GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido, a.k.a. The Mom), and especially my writers group CITH, who have put up with truckloads of pages dumped on them at once and still managed to go through and make those pages better.
Last, but never least, heaping dollops of thanks to the love of my life, Terri Osborne, as well as our cats, Mittens and Marcus, all three of whom were always there to provide love, affection, and a desire to be scritched. (Okay, maybe I’m sharing too much here…)
About the Author
One of Keith R.A. DeCandido’s earliest TV memories is being scared to death by the salt vampire from the Star Trekepisode “The Man Trap.” He grew up to overcome these childhood nightmares and make several contributions to the world of Star Trekliterature, including the novels Diplomatic Implausibilityand Demons of Air and Darkness;the two-book series The Brave and the Bold;several short stories; the comic book miniseries Perchance to Dream(collected in the trade paperback Enemy Unseen); and many eBooks in the monthly Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineersseries that he codeveloped with John J. Or-dover (some collected in the books Have Tech, Will Travel; Miracle Workers;and Some Assembly Required). Coming soon are the first two books in the Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkonseries, chronicling the adventures of Captain Klag and his intrepid crew of Klingon warriors, the first time Pocket has published an adventure that exclusively highlights Star Trek’s most popular aliens. Keith is the editor of the forthcoming Tales of the Dominion Waranthology and is presently working on a two-book series that focuses on Ambassador Worf in the days leading up to Star Trek Nemesis.
In addition, Keith has written novels, short stories, and non-fiction books in the universes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Farscape, Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda,Marvel Comics, Xena,and Doctor Who.His first original novel, Dragon Precinct,will be published in 2004, and his original short fiction has appeared in Murder and Magic, Urban Nightmares,and Did You Say Chicks!?The editor of the ground-breaking Imaginings: An Anthology of Long Short Fiction,Keith is also a professional musician and an avid New York Yankees fan. He lives in the Bronx with his girlfriend and the world’s two goofiest cats. Learn way too much about Keith at the easy-to-remember URL of DeCandido.net, join his fan club at KRADfanclub.com, or just send him silly e-mails at keith@decandido.net.
Look for STAR TREK fiction from Pocket Books
Star Trek®
Enterprise: The First Adventure• Vonda N. McIntyre
Strangers From the Sky• Margaret Wander Bonanno
Final Frontier• Diane Carey
Spock’s World• Diane Duane
The Lost Years• J.M. Dillard
Prime Directive• Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Probe• Margaret Wander Bonanno
Best Destiny• Diane Carey
Shadows on the Sun• Michael Jan Friedman
Sarek• A.C. Crispin
Federation• Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Vulcan’s Forge• Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz
Mission to Horatius• Mack Reynolds
Vulcan’s Heart• Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz
The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Books Oneand Two• Greg Cox
The Last Roundup• Christie Golden
Gemini• Mike W. Barr
Garth of Izar• Pamela Sargent & George Zebrowski
Novelizations
Star Trek: The Motion Picture• Gene Roddenberry
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan• Vonda N. McIntyre
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock• Vonda N. McIntyre
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home• Vonda N. McIntyre
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier• J.M. Dillard
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country• J.M. Dillard
Star Trek Generations• J.M. Dillard
Starfleet Academy• Diane Carey
Star Trek books by William Shatner with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
The Ashes of Eden
The Return
Avenger
Star Trek: Odyssey(contains The Ashes of Eden, The Return, and Avenger)
Spectre
Dark Victory
Preserver
The Captain’s Peril
#1 • Star Trek: The Motion Picture• Gene Roddenberry
#2 • The Entropy Effect• Vonda N. McIntyre
#3 • The Klingon Gambit• Robert E. Vardeman
#4 • The Covenant of the Crown• Howard Weinstein
#5 • The Prometheus Design• Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath
#6 • The Abode of Life• Lee Correy
#7 • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan• Vonda N. McIntyre
#8 • Black Fire• Sonni Cooper
#9 • Triangle• Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath
#10 • Web of the Romulans• M.S. Murdock
#11 • Yesterday’s Son• A.C. Crispin