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Voyages of the Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion

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Star Trek (multiple series)
Trade Paperback / November, 2006
1416503498

Written by Jeff Ayers
Timeline compiled by David Bowling, Johan Ciamaglia, Ryan J. Cornelius, James R. McCain, Alex Rosenzweig, Paul T. Semones, Corey W. Tacker, Jason Barney, David Henderson, Lee Jamilkowski, and Geoff Trowbridge

Description:

Through four decades, five television series comprising over seven hundred episodes, ten feature films, and an animated series, fandom's thirst for more Star Trek stories has been unquenchable.

From the earliest short-story adaptations by James Blish in the 1960s, followed by the first original Star Trek novels during the seventies, and on throughout the eighties, nineties, and into the twenty-first century, fiction has offered an unparalleled expansion of the rich Star Trek tapestry. But what is it that makes these books such a powerfully attractive creative outlet to some and a compelling way to experience the Star Trek mythos anew to others?

Voyages of Imagination takes a look back on the first forty years of professionally published Star Trek fiction, revealing the personalities and sensibilities of many of the novels' imaginative contributors and offering an unprecedented glimpse into the creative processes, the growing pains, the risks, the innovations, the missteps, and the great strides taken in the books.

Author Jeff Ayers has immersed himself in nearly six hundred books and interviewed more than three hundred authors and editors in order to compile this definitive guide to the history and evolution of an incomparable publishing phenomenon. Fully illustrated with the covers of every book included herein, Voyages of Imagination is indexed by title and author, features a comprehensive timeline, and is a must-have for every fan.

Notes

A guide to the Star Trek books. According to Marco Palmieri, the book is "conceived as a guide to the history professionally-published ST fiction, from Mission to Horatius, through the Bantam and Ballantine years, and straight through Pocket's stewardship of the line."

Also includes the third version of the Star Trek Fiction Timeline, incorporating novels and short stories through October, 2006.