by Camille Bacon-Smith
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Sometimes, Eyes of the Empress or some of the other novels by Camille Bacon-Smith (which have also been reviewed in Re-Readable Books) is one of the novels that comes up on amazon.com when you find Dorothy J. Heydt's A Point of Honor. There's a reason for that -- Star Trek Connection . Dorothy J. Heydt was involved with the first Star Trek fanzine, Spockanalia ( Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah, co-owners of Sime~Gen Inc., were both published in that fanzine). Dorothy was involved with the group of friends who started the first Star Trek convention, among whom were Devra Langsam (editor of Spockanalia) and Joan Winston, co-author on Jacqueline's Bantam paperback Star Trek Lives! (out of print) about why Star Trek is a very respectable hobby. Joan Winston is author of other titles as well. Camille Bacon-Smith came along much later and in the process of writing her Ph.D. thesis in Folk Lore on Star Trek fandom, wrote a New York Times Book Review article on Jacqueline Lichtenberg's Kraith Series (a Star Trek alternate universe fanzine series which had over 50 contributors) which became the basis for the Bantam paperback Star Trek Lives! , and on Jean Lorrah's Night of the Twin Moon (NTM) universe stories which appeared in fanzines, and then became the basis for some of Jean Lorrah's Star Trek novels from Pocket Books. If you know of similar Star Trek Connections between books that amazon.com presents as "people who bought this also bought the following" recommendations -- email us (simegen@simegen.com ) to have your observations included in this column.
Yesterday's Son (Star Trek, 11) by A. C. Crispin
Yesterday's Son by A. C. Crispin has a similar story behind it. It's now become a Pocket Books Star Trek series "The Yesterday Saga" by A. C. Crispin, (also in audio cassette) which includes "Time for Yesterday" Jacqueline Lichtenberg was the agent for the first novel, "Yesterday's Son" after nudging Crispin into a major rewrite of the ending to conform with the then-prevailing guidelines for Trek novels. It became a breakthrough book by becoming a New York Times Best Seller (unprecedented for a TV spinoff).
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