Book description
Ambassador Sarek meets his future wife. Captain Ransom atones for his
sins. T'Pol pursues a composer, after she is captivated by the human's
music. Strands of DNA are woven together from four Starfleet captains,
creating one man with one mission. An entity fights for its right to
live, despite the fact that it is not alive.
From the ordinary to the extraordinary, all of these stories are
embraced by the vision of Star Trek®. When Gene Roddenberry
created Star Trek, he also tapped a wellspring of human
imagination. Viewers were transformed into fans, who embraced the show
and turned the definition of "fan" on its ear. However, when
what was on the screen was simply not enough, fans started writing
their own stories, which they then shared among friends and family.
Ten years ago, Pocket Books offered Star Trek fans a unique
opportunity to become a part of the Star Trek mythos. A contest
was created in which the best stories submitted by nonprofessional
writers would be published. And over the course of a decade, hundreds
of pounds of submissions poured in. Many of the writers who submitted
to Strange New Worlds went on to become professional writers.
This time there are nineteen writers: Rigel Ailur, David DeLee, M.
C. DeMarco, Rick Dickson, Louis E. Doggett, Aimee Ford Foster, Edgar
Governo, Robyn Sullivent Gries, Jim Johnson, Gerri Leen, Muri McCage,
Brian Seidman, Randy Tatano, Paul C. Tseng, Rob Vagle, Laura Ware,
Carolyn Winifred, Jerry M. Wolfe, and Jeremy Yoder.
We welcome them to the book that is by the fans, for the fans.
Dean Wesley Smith is the author of over 30 Star Trek
novels either solo or written jointly with Kristine Kathryn Rusch. He
has edited all six volumes of the Star Trek STRANGE NEW WORLDS short
story anthologies and lives in Eugene, Oregon.
