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.
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Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Overture: Star Trek Fiction Then and Now
- Part One: Star Trek Fiction Published by Bantam Books
- Part Two: Star Trek Fiction Published by Ballantine Books
- Part Three: Star Trek Fiction Published by Pocket Books
- Section 1: Star Trek Numbered Novels
- Section 2: Star Trek Unnumbered Novels
- Section 3: Star Trek: The Next Generation Numbered Novels
- Section 4: Star Trek: The Next Generation Unnumbered Novels
- Section 5: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Numbered Novels
- Section 6: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Unnumbered Novels
- Section 7: Star Trek: Voyager Numbered Novels
- Section 8: Star Trek: Voyager Unnumbered Novels
- Section 9: Star Trek: Enterprise Novels
- Section 10: Novelizations
- Section 11: Original Fiction Concepts
- Section 12: Miniseries
- Section 13: Anthologies
- Section 14: Other Star Trek Fiction
- Section 15: Young Adult Fiction
- The Star Trek Fiction Timeline
- Foreword
- Index
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