My excellent former co-writer and dear friend Michael Reaves and our old buddy Marc Scott Zicree have done something extraordinary with another mutual acquaintance and occasional dinner guest, George Takei.
Today is the last day you can vote at TV Guide’s Online Video Awards for their joint effort in the Star Trek: New Voyages series, World […]

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Authors’ copies of my books have started piling up around here again, so I thought I’d offer some of them here for those of you who might like signed copies of this or that before we start restructuring / restocking our offsite storage. Also, I’ve been able to acquire some good-quality copies of earlier stuff […]

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A nice mention of The Empty Chair this morning at the Albany Times Union books blog. Thanks, Michael: thanks, Eleanor! And regards from an expat New Yorker.

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There are just a couple of things on my mind that (in light of earlier posts and responses) I want to share before I get back to the various pieces of work I need to be doing today.
Re whatever might have been going on in the ST:TNG offices as the first season got underway: […]

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I just want to take a moment to link to this, in which the excellent Wil Wheaton gives us an in-depth analysis of the episode.
While reading it I had to stop several times to clean the tea off the keyboard, and (since Peter is still snoozing upstairs, having had a late writing night) restrain myself […]

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For those of you unwilling to wait for the release of the book proper: From the Simon & Schuster e-book blog –

We have yet another advance eBook release this month — Rihannsu Book Five: The Empty Chair by Diane Duane. Capping off the 40th anniversary celebration of Star Trek, the long awaited conclusion of New […]

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For those of you who’ve been asking: here’s what I’m doing at LACon. (For Peter’s schedule, you should go check his LiveJournal later today: he’ll be putting his details up there. He’s a lot more lightly scheduled than I am, though, by his own request.) (Oh, and the master schedule for the con is […]

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Star Trek motivational posters.
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I guess it had to happen.
‘Harry Potter gay porn,’ she corrects me. ‘We write it. It’s called slash fiction. You take the characters and you imagine them in different scenarios. There’s het fiction too, where they think the characters are straight. Whereas we assume that everyone is bisexual until proven otherwise.’
…The quotes are from attendees […]

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Bethesda Softworks announced today that Dorothy “D.C.” Fontana and Derek Chester have partnered up to write the scripts for Star Trek: Legacy and Star Trek: Tactical Assault.
Woo hoo!
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Monty Python’s “Camelot” on the Starship Enterprise
(The YouTube version seems to have been removed at the creators’ request. Use this link instead to get to their page, where a couple of versions are available, zipped:)
Monty Python’s “Camelot” on the Starship Enterprise
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Or it’s corny this year, anyway. From Reuters:

A British fan of the cult TV show “Star Trek” has boldly gone where no man has gone before and created a giant maize maze dedicated to the program.
…I foresee many, many such strange things happening this year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Trek. (Such as […]

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Thanks to StumbleUpon for the link.
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Politicoendomasuchia, n: unease with the concept of politicians in costume. -iast, one suffering from this unease.
(chuckle) Looks like the Prime Minister of Canada may be enough of a Trekkie to have once appeared in a convention masquerade. Gasp! Stagger! Swoon! Yet another sign of the decline of Western civilization. Now Canadian bloggers are […]

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Somehow, while watching this event on “real” TV the other day, I missed this. OMG!
William Shatner sings (for certain values of “sing”) to George Lucas
…Worth watching just to see Harrison Ford veering dangerously close to anoxia. George’s poleaxed looks, every now and then, are also priceless.
(As it happens, P. and I are co-guests with […]

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The quote that brought you here came from a book I wrote a while ago called Spock’s World, which was the first hardcover Star Trek novel. If I remember correctly (it was a good while ago…), Spock’s future mother uses this particularly evocative Irish curse in front of his future father.
More than this, deponent saith […]

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Late last fall, my literary agent relocated from offices on the upper West Side of Manhattan to new, more spacious quarters down in Chelsea. As usual, there was a fair amount of tidying, and many extra or unneeded copies of books were boxed up and sent off to their respective authors via surface mail.
Late last […]

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For those of you interested in such things: Rihannsu: The Empty Chair has gone to the publisher.
(Just a note to all the nice people stopping in from the TrekBBS and PsiPhi and elsewhere: Thanks for your interest, friends! It’s much appreciated. Re: the next project in the pipeline — it’s A […]

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