Celebrating 40 Years of Star Trek
Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion
Jeff Ayers Trade Paperback, 800 pages.
Retail $21.00

Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion A must have for every fan.

Celebrate 40 years of science-fiction literature with the ultimate guide to Star Trek novels. From author Jeff Ayers comes this comprehensive guide to four decades of professionally published Star Trek fiction - just in time to help celebrate Star Trek's 40th Anniversary.

Chronicling four-decades of Star Trek fiction - including the earliest works published in the 1960s and 1970s, this one-of-a-kind guide covers more than 500 novels, novellas and short stories, and is fully illustrated with stunning black-and-white photographs of book covers. Includes plot summaries, fascinating interviews with authors and editors, a chronological listing of the books within the Star Trek timeline and much more.

Product 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.

About the Author
Jeff Ayers is a reviewer for Library Journal and a freelance writer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

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Product Details
Paperback: 800 pages
Publisher: Star Trek (November 14, 2006)
ISBN-10: 1416503498 ISBN-13: 978-1416503491
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds