From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Shatner Strikes Again!
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 19:56:45 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 6:28 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Shatner Strikes Again!

> >From PW Daily, highlights of book reviews next week in PW:
>
> "Like its predecessors, William Shatner's fifth interstellar
adventure
> of teenage superman Jim Endicott, Shadow Planet: Quest for Tomorrow
> (HarperCollins), mixes fast action and bold characterization with
> lapses in logic. The series' affinity to both Star Wars and Dune is
> abundantly clear, while ragged transitions leave many episodes
> undeveloped. The author's less than sophisticated handling will go
> over better with young adults and Trekkies than with more serious
> readers of the genre."
>
> I suspect not a Hugo contender . . .

So what is Shatner's *actual* contribution to these books, beyond his
name?

--Ted White