Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 20:42:18 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Shatner Strikes Again!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>
>----- Original Message -----
>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

Who knows . . .  who cares . . .

Curiously enough though, pretty much all of Shatner's "writings" with the =
exception of the Tek books have a co-author credit on the title pages.

Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens are consistently credited.  An open =
secret is that the talented Ron Goulart is the scribe behind the Tek =
books.

The Quest for Tomorrow series is "co-authored" by William Quick, atleast =
the early ones were.

I rarely get these books with the review copies I buy and when I do =
they're sold as quickly as possible.

& as a note, William Keith was the ghost for the Bruce Boxleiter novels.  =
He told me that Boxleiter actually had some imput into the books.

mjw