Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site caip.RUTGERS.EDU
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!pyrnj!topaz!caip!Lubkin
From: Lubkin@caip.RUTGERS.EDU
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re:  Price of the Phoenix
Message-ID: <206@caip.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 17:23:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: caip.206
Posted: Thu Oct 24 17:23:59 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 07:17:02 EDT
Sender: daemon@caip.RUTGERS.EDU
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Lines: 20

From: "Lubkin David"@LLL-MFE.ARPA


Sigh.  Price of the Phoenix was written by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath.
Anne Quint probably thought that Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Joan Winston wrote
the book because Lichtenberg, Winston and Marshak wrote Star Trek Lives!,
published in 1974?  Jacqueline has never written a professional trek novel.
Before doing the gen/sime books, she created an elaborate offshoot of Star
Trek called Kraith, which thirty or so authors have written subsidiary stories
for over the years.
  
Apart from the literary merits of Price of the Phoenix, Marshak and Culbreath
were not highly thought of in trek circles, although they may have redeemed
themselves by now.  They edited two collections of fan fiction, Star Trek:  The
New Voyages, I and II.  I do not know the truth of the matter, but at least
three of the authors of stories they printed report that (1) their stories were
altered for publication, without their permission, and/or (2) they were not
paid (and remember that ST:NV sold a lot of copies).
   
-- Lubkin