STAR TREK: Strange New Worlds I

by Dean Wesley Smith (Editor)

  Bobbie Benton Hull (“Together Again, for the First Time”) was born, raised, and currently lives in rural Yakima, Washington, with her husband and two daughters. She attended West Valley High School (1977) and has a bachelor’s degree in soil science. She enjoys landscaping, her AOL True Trekker friends, performing in the Yakima Symphony Chorus, and is a 4-H volunteer.

  Alara Rogers (“Civil Disobedience”) has been writing since the age of four, and intends to be a household name by the age of forty, or at the very least have a Nebula or two. She has a background in psychobiology, has studied Japanese, assembles computers and plays with the Internet in her spare time, and has a job that calls for none of these skills, except maybe the Internet, occasionally. This is her second professional short-story tale. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  Franklin Thatcher (“Of Cabbages and Kings”) is a software developer by vocation, a writer by avocation, and bishop in the Mormon church by dedication. Though he has sold several planetarium starshows, he prefers to write science fiction and fantasy. He and his wife, Laura, live in Orem, Utah.

  [456] Christina F. York (“Life’s Lessons”), aspiring writer, self-published at the age of ten, then retired. After raising a family, she returned to writing nonfiction. “Too old” for the original series, she quickly became a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her husband, SF writer J. Steven York.

  Vince Bonasso (“Where I Fell Before My Enemy”) lives in Memphis, Tennessee, where he flies jets for Federal Express. He enjoys traveling and spends most of his free time in southern California. He is a Clarion West 1992 graduate.

  Patrick Cumby (“Good Night, Voyager”) lives with his wife, kids, dog, cat, and fish in the ’burbs of Atlanta, where he manages a team of tech writers and Web developers. When asked to sum up his life in fifty words or less, he ceases his furious typing, looks up from his keyboard, and wonders, “Does that count include punctuation?”

  J. A. (Joe) Rosales (“Ambassador at Large”) is a freelance comic book artist living in San Antonio, Texas. He is a fan of many media and genres. In his free time he enjoys reading about the Victorian era, trying to figure out what happened to the Andorians, and looking for inside jokes in science fiction.

  jaQ Andrews (“Fiction”), nineteen, is studying creative writing at Simon’s Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His current career whim is to [457] become a fiction- and songwriter as a side art to a janitor-ship at a yet-to-be-determined elementary school.

  Jackee Crowell (“I, Voyager”) was born with a love of science fiction, especially Star Trek. Being a writer has been a dream since age eight, when she “penned” her first story. These days she’s a busy wife and mother of three, but finds time to visit with fellow pond members.

  Craig D. B. Patton (“Monthuglu”) grew up a science fiction fan in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. After a stunningly short-lived career as a filmmaker, he sought refuge (read “income”) in the computer industry, where he found success as a marketer. “Monthuglu,” his first published story, marks his return to the creative arts.

  About the e-Book

  (OCT, 2003)—Scanned, proofed, and formatted by Bibliophile.