A perfect piece of news, considering the day

[dianeduane]

From a poster called "HumanEnhancement" at AintItCoolNews.com:

Peter David... royally screwed up those "Star Trek" novels he wrote, much like his wife Diane Duane.

(snort) (ROTFL)

Peter was amused. ...So was I.

(And I'll be even more amused after I get all this tea cleaned out of the keyboard.)

 

Comments

[anamin.livejournal.com]

rotfl!

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

But oh my, confusing you with Carey?

Nooooo!

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

I actually kind of liked Dreadnought.
I was also, I believe, 14.
And half of it, honestly, is probably because it featured one of the ships out of the beloved Tech Manual. I wore one of those out, back in the day.

[wolfette]

but was Peter amused?

[dduane.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. He kind of snorted, and then went back to sleep.

[davidkevin.livejournal.com]

In truth, I've always been curious about what a collaboration between you and Peter David would be like...? Now that the idea's in the air, how about it? Is there anything on which the two of you could work together?

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

Ummm... if he didn't like Peter's novels or yours... whose the heck did he like? One must assume that he hated The Final Reflection, too - not enough Kirk in it. Yeesh.

I confess to enjoying Dreadnought as well on my only reading, though I use it today as the prime example of published Mary Sue fanfic.

[zellion.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of with you on this. If Peter David can't make ya' laugh with his star trek novels you're out of luck!

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

I recall a story that Robert Adams told at a convention some mumbleyears ago. When the first Conan movie was released, the New York Times went to write a review. They knew that L. Sprague de Camp and his wife had been advisors to the film, but somehow with all their copious research resources they coudln't correctly identify the name of his wife. In their review, they wrote: "The film was assisted by noted science fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp, and his lovely wife Lin Carter."

A few days after this appeared, de Camp received a postcard from Isaac Asimov, reading "Dear Sprague, now that you've decided upon Lin, may I have Catherine?"

[lunalovegoddess.livejournal.com]

Classic!

[lunalovegoddess.livejournal.com]

I'll have to pass this on to my husband, who is a fan of both you and Peter David.

I'm laughing so hard right now, because I recently received an email from a publisher who, while "overjoyed that Brenda Lee would be branching out into the world of supernatural fiction, was saddened that [I'd] be giving up a country music career".
Two facts:
1. My mother named me after a popular country singer in the States, long before I began singing.
2. I love the performing arts and would love to be paid to do what I love.

[scarfman]

I'm rereading Dark Mirror right now. Peter David is the only Trek novelist I've written fan snailmail to. And I love Carey's; especially the George Kirk ones but even the first two (the Mary Sue factor seems to vanish if you imagine the protagonist is male), and I read Ship of the Line twice the first year it was out.

[naraht.livejournal.com]

Final Frontier was the awesome...

I can see the complaints lodged at some of the other novels however.

(I too liked them @ the time, haven't reread, but from what I remember, yeah..I see the complaint)

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I liked them, have reread them and still like them. But then I have no problems with "Mary Sue" fiction as long as it is done well (cf. Janet Kagan's "Uhura's Song"). Diane C's ones are done "well enough"; not wonderful, but a good enough read that I enjoy them. Even though I was spoilt because the first of the Pocket Books ST novels I read were by Diane Duane and everything written in ST up to then suffered in comparison...

[astrophilia.livejournal.com]

Uhura's Song was actually the first TOS book I ever read, interestingly enough, and it's still one of my favorites (though I see where you're coming from with the Mary Sue bit). :)

I'm not a huge Diane Carey fan, but some of her stuff isn't all that bad, so I'm not sure where all the serious complaints are coming from.

[(Anonymous)]

Tailkinker in "Uhura's Song" was based on the author's mother IIRC, so it's a sort of Mary Sue. What is more amazing is that she wrote it having never seen the series, some friends fed her a few episodes they thought were relevant and that showed the main characters. I so want a prehensile tail...

Some people are just too picky, I think. Their choice, of course, I'm probably just as picky on other subjects and genres...

[madfilkentist]

Particularly amusing since the author is complaining about your lack of "accurate portrayal."

[manycolored.livejournal.com]

*snicker* Collect them all?

Of my once-vast collection of Star Trek novels, most of those that didn't end up getting traded in for more at the used book store were ones with the names Duane (sometimes Duane/Moorwood) and David on them.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

One could be kind and assume he simply screwed up on the Surname!

[astrophilia.livejournal.com]

::gigglesnort::

I especially liked your response. Nothing quite says "YOU FAIL" like hearing it from the author herself (or reading it, as the case may be). :D

[syberghost.livejournal.com]

Heh. Here's something coming up you might enjoy:

http://www.comicbooks.org/news/newsitem.cgi?id=9624

Star Trek Klingons: Blood Will Tell. Retelling the classic Trek Klingon stories, from the PoV of the Klingons. Issue #1 will be available in both English and Klingon.

Also, they let slip something about their next comic project. A single word: Gorn.