{"id":2476,"date":"2009-08-13T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T15:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2009-08-13T10:13:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T15:13:36","slug":"on-a-new-trek-literature-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2476","title":{"rendered":"On a New Trek Literature Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jens Deffner of <a href=\"http:\/\/unreality-sf.net\/\">Unreality SF<\/a> approached me recently to participate in a round-table discussion\/interview about the new <i>Star Trek<\/i> film and Pocket Books&#8217; reaction to the film, both this year and into next year when they have a series of four sequels to the film on the schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/unreality-sf.net\/features\/stxi.html\"><i>Trek<\/i> XI: Did the books miss the bandwagon?<\/a>&#8220;, the article also features contributions by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sff.net\/people\/krad\/\">Keith DeCandido<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.well.com\/~sjroby\/lcars\/\">Steve Roby<\/a>, and <a href=\"vhttp:\/\/www.redroom.com\/author\/geoffrey-thorne\">Geoffrey Thorne<\/a>.  I was honored to be asked to participate with this group.<\/p>\n<p>The article covers a fair bit of ground, from the long lead times that publishing entails to the economic realities of the moment to what should and shouldn&#8217;t be done with the new film-based milieu.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve any interest in the subject, give the article a look. :spock:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jens Deffner of Unreality SF approached me recently to participate in a round-table discussion\/interview about the new Star Trek film and Pocket Books&#8217; reaction to the film, both this year and into next year when they have a series of four sequels to the film on the schedule. Entitled Trek XI: Did the books miss<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2476\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On a New Trek Literature Discussion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[4089,395],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-star-trek","tag-star-trek-novels","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}