And that’s because, I think, the Trek novels of the ‘80s and ‘90s (regardless of the gender of the author) tended to have a non-gendered approach to their narratives. The idea that my favorite authors as a young boy were women, was to me at the time, just a given. What both of these books had common is they dealt with Spock as a sexual entity, and both of them, with their initial only first name credits, were written by women. In Black Fire, Spock becomes a smooth space pirate, and in Yesterday’s Son, he discovers he has an illegitimate son - with the endlessly cool name of “Zar” - living in the distant past on the planet Sarpeidon. Flipping through these Trek books now, you’ll discover that they are just a scooch racier than your average episode of the original Star Trek. If I had to name a second favorite author, I would have probably said Sonni Cooper, the author of Black Fire. Crispin, author of the novel Yesterday’s Son. If you asked me to name my favorite author at 11-years-old, I would have said unequivocally that my favorite author was A.C.
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