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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (anthologies) #6
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds VI
In the sixth year of its ongoing mission, the Strange New Worlds writing competition has once again sought out exciting new voices and imaginations among Star Trek's vast galaxy of fans. After scanning countless submissions for signs of style and originality, the judges are proud to report that the universe of amazing Star Trek writers just keeps expanding.
Strange New Worlds VI features twenty-three never-before-published stories spanning the twenty-second to the twenty-fourth centuries, from the early days of Captain Jonathan Archer to James T. Kirk and his crew to the later generations of Captains Picard, Sisko, and Janeway. These memorable new tales explore and examine the past and future of Star Trek from many different perspectives. This year's contributors include such diverse life-forms as Julie Hyzy, Shane Zeranski, Penny A. Proctor, TG Theodore, Mark Allen, Charity Zegers, Juanita Nolte, G. Wood, Pat Detmer, Robert J. Mendenhall, Geoffrey Thorne, Russ Crossley, Louisa M. Swann, Scott W. Carter, Shawn Michael Scott, Brett Hudgins, Robert J. LaBaff, Paul J. Kaplan, Jan Stevens, Kevin Andrew Hosey, Elizabeth A. Dunham, Mary Scott-Wiecek, Robert T. Jeschonek, and Annie Reed.
Join Strange New Worlds in its thrilling quest to uncover the most compelling Star Trek fiction this side of the Galactic Barrier!
Strange New Worlds VI features twenty-three never-before-published stories spanning the twenty-second to the twenty-fourth centuries, from the early days of Captain Jonathan Archer to James T. Kirk and his crew to the later generations of Captains Picard, Sisko, and Janeway. These memorable new tales explore and examine the past and future of Star Trek from many different perspectives. This year's contributors include such diverse life-forms as Julie Hyzy, Shane Zeranski, Penny A. Proctor, TG Theodore, Mark Allen, Charity Zegers, Juanita Nolte, G. Wood, Pat Detmer, Robert J. Mendenhall, Geoffrey Thorne, Russ Crossley, Louisa M. Swann, Scott W. Carter, Shawn Michael Scott, Brett Hudgins, Robert J. LaBaff, Paul J. Kaplan, Jan Stevens, Kevin Andrew Hosey, Elizabeth A. Dunham, Mary Scott-Wiecek, Robert T. Jeschonek, and Annie Reed.
Join Strange New Worlds in its thrilling quest to uncover the most compelling Star Trek fiction this side of the Galactic Barrier!
370 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2003
About the author
Dean Wesley Smith
770 books165 followersPen Names
Edward Taft
Dee W. Schofield
D.W. Smith
Sandy Schofield
Kathryn Wesley
Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names and well over 100 published short stories. He has over eight million copies of his books in print and has books published in nine different countries. He has written many original novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and romance as well as books for television, movies, games, and comics. He is also known for writing quality work very quickly and has written a large number of novels as a ghost writer or under house names.
With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. The following is a list of novels under the Dean Wesley Smith name, plus a number of pen names that are open knowledge. Many ghost and pen name books are not on this list because he is under contractual obligations not to disclose that he wrote them. Many of Dean’s original novels are also under hidden pen names for marketing reasons.
Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.
Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books.
Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.
Edward Taft
Dee W. Schofield
D.W. Smith
Sandy Schofield
Kathryn Wesley
Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names and well over 100 published short stories. He has over eight million copies of his books in print and has books published in nine different countries. He has written many original novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and romance as well as books for television, movies, games, and comics. He is also known for writing quality work very quickly and has written a large number of novels as a ghost writer or under house names.
With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. The following is a list of novels under the Dean Wesley Smith name, plus a number of pen names that are open knowledge. Many ghost and pen name books are not on this list because he is under contractual obligations not to disclose that he wrote them. Many of Dean’s original novels are also under hidden pen names for marketing reasons.
Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.
Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books.
Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.
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July 2, 2022
Interesting stories throughout the series that tie-in well with the franchise and the Star Trek lore, especially if you're reading/watching chronologically.
March 24, 2023
We are already at the 6th installment of the Strange New Worlds series. The concept is fixed, although a new category has been added. Speculation, stories that bring a new dimension to the series and don't fit properly in the existing categories that are based on the several television series. Both entries in this series are nice to read and add some value to the franchise. But still, they could have found their place in the existing categories, the editors have been creative in this aspect before. For me, the new category should better be removed again.
The other stories are again following the rules of the contest so the entries that are selected by always the same editors are getting a bit predictable. Not that they lack originality or are not worth reading. No, they each add something to the Star Trek universe, although some are getting quite far-fetched, focusing on really tiny details are just putting themselves completely out of the known, just having a connection by a thread to the original.
Still worth reading for sure, though the anticipation is diminishing.
The other stories are again following the rules of the contest so the entries that are selected by always the same editors are getting a bit predictable. Not that they lack originality or are not worth reading. No, they each add something to the Star Trek universe, although some are getting quite far-fetched, focusing on really tiny details are just putting themselves completely out of the known, just having a connection by a thread to the original.
Still worth reading for sure, though the anticipation is diminishing.
August 11, 2017
There are a number of strong, witty, engaging stories to be found in this collection, especially in the section covering Captain Kirk and the original series (the follow-up to "Star Trek IV" brought a huge smile to my face). However, I find that a number of stories try too hard to hit emotional buttons while trying to fill continuity holes, fanwank-style. The DS9 section is disappointingly uninspired...and one story in particular seems to have declared war on contractions. A mixed bag, but there are a number of jewels that shine.
May 29, 2019
4 Stars. I only stopped reading one of the short stories in this anthology. Previous 5 books often had 2-4 stories I either stop reading or just skipped outright.
I love these fan written short stories, & hope to read the rest of them.
Unfortunately this is the last one that is in my state library system so I will have to try & buy the remaining one in order to read them.
Highly recommend.
I love these fan written short stories, & hope to read the rest of them.
Unfortunately this is the last one that is in my state library system so I will have to try & buy the remaining one in order to read them.
Highly recommend.
October 5, 2022
This collection lured me into a very false sense of security with "The Human Factor" and "Best Tools Available". My boy Nog beating the Kobayashi Maru is now my canon.
And the devastation wrought by the 2 bombs "Homemade" and "Widow's Walk" will probably take me a minute to recover from. The wrong stories to read when one is on their period and still very much grieving. A bitch ugly ugly cried. I was not prepared.
And the devastation wrought by the 2 bombs "Homemade" and "Widow's Walk" will probably take me a minute to recover from. The wrong stories to read when one is on their period and still very much grieving. A bitch ugly ugly cried. I was not prepared.
April 15, 2019
A very solid anthology - there no stories that I didn't enjoy, and some were absolutely brilliant.
August 4, 2014
I want to call everyone's attention to one of the stories in this volume, "Our Million-Year Mission". From Memory Beta:
"In the year 1012260, the crew of the Mega-Federation starship USS UberEnterprise (NCC-1701-∞), under joint command of James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard, after nearly a million years of exploring most of the universe..."
It's AMAZING AND I LOVE IT.
There's some other stories too.
"In the year 1012260, the crew of the Mega-Federation starship USS UberEnterprise (NCC-1701-∞), under joint command of James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard, after nearly a million years of exploring most of the universe..."
It's AMAZING AND I LOVE IT.
There's some other stories too.
August 27, 2012
it was good
April 12, 2017
Another volume of short stories based on all the Star Trek series. There's some nice ideas here but the one that stood out was the speculation story about what would happen in a million years after Star Trek. This was a really clever story that was well written and really thought out. A good read.
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