Struggling to come to terms with the aftermath of their devastating mission to Galvan VI, the surviving members of the crew of the da Vinci fight to put their lives back on track, battling to heal old rifts, deal with their emotional fears, confront new crises, and face the demons from the past to build a new future, in a collection of stories by Scott Ciencin, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Kevin Dilmore, Heather Jarman, and Dayton Ward. Original.
Keith R.A. DeCandido was born and raised in New York City to a family of librarians. He has written over two dozen novels, as well as short stories, nonfiction, eBooks, and comic books, most of them in various media universes, among them
Star Trek, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Marvel Comics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, Resident Evil, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, Farscape, Xena, and
Doctor Who. His original novel
Dragon Precinct was published in 2004, and he's also edited several anthologies, among them the award-nominated
Imaginings and two
Star Trek anthologies. Keith is also a musician, having played percussion for the bands the Don't Quit Your Day Job Players, the Boogie Knights, and the Randy Bandits, as well as several solo acts. In what he laughingly calls his spare time, Keith follows the New York Yankees and practices
kenshikai karate. He still lives in New York City with his girlfriend and two insane cats.
Still reeling from the knowledge that
Star Trek was a live-action series before it was a Saturday-morning cartoon, KEVIN DILMORE is continually grateful for his professional involvement on the fiction and the non-fiction sides of the Star Trek universe for nearly a decade. Since 1997, he has been a contributing writer to
Star Trek Communicator, penning news stories and personality profiles for the bimonthly publication of the Official Star Trek Fan Club. He has written for magazines including
Amazing Stories,
Star Wars Kids and
FLIcK. Kevin’s interviews with some of
Star Trek’s most popular authors appear in volumes of the
Star Trek Signature Editions, published by Pocket Books. On the fictional side of things, his short stories include "The Road to Edos" in the
Star Trek: New Frontier anthology
No Limits and "Home on the Strange," the first installment of
Reality Cops: The Continuing Adventures of Vale and Mist for Phobos Books. With Dayton Ward, he has written the
Star Trek: The Next Generation novels
A Time to Sow and
A Time to Harvest, a story for the anthology
Star Trek: Tales of the Dominion War, eight installments of the continuing e-book series
Star Trek: S.C.E. and the short story "Enemy Unknown!" for
Rocket League—The Thrilling Roleplaying Game by Playus Maximus. Kevin lives in Kansas City, MO.
Heather Jarman lives in Portland, Oregon, where she supplements her day job as a tired mommy with her writing career. Her most recent contributions to the
Star Trek fiction include "The Officers' Club," the Kira Nerys story in
Tales from the Captain's Table, and
Paradigm, the Andor novel in
Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume One.
By night Heather flies to distant lands on black ops missions for the government, where she frequently breaks open industrial-strength cans of whupass on evildoers.
Dayton Ward served for eleven years in the U.S. Marine Corps before discovering the private sector and the piles of cash to be made there as a software engineer. He got his start in professional writing by placing stories in each of Pocket Books’ first three
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds anthologies. He is the author of dozens of
Star Trek novels, many written in collaboration with coauthor Kevin Dilmore. He recently penned a tie-in to the cult classic television series
The 4400, and is currently at work on a new
Star Trek novel to be released in Fall 2010.
Though he currently lives in Kansas City with his wife, Michi, he is a Florida native and still maintains a torrid long-distance romance with his beloved Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Readers interested in contacting Dayton or learning more about his writing, or who simply need proof that their website is cooler and better looking, are encouraged to venture to his Internet cobweb collection at www.daytonward.com.
