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Starfarers didn’t start out as a novel quartet. It didn’t start out as a single novel, a short story, or prose.The Starfarers Quartet debuted at Book View Café on 20 December 2009. For more about Vonda N. McIntyre, please visit her website.
It started out as a hoax.
Some years back, I was to be on a SF convention panel, “Science Fiction on Television.” This panel used to turn up at conventions with some regularity, and it always followed the same pattern: Somebody pulled out a list of all the SF television series of the recent past and read it aloud, inviting the audience to agree how terrible all the shows were. (Since then, things have changed, and some good SF has been on tv, but at that time aside from Twilight Zone and the original Star Trek, you had choices such as Time Tunnel and Lost in Space.)
This particular panel bores me to death, so, having promised to be on it, I had to do something different.
I had always thought the TV miniseries was the perfect form for SF — I wished Masterpiece Theater would produce one of our field’s classics — but at the time no one had tried it.
When the panelist next to me whipped out his list and started to read titles, to the audience’s groans, I let him get through a couple of lines before I raised an eyebrow.
“Hold on,” I said. “Haven’t you seen Starfarers? Hasn’t anybody seen Starfarers?”
Of course nobody had...[read on]
My Book, The Movie: Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre.
My Book, The Movie: the Starfarers quartet.
--Marshal Zeringue
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