Space: 1975: Space Opera Stories With a 1970s Twist
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Every story in this new book will feature the distinctive style of the 70s, transported to thrilling new worlds, fleets, and conflicts in the farthest and most exciting reaches of the universe. Groove to tales of cosmic heroes in bellbottoms and platform shoes…alien ships like glittering mirror balls…soundtracks of gritty soul, disco, and hard rock. You'll find everything from kung fu fighting to streetwise private dicks…all souped up with incredible ray gun/rocketship action brought to sizzling life by some of the most talented scifi scribes of today and tomorrow.
Blast off with this galaxy of stories by a Star Trek screenwriter, a Nebula Award winner, comic book superstars, New York Times bestsellers, indie publishing giants, and more! Buckle up for the latest dazzling adventures by Marc Scott Zicree, Dean Wesley Smith, Cat Rambo, Peter David, Ian Douglas, Robert Jeschonek, Craig Martelle, Blaze Ward, Ron Collins, Annie Reed, Mike Baron, Mark Leslie Lefebvre, and Jim Gotaas...plus an introduction by the one and only Barbara Bain, who played Dr. Helena Russell on classic 70s scifi TV series Space: 1999.
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Robert Jeschonek is an envelope-pushing, USA Today-bestselling author. His stories have appeared in Galaxy's Edge, StarShipSofa, Escape Pod, and many other publications. He has written official Star Trek and Doctor Who fiction plus comics for DC and AHOY. He has won an International Book Award, a Scribe Award, and the grand prize in Pocket Books' Strange New Worlds contest. His young adult slipstream novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, won the Forward National Literature Award and was named one of Booklist's Top Ten First Novels for Youth. Visit him online at www.bobscribe.com. You can also find him on Facebook and follow him as @TheFictioneer on Twitter.
Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith has published far more than two hundred novels in forty years, plus hundreds of short stories and non-fiction books. He has more than twenty-three million copies of his books in print. At the moment, he produces novels in four major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the old west, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the cold case mystery series Cold Poker Gang, and the Poker Boy superhero series. During his career, Dean has also written dozens of Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com.
Marc Scott Zicree is the author of The Twilight Zone Companion, Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, and the Magic Time trilogy of novels, as well as a writer for Star Trek – The Next Generation, Sliders, Babylon Five and Deep Space Nine, among many other shows. To watch more of the Space Command saga, check out his Mr. Sci-Fi YouTube Channel.
New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas, a.k.a. William H. Keith, began his career in the RPG industry over 30 years ago, first as an artist and then as a writer. His work encompasses geopolitical technothrillers, young adult fiction, alternative military history, military science fiction, detective science fiction, comedy, horror, and fantasy. As the author of over 170 titles, including games and game modules, short stories, non-fiction, and 100 novels, he occasionally lifts his nose from the grindstone long enough to attend SF cons and Mensa gatherings, hike in his beloved Laurel Mountains, and pet the cats.
In addition to being the cofounder of the 20BooksTo50K indie author movement, Craig Martelle is a fiction-writing machine with a long list of publications to his credit. His science fiction work includes novels in the Free Trader and Kurtherian Gambit universes and the Darklanding and Judge, Jury, and Executioner series. Visit his web page, craigmartelle.com, for the latest posts and updates or find him on Facebook as Author Craig Martelle.
Peter David created and wrote the Star Trek: New Frontier fiction series, plus many other classic Star Trek novels and comics. He has written a multitude of comics for major publishers and continues to do so. He has also scripted episodes of the Babylon 5 and Crusade TV series and co-created the Nickelodeon scifi series Space Cases with actor/writer Bill Mumy.
Nebula Award winner Cat Rambo has published over two hundred short stories, five collections, two novels, two books on writing, and a cookbook. Their space opera, You Sexy Thing, appears in 2021 from Tor Macmillan. Their school for speculative fiction writers, The Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers, has been in existence for over a decade. A longtime volunteer with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, they served as its President from 2014-2019. Find out more about their fiction at their website: http://www.catrambo.
Ron Collins has contributed stories to many premier science fiction and fantasy publications, including Analog, Asimov's, and several issues of the Fiction River series. He is the award-winning author of Stealing the Sun, a series of space-based SF books, and the fantasy serial, Saga of the God-Touched Mage, which sat at the top of Amazon's Dark Fantasy best seller lists for several months. His work has garnered a Writers of the Future prize, and a CompuServe HOMer award. His short story “The White Game” was nominated for the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s 2016 Derringer Award. Find current information about Ron at typosphere.com or follow him on Twitter at @roncollins13.
Blaze Ward writes science fiction in the Alexandria Station universe (Jessica Keller, The Science Officer, The Story Road, etc.) as well as several other science fiction universes, such as Star Dragon, the Dominion, and more. In addition, he is the founder, editor, and publisher of Boundary Shock Quarterly Magazine.
A frequent contributor to both Fiction River and Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Annie Reed’s recent work includes the near-future science fiction short novel In Dreams, the gritty urban fantasy novel Iris & Ivy, and the superhero novel Faster. Annie’s short fiction appears regularly on Tangent Online’s recommended reading lists, and “The Color of Guilt,” originally published in Fiction River: Hidden in Crime, was selected as one of The Best Crime and Mystery Stories 2016. Annie also writes sweet romance under the name Liz McKnight. A founding member and contributor to the innovative Uncollected Anthology, Annie can be found on the web at www.annie-reed.com.
Jim Gotaas is a retired physicist, born and bred in Chicago but now settled into Carlisle, England. A long time ago (actually in the last millennium, 1971), but still in the local galaxy, he published a novelette in Worlds of If. Having resumed writing, he’s had a story in Daily Science Fiction and multiple appearances in Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. He’s also published nonfiction posts in Dan Koboldt's blog, “Science in Sci-Fi, Fact in Fantasy”, of which the first two were published in the Writer's Digest collection Putting the Science in Fiction. You can catch up with Jim at www.jimgotaas.com.
Mike Baron is the creator of Nexus (with artist Steve Rude) and Badger, two of the longest lasting independent superhero comics. Nexus is about a cosmic avenger 500 years in the future; Badger features a man with multiple personalities, one of whom is a costumed crimefighter. Mike has won two Eisners and an Inkpot award and written The Punisher, Flash, Deadman and Star Wars, among many other comics. He has published many novels, including Banshees, Domain, Helmet Head, Whack Job, Biker, and Florida Man. He lives in Colorado with his wife Ann and some dogs.
Mark Leslie is the author of more than twenty books and close to one hundred short stories. His speculative fiction has earned him nomination for an Aurora Award and Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Mark is the editor of the science fiction anthologies North of Infinity II and Tesseracts Sixteen and is a recurring series editor for Fiction River. He grew up on a diet of John Wyndham, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman, and Piers Anthony in terms of books, as well as Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica (the original TV series), Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Space: 1999. Most of Mark's elementary school photos show him to be a definite child of the 70s. You can find Mark online at www.markleslie.ca.
