Daniel Keys Moran1d ago

Dan at 20: People are having a fan argument about whether Star Trek novels are "canon."

Dan@20 could A) join in, B) play basketball, C) wash his hair for about the next eight years, D) go talk to that pretty girl.

I don't believe fan arguments ever won out, and I've gotten modestly less geeky with the passage of the decades.

I admit, sometimes I've argued with myself if something *I* wrote is canon in my universe. Those can get heated, but there's only sometimes insults or raised voices.

Show threadSteve Perry1d ago

@fatsam My experience is that I seldom know anywhere near as much as hardcore fan do about something I've written, especially in a shared-universe.

I do smile when a Predators fan tries to tell me the right way to pronounce "yautja," the name of the Predators race.

Show threadDaniel Keys Moran

@steveperry :D I've had people tell me I didn't understand Boba Fett *at all.*

Dude. Boba Fett had 6 minutes of screen time and five lines of dialog in the original trilogy. You may not like what I did with that seed, but there was no Fett there to "understand," really.

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Show threadSteve Perry1d ago
@fatsam What you did with him was way better than what The Mouse did to him. Worst of the live-action SW's streaming series, hands-down.
Show threadDaniel Keys Moran1d ago

@steveperry I keep thinking about offering to fix it all. I didn't enjoy working with them, 30 years ago, and they didn't enjoy working with me, but at least on my side, I'm SO MUCH CALMER THESE DAYS.

Probably not. I've got a lot on my plate, for a retired guy.

Show threadSteve Perry1d ago
@fatsam I was, for a time, caught up in a blacklist at Lucasfilm -- not my fault, but that of the SFWA organization. I got past that enough to write one more shared-universe book, but when I pitched new stories, they didn't like 'em. That parting was amicable.
Show threadDaniel Keys Moran1d ago
@steveperry Been thirty years. No hard feelings on my end, though I've been told over the years that my use of a pseudonym on my first Fett story pissed people off all the way up to Lucas. All those people are gone, though.
Show threadSteve Perry23h ago
@fatsam I recall you were gonna have two stories in that anthology, weren't you? I mean, the Cordwainer Bird was because they screwed with one too much?
Show threadDaniel Keys Moran19h ago

@steveperry I had three -- one in "Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina," which was about the guy with devil horns.

One from "Tales from Jabba the Hutt's Palace," which was my first Fett story, which I put a pseudonym on and made people unhappy. It's only about 90% mine.

One from "Tales of the Bounty Hunter" -- Fett again, "The Last One Standing," which I still get fan mail for today.

That one surprised me. I thought we were done after the Jabba anthology.

Show threadSteve Perry23h ago

@fatsam And while he seldom dipped his toe into the book-fray, George did have the final say. There was a bit about "spice" whereupon one of the editors said it wasn't an illicit drug and they took it to George.

Of course it's an illicit drug, he said.

Show threadDaniel Keys Moran19h ago
@steveperry He was allegedly annoyed about the pseudonym, which was why I was surprised when they asked me to do another.