Daniel Keys MoranMar 18

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 PerryMar 18

@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 MoranMar 18

@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.

Show threadSteve PerryMar 19
@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 MoranMar 19

@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 PerryMar 19
@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 MoranMar 19
@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 PerryMar 19

@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 Moran
@steveperry He was allegedly annoyed about the pseudonym, which was why I was surprised when they asked me to do another.
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