Wouldn't be the first time that Canada does the right thing first and better than its neighbor to the south. :-)
I do have a wholly speculative theory about why Amazon.com lists Behr and Beimler, having to do with overenthusiastic fanboys doing their own "product info update bombing," wanting to make sure that credit goes to the "real" creators of Deep Space Nine. Doing so, of course, without realizing that writing the novel itself from source material was creative work, or that Barnes took on the project as a labor of love - meaning that they never read the novel, or Barnes' afterword to it.
I wonder if this has happened to any of the other movie or TV novelisations, though.
I just checked, and Vonda McIntyre is credited for her movie novelisations - I don't recall off-hand any other episodes that have been novelised, aside from the classic James Blish TOS episode novelisations, of course.
Well, there's Diane Carey's novelization of "Trials and Tribbleations," another DS9 ep; oddly, though she wrote the novel, David Gerrold got top billing for writing the intro:
Other Trek episodes that were adapted for novelization were TNG's All Good Things and Unification, Voy's Caretaker, Day of Honor, and Endgame; probably others I can't remember.
Just checked listings of all the novelisations mentioned in the Wikipedia site as they appear on Amazon.com.
Interesting results.
All episode novelisations - with the exception of this one by Barnes - list either the author of the novel by themselves, or the author of the novel and the writers of the episode. Sometimes the episode writers get top billing, sometimes the novel author gets top billing, but in all other cases, the author of the novelisation gets a credit.
Gerrold isn't credited as a writer on the episode "Trials and Tribbleations," but according to the Smon and Schuster listing, he wrote the foreword to the novelisation, so I guess that's why he's in the Amazon.com listing.
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I do have a wholly speculative theory about why Amazon.com lists Behr and Beimler, having to do with overenthusiastic fanboys doing their own "product info update bombing," wanting to make sure that credit goes to the "real" creators of Deep Space Nine. Doing so, of course, without realizing that writing the novel itself from source material was creative work, or that Barnes took on the project as a labor of love - meaning that they never read the novel, or Barnes' afterword to it.
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I just checked, and Vonda McIntyre is credited for her movie novelisations - I don't recall off-hand any other episodes that have been novelised, aside from the classic James Blish TOS episode novelisations, of course.
Now I'm curious.
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http://www.amazon.com/Trials-Tribble-Ations-Star-Trek-Space/dp/0671009028/ref=pd_sbs_v_1
Even so, Carey at least got an author's credit.
Other Trek episodes that were adapted for novelization were TNG's All Good Things and Unification, Voy's Caretaker, Day of Honor, and Endgame; probably others I can't remember.
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Interesting results.
All episode novelisations - with the exception of this one by Barnes - list either the author of the novel by themselves, or the author of the novel and the writers of the episode. Sometimes the episode writers get top billing, sometimes the novel author gets top billing, but in all other cases, the author of the novelisation gets a credit.
Gerrold isn't credited as a writer on the episode "Trials and Tribbleations," but according to the Smon and Schuster listing, he wrote the foreword to the novelisation, so I guess that's why he's in the Amazon.com listing.
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