But there were two big problems with this novel, one not really their fault but one very much their fault, which is what drops the score down to three stars today. Smith and Rusch, a longtime married couple, are busy and beloved veterans of genre publishing (between the two of them they've written over 300 novels at this point, as well as running their own small press, and collectively they've either won or been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, Endeavour, Sidewise, and World Fantasy awards), so I wasn't worried this time about whether the quality of the writing itself was going to be good, which it indeed was. Martin and Andy Mangels' disappointing Rogue ( my review) then book #3 set among the cast of Deep Space Nine, David Weddle and Jeffrey Lang's excellent Abyss ( my review) and then today's concluding* book #4 set within the milieu of Voyager, Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Shadow. Following chronologically by show, that made book #2 set during the Enterprise of The Next Generation, Michael A. Perry's TOS-set Cloak, for those who might be interested in getting a primer on the topic. This is book #4 of my four-book read this month of the "Section 31" series of Star Trek "non-canon" novels, which by coincidence happens to be my first-ever read in my life of any of the now 850 Star Trek non-canon novels that exist, which gave me an excuse to write in much more general terms on the subject in my review of book #1, S.D. Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books.Ĭurrently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.Ģ021 reads, #57. Many of Dean’s original novels are also under hidden pen names for marketing reasons.ĭean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. Many ghost and pen name books are not on this list because he is under contractual obligations not to disclose that he wrote them. The following is a list of novels under the Dean Wesley Smith name, plus a number of pen names that are open knowledge. With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. He is also known for writing quality work very quickly and has written a large number of novels as a ghost writer or under house names. He has written many original novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and romance as well as books for television, movies, games, and comics. He has over eight million copies of his books in print and has books published in nine different countries. Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names and well over 100 published short stories.
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