Ann C. Crispin

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Ann Carol Crispin (born Ann Carol Tickell on 5. April 1950 in Stamford , Connecticut , died on the 6. September 2013 in Waldorf , Maryland ) was an American science fiction - and fantasy - author . She has published over 20 novels, mostly under the author name AC Crispin.

Life

Her parents were George Arthur Tickell and Eleanor Hope Hooker. She studied at the University of Maryland , where she graduated in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in English.

Her first novel Yesterdays Son , a Star Trek - Tie-In , she had written in her spare time when they for the US Census Bureau worked. The novel was published in 1983 and Crispin became a full-time writer specializing in novel drafts and tie-ins in the science fiction genre. Her most successful work was the novel version of the miniseries V - The extraterrestrial visitors come , which became a bestseller with a circulation of over a million copies. This was followed by novel versions and tie-ins for Alien , Star Wars (a Han Solo series), other Star Trek tie-ins, as well as the Starbridge romance and finally a tie-in for Pirates of the Caribbean . In 2013 she was named a Grand Master by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers .

Crispin was the Eastern Regional Director and also Vice President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Together with the author Victoria Strauss founded and led Writer Beware in 1998 , a group within the SFWA that has set itself the goal of warning prospective authors of fraudulent agents and publishers, to assist them if necessary and to bring the cheaters and fraudsters of the literary industry to court bring. In 2004 she and her husband, science fiction writer Michael Capobianco , were honored for special services to the SFWA. Capobianco is also considered a specialist in tie-ins (including Star Trek). The couple had a son.

In early September 2013, Crispin announced that she had cancer and that she would not have long to live. Just three days later, she died of bladder cancer at the age of 63 .

Awards

  • 2004 SFWA Award in the “Service to SFWA Award” category, together with Michael Capobianco
  • 2013 Grandmaster of the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers

bibliography

Series

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

Star Trek

The Yesterday Saga ( Star Trek - The Original Series ):

  • 1 Yesterday's Son (1983)
  • 2 Time for Yesterday (1988)

Enterprise - Classic (Star Trek - The Original Series):

Novels:

Short stories:

  • Last Words ( Star Trek: The Next Generation , in: Amazing Stories, Summer 1998 )
  • Just Another Little Training Cruise ( Star Trek: The Original Series , 2000, in: Carol Greenburg (Ed.): Enterprise Logs )
V - the Visitors / V - the extraterrestrials
  • 1 V (1984)
    • German: V - the extraterrestrial visitors are coming. Translated by Helga August. Goldmann # 8612, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-442-08612-4 .
  • 2 East Coast Crisis (1984; with Howard Weinstein)
    • German: Battle for New York. Translated by Andreas Brandhorst. Goldmann SF # 23711, 1987, ISBN 3-442-23711-4 .
  • 10 Death Tide (1985; with Deborah A. Marshall)
    • German: The Flood of Death. Translated by Monika Paul. Goldmann SF # 23629, 1990, ISBN 3-442-23629-0 .
  • V: The Original Miniseries (2008, collective edition)
Starbridge
  • 1 Starbridge (1989)
  • 2 Silent Dances (1990; with Kathleen O'Malley)
  • 3 Shadow World (1991; with Jannean Elliott)
  • 4 Serpent's Gift (1992; with Deborah A. Marshall)
  • 5 Silent Songs (1994; with Kathleen O'Malley)
  • 6 Ancestor's World (1996; with T. Jackson King)
  • 7 Voices of Chaos (1998; with Ru Emerson)
  • Twilight World (2013, short story in: Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Ed.): Raygun Chronicles: Space Opera for a New Age )
Star Wars - The Han Solo Adventures
  • 1 The Paradise Snare (1997)
    • German: The pilot. Translated by Ralf Schmitz. Heyne General Series # 10214, 1999, ISBN 3-453-15251-4 .
  • 2 The Hutt Gambit (1997)
    • German: The hunted. Translated by Ralf Schmitz. Heyne General Series # 10215, 1999, ISBN 3-453-16086-X .
  • 3 Rebel Dawn (1998)
    • English: The King of Smugglers. Translated by Ralf Schmitz. Heyne General Series # 10216, 2000, ISBN 3-453-16087-8 .

Collective issues:

  • The Han Solo Trilogy (collective edition from 1–3; 1998)
  • The Han Solo Omnibus (2000)

Novels

  • Gryphon's Eyrie ( Witch World - High Hallack - The Gryphon Saga # 3, 1984; with Andre Norton )
  • New Years Eve (1985)
    • German: Sylvester: novel based on the script by Carol Sobieski. Translated by Katharina Braun. Bastei-Verlag Lübbe (Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 57511), Bergisch Gladbach 1990, DNB 900684453 .
  • Songsmith ( Witch World - High Hallack # 6, 1992; with Andre Norton)
  • Alien: Resurrection (1997; with Kathleen O'Malley (Ed.))
    • English: Alien - the rebirth. Based on the script by Joss Thedon. Translated by Thomas Haag and Bärbel Deninger. Heyne General Series # 20011, 1997, ISBN 3-453-13893-7 .
  • Enter the Wolves (2001)
  • Storms of Destiny ( Exiles of Boq'urain # 1, 2005)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom (2011)

Short stories

1986:

  • The Amiable Assassin ( Ithkar , 1986, in: Andre Norton and Robert Adams (Eds.): Magic in Ithkar 3 )

1987:

  • Bloodspell (1987, in: Andre Norton (Ed.): Tales of the Witch World )

1990:

  • Heartspell (1990, in: Andre Norton (Ed.): Tales of the Witch World 3 )

1991:

  • Pure Silver (1991, in: Megan Miller, John Gregory Betancourt, Byron Preiss and David Keller (Eds.): The Ultimate Werewolf ; with Kathleen O'Malley)
    • German: Pure silver. Translated by Ellen Zirden. In: Byron Preiss (Ed.): The best of the werewolf. Bastei-Lübbe, 1993, ISBN 3-404-13484-2 .

1995:

  • Play It Again, Figrin D'an: The Tale of Muftak and Kabe (1995, in: Kevin J. Anderson (Ed.): Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina )
    • English: Play it again, Figrin D'an: The story of Muftak and Kabe. Translated by Thomas Ziegler . In: Kevin J. Anderson (ed.): Storm over Tatooine. Goldmann, ISBN 978-3-442-43599-9 .
  • Skin Deep: The Fat Dancer's Tale ( Star Wars tale , 1995)
    • English: Under the Skin: The Story of the Fat Dancer. Translated by Andreas Decker. In: Kevin J. Anderson (ed.): Palace of the Dark Suns. Goldmann, 1997, ISBN 3-442-43777-6 .

1997:

2008:

  • Tornado Warning (2008, in: Richard Dean Starr (Ed.): Tales of Zorro ; with Kathleen O'Malley)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Short biography , accessed on August 26, 2020.
  2. ↑ Ann Crispin Says Goodbye , article on startrek.com dated September 3, 2013, accessed August 26, 2020.
  3. ↑ http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/015419.html
  4. ↑ Remembering Trek Author Ann Crispin, 1950-2013 , obituary on startrek.com of September 6, 2013, accessed August 26, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Crispin, Ann C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crispin, Ann Carol Tickell (full name); Tickell, Ann Carol (maiden name); Crispin, AC (alternative spelling); Crispin, Ann Carol (alternative spelling); Crispin, Ann Carol Tickell (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction and fantasy writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Stamford , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 2013
Place of death Waldorf , Maryland