VON PUTTKAMER, Jesco, et al

Star Trek: The New Voyages 2

First edition, paperback original. Introduction by Jesco von Puttkamer. Edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath. Near fine with just a few reading creases. Inscribed by von Puttkamer to Fred Durant, and with a longer typed note from von Puttkamer to Durant tipped-in. Von Puttkamer, NASA's long-range planning program manager, a veteran of the Apollo program and an important developer of the space shuttle, was a key liaison between NASA and the movement to revive the Star Trek phenomenon in the decade between the program's cancellation and the first Star Trek film. He also authored several pieces of science-fiction in his native German. His story "The Sleeping God" in this collection is his first work of science-fiction in English. Fred C. Durant was the author of the influential, classified government report on UFOs which bore his name and was later deputy director of the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum, where he initiated a major exhibit on Star Trek in order to stimulate public interest in space exploration. This volume also includes the first Star Trek story by actress Nichelle Nichols, Uhura from the television series. A marvelous association between two space professionals who appreciated science-fiction's ability to inspire fact.

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