Serpent's Gift by A. C. Crispin; Deborah Mars...

She went on to collaborate on two more books in the V series, East Coast Crisis with Howard Weinstein, and Death Tide with Deborah Marshall.įor Star Wars, she wrote the bestselling Han Solo Trilogy: The Paradise Snare, The Hutt Gambit, and Rebel Dawn, which tell the story of Han Solo from his early years right up to the moment he walks into the cantina in Star Wars: A New Hope. Shortly thereafter, Tor Books commissioned her to write what is perhaps still her most widely read work, the 1984 novelization of the television miniseries, V, which sold more than a million copies.

She began publishing in 1983 with the Star Trek novel Yesterday's Son, written in her spare time while working for the US Census Bureau. Crispin had a unique talent for writing dialog that captured the essence of those characters. Over the years, she became the unofficial 'Queen of Backstory.' Ms. wrote prolifically in many different tie-in universes, and was a master at filling in the histories of beloved TV and movie characters. There are seven StarBridge books: StarBridge, Silent Dances, Shadow World, Serpent's Gift, Silent Songs, Voices of Chaos, and Ancestor's World.Ī. These books, now available as Kindle ebooks and in audiobook editions from Audible, center around a school for young diplomats, translators and explorers, both alien and human, located on an asteroid far from Earth. (Ann) Crispin's major original science fiction undertaking was her StarBridge series.

Serpent's Gift by A. C. Crispin; Deborah Mars...