Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 (1978) is an anthology of short fiction based on Star Trek, edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath. The anthology is follow-up to Star Trek: The New Voyages (1976). Jesco von Puttkamer wrote in the anthology's introduction that science fiction, such as Star Trek, humanizes space, making it "more understandable for the young in mind."[1]
Editor | Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath |
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Cover artist | Eddie Jones |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Star Trek |
Publisher | Bantam Books |
Publication date | January 1978 |
Pages | 252 |
ISBN | 0-553-11392-5 |
Preceded by | Star Trek: The New Voyages |
The editors credit the quality of stories previously published in Star Trek fanzines for the success of the first volume, The New Voyages. Their goal for the second volume was to include more unpublished stories.[2] However, four of the included stories were previously published in fanzines.
The cover artist for the first printing is not identified in the book matter, but was identified as Eddie Jones in Space Wars: Worlds and Weapons (1979).[3]
Marshak and Culbreath co-wrote and released the original novel The Price of the Phoenix prior to completing work on the anthology.
Stories and poems are prefaced by introductions from the editors.
Additional volumes were planned, but they were never realized. Some time after The New Voyages 2 was released, the license for Star Trek tie-in fiction was awarded to Pocket Books.[8]: xi From 1981 onward, Pocket released a new line of books based on Star Trek, and did not continue any of the lines created by Bantam, including The New Voyages series.
Pocket Books restarted professional publication of fan-written stories based in 1998, Strange New Worlds series edited by Dean Wesley Smith.[8]: 471