Books
- Voyage of the Star Wolf (1990) (ISBN 1-932100-07-5)
- The Middle of Nowhere (1995) (ISBN 1-932100-10-5)
- Blood and Fire (2004) (ISBN 1-932100-11-3) which is a rewrite of a planned Star Trek: The Next Generation script featuring gay characters and an AIDS metaphor. The novel contains several slams against the Star Trek franchise, such as stating how another starship nicknamed "Big E" (the US Navy's unofficial nickname for the Enterprise) was too valuable in terms of propaganda to risk on the front lines, and a dead crewmember named "M. Okuda."
- Yesterday's Children (1972) (ISBN 0-88411-193-8) is actually an earlier novel that features the same main character later significantly expanded and republished as Starhunt (1985) -- it occurs prior to the other novels in the series' main continuity, but is not perfectly consistent with them.
Gerrold had planned to develop this concept into a TV series, as he writes in an introduction to Voyage of the Star Wolf. The later novels were written after the TV concept had been presented. The Star Wolf series reflects Gerrold's contention that, due to the distances involved, space battles would be more like submarine hunts than the dogfights usually portrayed—in most cases the ships doing battle wouldn't even be able to see each other. Gerrold referred to the concept as "World War II in space," and intended it as a stylistic opposite of Star Trek (particularly its "Next Generation" incarnation) by setting the main characters on a small, dingy spacecraft that had little respect in the fleet rather than on the flagship. His inability to sell the concept as a television project led to the book series.
In spite of the strong contrast between the Starwolf series and Star Trek, the original germ of Yesterday's Children was in the framing story of Gerrold's early proposed 2-part Star Trek episode "Tomorrow Was Yesterday". The central story, without the frame, eventually became Gerrold's Star Trek novel The Galactic Whirlpool.
Read more about this topic: Star Wolf (David Gerrold)
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