![]() ![]() James Guide to Science Fiction Writers contributor Catherine M. Kagan’s novel passed the stringent test of Star Trek fans in portraying the original characters “interacting with the warmth and wit that bring them to life in the mind’s eye,” according to St. In Uhura’s Song, Kagan envisions a race of cat-like beings threatened with destruction by a plague that could destroy the entire human population of the Federation. ![]() Kagan created her own characters for her second novel, Hellspark, a murder mystery in which a scientist is killed just as he is about to prove that the inhabitants of Lassti, a newly discovered planet, are sentient, a discovery that would make the colonization and economic exploitation of the planet problematic. In her first novel, Uhura’s Song, the author created a new adventure for the cast of the original Star Trek television series. Kagan wrote science fiction novels and short stories that considered to be of exceptional quality both in the integrity of the science upon which they are based and in the intrinsic interest of her well-rounded, sympathetic characters. (age 61) Somerville, Somerset County, New Jersey, United States ![]()
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