Cornball Sci-fi

[Dave Munger]

Do something that you could easily change to something sellable later, like "The Creeping Terror" set on an aircraft carrier that you could change into the Enterprise or an isolated villeage you could change to a space colony, and characters that could be Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.

I started writing one of those Star Trek novels once, thinking that if no Treknerd mag wanted it I could change the names, make Spock a Martian, etc. The story was kind of like one of Farmer's "World Of Teirs" books, with a godlike alien making Kirk, Spock and McCoy run a gauntlet of pocket universes. The 'puter I had it on is kaput though. Also, it had no subplot. Character and dialoge are my weakest areas, I think, so using K, S, and M was kind of a crutch. Didn't want to kill myself when I had them say dumb things, because they say dumb things anyway, they're on record.

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