Its Hour Come Round
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Used to? he asked himself. It was still going on, probably would for the rest of their lives, despite their once having shared the same brain.
And yet they expected the Payav to behave themselves, make nice for the visiting diplomats, and decide with a single voice whether or not to join the Federation.
In any event, he was not a diplomat, and he’d leave it to Spock and the other ambassadors. And it was past time he stopped feeling sorry for himself. Whether or not Mestiko elected to become a member of the Federation, there was good work being done here, and more good work to do. McCoy found himself grinning for the first time since he could remember, reminding himself just in time not to show any teeth.
As a wise man once said, there were always possibilities.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MARGARET WANDER BONANNO sold her first novel in 1978, at a time when “serious women’s fiction” was not an oxymoron. Characterized by one reviewer as “the new Mary Gordon,” she followed this first mainstream novel with two more, before the Recession of ’82 changed the face of U.S. publishing forever and she, along with several hundred other midlist writers, found herself needing to rethink her career.
A Star Trek fan “from the time of the beginning,” Margaret recalibrated her style and wrote first one, then a second Trek novel entirely on spec. That second manuscript became Dwellers in the Crucible, which was followed by Strangers from the Sky.
Following a bit of strangeness which resulted in 93 percent of Probe’s being written by someone else, Margaret segued into straight s/f with two trilogies, The Others and Preternatural, and, with Nichelle Nichols, coauthored Saturn’s Child.
A bit of pseudonymous fiction here, another mainstream novel there, a bio, ghostwriting and book doctoring, oh my, and Margaret was welcomed back to Pocket Books when Marco Palmieri invited her to participate in the Lost Era series with Catalyst of Sorrows. Most recently there has been the challenge and delight involved in exploring the character of Christopher Pike in Burning Dreams. A native New Yorker, Margaret currently lives on the Left Coast, where she dabbles in bonsai and has found a beach to walk on and a Romulan to walk with her. She has two adult children, and is the cofounder of Van Wander Press, www.vanwanderpress.com. Please visit her website at www.margaretwanderbonanno.com.
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