A recent case in which my reference to Diane Carey as "DC" being misread as a reference to a well-known comic book publisher suggests that maybe we need a reference thread for author abbreviations.
ADF: Alan Dean Foster. Creator of the "Humanx Commonwealth," "Spellsinger," and "Mad Amos" milieux, and novelizer extraordinaire. When he got the TAS adaptation contract, he started out by turning 22-minute scripts into 60-odd-page novellas, and finished by expanding four of those scripts into novels. Where the screenwriter took us to Lactran Zoo, he took us, along with the Enterprise crew and a family of Lactrans, to a planet where the locals make Lactrans look downright mundane. Where the screenwriter introduced us to one Pandronian, he took us to Pandro, and introduced us to a planet where all the macroscopic life is modular in nature. And when he snarked about a script being preposterous, it's because the whole premise of it was "Doc Smith Preposterous." And he didn't curse the darkness; he turned on all the lights.
CLB: Christopher L. Bennett. Easily one of the best writers currently doing ST prose fiction.
DC: Diane Carey. Wrote a number of very well-received TOS and pre-TOS novels, two of them centering on Piper, a bright and promising greenhorn who (at first glance) looks like a classic "Mary-Sue," hacking Kobayashi Maru in real time, using only a communicator, but her Mary-Sue-ness is quickly subverted, with plenty of greenhorn mistakes reducing her to just a promising (and well-meaning) junior officer, a prototype "lower decker." Her pre-TOS novels centered on the relationship between George Samuel Kirk, Sr., the younger of his two sons, James T. Kirk, his sidekick, Lt. Francis Drake Reed, and his dear friend and mentor, Captain Robert April. She worked a lot of her love of the sea into her books, along with her hard-Libertarian politics When she was assigned novelizations, they were less-well-received than her original works, mainly because she tended to lampshade any plot-holes she found in the scripts, and not in a way that improved the story. The Broken Bow novelization was the last straw.
DD: Diane Duane. Gave us the Hamalki. And Vulcan prehistory. And a plausible story about how the Romulans split off from the Vulcans. And she gave us Naraht, the first Horta in Starfleet, along with Harb Tanzer (and Moira, his pet AI), and she gave us the immortal line (and I'm quoting from memory) "All twelve Sulamid sexes claimed to be male, especially the ones who bore the children." I don't think there was so much as a single one of her ST novels that wasn't well-received, and some are downright beloved. I still maintain that the only reason she isn't still writing ST fiction is that she'd rather write her own stuff, and I have no doubt that if she wanted to write another ST novel, all she would have to do is make that generally known, and she'd be invited to pitch.
DW, KD, Wardilmore: Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore, or their combined writing efforts (Thanks, @Smiley).
FJ or FJS: Franz Joseph Schnaubelt, who gave us the Star Fleet Technical Manual and the Booklet of General Plans, Constitution Class ("Star Trek Blueprints").
GC: Greg Cox. Also easily one of the best ST novelists working today. Wrote about Gary Seven. Wrote about Khan.
JL: Jean Lorrah. Got her start in the 'zines, with stuff like "Visit To a Weird Planet." Went on to write The Vulcan Academy Murders, and its sequel, The IDIC Epidemic.
JMF: John M. Ford. Wrote The Final Reflection, and How Much For Just the Planet.
KB or KMFB: Kirsten Beyer (Thanks, @Smiley). "KMFB" is a reference to her tendency to refer to herself in NSFW terms.
KRAD: Keith R.A. DeCandido (Thanks, @Smiley). I vaguely recall that somebody (not DeCandido himself, thanks @KRAD) might have named a Klingon after his initials, but I can find no Memory Beta listing for a Klingon of that name.
MAM: Michael A. Martin (Thanks, @Smiley).
MWB: Margaret Wander Bonanno (Thanks @Daddy Todd) Or Mike W. Barr (Thanks @JonnyQuest037). Context should be sufficent to distinguish the two, given that Barr has written only two novels, but lots of comics, while Bonanno wrote six (or seven, if you count Probe) novels and a short story, but apparently no comics at all. Note that Memory Beta is about four years out-of-date on her, given that it has failed to notice her demise.
PAD: Peter David (Thanks, @Smiley).
I invite others to add to what I have.
ADF: Alan Dean Foster. Creator of the "Humanx Commonwealth," "Spellsinger," and "Mad Amos" milieux, and novelizer extraordinaire. When he got the TAS adaptation contract, he started out by turning 22-minute scripts into 60-odd-page novellas, and finished by expanding four of those scripts into novels. Where the screenwriter took us to Lactran Zoo, he took us, along with the Enterprise crew and a family of Lactrans, to a planet where the locals make Lactrans look downright mundane. Where the screenwriter introduced us to one Pandronian, he took us to Pandro, and introduced us to a planet where all the macroscopic life is modular in nature. And when he snarked about a script being preposterous, it's because the whole premise of it was "Doc Smith Preposterous." And he didn't curse the darkness; he turned on all the lights.
CLB: Christopher L. Bennett. Easily one of the best writers currently doing ST prose fiction.
DC: Diane Carey. Wrote a number of very well-received TOS and pre-TOS novels, two of them centering on Piper, a bright and promising greenhorn who (at first glance) looks like a classic "Mary-Sue," hacking Kobayashi Maru in real time, using only a communicator, but her Mary-Sue-ness is quickly subverted, with plenty of greenhorn mistakes reducing her to just a promising (and well-meaning) junior officer, a prototype "lower decker." Her pre-TOS novels centered on the relationship between George Samuel Kirk, Sr., the younger of his two sons, James T. Kirk, his sidekick, Lt. Francis Drake Reed, and his dear friend and mentor, Captain Robert April. She worked a lot of her love of the sea into her books, along with her hard-Libertarian politics When she was assigned novelizations, they were less-well-received than her original works, mainly because she tended to lampshade any plot-holes she found in the scripts, and not in a way that improved the story. The Broken Bow novelization was the last straw.
DD: Diane Duane. Gave us the Hamalki. And Vulcan prehistory. And a plausible story about how the Romulans split off from the Vulcans. And she gave us Naraht, the first Horta in Starfleet, along with Harb Tanzer (and Moira, his pet AI), and she gave us the immortal line (and I'm quoting from memory) "All twelve Sulamid sexes claimed to be male, especially the ones who bore the children." I don't think there was so much as a single one of her ST novels that wasn't well-received, and some are downright beloved. I still maintain that the only reason she isn't still writing ST fiction is that she'd rather write her own stuff, and I have no doubt that if she wanted to write another ST novel, all she would have to do is make that generally known, and she'd be invited to pitch.
DW, KD, Wardilmore: Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore, or their combined writing efforts (Thanks, @Smiley).
FJ or FJS: Franz Joseph Schnaubelt, who gave us the Star Fleet Technical Manual and the Booklet of General Plans, Constitution Class ("Star Trek Blueprints").
GC: Greg Cox. Also easily one of the best ST novelists working today. Wrote about Gary Seven. Wrote about Khan.
JL: Jean Lorrah. Got her start in the 'zines, with stuff like "Visit To a Weird Planet." Went on to write The Vulcan Academy Murders, and its sequel, The IDIC Epidemic.
JMF: John M. Ford. Wrote The Final Reflection, and How Much For Just the Planet.
KB or KMFB: Kirsten Beyer (Thanks, @Smiley). "KMFB" is a reference to her tendency to refer to herself in NSFW terms.
KRAD: Keith R.A. DeCandido (Thanks, @Smiley). I vaguely recall that somebody (not DeCandido himself, thanks @KRAD) might have named a Klingon after his initials, but I can find no Memory Beta listing for a Klingon of that name.
MAM: Michael A. Martin (Thanks, @Smiley).
MWB: Margaret Wander Bonanno (Thanks @Daddy Todd) Or Mike W. Barr (Thanks @JonnyQuest037). Context should be sufficent to distinguish the two, given that Barr has written only two novels, but lots of comics, while Bonanno wrote six (or seven, if you count Probe) novels and a short story, but apparently no comics at all. Note that Memory Beta is about four years out-of-date on her, given that it has failed to notice her demise.
PAD: Peter David (Thanks, @Smiley).
I invite others to add to what I have.
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