The War Virus

[Noddy]

In the early 1990s, The War Virus was scheduled to be the third novel in the Lost Years series, but was cancelled. Does anyone have any idea what it was about, and exactly why it never saw print?

 

[Mysterion]

In the early 1990s, The War Virus was scheduled to be the third novel in the Lost Years series, but was cancelled. Does anyone have any idea what it was about, and exactly why it never saw print?

See this page, about a quarter of the way down: http://www.well.com/~sjroby/lostbooks.html

 

[Reanok]

I always wondered why this book series was canceled too. I guess the editors didn't care for the story. reading that page about Startrek that never came out it's seems to be a mystery about War Virus.

 

[Leto_II]

Yea, I remember this book being mentioned in the preface to The Lost Years, but then never heard from again. Interesting to read the reasoning for Ordover's rejection on the website (to say nothing of Brad Ferguson's statement right below it).

 

[KRAD]

^ Clarification: It wasn't Ordover who rejected The War Virus (easy mistake to make, given that he's quoted on the page), as that predated his arrival at Pocket in 1992.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I interviewed Bob Greenberger about his Trek stuff (in his office at DC Comics in January 1992!), and tried to get some extra info about Irene Kress, whose "Lost Years" novel got cancelled. He did reveal much, only that Irene was a friend of his and that the saga concept had hit some many problems getting the manuscripts approved.

On this site, someone once speculated that SF author Nancy Kress may be the same person, or related to, as Irene. Isn't there a Nancy Kress novel that features a "war virus"? Perhaps a germ of her story survived? Did the concept get reborn as an original SF novel (rather like Robert J Sawyer rebirthed concepts/events from his abandoned Trek novel proposal - as "Far-Seer" and other projects)?
http://www.sfwriter.com/armada.htm

When I noticed that Nancy was a FB friend of several Trek authors, I tried sending her a PM, but never heard back.

PS. Arex was to have been in "Armada"...

 

[tomswift2002]

I interviewed Bob Greenberger about his Trek stuff (in his office at DC Comics in 1984!), and tried to get some extra info about Irene Kress, whose "Lost Years" novel got cancelled.

It's interesting he would have that information 5-6 years before it happened, not to mention the preface wasn't out till 1989 with the title.

 

[Therin of Andor]

It's interesting he would have that information 5-6 years before it happened, not to mention the preface wasn't out till 1989 with the title.

Haha! Ooops! Wrong trip. I was January 1992. Sorry about that. The news of "The Lost Years" hardcover, the MMPBs of "A Flag Full of Stars" and "The War Virus" (and its cancellation), plus Bob's rejected pitch "Orion's Belt", and his own "Lost Years" ideas, were all reported in "Starlog" before I interviewed him.