


Shortly thereafter, Tor Books commissioned her to write what is perhaps still her most widely read work, the 1984 novelization of the television miniseries, V, which sold more than a million copies. She began publishing in 1983 with the Star Trek novel Yesterday's Son, written in her spare time while working for the US Census Bureau. Crispin had a unique talent for writing dialog that captured the essence of those characters. Over the years, she became the unofficial "Queen of Backstory." Ms. wrote prolifically in many different tie-in universes, and was a master at filling in the histories of beloved TV and movie characters. There are seven StarBridge books: StarBridge, Silent Dances, Shadow World, Serpent's Gift, Silent Songs, Voices of Chaos, and Ancestor's World.Ī. These books, now available as Kindle ebooks and in audiobook editions from Audible, center around a school for young diplomats, translators and explorers, both alien and human, located on an asteroid far from Earth. (Ann) Crispin's major original science fiction undertaking was her StarBridge series.
