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From the cover of Treks Not Taken, by Steven R. Boyett: "What if Stephen King, Anne Rice, Kurt Vonnegut, and other literary greats had written episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation?" Find this gem in the paperback collection, under Boyett.
Some choice chapter titles:
"The Crusher in the Rye"
Not by J.D. Salinger
"One Beamed onto the Cuckoo's Nest"
Not by Ken Kesey
"Jurassic Trek"
Not by Michael Crichton
"The Vampire Le Forge"
Not by Anne Rice
"The Trekking"
Not by Stephen King
"Trek of Darkness"
Not by Joseph Conrad
"Oh, the Treks You'll Take!"
Not by Dr. Seuss
Some choice chapter titles:
"The Crusher in the Rye"
Not by J.D. Salinger
"One Beamed onto the Cuckoo's Nest"
Not by Ken Kesey
"Jurassic Trek"
Not by Michael Crichton
"The Vampire Le Forge"
Not by Anne Rice
"The Trekking"
Not by Stephen King
"Trek of Darkness"
Not by Joseph Conrad
"Oh, the Treks You'll Take!"
Not by Dr. Seuss
posted by franceylibrarian at 2:33 PM
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Another in the same (pseudo)genre that I liked a great deal was called "The Beaver Papers"; it was a series of literary pastiches written by famous literary figures due to the fact that when it was announced that Leave it to Beaver was going off the air, the entire literary community, both living and dead, banded together to write scripts to save it. Some were a bit risqué (imagine D.H. Lawrence writing for television) but the overall quality was very good.
Amazingly enough, the Undergraduate Library has this book. The Beaver Papers: The Story of the "Lost Season" by Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones, published in 1983. It's sitting on the shelf, 791.4572 L487J, just waiting to be requested!
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