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 (1950–2013) wrote prolifically in many different tie-in universes, and was a master at filling in the histories of beloved TV and movie characters. The story was good enough to stick with it, but it would have been better with another narrater.New York Times bestselling author A.C. Our hero and heroine sound like 12-year -olds. She constantly stresses the wrong words in a sentence, especially Elspind pronouns, mispronounces others, and doesn't do different character's voices well at all. Finally, Romy Nordlinger has a nice voice and would probably do well with other material, but in this case it has been grating throughout the series.

All of these problems could have been fixed by a good copy editor, if the author had had one. The middle trek in the book was just boringly long. Also, the author annoyingly kept referring to Cara as 'The Journalist' as if that was a kind of species. Apparently our author thinks it's still an important distinction to make. In a time of having to deal with so many different intelligent species, humanity had grown way beyond caring about something as trivial as the color of one's skin. It was as if, in the old Star Trek series, someone would walk onto the bridge and ask of Uhura, 'Who's the black woman?' or, 'Did you know Warf is black?' I saw the first TV series in black and white (no pun intended) and never noticed races, which was the whole point.

He saw her dark legs sticking out from under.

The first was that in a series about a future time when sentient beings that could look like anything from a wasp, to a serpent, to bird-like creatures, to mammals including humans, and where there was a school to train species from different worlds to interrelate, get along and learn from each other, the author found it necessary to point out every person of color ( A black man from the back said. The story made some very good points about dealing with grief and self doubt about the fact that it is unwise to make assumptions about a whole group based on the actions of individuals, and about how you can learn from the customs and traditions of others, no matter how differently they may look or act from your 'norm' There were three things that I found really annoying.

Shadow World by A.C. Crispin