Spectre (novel)

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First edition (publ. Pocket Books)
Cover artist: Keith Birdsong SpectreNovel.jpg
First edition (publ. Pocket Books)
Cover artist: Keith Birdsong

Spectre is a novel by William Shatner, co-written with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, based on the television series Star Trek . [1] The novel was released in 1998 in hardcover format. This is the first in the "Mirror Universe Saga". The story continues in Dark Victory and Preserver .

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  1. Pamela Dear (1 January 2000). Contemporary authors: New revision series . Gale / Cengage Learning. p.  373. ISBN   978-0-7876-3095-9.