Star Wolf (novel series)

This article is about the novel series by David Gerrold. For the novel series by Edmond Hamilton, see Starwolf (novel series).

The Star Wolf series is a series of science fiction novels by American writer David Gerrold, centred on the starship Star Wolf and its crew. The Star Wolf is a "Liberty Ship", officially designated the LS-1187. Plagued by misfortune throughout the series, without any confirmed kills to its credit, it was denied a name by Command.

Antagonists

The main antagonists are the members of the Morthan Solidarity, originally a group of genetically improved humans.

"Voyage..." explains that while a rational mind would have tried to improve rationality in genetic modifications, humans improved self-preservation and physical attributes. Sociologically, they were educated not to be a subspecies, but a superspecies of humanity. Their name is a neologism for "more than". 1,500 years before "Voyage of the Star Wolf", the most aggressive and highly evolved Morthans broke away from the human sphere and invented a highly ritualised culture far from human-inhabited space, genetically improving every generation in comparison to the last. It is rumoured in "Voyage..." that reproduction is exclusively through artificial wombs; as the Morthans are said to waste nothing and allocate resources to maximum effect, it is speculated that Morthans would consider it wasteful to breed a woman when for the same investment, they could also get a full warrior.

A full-blown war erupts in the course of "Voyage of the Star Wolf", as the Morthan Solidarity starts an offensive against the Terran Alliance.

Books

• Voyage of the Star Wolf (1990) ^{[1] [2]}
• The Middle of Nowhere (1995)
• Blood and Fire (2004), which is a rewrite of a planned Star Trek: The Next Generation script featuring gay characters and an AIDS metaphor. ^[3]
• Yesterday's Children (1972), later significantly expanded and republished as Starhunt (1985). It occurs before the other novels in the series' main continuity but is not perfectly consistent with them.^{[ citation needed ]} The original germ of this story was in the framing story of Gerrold's early proposed 2-part Star Trek episode "Tomorrow Was Yesterday". The central story, without the frame, eventually became Gerrold's Star Trek novel The Galactic Whirlpool.^{[ citation needed ]}

Planned adaptations

Gerrold had planned to develop this concept into a TV series, as he writes in an introduction to Voyage of the Star Wolf.^{[ citation needed ]} In 2013, Gerrold, along with D. C. Fontana and David C Fein, launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a television series, which as of June of that year had raised $52,000 of its $650,000 goal. ^[4]

References

1. Martin, D. R. (21 October 1990). "Even when not at his best, Clarke spins a grand yarn". Star Tribune. p. 99. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
2. Alden, John R. (18 November 1990). "Science fiction/Fantasy: A subject area that's full of life: Biotechnology". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 70. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
3. Oppenheimer, Betty (10 December 2003). "New books for avid readers". The Sequim Gazette. p. 25. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
4. "TV Buzz: 'Star Trek' Legend is Helping out with Kickstarter Project". Port Charlotte Sun. Hollywood Reporter. 9 June 2013. pp. A89. Retrieved 5 March 2025.

External links

• Star Wolf series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database