Star Trek 13 : Mudd's Angels

Star Trek 13: Mudd's Angels . Newly revised version . Novelisation of scripts from the television series Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry, originally aired in the 1960s. Adapted by the professional science fiction author James Blish and his wife. Published in May 1978. Adapts the episodes: • Mudd's Women • I, Mudd • The Business, as Usual, During Altercations* *Novella by J.A.Lawrence ( Mrs James Blish ) James Blish 23 May 1921 - 30 July 1975 Blish trained as a biologist at Rutgers and Columbia University, and spent 1942–1944 as a medical technician in the U.S. Army. After the war he became the science editor for the Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company. He worked for the Tobacco Institute from 1962-1968. His first published story appeared in 1940, and his writing career progressed until he gave up his job to become a professional writer. He married literary agent Virginia Kidd in 1947. In 1968, he moved to England. Between 1967 and his death in 1975, he became the first author to write short story collections based on the TV series Star Trek . In total, he wrote 13 volumes of short stories adapted from episodes of the series, as well as an original novel in 1970, Spock Must Die! He died before the publication of Star Trek 12 ; his second wife, the professional science fiction author Judith Lawrence, revised his draft for the book, and his television adaptations in the 13th volume, Mudd's Angels , and wrote the promised novella for him. Scheming to take over the starship Enterprise and ultimately the entire galaxy, the infamous Harry Mudd paralyzes the galactic economy by creating a monopoly on the most valuable fuel source in the universe—dilithium.This book consists of adaptations of two Star Trek episodes ("Mudd's Women" and "I, Mudd") and an original novella featuring Mudd and the Enterprise crew...