Peter David

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Peter David (born 23 September 1956; age 52) describes himself as a "writer of stuff". He is the author of several of Pocket Books' best-selling Star Trek novels, and creator of the popular Star Trek: New Frontier series. He also works in the field of comics, known for work on Marvel Comics series like The Incredible Hulk, and various Star Trek series for DC Comics.

David left DC in 1991 due to conflicts with Richard Arnold, his editor. David stated "The fact is that Richard Arnold's notes became increasingly ludicrous, such as shutting down a romantic interest for Kirk by asserting that Kirk was no longer interested in women. We were reaching the point where it was becoming impossible to get stories approved. Richard rejected one story with the assertion that there was 'too much violence' even though the violence consisted of a sustained fist fight scene with Kirk (as if they never had those in Trek). As a test, I submitted a script under a fake name which sailed through the approvals process even though it had far more violence than the previous script which was rejected for that reason. When that was approved, I knew that it had nothing to do with the stories and everything to do with Richard's enmity toward me (a far longer story to go into.) At which point I resigned from the book since I felt I could no longer do the job I was hired to do, namely provide stories for DC. Final kicker: The fake name under which I submitted the story that was approved? 'Robert Bruce Banner'." [1]

Contents 1 Writing credits 1.1 Novels 1.2 Comics 1.3 Other writings 1.4 Audiobooks 2 External links

[edit] Writing credits

[edit] Other writings

• Beam Me Up, Scotty (with James Doohan)

[edit] Audiobooks

• Cacophony - a Captain Sulu Adventures story (as J.J. Molloy)

[edit] External links

• PeterDavid.net (official site)
• Peter David at Wikipedia
• Peter David at FantasticFiction.co.uk