So I wasn't looking at these characters and seeing them as examples of a discredited trope. Then again, at the time I read these books with these prominent female guest characters, I wasn't really aware of the term "Mary Sue" yet.
(Although she does get a bit more Mary Sue-ish in the sequel, where she's rapidly promoted to Lieutenant Commander and included in Kirk's inner circle of friends from the start of the book.)īeen a long time since I read Pawns and Symbols, but I never saw Jean Czerny as a Mary Sue, just a featured guest character. She's not a Mary Sue, she's an apprentice to the master. She subverts the Mary Sue trope because she's not two steps ahead of the heroes Kirk and Spock remain way ahead of her at every turn, and she and her friends are just the junior team that have the undeveloped potential to become the next generation's Kirk, Spock, and McCoy if they get enough guidance from the genuine articles. Kagan died on 29 February 2008, from acute chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Click to expand.I agree about Piper. Her final published work was a short story by the name of "The Stubbornest Broad on Earth", published in Asimov's Science Fiction. In 1993, Kagan won a Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "The Nutcracker Coup", a story that was also nominated for a Nebula Award. In addition to her two novels, she published a large number of short stories, several of which were collected in Mirabile (also published by TOR, and with a cover from Sternbach).
She wrote one other full length novel, Hellspark, released by TOR with cover art from Rick Sternbach. Her only Star Trek work was the Pocket TOS novel Uhura's Song. Janet Kagan ( 18 April 1946 – 29 February 2008 age 61), born Janet Megson, was a fantasy and science fiction writer. (written from a Production point of view)
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