James Gunn
James Edwin Gunn  was a Star Trek author. He wrote one Star Trek novel, based on the screenplay "The Joy Machine" by Meyer Dolinsky, which was itself based on a story outline by Theodore Sturgeon. Besides this work, Gunn was a Nebula-award winning, prolific author of science fiction novels and short stories. Sometimes he wrote under the name Edwin James.

Gunn was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and after serving in the US Navy during World War II, he went to the University of Kansas, where he later lectured in English. Gunn was a notable writer on the history of science fiction, and science fiction criticism. He helped pioneer the study of the genre as an academic discipline; in his later life, he was director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction which is based in the University of Kansas. Another Star Trek author Kij Johnson also worked at the Center.

Writing credits 
Star Trek novels
 TOS #80: The Joy Machine

Some non-Star Trek novels
 Gift from the Stars
 Station in Space
 The Dreamers
 The Immortals
 The Listeners

Some non-Star Trek non-fiction
 The Discovery of the Future: The Ways Science Fiction Developed
 The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (editor)
 Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction 
 The Science of Science-Fiction Writing (A guide on how to write SF)

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Star Trek novel authors