John M. Ford (1957–2006)
Author of The Dragon Waiting
About the Author
John M. Ford is the author of eight novels and dozens of short stories. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Disambiguation Notice:
Ford wrote Voyage to Adventure under the pseudonym Michael J. Dodge
Image credit: John M. Ford, 2003. Photo by David Dyer-Bennet / Wikimedia Commons.
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Works by John M. Ford
Double Paranoia: Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues and Vapours Don't Shoot Back (Paranoia - the roleplaying game) (1986) 15 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 3, No. 10 [October 1979] (1979) — Contributor — 15 copies
Preflash [short fiction] 4 copies
Heat of Fusion [short story] 4 copies
Erase/record/play 4 copies
Chromatic Aberration 4 copies
Mandalay 3 copies
The Persecutor's Tale 3 copies
Intersections 3 copies
Fugue State 3 copies
Green Is The Color 3 copies
Czekanie na smoka 2 copies
Chain Home Low 2 copies
As Above, So Below 2 copies
The Dark Companion {short story} 2 copies
Grim's Fairy Cabaret Live 1 copy
Driving North 1 copy
Boundary Echoes 1 copy
Associated Works
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 4, No. 9 [September 1980] (1980) — Contributor — 13 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 12 [December 1986] (1986) — Contributor — 13 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 10 [October 1985] (1985) — Contributor — 13 copies
Boskone 34 Program Book — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Ford, John Milo
- Other names
- Dodge, Michael J.
Dennison, Milo
Ford, John M. "Mike" - Birthdate
- 1957-04-10
- Date of death
- 2006-09-25
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- East Chicago, Indiana, USA
- Place of death
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Places of residence
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Whiting, Indiana, USA
New York, New York, USA - Education
- Indiana University, Bloomington
- Occupations
- science fiction writer
game designer
poet - Relationships
- Matthesen, Elise (partner)
- Disambiguation notice
- Ford wrote Voyage to Adventure under the pseudonym Michael J. Dodge
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When reading The Final Reflection one has to remember this was written in 1984, the same year the movie The Search for Spock was released. Much of the backstory of the Klingon culture was still “An Undiscovered Country”. And you just have to view that story as a portrayal of the Klingon culture from a different creative viewpoint. Taken in that context this is actually one of the better Star Trek books I’ve read. You just have to get around these aren’t the Klingons we get to know in The Next Generation. There are some brilliant ideas in this portrayal of a warrior race, and some do make an appearance in later stories of Klingons, but not many. But the story is interesting and in the same spirit of most Star Trek stories.
The second book in this saga is the namesake of this review. This also was a good story, written in 2004 and set in the TNG timeline. These are the Klingons we know from the later series and movies. The author did a good job of staying true to the feel of the later television series. I enjoyed this story as well, I could clearly picture Picard and Worf and others speaking these words, and the plot was logical within the setting.
I can recommend both these stories, even though they’re different stories written at different times of both the author and the stories themselves.… (more)