I just saw that there's a Kickstarter project (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2137726026/david-gerrolds-the-star-wolf) to produce (at least one) live action episodes of David Gerrold's "The Star Wolf" series.
I read this series when the books were first published. I admit that I wasn't too impressed with this body of his work. Maybe it was because there was such a spread between publishings that I couldn't mentally retain the story continuity. Here's a copy and paste from Amazon:
QuoteThe Star Wolf series of novels by David Gerrold is centered on the star ship Star Wolf and its crew: Voyage of the Star Wolf (1990), The Middle of Nowhere (1995), Blood and Fire (2004), and Yesterday's Children (1972) which is actually an earlier novel that features the same main character, later significantly expanded and republished as Starhunt (1985)—it occurs prior to the other novels in the series' main continuity. The Star Wolf is a "Liberty Ship," officially designated the LS-1187. Plagued by misfortune throughout the series, without any confirmed kills to its credit, it was denied a name by Command.
Gerrold had planned to develop this concept into a TV series. The later novels were written after the TV concept had been presented. The Star Wolf series reflects Gerrold's contention that, due to the distances involved, space battles would be more like submarine hunts than the dogfights usually portrayed—in most cases the ships doing battle wouldn't even be able to see each other. Gerrold referred to the concept as "World War II in space," and intended it as a stylistic opposite of Star Trek (particularly its "Next Generation" incarnation) by setting the main characters on a small, dingy spacecraft that had little respect in the fleet rather than on the flagship.
Still, I'm a big fan of David Gerrold, so I've tossed my ante in to back this project. And no, I'm not the one who took up one of the $10K pledges to secure a guaranteed death scene. :roll: I could only afford to make it to T-shirt level.
Quote from: FatherXmas on May 04, 2013, 06:18:18 AM
How much to finish the Chtorr series instead.
Seriously... let's start a kickstart for *that*! I seem to recall reading an excerpt from what would be the latest book in the series. My guess is he's mostly done with it. Let's get that thing published!
Here's an interview with Gerrold (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY763eo_mwI&feature=youtu.be)from last year. Of course he was asked.