Simon Lang
{{Short description|American science fiction writer (born 1934)}}
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| notable_works = "Einai series"
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Simon Lang is the pen name of science fiction writer and speaker {{cite web |url= http://simonlang.net./sl/authorinfo.aspx |title= About the author |work= Simon Lang |date= 2005 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20060715202405/http://www.simonlang.net/sl/authorinfo.aspx |archivedate= 2006-07-15 }} Darlene Artell Hartman (born 1934). Her principal works are the "Einai series".
Bibliography
= Einai series =
- {{cite book |ref=none |publisher=Avon Books|date=June 1973| id=|
title=All the Gods of Eisernon| author=Simon Lang}}
- {{cite book |ref=none |publisher=Avon Books| year=1974| id=|
title=The Elluvon Gift| author=Simon Lang}}
- {{cite book |ref=none |publisher=Ace Books| date=July 1992| isbn=0-441-82576-1| title=The Trumpets of Tagan| author=Simon Lang| url=https://archive.org/details/trumpetsoftagan0000lang}}
- {{cite book |ref=none |publisher=| date=April 1993| isbn=0-441-80928-6| title=Timeslide| author=Simon Lang| url=https://archive.org/details/timeslide00lang}}
- {{cite book |ref=none |publisher=| date=January 1994| isbn=0-441-34306-6| title=Hopeship| author=Simon Lang| url=https://archive.org/details/hopeship00lang_0}}
= Analysis =
Reviewers spotted parallels between the "Einai" universe and the universe of Star Trek: The Original Series as soon as the first book in the series was published.{{cite book |url= http://www.ftlpublications.com/bwebook.pdf |url-status= dead |title= Boldly Writing: A Trekker fan and 'zine history |author= Joan Marie Verba |publisher= FTL Publications |date= 1996 |access-date= 2006-06-05 |archive-date= 2016-09-10 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160910042451/http://www.ftlpublications.com/bwebook.pdf }} The Einai novels feature Captain Paul Riker, commander of the Galactic Federation starship USS Skipjack, and his half-human half-Einai telepathic Science Officer Dao Marik; which reviewers directly compared to Captain James T. Kirk, the United Federation of Planets starship USS Enterprise, and the Enterprise's half-human half-Vulcan telepathic Science Officer Spock.
The John Clute and Peter Nicholl's Encyclopaedia of SF notes that the first two books of the series "suffer from their all too clear resemblance to Star Trek, for which Hartmann (sic) had written". Zweig describes the series as "an object lesson in knowing when to stop writing", {{cite web |url= http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/sf/dani/PS_030.htm |author= Dani Zweig |work= Dani Zweig's Belated Reviews |title= Belated Reviews PS#30: Short Takes on Friedberg/Lang/Harness/Wilson |date= 1993 |publisher= Susan Stepney, Professor of Computer Science, University of York, UK }} describing the first book as "very well written space opera that left me wishing for more" but the fourth book in the series as "probably one of the worst novels I've read in the past couple of years".
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External links
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