* L O S T I N S P A C E by Joan (Carol) D(ennison) Vinge (1948- ) (based on the screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, based on the original 1965-68 US TV series created by Irwin Allen) current DT edition: May 1998, HarperPrism (HarperCollins, NY, USA) paperback ISBN 0-06-105908-0 length: approx. 52,160 words genre: novel, hard sf, space opera, juvenile, movie novelization * about the author: JOAN VINGE has been described as "one of the reigning queens of science fiction" and is renowned for creating lyrical human dreams in fascinatingly complex future settings. She has won the Hugo for her novel _The Snow Queen._ Vinge is the author of the bestselling _Return of the Jedi Storybook,_ _World's End,_ and _Psion._ _Kirkus_ called her novel _Catspaw,_ "an engrossing and satisfying read." _The Summer Queen,_ a sequel to _The Snow Queen,_ was published in 1991. She is currently writing two novels set in the Bronze Age. _Dreamfall,_ which _Publisher's Weekly_ called a "richly detailed and suspenseful sequel to _Catspaw,_" was on the _Locus_ 1996 Recommended Reading List. --from current DT edition * e-edition trivia: posted version: 3.0 (a.b.e-b. system) scanned: ProofPack (Nov 2003) proofed, formatted: VanTransyl (May 2004) thanks to: jankcowl, for his v0.9 *