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Keith Robert Andreassi DeCandido (born April 18, 1969) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and musician, who works on comic books, novels, role-playing games and video games, including numerous media tie-in books for properties such as Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Andromeda, Farscape, Leverage, Spider-Man, X-Men, Sleepy Hollow, and Stargate SG-1. Early life DeCandido was born in the Bronx in New York City, the son of Robert L. DeCandido and GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido. He claims to have been a Star Trek fan even before his birth, as his parents were fans of Star Trek: The Original Series. DeCandido attended New Rochelle Academy, and then Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx before attending Fordham University. While attending Fordham University, DeCandido worked as an editor and writer of one of the college newspapers, called simply the paper. Career After graduation, DeCandido worked as editor at several publishing companies. Along with John S. Drew, in the 1990s he co-produced a public-access television cable TV show in Manhattan about science fiction called The Chronic Rift, which he also co-hosted. DeCandido and Drew and others revived the show as a podcast in 2008. DeCandido also used to host his own monthly podcast, Dead Kitchen Radio, on hiatus as of February 2019. While DeCandido spent much of his career writing Star Trek fiction, he has written tie-ins for other popular sci-fi and fantasy series as well, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Stargate SG-1, Sleepy Hollow, Farscape, and Leverage as well as comic books (Spider-Man, X-Men), movies (Cars, Serenity, Alien), role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons), and video games (World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Command & Conquer, Resident Evil). He has also written fiction in universes of his own creation, including that of the 2004 novel Dragon Precinct, a high-fantasy police procedural, and a series of short stories about Cassie Zukav, a scuba diving tour guide in Key West who learns she is a Dís. Other worlds of DeCandido's own creation include The Adventures of Bram Gold and the Super City Cops series. He has also edited various anthologies, including OtherWere, Urban Nightmares, Imaginings, Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups, The Four ???? of the Apocalypse, the Doctor Who collection Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership, and the Star Trek anthologies New Frontier: No Limits, Tales of the Dominion War, and Tales from the Captain's Table. In 2009, DeCandido was named Grandmaster by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. He has written rewatches for Tor.com since 2011, including Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Stargate, Batman 1966, and "4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch," about every live-action superhero movie based on a comic book. DeCandido also writes reviews and commentary for Tor.com, including reviews of many of TV adaptions of comic books and of the new Star Trek shows Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: Prodigy, and Short Treks. DeCandido is an avid baseball fan, particularly of the New York Yankees. He has contributed in the past to both the Replacement Level Yankees Weblog and Pinstripe Alley, and he currently serves as an occasional freelance editor for the Society for American Baseball Research. Bibliography Star Trek novels The Next Generation - Diplomatic Implausibility (2001), ISBN 0-671-78554-0 Deep Space Nine - Gateways: Demons of Air and Darkness (2001), ISBN 0-7434-1852-2 The Brave and the Bold (2002), ISBN 0-7434-1922-7 (Book 1), ISBN 0-7434-1923-5 (Book 2) The Lost Era - The Art of the Impossible (2003), ISBN 0-7434-6405-2 I.K.S. Gorkon - A Good Day to Die (2003), ISBN 0-7434-5714-5 I.K.S. Gorkon - Honor Bound (2003), ISBN 0-7434-5716-1 The Next Generation - A Time for War, A Time for Peace (2004), ISBN 0-7434-9179-3 Ferenginar: Satisfaction Is Not Guaranteed in Worlds of Deep Space Nine Volume 3 (2005), ISBN 0-7434-8353-7 I.K.S. Gorkon - Enemy Territory (2005), ISBN 1-4165-0014-6 Articles of the Federation (2005), ISBN 1-4165-0015-4 The Mirror-Scaled Serpent in Mirror Universe - Obsidian Alliances (2007), ISBN 0-7434-9253-6 The Next Generation - Q&A (2007), ISBN 1-4165-2741-9 (nominee, Best Speculative Fiction Novel, Scribe Awards) Klingon Empire - A Burning House (2008), ISBN 1-4165-5647-8 A Gutted World in Myriad Universes - Echoes and Refractions (2008), ISBN 1-4165-7181-7 A Singular Destiny (2009), ISBN 1-4165-9495-7 (nominee, Best Speculative Fiction Novel, Scribe Awards) Star Trek novellas, short stories, comic books, etc. The Next Generation - Perchance to Dream (four-issue comic book miniseries, art by Peter Pachoumis and Lucian Rizzo, with Scott Benefiel, February–May 2000) -- collected in Enemy Unseen (2001), ISBN 1-61377-131-2, alongside "The Killing Shadows" and "Embrace the Wolf" "Horn and Ivory" in Gateways: What Lay Beyond (2002), ISBN 0-7434-5683-1 "Broken Oaths" in Deep Space Nine - Prophecy and Change (2003), ISBN 0-7434-7073-7 "Revelations" in New Frontier - No Limits (2003), ISBN 0-7434-7707-3 "The Ceremony of Innocence Is Drowned" in Tales of the Dominion War (2004), ISBN 0-7434-9171-8 "loDnIpu' vavpu' je" ("Brothers and Fathers") in Tales from the Captain's Table (2005), ISBN 1-4165-0520-2 "Letting Go" in Voyager - Distant Shores (2005), ISBN 0-7434-9253-6 "Four Lights" in The Next Generation - The Sky's the Limit (2007), ISBN 0-7434-9255-2 "Family Matters" in Mirror Universe - Shards and Shadows (2009), ISBN 1-4165-5850-0 Alien Spotlight: Klingons: Four Thousand Throats... (comic book, art by JK Woodward, 2009; winner, Best Single Issue of a Comic Book, TrekMovie.com) -- collected in Alien Spotlight Volume 2 (2010), ISBN 1-60010-612-9, alongside Q, Romulans, Tribbles, and Cardassians. "The Unhappy Ones" in Seven Deadly Sins (2010) Captain's Log: Jellico (comic book, art by JK Woodward, 2010) -- collected in Captain's Log (2011), ISBN 1-60010-887-3, alongside Sulu, Pike, and Harriman. The Klingon Art of War (2014), ISBN 1-4767-5739-9 several chapters of Star Trek Adventures: Klingon Empire Core Rulebook (2020) Star Trek Adventures: Incident at Kraav III (with Fred Love, 2022) "You Can't Buy Fate" in Star Trek Explorer #7 (2023) "Work Worth Doing" in Star Trek Explorer #9 (2023) Star Trek eBooks S.C.E. (Starfleet Corps of Engineers) series (2000–2006) Fatal Error (2000) Cold Fusion (2001) Invincible Books 1-2 (w/David Mack, 2001) Gateways epilogue: Here There Be Monsters (2001) War Stories Books 1-2 (2002) Breakdowns (2003) Security (2005) What's Past Book 6: Many Splendors (2006) The Next Generation - Slings and Arrows Book 6: Enterprises of Great Pitch and Moment (2008) Precinct novels Dragon Precinct (2004), ISBN 978-1942990826, a high fantas.... Discover the David Sherman Keith R A Decandido popular books. Find the top 100 most popular David Sherman Keith R A Decandido books.