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Template:Realworld John Gregory Betancourt (born 25 October 1963; age 60) is a prolific American science fiction and fantasy author who has written Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager novels.

Biography

Betancourt was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Philip Betancourt, a notable archeologist, and expert on Bronze Age Greece. His younger brother, Michael, is a well-known critical theorist and cultural historian. As a child, Betancourt was taken on digs in Greece by his father. His first story was published at age sixteen.

His wife Kim Betancourt is also a speculative fiction author, and they run their own publishing company, Wildside Press together.

Betancourt is also co-author of The Sci-Fi Channel Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction (1998). He has written over thirty novels. He has described writing his Star Trek tie-ins as "business mingled with pleasure".

He currently lives in Maryland.

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Writing Credits

Star Trek novels

TNG #51: Infection
DS9 #11: Devil in the Sky with Greg Cox
DS9 #17: The Heart of the Warrior
VOY #5: Incident at Arbuk

External links

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Bibliography
John Gregory Betancourt at Wikipedia
John Gregory Betancourt at SF-Encyclopedia.com
Interview with SF Site (discusses his Star Trek novels)

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 His wife Kim Betancourt is also a speculative fiction author, and they run their own publishing company, Wildside Press together.
-Betancourt is also co-author of ''The Sci-Fi Channel Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction'' (1998). He has written over thirty novels.
+Betancourt is also co-author of ''The Sci-Fi Channel Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction'' (1998). He has written over thirty novels. He has described writing his ''Star Trek'' tie-ins as "business mingled with pleasure".
 He currently lives in Maryland.