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Jerry Oltion (born 1957) is an award-winning science fiction author, known for numerous novels and short stories, including books in the Star Trek series.

He is also the inventor of the trackball telescope, a new system for making a telescope that is easy to aim and also tracks the stars. Additional information about the trackball can be found in the August, 2006 issue of Sky and Telescope magazine, and on Oltion's website: http://www.sff.net/people/j.oltion

His novels include Frame of Reference (1987), Abandon In Place (2000), The Getaway Special (2001), Paradise Passed (2004), and Anywhere But Here (2005)

His work has been compiled in the collections, Love Songs of a Mad Scientist: The Collected Stories of Jerry Oltion Volume One (1993), Singing in the Rain, The Collected Stories of Jerry Oltion Volume Two (1998), and Twenty Questions (2003).

Oltion also contributed to Isaac Asimov's Robot City series with the books Alliance and Humanity (both in 1990).

Oltion has also written several Star Trek novels, includingTwilight's End (1995), Mudd in your Eye (1996), and the New Earth novel, The Flaming Arrow (2000), the latter written in collaboration with his wife, Kathy. He also wrote a novel in Star Trek's Captain's Table series, Where Sea Meets Sky (1998).

His work can also be found in numerous anthologies, such as Quest to Riverworld (1993) and Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina (1995).

Oltion also writes under the pen name "Ryan Hughes."

He is a member of the Wordos writers' group.

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Total Books: 46
Where Sea Meets Sky
1998 - Where Sea Meets Sky [Star Trek: The Captain's Table, Book 6] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780671024000
ISBN-10: 0671024000
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 13

Mudd in Your Eye
1997 - Mudd in Your Eye [Star Trek, No 81] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780671002602
ISBN-10: 0671002600
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 18

Twilight's End
1996 - Twilight's End [Star Trek, No 77] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780671538736
ISBN-10: 067153873X
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 12

Humanity
1990 - Humanity [Isaac Asimov's Robot City : Robots and Aliens] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780441373864
ISBN-10: 0441373860
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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