The Flight of Aymor
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| Title: | The Flight of Aymor |
| Publisher: | The Small Printers |
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| Author(s): | Ray Owen |
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| Date(s): | 1989 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek |
| Language: | English |
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The Flight of Aymor is a 48-page Star Trek novel written by Ray Owen that features original characters. It is subtitled: A Klingon Story.
It takes place in the same universe as Never the Twain.
About
From an ad in IDIC #5:
Life as a woman in the male-dominated Klingon Empire by Ray Owen (alias Glen David).
From the introduction: '
Although this story contains no Star Trek characters, it is set in the Star Trek universe and therefore owes many debts to many people whose inventions I have used. The largest debt must be to the late Gene L. Coon who, to the best of my belief, was the man who gave us the Klingons. I have also drawn on the 'Star Trek Maps' compiled by Jeff Maynard and others, for some features of the general layout of the Klingon Empire, in particular the idea of the Ring and Periphery and the place-names Kazh and Kohl. The rest is mostly mine, not least the cultural background I have suggested of a warrior society that is not only male-oriented but aggressively homosexual: this last feature, however, is no more than hinted at in this story, which grew out of my wondering what it would be like to be a woman--and a very young one------in such a society.
Reactions and Reviews
"The Flight of Aymor" is a kind of continuation of "Never the Twain," born out of the author's speculation about how it must be to be a woman in that kind of society. Marginally Trek—since the ENTERPRISE only enters into the story on the last page—it deals with the Klingon girl Aymor from birth until she decides to run away from the harem in order to save the life of her baby son, fathered by one of the undesirable dark-skinned warriors, and ends up as a stowaway on the ENTERPRISE. The story is very well written and highly interesting. The author has described a believable society and a fascinating view of the life of these segregated women. Both stories are completely non-explicit.[1]