Derek Tyler Attico Interview: Star Trek Author On The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko

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Summary

The author discusses the challenges of writing Sisko's autobiography and the pressure to do justice to the character and the show's legacy.
The author explains how he channeled Avery Brooks' voice to capture Sisko's distinctive cadence and mannerisms.
The author discusses the process of incorporating Sisko's dense mythology and exploring his family and past, while also making a commentary about the 24th century and New Orleans.

Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) became one with the Prophets at the end of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but he returns to recount his own life story in The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko by Derek Tyler Attico.
A science fiction essayist, and photographer, Derek Tyler Attico is a winner of the Excellence in Playwriting Award from the Dramatist Guild of America and a two-time winner of the Star Trek Strange New Worlds short story contest. Attico's work, "The Dreamer and the Dream," based upon the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine classic "Far Beyond the Stars" led to Titan Books choosing him to pen Captain Sisko's autobiography.

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