Career
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, Andromeda, Farscape, and Leverage as well as comic books (Spider-Man, X-Men), movies (Cars, Kung Fu Panda), role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons), and video games (World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Command & Conquer). He has also written fiction in universes of his own creation, most notably that of the 2004 novel Dragon Precinct, a high-fantasy police procedural. He has also edited various anthologies, including OtherWere, Urban Nightmares, Imaginings, 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 currently writes the twice-weekly Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch on Tor.com.
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