Ruth Berman

Ruth Amelia Berman is a science fiction and fantasy author, who wrote the short story "Visit to a Weird Planet, Revisited" and co-wrote the story "The Face on the Barroom Floor" for the  anthology, The New Voyages. She started out as a Star Trek fan writer, publishing in numerous fanzines during the 1960s and 1970s.

A noticeable fan publication she contributed to as publisher and editor, was , a by Gene Roddenberry officially endorsed fanzine, which was published during the production of the Original Series, and for which Berman conducted several interviews with behind-the-scenes production staffers and actors, including: When Inside Star Trek folded in June 1969, Berman immediately started a new Star Trek fanzine, T-Negative, that ran for 35 issues from 1969 until 1979. 
 * Beaming up: William Shatner – issue 1, July 1968, pp. 10-12
 * Behind the camera: Fred Phillips – issue 2, August 1968, pp. 3-7
 * Beaming up: DeForest Kelley – issue 3, September 1968, pp. 4-7
 * Beaming Up: James Doohan – issue 5, November 1968, pp. 3-5
 * Beaming Up: Leonard Nimoy – issue 6, December 1968, pp. 3-4
 * Beaming Up: George Takei – issue 8, February 1969, pp. 3-7

Berman received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer in 1973.