Dorothy J. Heydt

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Dorothy J. Heydt is a U.S. editor and author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives on the West Coast and is an active participant in the Usenet forum rec.arts.sf.fandom (sometimes abbreviated rassf or rasseff), and in science fiction fandom in general. She is the originator of the Eight Deadly Words, and other pithy fannish quotes.

A linguist, she invented one of the first widely used Vulcan conlangs in 1967 for a Star Trek fan fiction series. Its words were picked up and used by other fan fiction authors such as Claire Gabriel. One term, ni var, meaning an art form in which two contrasting aspects of a subject are compared, is still used on Star Trek: Enterprise, as the name of a Vulcan ship.

She has written numerous short stories and two novels; she sometimes writes as "Katherine Blake." Many of her stories appear in collections edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley.