“Not all the water in the rough rude sea can wash the balm from an anointed king.” Performed as early as 1595, and first printed in the Quarto edition of 1597 notably as a tragedy rather than a history play, William Shakespeare’s Richard II is the first chronological work in…
Star Trek Book Review: The Starless World (1978) by Gordon Eklund
“Even a madman’s world, though distorted, isn’t entirely unreal…” Stardate: 6527.5 As the Enterprise approaches the Galactic Core, Captain Kirk is reading Tolstoy’s War and Peace (as recommended by Chekov), when suddenly the crew encounters a shuttlecraft from the USS Rickover in deep space carrying a man named Thomas Clayton….
Star Wars Book Review: Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter (2001) by Michael Reaves
“Space is the perfect place to hide…” Michael Reaves’s Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter is a thrilling, mile-a-minute, action-packed stand-alone Star Wars novel in the Expanded Universe. This novel, now one of my favorite Star Wars novels, is a direct prequel to the film Episode I: The Phantom Menace. In it,…
Goosebumps Review #16: One Day at Horrorland (1994) by R.L. Stine
“As we entered the gates to Horrorland, we had no idea that, in less than an hour, we would all be lying in our coffins…” The Morris family is on a vacation to visit Zoo Gardens Theme Park, but Mr. Morris accidentally left the map at home and so they…