“Even if we could modify the food so we could live on it, we may still be trapped here for the rest of our lives. Along with whoever comes to rescue us.” Stardate: 7502.9 Following the end of a four-week benchmark survey of “Sector 3” where the crew witnessed a…
Star Trek Book Review: Trek to Madworld (1979) by Stephen Goldin
“We are now in a place beyond space…” Stardate: 6188.4 The Enterprise is leaving the neutral planetoid of Babel (famously featured in the classic episode “Journey to Babel”). But before departing, the crew picks up a pair of important passengers: Kostas Spyroukis “the renowned planetary explorer who is personally responsible…
1994 Pulitzer Prize Review: The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
“Here is an account of a few years in the life of Quoyle, born in Brooklyn and raised in a shuffle of dreary upstate towns” (opening line). Annie Proulx’s second novel The Shipping News offers a striking, poignant portrait of life in coastal Newfoundland as a family discovers their dark…
Book Review: Project Hail Mary (2021) by Andy Weir
“I’m not on earth.” One man wakes up alone in space with no memory of who he is or how he got there. This is the premise of Andy Weir’s latest optimistic, sarcastic, briskly-paced science fiction novel Project Hail Mary. I thought this was a remarkable story crammed full of…