“Do you believe in the Angel of Death?” Stardate: 6914.6 It’s been ten days since a survey mission returned from Delta Gamma Four (located at the edge of space between the Federation and the Klingon Empire). The Enterprise was investigating the planet as a potential place for a new colony…
Star Trek Book Review: The Galactic Whirlpool (1980) by David Gerrold
“Any idiot can die for his ship, James; what takes real genius is surviving!” (58). Stardate: 4496.1 Written by Star Trek legend David Gerrold (famous for penning the classic episode “The Trouble With Tribbles” along with a couple other Trek episodes), The Galactic Whirlpool was originally conceived as a two-part…
Goosebumps Review #22: Ghost Beach (1994) by R.L. Stine
“I don’t remember how we got to the graveyard…” Ghost Beach is a spooky atmospheric tale enmeshed in the imagery of old cemeteries, remote lighthouses, moss-covered tombstones, damp gray fog, spooky woods, and a dark mysterious coastal windswept cave that seems to hold long-forgotten secrets. Twelve-year-old Jerry Sadler and his…
1997 Pulitzer Prize Review: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
“There once lived a man named Martin Dressler, a shopkeeper’s son, who rose from modest beginnings to a height of dreamlike good fortune” (opening line). Steven Millhauser’s bildungsroman, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and finalist for the 1996 National…