by Greg Bear “Kirk was eternally fascinated by the procedures for making the Enterprise ship-shape for a long voyage. He was as familiar with every action as a man watching his wife dress in the morning, and yet…it had that same sort of fascination, of responsibility mixed with some perverse and impossible kind of ownership. NO individual could own a starship, any more than a man could own his wife. Still, the Enterprise was his .” The Federation loses contact with a Vulcan research station […]
“Star Trek Voyager: Protectors”: Star Trek Novelization Vangie13 cbr #29
by Kirsten Beyer “What lay beyond the ledge looked like small stars suspended in the darkness above, and below and emitted the only ambient light in the shaft.” “Lieutenant Kim and Commander Fife can speak their theories, but conditions were nominal until the tremors began.” “The Doctor registered a smile creasing his holographic lips that elicited a smile from Glenn.” Thirteen more Old Star Trek books under my belt, and another package from Amazon brings me a newly published one! Time to take a break […]
Going Viral
Tory Brennen is good at science (which isn’t surprising since her aunt is Temperence Brennen, renowned forensic anthropologist), but also good at getting into trouble. When she and her friends Hi, Shelton, and Ben find an old dog tag while searching for a wolf-dog family on Loggerhead Island, an island off Charleston, SC that houses a facility for sea turtle research, Tory sets off a chain of events that not only endanger her life and the lives of her friends, but also change their genetic […]
“War has many unexpected casualties”
I almost hate to make this statement, but I like Holocaust literature. Now, I’m not talking Mein Kampf or anything that glorifies the atrocities of Hitler and his Nazi goons. I’m talking stories of heroism and survival like Night by Elie Wiesel, Ashes by Kathryn Lasky, Number the Stars by Lois Lowery, and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Now add to that list The Klipfish Code by Mary Casonova. I’m not a big history person, so it often amazes me just how many places […]