Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Star Trek’s God Has Feet of Clay

Inside Star Trek - The Real Story by Herbert F. Solow and Robert H. Justman

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Seeing recent memorials to Gene Roddenberry on what would have been his 100th birthday reminded me of the darker side of Star Trek’s early beginnings and the damaged man whose television program had such an impact on my life and the lives of so many others. There are numerous books out there about Star Trek’s beginnings, but most of them are written from the fans’ perspective and place Mr. Roddenberry on a very high pedestal, but this book is written by Executive in Charge of […]

They boldly went where no one had gone before

Star Trek: The Next Generation 365 by Paula M. Block, Terry J. Erdmann,

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My first memory of Star Trek is watching it on the little TV my grandparents had sitting on the corner of their kitchen table, complete with rabbit ears and the 4 stations that would come in. We didn’t watch it constantly but when our family was visiting in the evenings after dinner it would be on while we were playing cards. We would stir up a cup of International Cafe which I THOUGHT was cocoa mix but after a reddit nostalgia dive realized was instant […]

To Boldly Read Where No One has Read Before

I Am Captain Kirk (Star Trek) by Frank Berrios

I Am Mr. Spock (Star Trek) by Elizabeth Schaefer

Too Many Tribbles! (Star Trek) by Frank Berrios

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I like some science fiction. I also am a book nerd. Most especially children’s books. I also like Golden Books. Those skinny, tiny picture books with that shiny golden spine (ooh how I love shiny). And the memories of when I was allowed them (usually when mom went to the grocery store). Therefore, when I was looking up a book for a customer, I stumbled upon three GB books that checked the boxes: Science Fiction (Star Trek), Book (Golden Book) and children’s. I found I […]

Picard: Counting down to the series

Picard: Countdown by Kirsten Beyer & Mike Johnson

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This was a 3 part comic series published as a graphic novel covering the events that lead up to the latest Star Trek Series Picard. Generally speaking I’d recommend reading this first if you haven’t seen Picard and want to as it’ll provide some detail and context that takes more effort with the show. It covers events that lead up to the Kelvinverse Star Trek movies as well as it focuses on the risk of Romulus’s sun going nova and Picard is leading the mission […]

“What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.”

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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I thought I remembered much more of Station Eleven than I did; I had remembered it as a story of Kirsten and the Traveling Symphony and several scrapes with some religious extremists. I remembered Jeevan in the fortress of his brother’s tower. I remembered skulking through rotting schools and all-encompassing trees. What strikes me now is how immediately the sense of dread starts to kick in; there is no slow build; a statement about everything falling to pieces kicks in within the first chapter. Maybe […]

Insurance cover for field trips must be hard to get…

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy by Mike Johnson & Ryan Parrott

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This year I started with a graphic novel that I missed when it came out in 2016. Which is actually weird because I love Star Trek, am a fan of the Kelvinverse, and have read all of the other IDW comics featuring the nu-Kirk and crew. This particular novel lightly touches on the time Kirk et. al were at Starfleet Academy. The primary focus being Uhura investigating an unexplained radio signal from deep space and asking Kirk to help out as it involved hacking classified […]



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