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Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone (Mark Dawidziak, St. Martin’s Press, $37.99)

“It has often been said that the episodes of The Twilight Zone are parables – short allegorical stories designed to illustrate or teach some truth or moral lesson.” -Anne Serling (from the Introduction to Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone) I first heard of The Twilight Zone in the mid-seventies.  […]

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The Impossible Has Happened: The Life and Work of Gene Roddenberry Creator of Star Trek by Lance Parkin (Atrium Press, $38.99)

“At a time when prominent idealistic politicians were being gunned down, when civil rights campaigns were exposing structural inequities and certain groups were seriously advocating a race war, when the US Army was bogged down in Vietnam, and where an atomic war between America and the Soviet Union looked inevitable, Star Trek portrayed a tolerant, […]

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Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man by William Shatner with David Fisher (St. Martin’s Press, $29.99)

“…neither one of us could have imagined that eventually we would become best friends.  Nor did we have the slightest hint that we were creating two of the most iconic characters in American cultural history…until Leonard and I developed our relationship…I never had a real friend; I didn’t even know what a friend was.” -William […]