Star Trek: Foul Deeds Will Rise
For a while now I have been catching up with a bunch of Star Trek novels that I had skipped reading when they were originally published. With more books on my “to-read” shelf than I had time to read, I often found myself choosing to read the Star Trek novels that were se
Star Trek: No Time Like The Past
I am having fun catching up on a number of Star Trek novels from recent years that I have missed. Most of these books that I had skipped reading are stand-alone tales from the Original Series era, and the first batch I have been reading have all been written by Greg Cox. I have qu
Star Trek: Available Light
Simon & Schuster/ Pocket Books have been publishing Star Trek novels on a regular basis for as long as I can remember. (I believe their first one was The Entropy Effect by Vonda N. McIntyre from back in 1981, and they’ve been publishing Trek books consistently ever since.) B
Father Gaetano’s Puppet Catechism
Mike Mignola has been one of my favorite comic book artists for decades, and I have also fallen in love with his writing and storytelling skills through his Hellboy universe of comics, which Mr. Mignola has guided for twenty-five years (and which consistently tops my annual Best Comic
Josh Reviews the Powers Novel: The Secret History of Deena Pilgrim
Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming’s terrific comic book series, Powers, follows homicide detectives Walker and Pilgrim in a world of superheroes. After rereading the series last year, I realized that there was one additional piece of Powers material that I hadn̵
Star Trek: The Weight of Worlds
I have been catching up with a number of stand-alone Star Trek novels telling stories from Captain Kirk’s era that had been sitting unread — for far too long! — on my bookshelf! After reading Greg Cox’s novel The Rings of Time, I moved on to Mr. Cox’s nex
Josh Reviews William Goldman’s Which Lie Did I Tell? More Adventures in the Screen Trade
I thoroughly enjoyed William Goldman’s 1982 memoir Adventures in the Screen Trade (click here for my review), and so as soon as I’d finished it I dove into Mr. Goldman’s 2000 follow-up: Which Lie Did I Tell? More Adventures in the Screen Trade. This sequel is every
Josh Reviews Mike Reiss’ New Book: Springfield Confidential
Mike Reiss has been one of the key creative voices behind The Simpsons since almost the beginning. Along with his writing partner Al Jean, he was a part of the now-legendary original Simpsons writers room assembled by Sam Simon. Mr. Reiss and Mr. Jean stepped into the role of show
Star Trek: The Rings of Time
Looking at my “to-read” bookshelf a few months ago, I realized that I had a backlog of unread Star Trek novels from the past few years. Most of these were stand-alone novels set during the Original Series era. It wasn’t that I was uninterested in reading those no
William Goldman’s Adventures in the Screen Trade!
I was saddened by the recent passing of William Goldman. Mr. Goldman was a talented author of many famous and great (many are one or the other, and many are both) novels and screenplays, including The Princess Bride (the novel and the screenplay), Marathon Man (the novel and the scr