Questionable Taste

A Star Trek novel on a summer reading list? That’s got to be a first. I’m almost embarrassed to admit, but I used to devour Star Trek books like candy when I was a teenager. When you grow up in a town without one decent bookstore, you have to be content with the available pickings, which in Green Bay amounted to a dreary corner of a Waldenbooks that carried scraps of science fiction and fantasy, and mostly franchise stuff like Star Trek and Dungeons and Dragons. I remember how ecstatic I was when I first visited a Barnes and Noble store in Appleton. This was before Amazon and the web in general. If these things had been around when I was a kid, I like to think my reading list would have been a little broader. But to be honest, I might have simply ordered more Star Trek novels.