Sci Fi TV from Twilight Zone to Deep Space Nine [Paperback]

James Van Hise (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Pioneer Books (July 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155698362X
• ISBN-13: 978-1556983627
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,557,513 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Odd that anyone else would ever read this, June 14, 2004

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Erin B Godfrey (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sci Fi TV from Twilight Zone to Deep Space Nine (Paperback)

There are times in life when you are forced to read something, anything, to stave off boredom. Of course, during those times your literary selection rarely includes Ulysses, Remembrance of Things Past, or Naked Lunch. Sometimes it's either read the back of your watch a thousand times and wonder what a base metal bezel is, or read something like Sci Fi TV from Twilight Zone to Deep Space Nine. While spending time in my pit of boredom I chose the latter. I don't even watch Sci Fi TV, but at least this book gave me enough information so that someday I might be able to win a game of Trivial Pursuit by knowing the answer to this question: What "Lassie" co-star originally played the mother on "Lost In Space?" Who knows? Well, I do. "June Lockhart," I'll say with a dramatic scream of victory. The book isn't that great, and I kept wondering if Dark Shadows and the 1980's series Beauty and the Beast (with Linda Hamilton, another Trivial Pursuit answer) were really Sci Fi, but it bled away some time. It should really be called Sci Fi and Fantasy TV... or something like that.
So if you like trivia and you want to be a pseudo-expert on something that doesn't interest you in the least, reading the book will take a lot less time than watching the entire "Lost in Space" series. Personally, I'd rather watch old reruns of "Pigs in Space" on the Muppet Show.