A Trekkie’s Unofficial Book Summaries Volume Two by Geoff Canham - HTML preview

About the Author

Geoff was eleven years old when Sputnik 1 launched the Space Age, and fourteen when Yuri Gagarin lifted off in Vostok 1 to start the era of manned space flight. Geoff had been interested in science and astronomy from an early age, and to find himself in the era of space exploration was extremely exciting to him.

By 1969, he had moved from England to Ireland, so he saw Neil Armstrong makes his ‘one giant leap for mankind’ while sampling poteen for the first time at a friend’s apartment in Cork. By that time, the original Star Trek TV series had completed its three seasons in the U.S., but it was several years later before Geoff finally saw it. Seeing that magnificent white starship sailing majestically through the galaxy endeared him immediately to the series.

His interests in science tend to center around neuroscience, cosmology and quantum physics, which are subjects that frequently come up in the Star Trek episodes, and in the novels. While that may not be a good reason for him spending decades summarizing the novels, he thinks he can use it as a reasonable excuse.

His dissertation project for his MSc in IT was a learning management system for teaching computer technology. He runs a much simplified version of that at www.LaraAcademy.com which also contains a Star Trek section where these book summaries were first posted.

You can reach Geoff at gcanham@compuserve.com. He is @GeoffCanham on Twitter, and you can find him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/geoff.canham, although he doesn’t make a lot of use of social media. No 5 a.m. Tweets from him.

He currently (2020) has two books available as paperbacks and Kindle ebooks through Amazon:  “Free Will or Won’t … are we in charge of our lives or not?” and “It’s About Time … Relatively Speaking”.

His Goodreads page can be found at www.goodreads.com/author/show/18839749.Geoff_Canham, and his Amazon Author page at www.amazon.com/-/e/B07TFBL3FC