Gene Roddenberry created a mythology for the twentieth century: "Star Trek". One of the most successful television shows and cultural icons of all time, "Star Trek" was a forum for probing some of life's fundamental questions: What is the difference between sexuality and love? Where does duty end and morality begin? What does it mean to be human? As Roddenberry faced the end of his life, his last wish was to address humanity directly. Insisting that no one could really know him without becoming part of his private world, he ...
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Gene Roddenberry created a mythology for the twentieth century: "Star Trek". One of the most successful television shows and cultural icons of all time, "Star Trek" was a forum for probing some of life's fundamental questions: What is the difference between sexuality and love? Where does duty end and morality begin? What does it mean to be human? As Roddenberry faced the end of his life, his last wish was to address humanity directly. Insisting that no one could really know him without becoming part of his private world, he invited Yvonne Fern to live with him and his wife, Majel Barrett. "I want you to write me," he said. But this book is more than a portrait of a single life - it is a shared journey, into the meaning and worth of human existence. The two began this book as a collaboration, but as Roddenberry's health failed, Fern's task was to convey the richness of what passed between them. Reading their dialogue, we are able to glimpse the luminous future that Gene Roddenberry knew was possible for all of us.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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NF in VG jacket. Neither remainder nor ex-lib. Hardcover with purple paper over boards and black quarter-cloth, in purple jacket with color photo of Roddenberry on front, 8vo. 2nd printing. xii + 228pp. Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke. Fine/VG. Book has light foxing to uppper page edges; else as new: bright, sharp and umarked with tight, never broken-in binding. Jacket has light abrasion along upper edges; light rubbing/clouding over binding edges; strong crease along edge of rear inner flap. Colors, titles and figures shiny and bright. Jacket in Brodart.
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Book Small octavo, hardcover, near fine in near fine blue pictorial dj. 228 pp. clean, unmarked with a tight binding Roddenberry created a mythology for the twentieth century: Star Trek. One of the most successful television shows and cultural icons of all time, Star Trek was a forum for probing some of life's fundamental questions: What is the difference between sexuality and love?
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N-Fine in Fine jacket. Book A square solid tight clean un-read copy. This copy has a small nick to the top edge of the 2nd FFEP. Book length conversation/interview, 228 pages. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY.
The book was good but it was not the run-of-the-mill bio's. It went in more depth that your typical bio's. A hard read but an interesting and in sightful read. I was quite pleased.