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Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhuru) opens
the proceedings with a spoken-word
introduction, William Shatner delivers a
fun nine-minute monologue called
"William Shatner Meets Captain Kirk"
and Roddenberry himself waxes galactic
on a variety of topics related to the
show, including the Vulcan Mind Meld,
the Enterprise and the origin of Spock.
This CD is not for everyone, but sci-fi
enthusiasts will consider it a must-have.

— John Godfrey
Copley News Service

The Sci-Fi Front

The World of
Jewish Theatre
in Story & Song

much of Burstein's work appears. In
"Reality Check," an Orthodox physicist
at MIT has to go to Texas and deal with
being observant without the support of
a large Jewish community around him.
The novella is part of Burstein's
Broken Symmetry series, involving a
pathway to a parallel universe, which he
is currently developing into a novel. The
first story in the series got Burstein his
second Hugo nomination. He also was
nominated in 1996 for "TeleAbsence,"
his very first published story.
His most recent nomination was
for a story in the June 1998 Analog,
for a story titled "Cosmic Corkscrew,"
in which an unnamed narrator travels

Michael Burstein
stands out in whatever
group he's in. Among sci-
ence fiction writers, the
Brookline, Mass.-based
Burstein is in that select
group who has had his
work nominated for the
prestigious Hugo Award,
the field's equivalent to
the Oscar. He has
received his third such
nomination in the short
story category. The win-
ner will be announced at
this summe'r's 57th annu-
al World Science Fiction
Convention in
Melbourne, Australia.
At the Cambridge
School in Weston, Mass.,
where Burstein teaches
science, math and the
occasional science fiction
course, he is not only a
teacher but an adviser to
the school's student pub-
lications. It's not every
Isaac Asimov is a character in
adviser who can lay claim
Michael Burstein's short story
to the John W. Campbell
"Cosmic Corkscrew," nominated
Award, a prize given to
this
year for a Hugo Award.
the best new writer in
science fiction.
However, even in the
science fiction field, where
the 29-year-old writer is
regarded as a newcomer at
back in time to meet one of the most
the start of a promising career, Burstein
famous of all science fiction writers —
stands out for another reason: He's an
and one of Burstein's literary heroes
observant Jew.
— Isaac Asimov.
"Just being Jewish doesn't have a lot
In it the narrator meets a teenage
of impact because there are a lot of peo-
Asimov, who has just written his first
ple in the world of science fiction who
short story, "Cosmic Corkscrew," and
are Jewish," he said. "Being observant,
tries to get a copy of it. In real life,
on the other hand, is very interesting."
Asimov had written such a story, but
As for his science fiction, Burstein
it never sold and is now lost. Burstein
said there's been nothing particularly
met Asimov on a number of occasions
Jewish about it ... so far. His first pub-
prior to the latter's death in 1992.
lished story with a deliberately Jewish
— Daniel M Kimmel
character will be out this fall in Analog,
The Jewish Advocate
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