Not one of the current spate of fantasy epics achieves classic stature, but a few have considerable charm, originality and wit. The best is Starman, John Carpenter's yuppie update of the 1950s gem The Day the Earth Stood Still. In that dim black-and-white...

Byline: Todd Milewski Dave Starman comments on college hockey for CSTV as an analyst both in the studio and at the rink. He's also working on a book, slated for release later this year, that he calls college hockey's equivalent of Dick...

Starman Jones first published in America in 1953, is the story of a poor farm boy who longs to be an "astrogater", makes his way on to the space ship Asgard, duly gets his chance, and finishes the voyage as acting captain. The scope for wishful self-identification on the reader's part is obviously enormous. The tour de force of this novel is the hero's initiation into the mysteries of the ship's control room; so assured and absorbing are the author's descriptions th...