Author: John Welsh

Before he got a gig with Stanley Kubrick, Larry Lapinsky moved to Greenwich Village from Brooklyn to escape the confines of neighborhood expectations and his hysterical shrew of a mother.

Motherless Brooklyn inhabits the world of film noir so completely the concept seems to have been created just to describe it. The film is set in the damp, drizzly November of the New York soul of 1957.

n order to past the time here in my cell at Château d’If, Abbé, Faria advised me to apply myself to what I do best and pass my wisdom onto others

The mission is simple; rescue any survivors of the starship Bellerophon, twenty years out from Earth to Altair IV

The almighty was supposed to keep mortals in line by threat of divine punishment in a promised afterlife. At least those among us who subscribed to such notions; however, a clever few reason they could break the rules society pretends to live by and rewards would come their way.

The story is predicated on the idea that an alien race from the Andromeda constellation has the technology for intergalactic space travel but has little or no understanding of genetics.