David Gerrold: A Season for Slaughter

• Do you teach your class like Dr. Foreman teaches the Mode Training?

Some people think so. Except I don't use blanks.

DAVID GERROLD is the author of the most popular episode of the most popular science fiction TV series in history-"The Trouble With Tribbles" episode of the original Star Trek TV series.

Since 1967, he has story-edited three TV series, edited five anthologies, written two non-fiction books about television production (both of which have been used as textbooks), and over a dozen novels, three of which have been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards.

His television credits include episodes of Star Trek, Star Trek Animated, Superboy, Tales From The Darkside, Twilight Zone, The Real Ghostbusters, Logan's Run, and Land of the Lost.

His novels include When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One, The Man Who Folded Himself, Chess With A Dragon, Voyage of the Star Wolf, and the four volumes of The War Against the Chtorr: A Matter for Men, A Day for Damnation, A Rage for Revenge, and A Season For Slaughter. His short stories have appeared in Galaxy, If, Amazing, Twilight Zone, and Isaac Asimov's Adventure Magazine.

Gerrold also writes a column in PC-Techniques, a computer magazine. He averages over two dozen lecture and convention appearances per year, and he teaches screenwriting at Pepperdine University.

He is currently working on a new novel.

Human Analog Replication Lethetic Intelligence Engine (See When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One published by Bantam Books, 1988)

In fact, the Stanford Marching Band had used this very staircase in their famous fund-raising video. All 1,024 members (1 kilamusician), clad in shimmering white uniforms and dazzling gold braid, had come strutting elegantly down these stairs playing Light My Fire load enough to be heard all the way to the aft end of the airship.

Named after mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, the Mandelbrot is a computer-generated fractal image of infinite complexity and beauty. It is created by multiple iterations of a simple equation across a two-dimensional graph. When colors are assigned to the different values produced on the graph, an image is generated. The image is truly infinite because the equation can be recalculated for ever more precise values, each time generating more exquisite detail. The effect is like zooming into a kaleidoscope. It is an extravagant wonderland of intricate swirling shapes and colors.

Single-pilot, reconnaissance ultra-lights.

Look it up. I'm not going to explain everything.

Giving rise to the particularly awful pun, "The La Brea Chtorr Pits."