Burying Euclid

Meet Doug Foster, faculty brat coming of age in the early 'seventies. His inner landscape teems with girls, the Cold War, old people, and Spartacus. Not to mention submarines, Mr. Spock, science nerds, and The Nutcracker. Will he be a man? Will he be an astronaut? Will he have a Jeannie in a bottle? Phasers he can set on stun? It's all about mysteries -- who are these females on Doug's planet, and what are they thinking? Who are the Elderly, in their fedoras, and why are they unflappable? Where does dad go every dawning, and what is this 'university' of his? Find out if Commander Doug impresses the velvety Mandy Grierson. See if he builds a rocket base in the Great Salt Lake. Perhaps he'll find meaning in his science fair friendship with Pal Jody, who moved away and won't write. Perhaps Doug will be a man. Or he could get beat up by Mandy's brother. Where are the answers to his Orphic riddles? And what should he do with the magazines under his bed?