The Martian Child: A Novel about a Single Father Adopting a Son
David Gerrold
Jun 2002 · Macmillan + ORM
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A gay man adopts a troubled boy who insists he's a Martian in this charming and heartwarming autobiographical novel.
When science fiction author David Gerrold decides he wants to adopt a son, he thinks he's prepared for fatherhood. But eight-year-old Dennis turns out to be more than he expected—a lot more.
When science fiction author David Gerrold decides he wants to adopt a son, he thinks he's prepared for fatherhood. But eight-year-old Dennis turns out to be more than he expected—a lot more.
Abandoned as a baby in a seedy motel by his addict parents, Dennis suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome. Since then, he's been shuffled between eight different foster homes in less than eight years—and was severely abused in at least two of them.
Prone to violent emotional outbursts, Dennis was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, put on Ritalin, and then Disipramine. His case history identified him as “hard to plac”"—a euphemism for "unadoptable."
But for David Gerrold it was love at first sight . . .
About the author
David Gerrold was barely out of his teens when he wrote the script "The Trouble With Tribbles" for the classic television series Star Trek. Nominated for a Hugo Award, it was listed by Playboy magazine as one of the 50 Greatest Television Episodes of All Time. And in a 1997 FOX TV special it ranked as the most popular science fiction episode on television of all time. He has written dozens of novels and twice has been nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. His novelette The Martian Child won the SF triple crown: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Locus Readers Poll as Best Novelette. In addition to novel writing, he has written television scripts for Babylon 5, Tales from the Darkside, and The Twilight Zone. He served as a story editor/producer for the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. A frequent guest at SF conventions here and in Europe, he began a charity in 1988 in which money earned from charging one dollar for autographs--plus profits from the sale of other SF memorabilia--is donated to AIDS Project Los Angeles.
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