2018 / Ebook / 49 pages
***
Straight-up trivia questions without the visual puzzles of its more official and dated namesake, I was doing respectably before it got on to the later series.
Keith Topping, The Complete Slayer: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Every Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2004 / Ebook / 702 pages
****
A comprehensive, no-chaff episode guide from a '90s British male perspective, for better and worse. My friend was watching the series for the first time and I didn't feel like another rewatch just yet, but this kept me up to speed for vicarious thrills and trivia.
1997 / Audiobook / 288 pages
***
Doctor Who's weirdly off-brand yet surprisingly significant vampire arch fiends should be a natural match for the new Byronic incarnation, but it's all too cynically 90s to fully embrace that.
1997 / Audiobook / 276 pages
***
A smart sci-fiey episode, certainly better than some of those.
1977 / Audiobook / 151 pages
***
An early 'Trek book written by a bona fide sci-fi author seemed like a frontier worth exploring. It's as subtly off-brand as I'd hoped, subjecting Kirk and his redshirts to gory survival horror inside an impossible anomaly, unfortunately padded out by a tedious clip show to seemingly prove that the author has actually seen the show.