Testing for Childhood Bookworms

[mandolin]

Does the name Dr. Nera Vivaldi sound familiar to anyone else? Why?

First person to guess right gets the ability to gloat madly about it. :)

Comments

[dangermouse42.livejournal.com]

Isn't that a character from one of those Choose Your Own Adventure books?

For some reason, I want to say it's the one where you're trying to track down this alien signal or something.

... am I totally off?