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Spoilers DTI: The Collectors by Christopher L. Bennett Review Thread

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Re: DTI: The Collectors by Christopher L. Bennett Review Thread (Spoil

Something just occurred to me. I hope this doesn't qualify as a story idea since it involves books that are already out. Can a moderator comment on this discussion question of mine?
What if back in Before Dishonor, the Borg supercube had, instead of Pluto, started off by eating Eris, Vault and all?
 
Re: DTI: The Collectors by Christopher L. Bennett Review Thread (Spoil

I loved this book! Definitely a worthy successor to the two previous DTI novels. I'm still hoping that a future DTI story (since it would make more sense here than other ST series) will have at least an Easter Egg reference to the various Star Trek comic crossover stories with other franchises (X-Men, Doctor Who, Legion of Super Heroes, Infestation, Planet of the Apes). Am I the only one who thinks it'd be cool to have a Kang the Conqueror artifact locked in the Eridian Vault? :-P

Edit: I just read "Made Out of Mudd," the first story in the fourth issue of the Byrne photocomic series and I couldn't help but think of The Collectors and your annotations, Christopher. This comic story establishes that the Federation does indeed have access to transporter technology capable of massive bodily reconfiguration, similar to the transporter tech seen in Jena Noi's time.
 
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Loved this one as well! I just posted my review of it. Was definitely blown away. Does anyone else really want to see DTI continued as an e-book series? Maybe even just one per year?
 
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^ I'm down with that. And I'm up on it. I'm all over it! :techman:
 
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Jurassic Park of the Billionth Century. Kertrats47 and I talk about the book on Literary Treks
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I'm ashamed to admit this but I wish these books were more "the 'fun' of time travel" rather than "the science of time travel".

I think it gets a little too in-depth. It's mental laziness on my part, I agree.

Though, there are few things more 'fun' than what happens towards the end. I grant that.
 
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I really did enjoy The Collectors. It was a fun read and a great addition to the DTI series. I hope for more.
 
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drc said:
Really enjoyed this book. A great blend of action and weird concepts.

The only problem I had was that there were two bad transitions in my Kindle edition (On Kindle Cloud Reader and my iPhone) where you can't tell at first that the scene has changed. One is at location 1047 in Chapter 8, when Dulmer says "April 11, 1868." There should have been space above that to tell you the scene has changed. I forget where the other one was, but it was a similar cliffhanger-type scene switch that wasn't clear.
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There's a class in the ePub called TXF and it is set to have no indent. It should also have a 2em top margin to indicate a section break and yet it has a top margin of 0. The Kindle versions were made from the ePub. This is an easy fix if you can strip the DRM. Using Calibre's eBook editor, find whatever the class is called int he AZW3 version and fix the top margin. It could still be called TXF.

Christopher said:
^No, that's a mistake too. Thanks.

EDIT: Hmm, those are both scene breaks without location headings, and there are only a few of those in the novella. Could you confirm whether there are scene breaks in the following places:

Ch. 2 just after "Then a bolt of lightning speared him through the back."

Ch. 3 just after "The artifacts of Eris are not to be trifled with."

Ch. 6 just after "then what are you still doing in this job?"

Ch. 7 just after "Because the other possibility is that they’re dead."
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In the ePub, all of those section breaks are marked as section breaks, but the CSS class for them doesn't specify the space for the section breaks as I specified above.

Christopher said:
Okay, I've been notified that the scene breaks have been corrected and the revised file will be up tomorrow. I'm not sure what will happen for people who've already bought copies -- hopefully you'll be sent updates, or something.
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Most of the time you do not get notified and the only way you know an eBook has been updated is by downloading it again and noticing something has changed like the file size and some have a version number in the copyright and that gets updated to show it's a newer version. Most won't know it's been updated. That's one failing of eBooks. Amazon sometimes notifies about a new version, but not all that often.
 
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Re: DTI: The Collectors by Christopher L. Bennett Review Thread (Spoil

DTI not fun?

OMG DTI is fun. One of the most fun ST series I've ever read.
 
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I would rate it as entertaining if I could turn off the physical analysis behind what was going on.
 
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I would enjoy seeing DTI more often, ideally a novella quarterly or so if the author has the time & the editors are willing to publish it.
 
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A superb read, Christopher.

I loved the altFTA/TIA.

But I do have some questions.

1. Is your plan to bring us in every odd DTI book to a farther and farther future?

2. Did you change your Stardate Calculator?

3. I take it that the Watching the Clock Epilogue has not yet happened? Relatively speaking.

4. How much time has passed since Daniels was gallivanting with Archer (future local time/chronologic)?


Thank you for your book, I look forward to your next one.
 
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Hando said:
1. Is your plan to bring us in every odd DTI book to a farther and farther future?
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I don't have a plan. I'm making this up as I go.

2. Did you change your Stardate Calculator?
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Ahh. I think I revised the calendar date of the prologue from April 6 to April 16 and forgot to amend the stardate accordingly. But then, stardates are inconsistent enough as a rule that it doesn't really matter.


3. I take it that the Watching the Clock Epilogue has not yet happened? Relatively speaking.
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Evidently not, given Dulmur's career status.


4. How much time has passed since Daniels was gallivanting with Archer (future local time/chronologic)?
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I have no idea. Probably a few years, but not too many.
 
Re: DTI: The Collectors by Christopher L. Bennett Review Thread (Spoil

I enjoyed this - in particularly the commentary on the conservative nature of the Federation (show writers? it was also meta-commentary as well wasn't it?).
 
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JoeZhang said:
I enjoyed this - in particularly the commentary on the conservative nature of the Federation (show writers? it was also meta-commentary as well wasn't it?).
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Yeah -- it kind of frustrates me how often the shows introduced potentially transformative technologies that were never heard from again. DS9's first season alone gave us quick-cloning ("A Man Alone"), consciousness transfer ("The Passenger"), and nanotech repair for fatal injuries ("Battle Lines"), which, if harnessed and used in conjunction, should have been able to conquer death once and for all. Also, the far-future setting was my chance to play with some of the transhumanist ideas you can find all over the place in prose science fiction these days but that Trek rarely addressed except in limited ways.
 
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