Since we have a thread for what we read last year, I thought it might be fun to do one for what we plan to read this year. I've got a ton of books I haven't read, so I'm not going through them all, but a few of the ones I hope to get to this year include. I still haven't gotten caught up on The Dresden Files, Kate Daniels, or Post-Nemesis Trek, so those continue on from last year. Last year I also started working on some old Trek paper books that I've have for ages and haven't read, so I'm going to keep working on those. Some of the Trek books I hope to read: TOS: Dayton Ward's 20th Century books Rihannsu: The Blood Wing Voyages Burning Dreams Legacies Entropy Effect TNG: Slings and Arrows Doomsday World DS9: Millenium trilogy Voy: Gateways: No Man's Land Dark Matter trilogy ENT: Rise of the Federation Antholgies: Voyistant Shores Lives of Dax TOS: Constellations TNG: The Sky's The Limit I'm also planning on starting a few new series soon Urban Fantasy: October Daye Mercy Thompson Peter Grant Kitty Norville Fantasy: Throne of Glass Wheel of Time Temeraire Stormlight Archives Farseer Trilogy Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norell Sci-Fi: Neuromance The Culture Old Man's War Other: John Dies At the End Divine Misfortune Movie Novelizations and Tie-Ins: Modern Planet of the Apes Dark Knight Rises Man of Steel Suicide Squad The Flash/Arrow Godzilla Pacific Rim BTS/Art of/Encyclopedias: Art of Zootopia Art of Moana The Art of Kubo & The Two Strings Dr. Who: Whology The Adventure Time Encyclopedia Fables Encyclopedia Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion... So Far, Fully Update and Up To Snuff I'm not sure if I'll get to all of these, but I'm hoping to at least read some of them.
Ive read the millennium trilogy about 12 years ago. It’s a good book. I believe the DS9 game was based on it. That was a creepy game back in it’s time. Rise of the Federation is a good series. The time jumps aren’t as vast as the Romulan War series. It does a good job tying Enterprise into the greater continuity.
I plan to read all of Kristen Beyer's "Voyager" relaunch novels. (I'm two books in so far.) Others on my "Star Trek" to-read list: Double Helix: Quarantine (The Maquis one with Chakotay, B'Elanna and Tom Riker) No Time Like the Past (Seven of Nine meets Kirk) Worlds of Deep Space Nine series Eugenics Wars (mostly for Shannon O'Donnel and Rain Robinson) On my RE-read list... Voyager: Echoes The Nanotech War The Lives of Dax Dark Passions (the GOOD mirror universe stories, at least for Voyager)
I just remembered some others I forgot. Behind The Scenes: The Dark Crystal: The Ultimate Visual History Firefly: A Celebration Sci-Fi: A Canticle for Leibowitz Fantasy: The Never-Ending Story
http://killie-booktalk.blogspot.com/p/star-trek-reading-challenge.html?m=1 through the use of the above website, I plan to keep reading through the 24th century books in chronological order. I' currently on TNG: the eyes of the beholders.
More like inspired as the game, while using elements of the novels, went in a very different direction than the book. At least one book that I plan on reading in 2018 is V.E. Mitchell's Windows On A Lost World. I've had it for over 15 years, and the cover and write-up have always looked and sounded interesting. I just haven't gotten around to reading it, so I currently have it lined up as my next book.
With the lull in Trek books, I'm going to be branching out more. Frankly, I think they take up too much of my reading attention. I do have Voyager: Architects of Infinity and the next two Discovery novels preordered. I finished Andy Weir's Artemis yesterday, and I'm starting Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book today. I've got John Scalzi's Redshirts, Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, and Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem all waiting on my bookshelf. If I enjoy Red Mars and Three Body Problem, I'll probably pick up their sequels. I also recently read the novella Binti by Nnedi Okafor and I'm interested to read its sequels, as well as Okafor's other work. I wouldn't mind checking out David Mack's Midnight Front either.
I plan on going to the library to catch up reading on reading books series by my favorite authors..Mysteries,Scifi and historical novels this year.
While I plan to investigate new books by favorite authors, I also plan to go back over Trek books of yesteryear. This includes the old Bantam TOS novels and the TAS adaptations by Alan Dean Foster. It's been more than 20 years since I've read these.
I still have a lot of old Trek books that I've collected for years, so wit this break in the publishing, they will be "New" stories to me.
Tons of catching up to do. I've only just begun my Star War Literature journey (2015). I would like to jump into a more unknown region, specifically for me, TOS Era.
Unread TOS novels (at least some of them). The German translation of the Prey novels. Perhaps finanally the Captain's Table Omnibus stories. DS9 Far beyond the Stars. I'm looking forward to reading the new Voyager novel - Architects of Infinity. Some other German Trek Novels.
The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr is next on my to-read list. Plus, the editor in me is eagerly looking forward to a couple of mss. that should be showing up in my in-box soon.
According to LibraryThing, I have 51 Star Trek books in my to be read pile. Hopefully I read at least some of them, continuing my Destiny Era marathon. I'm guessing I'll get through about fifteen this year. Outside of Star Trek, the next few books on my reading list are: The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Atterby with Karen Joy Fowler (eds.) Romeo and/or Juliet: a chooseable-path adventure by Ryan North and William Shakespeare and You War Stories: New Military Science Fiction by Jaym Gates & Andrew Liptak (eds.) Commodore Hornblower / Lord Hornblower / Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies / The Hornblower Companion by C. S. Forester [I might reread the earlier Hornblower books, since somehow it's been almost ten years since I left off reading them!] Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler I'll also continue my "cyclical reads": Every month: Doctor Who: Time Lord Fairy Tales [ten down, six to go] Every three months: The New Doctor Who Adventures Every four months: James Bond 007 by Ian Fleming Every six months: Legion of Super-Heroes Every twelve months: Charles Dickens I'll probably also be a Worldcon supporting member again this year, and thus read as many of the Hugo finalits as possible so I can vote informedly. My wife is a big fan of Okarfor's YA fiction; there's a lot of excitement in the Mollmann household that she seems to have suddenly broke through and hit it big.
Star Trek reads planned-- Vulcan Academy Murders, Dwellers in the Crucible, Enterprise: The First Adventure. Maybe throw in New Frotier: Fire on High. From the DC Volume 1 comic run, I think I'll finish the sequence where the crew are assigned as command crew for the Excelsior. Star Wars-- Bloodline, Aftermath: Life Debt. The Poe Dameron story in Before the Awakening. Doctor Who-- Timewyrm: Apocalypse, Birthright, Prisoner of the Daleks. Faction Paradox: Warring States. Ian Flemming-- Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever. Maybe, hopefully From Russia With Love. Stephen King-- Salem's Lot, The Drawing of the Three, Eyes of the Dragon, Apt Pupil (from the Different Seasons collection). Robert E. Howard-- Worms of the Earth, The Valley of the Worm, The Blue Flame of Vengeance, The Daughter of Erlik Khan. Misc.-- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Ready Player One, maybe; I keep putting this one off. Other Comics: Continue to whittle away at the original Larry Hama G.I. Joe series, and The Invisibles. This is a pretty ambitious list, since I'm a terribly slow reader. I'm hopeful, though.
I am rereading my Star Trek novels, the Vanguard saga, Lost Era novels, and saving Section 31: control and Enigma Tales for when they continue the novels. Then I am to go rereading my Star Wars novels. And as for new novels, I can't deside If I am going to start with The Dresden files or The Hornblower novels, I have read many mixed reviews about both novels. So any advise is appreciated
Afrofuturism in general seems to be hitting the mainstream in a big way in the last year, especially with Black Panther coming to theaters next month, which I think is pretty cool.
I'm not interested in any new Trek novels, unless my library happens to get hold of a Discovery one. For non-Trek, I want to read Child of a Mad God by RA Salvatore, New Watch and Sixth Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko and Season of Storms by Andrzej Sapkowski.