Predator by Christopher Golden at the moment.
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"Letting Go" was actually inspired by a M*A*S*H episode "The Party," in which B.J. Hunnicutt and his wife Peg organize a party in New York for the families of the 4077th personnel -- Hawkeye's father, Houlihan's and Winchester's respective parents, Potter's wife, Radar's and Klinger's respective mothers and uncles, and Mulcahy's sister. I wanted to do something similar for Voyager, only from the POV of the people throwing the party.
It also kept my streak going of writing Voyager stories that don't take place in the Delta Quadrant. Excepting the first chapter of the Mirror Universe novel The Mirror-Scaled Serpent, all three of my Voyager stories take place in the Alpha Quadrant.
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I saw the bit about that in the Voyages of Imagination entry, and as a huge M*A*S*H fans, I got a big kick out of it.
So that is still the case then? It mentions that in your bio with the story, and I was wondering if had changed.
Yup. Only three Voyager stories in any case: "Letting Go" (entirely in the Alpha Quadrant), The Brave and the Bold Book 2 (takes place prior to "Caretaker"), and The Mirror-Scaled Serpent (one chapter in the Delta Quadrant, the rest in Alpha, and all in the Mirror Universe in any event).
I have written one novel that had large chunks of it taking place in the Delta Quadrant -- but it was a Deep Space Nine novel, Demons of Air and Darkness.
Benjamin Ashwood Series by A C Cobble
Farm boy runs off with mage and swordsman, rescues princess, fights Demons, hunted by mages from a magic school for women.......saves the kingdom.....classic fantasy been done a million times a million ways..........but it's a great story.
Farm boy runs off with mage and swordsman, rescues princess, fights Demons, hunted by mages from a magic school for women.......saves the kingdom.....classic fantasy been done a million times a million ways..........but it's a great story.
Finished my next Distant Shore story yesterday, Closure by @James Swallow. As a big Neelix fan I really liked this one, it addressed how he dealt with both the end of his relationship with Kes and her leaving in a nice way. I've moved on to the next story, The Secret Heart of Zolalus by Robert T. Jeshonek.
I just posted my review of Captain's Glory by William Shatner with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens.
Finishing up reading Ship of the Line by Diane Carey and starting in on I.K.S. Gorkon: A Good Day to Die by Keith R.A. DeCandido.
Finishing up reading Ship of the Line by Diane Carey and starting in on I.K.S. Gorkon: A Good Day to Die by Keith R.A. DeCandido.
On the train down to London on Friday I got through
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
This is a reread f an old favourite- will have to watch the 1963 movie again. Still a classic with a great sense of eeriness and atmosphere, and depth and subtext and an unreliable POV character – but I'd never noticed before how foot-fetishistic it is... (Seriously, Eleanor is repeatedly studying her own and Theo's feet in some detail...) I'd also forgotten it isn't set in England, but in New England. Anyway, yeah, nice to revisit an old favourite.
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
This is a reread f an old favourite- will have to watch the 1963 movie again. Still a classic with a great sense of eeriness and atmosphere, and depth and subtext and an unreliable POV character – but I'd never noticed before how foot-fetishistic it is... (Seriously, Eleanor is repeatedly studying her own and Theo's feet in some detail...) I'd also forgotten it isn't set in England, but in New England. Anyway, yeah, nice to revisit an old favourite.
The latest episode of Literary Treks is out! #244: Less Hair, Pointier Head - We review A Time to Hate and interview author Robert Greenberger. This was a fun one, and it was a great discussion that ranged from the A Time To series to his work on the DC Star Trek comic line!
Lethal White (Strike book 4) for JK Rowling
This past Sunday morning, I finished Alan Dean Foster's Relic. Interesting tale, very different from his Humanx Commonwealth and Spellsinger series.
Ruslan is the last known living Human, following a viral holocaust of Humanity's own making, which exterminated the species before it had encountered so much as one other sentient species. He's been rescued by sentient aliens, and the book chronicles his adventures. And yes, it's packed with ADF's flair for detail and subtle wit, and yes, it has his usual out-of-left-field happy ending, i.e., it's a predictably happy ending (off the top of my head, about the only ADF opus I can think of that doesn't end happy would be his short story, "The Emoman"), but why a book with such dreary initial conditions manages to end happy is completely unpredictable.
I'm now a third of the way through the "Janeway" Captain's Table book. Seems like Ms. Carey didn't get the memo about including interruptions for comments from the peanut gallery. And at times, it seems like her trademark hard-libertarian editorializing is a bit more obtrusive than usual.
Ruslan is the last known living Human, following a viral holocaust of Humanity's own making, which exterminated the species before it had encountered so much as one other sentient species. He's been rescued by sentient aliens, and the book chronicles his adventures. And yes, it's packed with ADF's flair for detail and subtle wit, and yes, it has his usual out-of-left-field happy ending, i.e., it's a predictably happy ending (off the top of my head, about the only ADF opus I can think of that doesn't end happy would be his short story, "The Emoman"), but why a book with such dreary initial conditions manages to end happy is completely unpredictable.
I'm now a third of the way through the "Janeway" Captain's Table book. Seems like Ms. Carey didn't get the memo about including interruptions for comments from the peanut gallery. And at times, it seems like her trademark hard-libertarian editorializing is a bit more obtrusive than usual.
Currently in the midst of rereading The Entropy Effect.
The rules weren't that restrictive. Each of the writers approached the premise in somewhat different ways. War Dragons had a small number of third-person frame sequences in the bar but was mostly the first-person stories from Kirk's and Sulu's perspectives. Dujonian's Hoard and Where Sea Meets Sky did alternating chapters of the bar in third person and the captain's story in first-person (though Oltion had longer chapters, and did his own thing by including captains from other fictional franchises). The Mist had the third-person bar scenes constantly interrupting within chapters, sometimes after just a few paragraphs, so that it was more of a constant dialogue between Sisko and the others. Fire Ship went the other direction, basically one big first-person novel with a third-person prologue and epilogue in the bar. Once Burned was entirely in the first person, even the part in the bar, save for a single third-person scene at the end with a really good twist explanation for why the bar scenes were part of Calhoun's first-person account.
After all, that's what you want in something like this, where you hire several different writers to tackle the same premise. The whole idea is to let each of them find their own characteristic take, to make the concept their own, so you don't just get the same thing over and over. So there would be no "memo" saying "you have to write it this way." That would defeat the whole purpose.
And in Tales from the Captain's Table, there's even more variation. "Improvisations on the Opal Sea" and "Have Beagle, Will Travel" are in the familiar back-and-forth format, just in alternating scenes rather than alternating chapters. "Iron and Sacrifice" is much the same, but actually incorporates the bar as a significant part of the story rather than just a frame for it. "An Easy Fast" also uses the back-and-forth format, but Captain Gold tells his story in the third person instead of the first, even though he's implicitly telling it about himself in pseudonymous form. "Pain Management" follows PAD's earlier precedent of doing the whole thing in first person as Shelby's monologue to the bar crowd. The Klag story is done in a sort of Victorian-fiction style in which the entire narrative is third-person present and Klag's whole tale is in quotation marks, as if we're just sitting there watching Klag tell the story instead of actually flashing back to it. And "Darkness," "The Officer's Club," and "Seduced" don't even mention the Captain's Table in-story; they're just standalone stories tied in only by the KRAD-written "Tending Bar" intro scenes, and "Darkness" isn't even in first person.
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