So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[haddie moonfall]

I love reading Star Trek and found Literary Treks, so excited. Anyway, I read Unity and Cardassia & Andor..Anyone have thoughts where to go next? I would also love where to begin reading.. like starting with NG (anyone know where to find free or low cost ebooks?) thanks for any ideas :-)

 

[Kilana2]

I love reading Star Trek and found Literary Treks, so excited. Anyway, I read Unity and Cardassia & Andor..Anyone have thoughts where to go next? I would also love where to begin reading.. like starting with NG (anyone know where to find free or low cost ebooks?) thanks for any ideas :-)

Neverending Sacrifice if you love DS9 or A Stitch in Time. I'm not into ebooks, though.....

 

[Paris]

Just started Available Light

 

[Kertrats47]

Latest episode of Literary Treks is up! Literary Treks 264: No Member Berries, in which Bruce and I discuss Titan: Taking Wing by Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels.

 

[haddie moonfall]

Latest episode of Literary Treks is up! Literary Treks 264: No Member Berries, in which Bruce and I discuss Titan: Taking Wing by Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels.

this is great! thank you so much
Live Long...and prosper
:-)

 

[Reanok]

Star Trek Seekers Long Shot book 3 by David Mack

 

[Smiley]

I love reading Star Trek and found Literary Treks, so excited. Anyway, I read Unity and Cardassia & Andor..Anyone have thoughts where to go next? I would also love where to begin reading.. like starting with NG (anyone know where to find free or low cost ebooks?) thanks for any ideas :-)

https://www.thetrekcollective.com/p/trek-lit-reading-order.html

The site above has a handy flowchart that covers a lot of the basic ordering of events and series from the last 20 years. If you liked the Cardassia/Andor book, the other two Worlds of DS9 books should be right up your alley. Taking Wing, the Destiny trilogy, A Singular Destiny, the Cold Equations trilogy, and the Plagues of Night/Raise the Dawn duology have some major impacts on the post-Nemesis galaxy and are well worth reading.

I just finished up a reread of Before Dishonor. I loved the book on its initial release, and it still holds up today. There are a lot of great character moments and plot developments, and the pace is breakneck near the end. I recommend it even more highly for fans of Picard, Worf, Spock, Seven, and Lady Q.

 

[haddie moonfall]

https://www.thetrekcollective.com/p/trek-lit-reading-order.html

The site above has a handy flowchart that covers a lot of the basic ordering of events and series from the last 20 years. If you liked the Cardassia/Andor book, the other two Worlds of DS9 books should be right up your alley. Taking Wing, the Destiny trilogy, A Singular Destiny, the Cold Equations trilogy, and the Plagues of Night/Raise the Dawn duology have some major impacts on the post-Nemesis galaxy and are well worth reading.

I just finished up a reread of Before Dishonor. I loved the book on its initial release, and it still holds up today. There are a lot of great character moments and plot developments, and the pace is breakneck near the end. I recommend it even more highly for fans of Picard, Worf, Spock, Seven, and Lady Q.

Wow thank you so much, this is great information!! So happy to find Trek BBS.. like i've finally arrived on the planet i belong :-)

 

[haddie moonfall]

Just started Available Light

Am i missing something...Did you have difficulty finding this book?

 

[Paris]

Am i missing something...Did you have difficulty finding this book?

Nope

 

[Kilana2]

I'm still busy with KRAD's Enemy Territory. I had to laugh like an imbecile when Lokor had his dressing down with Bekk Tarmeth, telling him that he knows everything going on aboard the Gorkon, especially....

Spoiler: Enemy Territory

....Leader Hovoq is impotent...

A topic best discussed in the TNZ.....

 

[JD]

I love reading Star Trek and found Literary Treks, so excited. Anyway, I read Unity and Cardassia & Andor..Anyone have thoughts where to go next? I would also love where to begin reading.. like starting with NG (anyone know where to find free or low cost ebooks?) thanks for any ideas :-)

If you want to keep going with the DS9 Relaunch then next would be World of DS9: Volume 2: Trill and Bajor, and Worlds of DS9: Volume 3: The Dominion and Ferenginar. The end of WODS9 Vol. 3 leads directing into Warpath, which was then followed by Fearful Symmetry and The Soul Key.
The last three books also tie into events in some of the books in the Mirror Universe series that started around the time they came out.
After The Soul Key there is a big time jump, so that's a good place to stop for now.

 

[haddie moonfall]

If you want to keep going with the DS9 Relaunch then next would be World of DS9: Volume 2: Trill and Bajor, and Worlds of DS9: Volume 3: The Dominion and Ferenginar. The end of WODS9 Vol. 3 leads directing into Warpath, which was then followed by Fearful Symmetry and The Soul Key.
The last three books also tie into events in some of the books in the Mirror Universe series that started around the time they came out.
After The Soul Key there is a big time jump, so that's a good place to stop for now.

Thanks so much JD ... yes def want to keep w/DS9 lit, i made a note of the above.. now for finding low cost books. Used paperbacks seem to be the option. I bought ereader but the ebooks tend to cost the more. Anyway, thanks :-)

 

[2of1million]

Thanks so much JD ... yes def want to keep w/DS9 lit, i made a note of the above.. now for finding low cost books. Used paperbacks seem to be the option. I bought ereader but the ebooks tend to cost the more. Anyway, thanks :-)

Get the 99 cent sales every month and they don't cost a lot.

 

[Reanok]

I'm re-reading Star Trek TOS Gemini by Mike W.Barr Haddie if you want used Ds9 books ebay and Bookfinder have good prices for older Ds9 novels.Another gereat sight for looking for used Ds9 books is Advanced book exchange too.

 

[Lonemagpie]

LAO TZU: TAO TE CHING trans: DC Lau

A quick reacquaintance with one of the most misunderstood ancient books, from which you can see a lof the Jedi and Sith origins in Star Wars… For those unfamiiar with it, it’s around 70% a “secret management tips for officials and politicians” kind of thing with universal tropes like a happy populae being a productive populace, and largely conveying the message of “FFS don’t micromanage your people cos they’ll hate it and it fucks everything up.” The other 30% is the interesting makes-you-think philosophy stuff. I still love it. (Even though Lao Tzu actually just means The Old Man, and his actual name was Li Er Tan, who was a historian, and he probably didn’t actually write it anyway...)

 

[Damian]

Still waiting for "Available Light" so in the meantime I decided to read "The World of Star Trek" by David Gerrold. I just finished "The Making of Star Trek" so I figured I'd read "The World..." I have a very worn 4th printing from 08/1974 that I've had for years and just never got around to reading.

I'm almost 100 pages in and it's very interesting. At several points he refers to "The Making of" and this book isn't just a rehash of "The Making of" which is nice. He's more focused on the people involved, like the actors, and telling the stories behind the making of the show--as opposed to actual making of the show.

So far I find "The World of" and "The Making of" go pretty well together, giving you a well rounded picture of the behind the scenes stories of Star Trek.

 

[Christopher]

World of ST is pretty good. I wonder what you'll think of the last part, where Gerrold gets more into a pretty heavy critique of the show's shortcomings and how it could've been done better. You can see the seeds of some elements that Gerrold would later work into the initial premise for TNG.

 

[Damian]

World of ST is pretty good. I wonder what you'll think of the last part, where Gerrold gets more into a pretty heavy critique of the show's shortcomings and how it could've been done better. You can see the seeds of some elements that Gerrold would later work into the initial premise for TNG.

Interesting you mention that. Early in the book he goes into a bit of the 'science' behind the science fiction.

At first it sounds like a criticism. He's critiquing the set design for one--the wide corridors, the seemingly endless food slots, the endless spaces on board the ship--as well as the characterizations, wouldn't futuristic people be more involved.

But then he takes an interesting turn and starts to defend the show. That the show is presented that way because people need to be able to relate to it. If they made a show true to science, people would probably basically get bored, and would not be able to identify with the show and its characters. So in a sense he turned the tables. In fact at one point he refers to the "Star Trek Guide" where they talk about that point--that to make it too authentic would 'dehumanize' the characters.

It's something I saw in "The Making of" as well when the staff starts from a point of 'true' science fiction (sort of like 2001) but decides to take some liberties for reasons of drama. For instance, hearing the ship in space, feeling an explosion that doesn't actually hit the ship. And it's something I understand, esp. for a weekly show.

But it's interesting when Gerrold refers to the Star Trek Guide that it was clear Roddenberry had considered a lot of these elements.

 

[Kertrats47]

Just posted a new review of an older book: New Earth, Book One: Wagon Train to the Stars by Diane Carey. Not bad, but not overwhelmingly great either.

Currently reading book four of the New Earth series, The Flaming Arrow by Kathy & Jerry Oltion.