So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[Christopher]

DC's descriptions of Clan Ru (especially towards the end) seem an awful lot like the Gorn from SNW.

I wouldn't say that. While the SNW Gorn have tails, they otherwise have a basically humanoid shape with upright bodies and broad shoulders, quite unlike the shape of a therapod dinosaur with a horizontal body and cantilevering tail.

Also, though modern redesigns of the Gorn tend to base them on dinosaurs, Wah Chang's original Gorn costume is really more of a crocodile-man design (with insectile compound eyes).

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Well, of course with the last volume of my SNW Season 2 DVD set (and therefore the last episode of the season) back home, some 400 miles away, my knowledge of SNW Gorn is limited. But I wasn't thinking so much about anatomy as behavior: DC's Clan Ru laying their eggs in the nests of "inferior" species, and the SNW Gorn laying their eggs (from what I've seen so far) in the bodies of "inferior" species.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Just whipped through Echoes. I thought it was going to be the Kelvin alternate reality. Now, I wonder what the other alternate counterparts to our crew in General Uhura's universe are like?

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Just whipped through Echoes.

The comic book series I've barely heard of, or the quarter-century-old VOY novel I don't even remember?
For my part, just finished the last of my disposable reading material for this vacation, and about to start on the March/April 2024 Fine Scale Modeler.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

The comic.

 

[Greg Cox]

Nice book haul at the local thrift store today: a FLASHING SWORDS anthology edited by Lin Carter, two Tanith Lee omnibuses, and a book on the Marx Bros, published by Doubleday back in 1950, and copyrighted by all five of the Bros. -- including Gummo!

 

[Smiley]

I just finished rereads of Orion's Hounds and Q&A in the Trek realm. Both still hold up after more than 15 years since their original release. A revisit of Before Dishonor is next.

Also being read:

Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith (very interesting material connected to The Rise of Skywalker and the other two sequels is included here)
Scarlet (sequel to Cinder)

 

[USS Firefly]

Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith (very interesting material connected to The Rise of Skywalker and the other two sequels is included here)
Scarlet (sequel to Cinder

I have read Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith, I wish Luke was more like that in TLJ

 

[CaptChris42]

Am currently reading through Star Trek books: The Best and the Brightest, and Memory Alpha (a rather vintage one)

Also, the somewhat heavy going The Fall of Hyperion, by Dan Simmons.
Still yet to finish Halo: Outcasts, meantime.

 

[Reanok]

Star Trek TNG Valiant by Michael Jan Friedman

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Finished the March 2024 Smithsonian. Starting on the March 2024 NMRA Magazine.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Star Trek TNG Valiant by Michael Jan Friedman

I remember exactly where I bought that -- Waldenbooks, Christiana Mall in Christiana, Delaware -- but I'm struggling with the realization that was twenty-four years ago.

 

[Smiley]

Reading the Kindle version of Star Trek: Before Dishonor, I was dismayed to see that the book is missing some of the ending. Chapter 46 is the last chapter included (page 394). I have reported the issue to Amazon, but I have my doubts how effective that will be. I can put up with a lot in conversions to ebooks, but this is egregiously bad.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Reading the Kindle version of Star Trek: Before Dishonor, I was dismayed to see that the book is missing some of the ending. Chapter 46 is the last chapter included (page 394). I have reported the issue to Amazon, but I have my doubts how effective that will be. I can put up with a lot in conversions to ebooks, but this is egregiously bad.

That’s interesting… I just checked mine, and it goes to chapter 50. I know we’re in different countries, but I would have assumed they would use the same file for both.

 

[Thrawn]

My Kindle version is complete too.

 

[Smiley]

Rereads:

Here, There Be Dragons by James A. Owen
Star Trek: Articles of the Federation by KRAD

Articles is more aspirational than ever before. It's been a long time since I've seen anything in American politics as cool as Bacco giving an honest apology to the legislative branch or having none of the Klingon ambassador's nonsense during a meeting with him.

First time read:

Why We Love Middle-Earth by Alan Sisto and Shawn Marchese

I love their podcast (Prancing Pony Podcast). While there is overlap between the book and the podcast, the book is shorter and more condensed by necessity. That said, I am still finding it a worthwhile experience to read, even if just to see the names instead of just hearing them said aloud.

 

[Denise]

Nice book haul at the local thrift store today: a FLASHING SWORDS anthology edited by Lin Carter, two Tanith Lee omnibuses, and a book on the Marx Bros, published by Doubleday back in 1950, and copyrighted by all five of the Bros. -- including Gummo!

Love Tanith Lee! I loved her fairy tale versions (Red as Blood, Gorgon). Favorite book, though, was Silver Metal Lover (big surprise, I'm sure), though I did like The Birthgrave, Death's Master, and Quest for the White Witch.

You have reminded me I have to go back and catch up on all the ones I missed.

 

[Denise]

Just finished The Children of Kings by David Stern. I really enjoyed that one.

I am also reading The Hacienda by Isabel de Canas. Enjoying it so far.

 

[Reanok]

The Last astronaut by David Wellington

 

[Greg Cox]

Love Tanith Lee! I loved her fairy tale versions (Red as Blood, Gorgon). Favorite book, though, was Silver Metal Lover (big surprise, I'm sure), though I did like The Birthgrave, Death's Master, and Quest for the White Witch.

You have reminded me I have to go back and catch up on all the ones I missed.

Red As Blood is my favorite of her books. Just picked up some omnibus volumes of The Books of Paradys, which I have not read before.

I also published a YA fantasy trilogy by her at Tor decades ago.