This morning, I was reading over chapters 38-42 of my own work-in-progress, marking them up, and realizing that several important beats hadn't made it into the WP file. Got lost on its way out from between my ears. Oops!
So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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Finished The London Seance Society by Sarah Penner. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but not as much as Christopher Priest's The Prestige (I liked the movie, but I liked the book a lot more).
Currently reading The Three Minute Universe by Barbara Paul and The Last Word by Elly Griffiths.
Currently reading The Three Minute Universe by Barbara Paul and The Last Word by Elly Griffiths.
This morning, I realized that yet another beat (and an even more important one) had gotten lost on its way from the little grey cells to the page. And went from having to insert a chapter, to having to split one in half. Which actually* works out better.
Meanwhile, in the office, I'm down to one last article in the April 24 NMRA Magazine. When an NMRA Member achieves Master Model Railroader status, he or she gets however many column-inches he or she wants, for an essay on the journey to MMR. In April, it was Brian Ferris, MMR, with almost two full pages on his journey to being awarded MMR #751.
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*I regularly listen to the NPR program, From the Top, highlighting whiz-kid musicians (from child prodigies to University students and sometimes beyond). And I'm convinced that one could create a drinking game around that show, based on how often the word "actually" comes up as a meaningless filler word.
Meanwhile, in the office, I'm down to one last article in the April 24 NMRA Magazine. When an NMRA Member achieves Master Model Railroader status, he or she gets however many column-inches he or she wants, for an essay on the journey to MMR. In April, it was Brian Ferris, MMR, with almost two full pages on his journey to being awarded MMR #751.
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*I regularly listen to the NPR program, From the Top, highlighting whiz-kid musicians (from child prodigies to University students and sometimes beyond). And I'm convinced that one could create a drinking game around that show, based on how often the word "actually" comes up as a meaningless filler word.
Only one I haven't read is Strangers, and that's on my short list!
Strangers From the Sky is usually my go to response for best Star Trek novel ever. It and Federation by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens. (Regardless of everything the subsequent tv shows and films established that makes them now clearly out of continuity.)
— David Young
That's a fun book. Such a shame it was never adapted for the show back in the day.
Recently finished TNG: Pliable Truths by Dayton Ward, and loved it. Given the subject matter, that was a given, but I didn't realize just how much I wanted a story set in that time period until I was reading it.
Currently reading High Noon on Proxima B, a short story collection by various authors adapting a western motif to a science fiction setting. Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore have a story in the collection which I am looking forward to getting to.
Currently reading High Noon on Proxima B, a short story collection by various authors adapting a western motif to a science fiction setting. Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore have a story in the collection which I am looking forward to getting to.
Hunh. There was a time back in the '40s or '50s when science fiction magazines had to specifically announce "Don't send us stories that are just Westerns with spacey/futuristic trappings, it's a cliche." But now Westerns are more uncommon, so what was once verboten has become retro chic.
That's a fun collection, I just read it back to back with the previous volume Gunfight on Europa Station; Dave Mack has a story in the next one, Last Train to Kepler-238c. As for my current book, I've just started To Everything That Might Have Been: The Lost Universe Of Space: 1999 by Robert E Wood, David Hirsch & Christopher Penfold.
I found Q Squared a strange read back in the day, because it came out about a month after "All Good Things..." aired, and here was another Q story with three different universes/timelines (one of them at the start of the Enterprise-D's mission) and the universe collapsing. Nothing against the book, but it was a bad case of timing.
I felt really bad for Jack Crusher.
Star Trek: The Next Generation 365 by Block and Erdmann is great fun to read. It feels like a mixture of the DS9 Companion writing style and the Blu-ray bonus features. It has enough new-to-me stories and photography to be easily worth the $1-2 I paid for the digital edition.
In the Destiny omnibus reread, I just finished the chapter of Mere Mortals where Hernandez basically loses all three of her human friends. I will finish out the trilogy, but it has not meshed will with my taste since its 2008 release, so I may not revisit it. I'd rather read Mack in Vanguard or Rise Like Lions. Still, if nothing else, I will always remember how to avoid trench foot due to that Jellico scene.
In the Destiny omnibus reread, I just finished the chapter of Mere Mortals where Hernandez basically loses all three of her human friends. I will finish out the trilogy, but it has not meshed will with my taste since its 2008 release, so I may not revisit it. I'd rather read Mack in Vanguard or Rise Like Lions. Still, if nothing else, I will always remember how to avoid trench foot due to that Jellico scene.
I discovered the DS9 post What You Leave Behind ebook series recently: Love's Latinum Lost, Rules of Acquisition, I the Constable. Pretty good if you want something short to read. All three are pretty reasonable on Apple Books.
I've just started a reread of Losing the Peace. It's funny how time and Coda can change one's perspective. Sure, all of those planets and lives have ended, but at least the universe continues. I'm digging the writing through Chapter 1.
The last 10 chapters of Lost Souls are some strong Star Trek writing and stick the landing for the trilogy.
The last 10 chapters of Lost Souls are some strong Star Trek writing and stick the landing for the trilogy.
Having just finished writing the last chapter of the current draft of the novel I've been working on, off-and-on, for most of the past three decades, I'm about to start reading it from Chapter 1. While looking for ways it can be tightened or otherwise improved, and taking continuity notes.
Just posted my review of Fusion by Kirsten Beyer, book 2 of the Voyager: String Theory trilogy.
Picked up Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call from my local library, looking forward to starting on it.
Picked up Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call from my local library, looking forward to starting on it.
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