So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[Denise]

I just finished Best Destiny by Diane Carey. Gosh, what a great story! It ends the way the TOS movie series should have ended, as far as I am concerned. No Generations. No Nexus. No JJ Trek. Just our characters going off into the sunset and our imaginations filling in the rest.

Also reading Kate Atkinson's Life After Life and Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars.

 

[Greg Cox]

Today's comic-book shop haul: SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN and the first issue of a new FRANKENSTEIN comic, based on the classic Universal movie.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Last night, I re-read "An Easy Fast," in Tales from the Captain's Table.

It occurs to me that we ought to have "another round" of Captain's Table stories, since we've got so many captains who haven't yet had known visits to the establishment.

DSC alone gave us Georgiou, Lorca, Saru, and (eventually) Burnham. PIC gave us Rios, Shaw, and (eventually) Seven. SNW gave us Batel. LD gave us Freeman. PRO gave us Dal, sort-of.

Note: no story ideas here, just an anthology idea.

 

[Cyfa]

I have finished Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures (just as excellent as the first time around, btw), and started Uncertain Logic, but I've just realised that I missed Tower of Babel so I'll pause UL until I've read ToB.

 

[youngtrek]

Read (or finished reading) in August:

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Scorpius Run by Ryan Parrott, Mike Johnson, and Nick Filardi (IDW, 2024)

Star Wars: X-Wing (#4): The Bacta War by Michael Stackpole (Del Rey, 1997)

Superman: The Sunday Classics: 1939-1943 (DC/Kitchen Sink Press, 1998)

Continued (or started) reading:

Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider Modern Era Epic Collection Vol. 1: Edge of Spider-Verse (Marvel, 2023) (35% read)

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Pliable Truths by Dayton Ward (Gallery Books, 2024) (16%)

Superman Archives Vol. 6 (DC, 2003) (75%)

Superman: The Action Comics Archives Vol. 4 (DC, 2005) (58%)

Superman: The Golden Age Dailies: 1942-1944 (IDW/Library of American Comics, 2017) (53%)

Superman: The Golden Age Sunday Pages: 1943-1946 (IDW/Library of American Comics, 2014) (4%)

Superman: The World’s Finest Comics Archives Vol. 1 (DC, 2004) (72%)

Voices from Krypton by Edward Gross (NacelleBooks, 2023) (29%)

Goodreads 2024 Reading Challenge: 37 of 50 books (4 ahead of schedule).

— David Young

 

[Greg Cox]

Current reading: THE SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.


Just started it last night, but I'm enjoying it so far, as the book cuts back and forth between the troubled filming of a 1950s Biblical epic, starring an unknown actress as Salome, and flashbacks to the actual Salome back in the ancient past.

Hollywood versus ancient Judea!

 

[Smiley]

Reading for the first time:

Stephen Fry in America (the one where he visits all 50 states)
Star Wars: Defy the Storm

Rereading:

Kirsten Beyer's Star Trek: Protectors

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Just read "Bedside Matters," by GC (in The Amazing Stories), last night.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Just finished Magic For Marigold by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Don't think I ever read this one before. Kind of wish there had been a sequel.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Hmm. Lucy Maud Montgomery as in Anne of Green Gables and its canonical sequels. As in putting Prince Edward Island on the map (and Prince Edward Islanders aren't a little nuts over Anne of Green Gables; they're stark raving loonie [note the spelling] as a Canadian dollar coin).

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I have read the Anne and Emily books (which I own), the Pat duology, the "Story Girl" duology, Jane of Lantern Hill, The Blue Castle, A Tangled Web, several anthologies of short stories by Montgomery (many of which I own). Next up is Kilmeny of the Orchard (if the library finds a copy to interlibrary loan me)

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Hmm. Just a wild guess, but are you perchance a Montgomery fan? Or a Prince Edward Islander? Or both?



When I visited Charlottetown, my timing was just a little bit off: a day or two earlier, and I could have caught their annual production of an Anne of Green Gables musical. As it was, I made it my business to read the book. I think I might have even picked up a copy locally.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Yes and no. Yes, a fan, no, an Ontarian. One of my favorite things is all the fun little anecdotes characters share about people they used to know, eccentric relatives, etc.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Next up is Kilmeny of the Orchard (if the library finds a copy to interlibrary loan me)

If they can't, Alibris has plenty of copies, some of them probably cheaper than the shipping cost.

I looked up Mississauga. Hmm. Just outside of Toronto, but it doesn't look like I passed through on my first Canadian vacation; it looks like The Canadian (VIA Rail Canada 1/2) goes through Markham to get between Washago and Toronto. (I took it all the way from Vancouver to Toronto, with a layover in Winnipeg, because I specifically wanted to visit Winnipeg: during the George W. Bush Administration, I joked about relocating there; during the first, and hopefully only, Trump Administration, I was only half joking.)

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Interlibrary loans (at least the ones I get from my library system) are free. And because it's a well-known (okay, legendary) Canadian author, I should be good.

 

[Greg Cox]

Just read "Bedside Matters," by GC (in The Amazing Stories), last night.

Wow. That takes me back. That's the one about Data's cat, right?

As I recall, Amazing Stories magazine (which briefly had a license to publish Trek fiction) specifically asked me for a light-hearted, humorous story, and we had just gotten an adorable new cat, so . . . .

 

[Commander Troi]

Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott. Gorgeous. Brilliant. This trilogy of books (I have the collected edition) is uplifting, deeply feminist, and has some of the best art I've seen in a graphic novel ever. It rekindled my love for the Greek Goddesses.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Wow. That takes me back. That's the one about Data's cat, right?

As I recall, Amazing Stories magazine (which briefly had a license to publish Trek fiction) specifically asked me for a light-hearted, humorous story, and we had just gotten an adorable new cat, so . . . .

Yes. And a Chelon secretary attempting to assassinate the Chelon ambassador. I think this might predate any other mention of that species by name, and given that it's a TNG story, and (as I recall) describes them as a newly-contacted race, Memory Beta's conflating them with the testudoid Rigellians ("saber-toothed turtles") of TMP seems rather contrary to original intentions.

I find myself thinking of Bud Spore's wife, from the comic strip, On the Fastrack. Chelonia Tuttle.

 

[Greg Cox]

Yes. And a Chelon secretary attempting to assassinate the Chelon ambassador. I think this might predate any other mention of that species by name, and given that it's a TNG story, and (as I recall) describes them as a newly-contacted race, Memory Beta's conflating them with the testudoid Rigellians ("saber-toothed turtles") of TMP seems rather contrary to original intentions.

I find myself thinking of Bud Spore's wife, from the comic strip, On the Fastrack. Chelonia Tuttle.

Honestly, I don't remember thinking of TMP at all when writing that story. It was a comedy, and turtle-like aliens struck me as a funny, so that's where I went. Wasn't trying to reference TMP or anything like that.

Or so I recall. That was a LONG time ago.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I looked up Mississauga. Hmm. Just outside of Toronto, but it doesn't look like I passed through on my first Canadian vacation

Toronto Pearson International Airport is located there, so if you happened to fly in or out of there, then you've been to Mississauga.