Just started The Winter Long by Seanan McGuire.
So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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Ha, maybe! Is that what they're called? The first time I googled the author her Instagram said "See you at the ripped bodice" and I wondered what that meant. This story is just like some love triangle in a New York apartment block. It's just very low key though and I love that.
Closest I've gotten to ever reading that genre would probably be playing Amy Briggs' interactive romance Infocom game, Plundered Hearts (which has the distinction of being the only Infocom game in which the player-avatar is always specifically female).
I think I was first exposed to the term in a promotional article about the game, in Infocom's customer newsletter, The Status Line (formerly The New Zork Times).
I think I was first exposed to the term in a promotional article about the game, in Infocom's customer newsletter, The Status Line (formerly The New Zork Times).
I am currently reading the Double Helix books in the TNG series and loving them. I finished the second book "Vectors" a while ago and really enjoyed it. The series surprised me by being a crossover and now I can't wait to see what is next.
I liked getting a Pulaski centric book set in Terok Nor. Quark, Rom and Nog provided a bit of comic relief in an otherwise serious plague story. Good Trek fun all around.
I liked getting a Pulaski centric book set in Terok Nor. Quark, Rom and Nog provided a bit of comic relief in an otherwise serious plague story. Good Trek fun all around.
I liked Pulaski, even if I prefer Crusher.
Be that as it may, I'm now 2 cantos into Purgatorio, in Dante's Divine Comedy.
Be that as it may, I'm now 2 cantos into Purgatorio, in Dante's Divine Comedy.
I'm finishing up New Frontier: Once Burned and am considering skipping straight to the Double Helix #5, which continues the New Frontier storyline. Part of me wants to start at the beginning of the Double Helix series, but a much more time-conscious part of me wants to skip ahead so I can continue my drive through New Frontier.
You can understand Double Helix #5 just fine with only your knowledge of the New Frontier series. In books #1-4 of Double Helix, not much happens in the meta-narrative. You can come back later to those books if you want medical drama and unusual character team-ups. Double Helix #6 is a story set earlier in the timeline that explains the who and why of what went on during the miniseries.
I am partway through Uncertain Logic at the moment.
As @Smiley indicated, you can do that without issue. The Double Helix books were each standalone-ish books that had a recurring theme of a disease. But each book had its own beginning, middle, and end. The true objective of the series, as editor John Ordover put it back then, was "Star Trek Colorforms," mixing and matching different characters from different parts of the franchise.
Hmm. Star Trek Colorforms. Cute. The only Colorforms set I had was a Winnie the Pooh set.
Be that as it may, I'm now5 9 cantos into Purgatorio, in the Divine Comedy. Still among the souls waiting to get into Purgatory. But not for much longer.
Be that as it may, I'm now
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Now 25 cantos into Purgatorio, in the Divine Comedy.
Now one canto into Paradiso, in the Divine Comedy.
What We Hide by Colleen Coble and Rick Acker.
Is the established author/new co-author thing more prevalent nowadays, or is it just me?
Is the established author/new co-author thing more prevalent nowadays, or is it just me?
I've seen it here and there over the years, often when the new co-author is doing most or all of the writing while the established author just lends their name and a few ideas because they're too elderly or too busy to contribute much more, e.g. with Arthur C. Clarke's later collaborations with authors like Gentry Lee and Stephen Baxter. Although I've never heard of the authors you mention, so I don't know if that's the case there.
It's just you. That's been a thing for a while, trust me.
Heck my very first published novel was YA novel titled ROBERT SILVERBERG'S TIME TOURS: THE PIRATE PARADOX (by Greg Cox & Nick Baron). Trust me, Silverberg's name was bigger than mine. 
Granted, that was less of case of a "collaboration" than of Silverberg lending his name to a packaged series loosely based on one of his novels, but Keith is right. This is hardly a new thing.
See also Tom Clancy, Larry Niven, Andre Norton, Marion Zimmer Bradley, etc.
Granted, that was less of case of a "collaboration" than of Silverberg lending his name to a packaged series loosely based on one of his novels, but Keith is right. This is hardly a new thing.
See also Tom Clancy, Larry Niven, Andre Norton, Marion Zimmer Bradley, etc.
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