I'm just finished with my Ex Machina (Star Trek novel) reread, and I am one chapter into a reread of The Higher Frontier. It's much easier to appreciate the return appearances of the characters created for the first novel when reading them both in sequence. Spring Rain and Uuvu'it feel like old friends instead of random names this time around.
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Ideally, one should read Mere Anarchy: The Darkness Drops Again and DTI: Forgotten History between those two, since they're part of the sequence as well (though much of TDDA jumps ahead to later years). I wrote FH so that it could be read either as a DTI novel crossing over with TOS or a TOS novel crossing over with DTI.
Still reading John Williams: A Composer's Life. Just got to the part where (at Spielberg's urging) George Lucas hires him for SW.
Is there a difference?
Is there a difference?
I mean that I was told going in that Forgotten History would probably be marketed under the TOS banner, although my contract called it a DTI novel, so I wasn't sure which way it would turn out. I basically wrote it as if it were a TOS novel and the DTI characters were newly introduced guest stars, so people could follow the book without having read Watching the Clock. So despite its banner, I consider it equally a DTI and a TOS novel.
Indeed, since FH is both a sequel and a prequel to WtC, you could read the two in either order and it would work equally well. Which is fitting for books about time travel.
Thank you so much!
Just finished Chapter 7 of John Williams: A Composer's Life. That's the chapter that covers SW and CE3K, ending on page 222.
I finished The Lord of The Rings: The Return of the Kings this afternoon, and now I'm starting the Star Trek: Aliens comic collection. It's an anthology series with a Klingons issue written by Jackson Lanzing & Colin Kelly with art by Timother Green II of Magnus Arts, a Ferengi issue written by Christina Rice with art by Andrew Price, and a Trill issue written by Jody Houser with art by Hendry Prasetya & Rafael Perez Granados.
Gah, and now you have me once again wishing we had gotten the Star Trek/Alien crossover that they announced a few years ago.
I finished up the Aliens collection this morning and it was good, the Ferengi issue was my favorite. The Trill issue was my second favorite and the Klingon one was close third.
Now that I'm done with that, I'm reading Futrama-o-rama, the first collection of the Futurama Comics series. The Futurama and Simpsons comics are all only available as paperbacks, so this is the first physical comic trade paperback I've read in quite a while.
I finished up the Aliens collection this morning and it was good, the Ferengi issue was my favorite. The Trill issue was my second favorite and the Klingon one was close third.
Now that I'm done with that, I'm reading Futrama-o-rama, the first collection of the Futurama Comics series. The Futurama and Simpsons comics are all only available as paperbacks, so this is the first physical comic trade paperback I've read in quite a while.
Now about 240 pages into John Williams: A Composer's Life. (It's extremely dense writing.) He's just been appointed as Arthur Fiedler's successor with the Boston Pops, and in response to a request from George Lucas to punch up a Darth Vader entrance, he revised a few bars of the trombone part on the scoring stage, in the middle of a recording session.
Just finished Star Wars: Scourge by Jeff Grubb. It is a surprisingly good book, too bad we never got a sequel.
Would be fun to see Mander and Kyle Katarn on a mission together
Would be fun to see Mander and Kyle Katarn on a mission together
Sounds like it would be really Wilde.
The Simpsons/Futurama crossover is in hardcover. I'm not sure if it was ever republished in paperback.
It's been a long time since I've read it. I enjoyed it, I thought it was frequently hilarious, and I had issues with it.
If I remember correctly, it's the Futurama equivalent of a holodeck story, and they don't actually meet the Simpsons. So on that level, it was kinda disappointing. Still fun, though.
Well, the problem is that The Simpsons and Futurama are both fictional in each other's realities (like Batman '66 and The Green Hornet). Although I think the former eventually ignored that and did a crossover episode (also like Batman '66 and The Green Hornet).
I followed the Batman series in strip syndication for a few years, and saw every episode and the movie. I don't recall The Green Hornet ever showing up as fictional in Batman, and I very clearly recall the crossover ("A Piece of the Action"/"Batman's Satisfaction", involving a counterfeit stamp ring run by Colonel Gumm). As I recall, Gumm was so obsessed with alphabet soup that he could taste the difference between consonants and vowels, and there was a minor subplot involving speculation that Britt Reid was Batman, and Bruce Wayne was the Green Hornet(!).
Never read any comic books based on that version of Batman (or any other version, for that matter), so I can't speak to them (and didn't even know they'd existed under the Batman '66 title until just now).
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I've gotten as far as the beginning of John Williams' tenure conducting the Boston Pops. The legendary blow-ups have been alluded to, but haven't happened yet. He's experienced a certain amount of culture shock, adjusting to the idea of tables and chairs in the orchestra section, and concertgoers actively eating and drinking during the performance. Oh, and while the Evening at Pops broadcast of his debut concert only showed him conducting his own film scores, the actual concert was much longer, and included one of Henryk Wieniawski's violin concertos.
Never read any comic books based on that version of Batman (or any other version, for that matter), so I can't speak to them (and didn't even know they'd existed under the Batman '66 title until just now).
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I've gotten as far as the beginning of John Williams' tenure conducting the Boston Pops. The legendary blow-ups have been alluded to, but haven't happened yet. He's experienced a certain amount of culture shock, adjusting to the idea of tables and chairs in the orchestra section, and concertgoers actively eating and drinking during the performance. Oh, and while the Evening at Pops broadcast of his debut concert only showed him conducting his own film scores, the actual concert was much longer, and included one of Henryk Wieniawski's violin concertos.
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In the Batman episode "The Impractical Joker," Bruce mentions wanting to change the TV channel to watch The Green Hornet. Conversely, two episodes of The Green Hornet, “The Secret of the Sally Bell” and “Ace in the Hole,” show characters watching Batman on TV. Despite this, Batman: "The Spell of Tut" gave the Green Hornet and Kato a window cameo during a Bat-climb, in which Batman and Robin recognized them as fellow crimefighters. This, in turn, was ignored in the subsequent crossover 2-parter, in which Batman and Robin believed the Hornet and Kato to be criminals. So there were three mutually contradictory depictions of GH&K within Batman '66.
Thanks. It's probably been at least 5 decades since I saw an episode all the way through (and never did see an episode of The Green Hornet), and the only window cameos I can recall were Ted Cassidy at a harpsichord, playing a variation on the Addams Family theme, and newspaper columnist Suzy Knickerbocker (whom I'd never heard of at the time; I remember the fuss over her appearance, but had not the slightest clue why there was any fuss over her).
Incidentally, before I was obsessed with Batman, it was Rocket Robin Hood that I remember watching regularly. Anybody remember that?
Incidentally, before I was obsessed with Batman, it was Rocket Robin Hood that I remember watching regularly. Anybody remember that?
Oh, I didn't know that was a hardcover, it's definitely on my list once I get through more of their individual comics. That spoiler is a little disappointing, but it could still be fun.
They actually did do a crossover episode a few years ago, with first Bender and then the rest of the Futurama crew coming to modern day Springfield first, and then eventually bring The Simpsons to New New York with them.
The Batman '66 comics actually did a Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet miniseries that was a sequel to the episodes. It was part of a whole series of Batman '66 Meets miniseries, with them also teaming up with Steed & Mrs. Peel, guys from The Man From U.N.C.L.E., the Archie comics cast, The Legion of Superheroes, and the cast from Wonder Woman '77, who also had their own individual comic series around the same time.
As for what I've been reading, over yesterday and Monday I read Star Trek: First Contact - The Making of the Classic Film by Joe Fordham, which I really enjoyed. I leared a few things about the movie that I didn't know, but I was a little disappointed we didn't get more stories about what filming was like for the cast and crew.
Once that was done, I started STTNG: The Q Continuum Signature Edition by Greg Cox. As a big fan of both Q and Greg Cox's writing, I've been looking forward to reading this one for a while.
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