I just finished Traitor Winds . A great book focusing on Sulu, Chekov, and Uhura (with a little of the others except Spock). These Lost Years books are a lot better than I remembered them.
So what are you reading now? Part 2
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Just finished Corona. A fun read. Again, and early novel where I wasn't sure which 5YM it took place in. But it had some interesting actual science fiction elements.
Now onto Tears of the Singers, which some reviews promise is actually a Uhura novel, unlike Uhura's Song.
Oh, in non-Trek, I started a Penguin Classics...the Talmud, a Selection. And I'm enjoying the Adobe Illustrator CS3 Wow book...does that count as reading?
Now onto Tears of the Singers, which some reviews promise is actually a Uhura novel, unlike Uhura's Song.
Oh, in non-Trek, I started a Penguin Classics...the Talmud, a Selection. And I'm enjoying the Adobe Illustrator CS3 Wow book...does that count as reading?
I just started book 5 of the Redwall series Salamandastron by Brian Jacques.
I just finished The Magician's Apprentice by Trudi Canavan and wow!!! Her writing just gets better and better. I just couldn't put this book down.
I'm still reading The Escape as bedtime reading, and daytime reading will now be Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver.
I'm still reading The Escape as bedtime reading, and daytime reading will now be Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver.
It all (mostly) gets reconciled in the end. The DS9-postfinale Andorians and "Enterprise" Andorians were two simultaneous interpretations that were eventually reconciled with stories in the Enterprise-postfinale and the Myriad Universes series. There are still a few little points of disparity for those of us who worry about such things (
Thanks for the info, Nasat!
I thought they'd just suddenly switch to Ent-style Andorians in a book or two and pretend nothing happened :-)
On vacation, I read Rising Son, the Myriad Universe books, and the first two Mirror Universe books:
I though Rising Son was pretty good. I didn't like it at first, but after about a hundred pages, it really grew on me.
A Less Perfect Union was very good. I like how the Federation still sort of formed in this timeline, evem though Earth doesn't cooperate. There are way too many timetravel episodes and books were altering a small event in Earth's past automatically means no Federation. I also like how they did an ENT/TOS crossover. Some bits of it are very sad, especially Trip's death, but it ends on a good note, which is good.
Places of Exile was easily the best Myriad Universes story, and reminded me why I love Voyager despitte its many flaws. It got so many things right the show got wrong: Kes stays, Harry Kim and Chakotay have stuff to do, Seven is a much better character, Chakotay and Janeway end up together. I also liked the politics aspect of the story and the interactions with the Voth. I also loved Janeway's character arc were she eventually doesn't even want to go home, as she brought home to the Delta Quadrant.
Seeds of Dissent: Quite good. I like how completly different this universe is from the main timeline, much more so then the otrher Myriad stories. This is of course understandable, as the timeline is 400 years from it's point of divergence, while the others are at most a century from their point of divergence. I like how it ended on a positive note, despite all the death and destruction.
The Chimes at Midnight: I really liked this one. Thelin was a very good character, and it's pretty sad that all that death and destruction was caused because unlike Spock, he didn't die while saving the Enterprise, meaning Kirk didn't have to steal Enteprise to save his katra, meaning David was left in Kruge's grubby hands for months, meaning that when Enterprise actually saved him, they weren't around to save Earth from the whale probe, and since David was still alive, Genesis was too. I hated the fact that the book ended so darkly, and I'm not referring to Thelin's sacrifice (which I thought was a beautiful "scene"), but to the predicted arms race with the Romulans.
A Gutted World: easily the worst Myriad story. Apparently, the writer thought blowing just about everything up would make a good story. Was it nessecary to kill off all major characters, and most minor ones, and destroy Enterprise, Voyager, Deep Space Nine, the Defiant, Qo'nos, Qo'nos's star, and the Wormhole? Sure, all these stories contain death and destruction, but none of them consider it their plot.
Brave new World: not so good, but for completly opposite reasons then A Gutted World: this one is just too damn happy. Everyone lives eternal, everyone can travel as far as they want, the Dominion and the Borg aren't up to anything, ladidadida... Another thing about this story that annoys me is Wesley Crusher. The most annoying Trek character ever returns, and this time he gets his grubby hands on Lal and the Iconian gates! The scene that pissed me off most was when he simply glanced at a highly advanced and mysterious piece of technology, that had been studied for ten years by thousands of hyper-intelligent androids, and he just knows how it works. NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!
Age of the Empress: An excellent sequel to In a Mirror, Darkly. I really liked mirror Shran, and was rooting for him, so it was a shame he lost. (Damn, all great villains do...
) I didn't like T'pol and Hoshi, though. From In a Mirror, Darkly, I didn't get the impression T'pol would so blatantly betray the rebellion, and Hoshi was portraied as way too nice an Empress.
The Sorrows of an Empire: Very good. I really liked how Spock set up the liberation and conquest of his empire, and also how Mirror versions of most Movies characters appeared. Valeris being the assassin was a bit predictable, though.
The Worst of both Worlds: OK, but it suffers from Mirror people beiong too much like their Prime counterparts. Picard, Vash, Madred, Wesley (I really loved picturing how the Klingons beat him up), Pulaski ("Momma" Pulaski
), Soong, Kang... The DS9 mirror episodes often make the same mistake. The end was very predictable, unfortunaly (thouygh Soong becoming Locutus was a cool surprise).
The Mirror-Scaled Serpent: At first, I thought most characters would again be the same people they were in the Prime universe. With the exception of Be'llanna and Harry, they all seemed the same (Seven being so different would of course be reached if she was never assimilated). I loved it when they suddenly all became so different halfway. I hope their will be a sequel, though like many mirror universe stories, the fact that they killed off so many characters will make that a problem (which is, IMO, also a reason the DS9 mirror episodes got less good with each passing episode). Something that annoyed me was all the naked running around in the second half. I don't like to picture Chakotay, Tuvok, Kim, and Paris running around naked.
Cutting Ties I didn't read, as I've never read any New Frontier.
Saturn's Children: Really liked it. I like how Zek and Bashir try resurrecting the Terran Empire, while O'brien and Eddington try to resurrect the Terran Republic. I also liked mirror Kira, as always. Even in The Empeor's new Cloak
she had a few good moments.
A Less Perfect Union was very good. I like how the Federation still sort of formed in this timeline, evem though Earth doesn't cooperate. There are way too many timetravel episodes and books were altering a small event in Earth's past automatically means no Federation. I also like how they did an ENT/TOS crossover. Some bits of it are very sad, especially Trip's death, but it ends on a good note, which is good.
Places of Exile was easily the best Myriad Universes story, and reminded me why I love Voyager despitte its many flaws. It got so many things right the show got wrong: Kes stays, Harry Kim and Chakotay have stuff to do, Seven is a much better character, Chakotay and Janeway end up together. I also liked the politics aspect of the story and the interactions with the Voth. I also loved Janeway's character arc were she eventually doesn't even want to go home, as she brought home to the Delta Quadrant.
Seeds of Dissent: Quite good. I like how completly different this universe is from the main timeline, much more so then the otrher Myriad stories. This is of course understandable, as the timeline is 400 years from it's point of divergence, while the others are at most a century from their point of divergence. I like how it ended on a positive note, despite all the death and destruction.
The Chimes at Midnight: I really liked this one. Thelin was a very good character, and it's pretty sad that all that death and destruction was caused because unlike Spock, he didn't die while saving the Enterprise, meaning Kirk didn't have to steal Enteprise to save his katra, meaning David was left in Kruge's grubby hands for months, meaning that when Enterprise actually saved him, they weren't around to save Earth from the whale probe, and since David was still alive, Genesis was too. I hated the fact that the book ended so darkly, and I'm not referring to Thelin's sacrifice (which I thought was a beautiful "scene"), but to the predicted arms race with the Romulans.
A Gutted World: easily the worst Myriad story. Apparently, the writer thought blowing just about everything up would make a good story. Was it nessecary to kill off all major characters, and most minor ones, and destroy Enterprise, Voyager, Deep Space Nine, the Defiant, Qo'nos, Qo'nos's star, and the Wormhole? Sure, all these stories contain death and destruction, but none of them consider it their plot.
Brave new World: not so good, but for completly opposite reasons then A Gutted World: this one is just too damn happy. Everyone lives eternal, everyone can travel as far as they want, the Dominion and the Borg aren't up to anything, ladidadida... Another thing about this story that annoys me is Wesley Crusher. The most annoying Trek character ever returns, and this time he gets his grubby hands on Lal and the Iconian gates! The scene that pissed me off most was when he simply glanced at a highly advanced and mysterious piece of technology, that had been studied for ten years by thousands of hyper-intelligent androids, and he just knows how it works. NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!
Age of the Empress: An excellent sequel to In a Mirror, Darkly. I really liked mirror Shran, and was rooting for him, so it was a shame he lost. (Damn, all great villains do...
) I didn't like T'pol and Hoshi, though. From In a Mirror, Darkly, I didn't get the impression T'pol would so blatantly betray the rebellion, and Hoshi was portraied as way too nice an Empress.The Sorrows of an Empire: Very good. I really liked how Spock set up the liberation and conquest of his empire, and also how Mirror versions of most Movies characters appeared. Valeris being the assassin was a bit predictable, though.
The Worst of both Worlds: OK, but it suffers from Mirror people beiong too much like their Prime counterparts. Picard, Vash, Madred, Wesley (I really loved picturing how the Klingons beat him up), Pulaski ("Momma" Pulaski
), Soong, Kang... The DS9 mirror episodes often make the same mistake. The end was very predictable, unfortunaly (thouygh Soong becoming Locutus was a cool surprise).The Mirror-Scaled Serpent: At first, I thought most characters would again be the same people they were in the Prime universe. With the exception of Be'llanna and Harry, they all seemed the same (Seven being so different would of course be reached if she was never assimilated). I loved it when they suddenly all became so different halfway. I hope their will be a sequel, though like many mirror universe stories, the fact that they killed off so many characters will make that a problem (which is, IMO, also a reason the DS9 mirror episodes got less good with each passing episode). Something that annoyed me was all the naked running around in the second half. I don't like to picture Chakotay, Tuvok, Kim, and Paris running around naked.
Cutting Ties I didn't read, as I've never read any New Frontier.
Saturn's Children: Really liked it. I like how Zek and Bashir try resurrecting the Terran Empire, while O'brien and Eddington try to resurrect the Terran Republic. I also liked mirror Kira, as always. Even in The Empeor's new Cloak
she had a few good moments.
FYI, there are sequels to pretty much all of the MU stories in the short story anthology, Shards and Shadows, which came out this January.On vacation, I read Rising Son, the Myriad Universe books, and the first two Mirror Universe books:
I though Rising Son was pretty good. I didn't like it at first, but after about a hundred pages, it really grew on me.
A Less Perfect Union was very good. I like how the Federation still sort of formed in this timeline, evem though Earth doesn't cooperate. There are way too many timetravel episodes and books were altering a small event in Earth's past automatically means no Federation. I also like how they did an ENT/TOS crossover. Some bits of it are very sad, especially Trip's death, but it ends on a good note, which is good.
Places of Exile was easily the best Myriad Universes story, and reminded me why I love Voyager despitte its many flaws. It got so many things right the show got wrong: Kes stays, Harry Kim and Chakotay have stuff to do, Seven is a much better character, Chakotay and Janeway end up together. I also liked the politics aspect of the story and the interactions with the Voth. I also loved Janeway's character arc were she eventually doesn't even want to go home, as she brought home to the Delta Quadrant.
Seeds of Dissent: Quite good. I like how completly different this universe is from the main timeline, much more so then the otrher Myriad stories. This is of course understandable, as the timeline is 400 years from it's point of divergence, while the others are at most a century from their point of divergence. I like how it ended on a positive note, despite all the death and destruction.
The Chimes at Midnight: I really liked this one. Thelin was a very good character, and it's pretty sad that all that death and destruction was caused because unlike Spock, he didn't die while saving the Enterprise, meaning Kirk didn't have to steal Enteprise to save his katra, meaning David was left in Kruge's grubby hands for months, meaning that when Enterprise actually saved him, they weren't around to save Earth from the whale probe, and since David was still alive, Genesis was too. I hated the fact that the book ended so darkly, and I'm not referring to Thelin's sacrifice (which I thought was a beautiful "scene"), but to the predicted arms race with the Romulans.
A Gutted World: easily the worst Myriad story. Apparently, the writer thought blowing just about everything up would make a good story. Was it nessecary to kill off all major characters, and most minor ones, and destroy Enterprise, Voyager, Deep Space Nine, the Defiant, Qo'nos, Qo'nos's star, and the Wormhole? Sure, all these stories contain death and destruction, but none of them consider it their plot.
Brave new World: not so good, but for completly opposite reasons then A Gutted World: this one is just too damn happy. Everyone lives eternal, everyone can travel as far as they want, the Dominion and the Borg aren't up to anything, ladidadida... Another thing about this story that annoys me is Wesley Crusher. The most annoying Trek character ever returns, and this time he gets his grubby hands on Lal and the Iconian gates! The scene that pissed me off most was when he simply glanced at a highly advanced and mysterious piece of technology, that had been studied for ten years by thousands of hyper-intelligent androids, and he just knows how it works. NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!
Age of the Empress: An excellent sequel to In a Mirror, Darkly. I really liked mirror Shran, and was rooting for him, so it was a shame he lost. (Damn, all great villains do...
The Sorrows of an Empire: Very good. I really liked how Spock set up the liberation and conquest of his empire, and also how Mirror versions of most Movies characters appeared. Valeris being the assassin was a bit predictable, though.
The Worst of both Worlds: OK, but it suffers from Mirror people beiong too much like their Prime counterparts. Picard, Vash, Madred, Wesley (I really loved picturing how the Klingons beat him up), Pulaski ("Momma" Pulaski
The Mirror-Scaled Serpent: At first, I thought most characters would again be the same people they were in the Prime universe. With the exception of Be'llanna and Harry, they all seemed the same (Seven being so different would of course be reached if she was never assimilated). I loved it when they suddenly all became so different halfway. I hope their will be a sequel, though like many mirror universe stories, the fact that they killed off so many characters will make that a problem (which is, IMO, also a reason the DS9 mirror episodes got less good with each passing episode). Something that annoyed me was all the naked running around in the second half. I don't like to picture Chakotay, Tuvok, Kim, and Paris running around naked.
Cutting Ties I didn't read, as I've never read any New Frontier.
Saturn's Children: Really liked it. I like how Zek and Bashir try resurrecting the Terran Empire, while O'brien and Eddington try to resurrect the Terran Republic. I also liked mirror Kira, as always. Even in The Empeor's new Cloak
It always amazes me how different people's thoughts about the same books can be, because I actually loved A Gutted World. I thought it was a very interesting look at another (much more tragic) version of the Dominion War. Sure there was alot of death and destruction, but I thought that that was actually part of what made the story so memorable, and shocking.
I'm delighted to hear that you're enjoying Provenance of Shadows.
Currently reading The Stars Blue Yonder by Sandra McDonald, #3 in her Australians In Space series. 
I'm delighted to hear that you're enjoying Provenance of Shadows.
I finished Klingon Empire: A Burning House last night. When I get home I'm going to start on The Lives of Dax.
Started Losing the Peace.
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