Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs.
So what are you reading now? Part 2
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Given that a tractor beam is a gravitational force rather than some kind of grappling hook that has to touch the hull, it makes little sense that it would be blocked by shields. Whatever the Borg were using in BoBW must've been unusual in the way it worked, or else it was just a mistake in the episode.
The amount of material they'd have to beam through to reach the planet's mantle is far, far greater than the amount of material in the hull of a ship. And the obstruction in the shaft is made of exotic material that could easily have shielding properties.
No one's character is absolutely constant. Picard was dealing with a trauma he'd avoided confronting for many years. He was dealing with the loss of people he'd considered his own children. If he didn't cry when confronting that, he wouldn't have been human or sane.
That's what a counselor is for, though. To be a sounding board for the captain's decision-making process. Also, in particular, to advise the captain on personnel matters. That's part of the job.
Not Trek, but Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain
I read that book a few months ago. The whole series is excellent reading. If you like her, you might also like Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series.
Right now I'm reading The Entropy Effect by Vonda McIntyre and I just finished reading HP and the Goblet of Fire for like the 5th time.
Am I the only one who finds the Reichs' books repetitive? Brennan stumbles into/gets involved with grisly stuff, can't resist going it alone to prove she can while mourning/courting the next man and then has said man come save her. I read the first three and then gave them all to a friend, no thanks. As for Cornwell, I read the first twelve but they lost what made them good IMHO. I feel that many authors who keep the same lead character in a series for so long lose the edge and are just churning out books. One particular British author has done a brilliant job of ageing his character in real time. Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus books are a joy to read, even 20 years after he started writing them.
I always liked the movie, but I'd never read the book, so I was curious as to what the differences are...
A quarter of the way in, and it's pretty good so far.
Which is pretty amazing considering most threads I start sink like a stone.
Back to topic I'm now reading "In Defense of Food".
I read most of the recent Conversations with Samuel R Delany yesterday; I hope to finish tonight. After that, I've got the new edition of Delany's seminal book of SF criticism, The Jewel-Hinged Jaw, just republished by Wesleyan.
Full Circle right now.
Next: Losing the Peace, Before Dishonor, The Good That Men Do, and A Time to Die.
Next: Losing the Peace, Before Dishonor, The Good That Men Do, and A Time to Die.
I have too many. Got about 80 trek books to read and about 15 non-Trek, plus five months worth of New Scientist magazines to read from last year.I'm out of books. Gonna have to go cold turkey for a few days.
With all that, and my writing, I never seem to have enough time.
Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer.
I think the last time I didn't have any unread or unfinished books must have been... 1973, maybe. I never finished Marooned by Martin Caidin (should probably dig it out, now that I've thought of it), which I got circa 1974, or The Silmarillion, which I got circa 1977, and never really started The Well Beyond the World Part One, which I got in 1980, or The Mists of Avalon, which I got in 1985. Not to mention a few of my books from my days as an English major. Pickwick Papers will probably never be finished but I really do intend to go back to Vanity Fair.
If I read a book a day and didn't buy any new books or reread books I've already read, I wouldn't run out until some time in 2011. Later if I started in on Laura's books.
As for current reading: I'm enjoying The Never-Ending Sacrifice.
If I read a book a day and didn't buy any new books or reread books I've already read, I wouldn't run out until some time in 2011. Later if I started in on Laura's books.
As for current reading: I'm enjoying The Never-Ending Sacrifice.
Just had a count up. If I read a book a day without rereading anything, I'd run out in exactly four months.
^ "It was a pleasure to burn."
Love it!
Love it!
I say skip New Scientist and read Scientific America. Though the quality of science in SciAm has gone down a bit too, but at least it doesn't have those newspaper style speculative articles that NS has.
But the spec articles are great fodder for story ideas. It's the primary reason I read the magazine, well and it's interesting too for the most part. I've got enough ideas from the NS magazine to give me enough novels for three lifetimes, not including all the ideas I come up with on my own. I'll have to write synopses and leave them for my kids to write.
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