oh, yeah, i'm reading Dale Brown's Whiplash: A Dreamland thriller and twice people's names were swapped and once Iraq is mentioned not Iran. (someone's flying over Iraq and on about going to Iran and says about flying to Iraq...)
What pet peeves do you have about trek books?
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Oops. The annoying thing is, it's one of the few Ellis books I don't have lying around, so I can't determine it for myself.
Although since I mentioned Ellis, I wound up rereading a lot of the stuff I've got, and when you start reading multiple Ellis works in series, the repetition of the man starts to drain. I'll grant that the sci-fi concepts were probably original, at least to the medium, when he came up with them, but he recycles them like he was collecting bottles in Michigan.
I'd bet the bank that Switchblade Honey mentions DMT or a strained fictional representation of information science.
Ordinarily that sort of thing annoys me, but IIRC it happened at an appropriate point, at the end of a chapter, and it didn't seem terribly out of character for Cervantes to say that, and, finally, Pulp Fiction references piss on Star Wars references from a great height. I'll just pretend I didn't notice any Star Wars references in the book.
My biggest pet peeve is none of the books look boring anymore. I used to be able to skip the occasional Star Trek book so I could read something else, but nooooo, now they have to be all so darn interesting that I end up reading them all.
And I'm totally serious about that.
I'm reading the Star Trek books for the first time, started with TNG post Nemesis, "Resistance," so for me everything is new and exciting. Although I haven't read all of the Titan books yet, I like the idea of a ship going forth into unknown territory...can't wait to get back to those books.
As I've said above, I've only started reading the Trek books since "Resistance," but enough with the Borg already. We got the Borg in TNG, Voyager and now the books. I know the Borg are an awesome group, and therefore a lot of stories, but can we find another drum to beat for a while? Maybe it's just me, but that's my opinion.
You may not like Reservoir Ferengi...
Then again, aside from the title there's only (IIRC) one Tarantino ref, and it's to Jackie Brown... And it works as a Trek meta-ref as well...
I did say that ordinarily that sort of thing annoys me. Not always. Bring on Reservoir Ferengi.
Only three months to go - less than that if Seven Deadly Sins hits US shelves at the start of the month...
I guess my pet peeve is action within dialogue.
"So is the parasite going to eat the host" asked the technician as he calibrated the phase inducers to within the tiniest tolerance yet imagined by anyone who ever imagined a tolerance to a phase inducer whatever that is, "or can we save her?"
Do you not just skip over all the non-dialogue? I do. Sometimes I jump over the non-dialogue, read the rest of the dialogue, then go back and read what I skipped. I can't seem to help it.
"So is the parasite going to eat the host" asked the technician as he calibrated the phase inducers to within the tiniest tolerance yet imagined by anyone who ever imagined a tolerance to a phase inducer whatever that is, "or can we save her?"
Do you not just skip over all the non-dialogue? I do. Sometimes I jump over the non-dialogue, read the rest of the dialogue, then go back and read what I skipped. I can't seem to help it.
