I finished Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters today. Then I read Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Creeping Man. I'm about to start on Empathy, Christopher L. Bennett's story from Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows.
So what are you reading? Part VI
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I recently finished Precipice. I was hoping for the return of you-know-who, and delighted at the appearance of Gorkon. The interplay between Pennington and T'Prynn was a favorite.
I've a question, though --
I've a question, though --
At the end, Ezekiel Fisher mentioned that only one other person on the station loved Diego Reyes more than he did, and that was Captain Desai. His last comments are on what we endure for love. Is Fisher experiencing unrequited love for Reyes, or is this a....very intimate friendship on the level of Kirk and Spock?
Finished Children if the Storm currently reading A time to Harvest!
I'm currently reading Vernor Vinges "A Fire upon the Deep" and Frederick Pohls "Gateway"-Trilogy. Next one planned is a Trek-Golden-Oldie: Star Trek 2 by James Blish.
Only for someone in our particular culture and generation, where we tend to avoid using the word "love" to describe platonic relationships involving men. But read classic literature like Shakespeare or Dickens and you'll see plenty of references to love between men, used in a friendly or brotherly sense. So there's no reason why men in the 23rd century would have the same hangups about the word that present-day Americans do.
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. Only about 150 pages into it (and I already have the next two books), this will probably take a while.
especially since book 3 is over a 1000 pages long. I plan to read that later on have fun.
currently reading star trek titan: typhon pact: sieze the fire. main problem with this book is the gorn punucuations and name OMG!!! is there a crew profile on the 300 plus memmber yet?
Finished My Enemy, My Ally, now reading Kirsten Beyer's Children of the Storm.
Deep space nine: Avatar book 2
I just managed to get hold of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shadows of the Apt series, some for the Kindle and some in paperback, and I will be reading through them for a while. Book Six is already out and I hope to get that one soon as well.
It is a fascinating fantasy series where mankind is actually various humanoid insect-like people, from Beetles, Spiders, Mantis, and Dragonfly to Ant, Fly, and Wasp to some like the Thorn-Bug. It is a brilliantly written series about the wasp empire trying to create a one-world empire. The first three books cover the war and the next three cover the Other that tries to take over the world.
I previously read the first two, but I'm reading them again to go forward through the series.
If anyone else wants to give them a try, the novels are in this order:
Empire in Black and Gold
Dragonfly Falling
Blood of the Mantis
Salute the Dark
Scarab Path
Sea Watch
It is a fascinating fantasy series where mankind is actually various humanoid insect-like people, from Beetles, Spiders, Mantis, and Dragonfly to Ant, Fly, and Wasp to some like the Thorn-Bug. It is a brilliantly written series about the wasp empire trying to create a one-world empire. The first three books cover the war and the next three cover the Other that tries to take over the world.
I previously read the first two, but I'm reading them again to go forward through the series.
If anyone else wants to give them a try, the novels are in this order:
Empire in Black and Gold
Dragonfly Falling
Blood of the Mantis
Salute the Dark
Scarab Path
Sea Watch
I just finished Wil McCarthy's The Queendom of Sol tetralogy: The Collapsium, The Wellstone, Lost in Transmission, and To Crush the Moon. It's an epic post-Singularity series based on a rather grandiose extrapolation of the potential of programmable matter, a technology McCarthy is actually involved with developing in real life, to create a world where virtually anything is possible and humans become virtually immortal. It spans thousands of years and some really horrible things happen to the characters and the worlds they inhabit, and yet it has a light-hearted feel to it and a lot of absurd humor. It's kind of a fairy tale in a way, although one grounded in hard-SF ideas. The main character of the first book (who's a supporting character in the next two and one of the two main characters in the fourth) is an eccentric supergenius who reminded me somewhat of the Doctor (from Doctor Who) crossed with Don Quixote, and in fact I cast him in my head as Tom Baker.
My main problem with the series is that the female leads, who are charming and likeable and cast in roles of great authority, are nonetheless relegated to secondary roles in the story, with the focus remaining far more strongly on the men. I kept wanting to see more of the female leads, but it was a long wait sometimes.
My other problem is that there's nothing on the covers that says they're a tetralogy. I bought Lost in Transmission at the used-book store and only belatedly discovered it was book 3 of 4. So I set it aside until I could get the other three books from the library. Now I intend to buy them.
My main problem with the series is that the female leads, who are charming and likeable and cast in roles of great authority, are nonetheless relegated to secondary roles in the story, with the focus remaining far more strongly on the men. I kept wanting to see more of the female leads, but it was a long wait sometimes.
My other problem is that there's nothing on the covers that says they're a tetralogy. I bought Lost in Transmission at the used-book store and only belatedly discovered it was book 3 of 4. So I set it aside until I could get the other three books from the library. Now I intend to buy them.
I've since finished Empathy. I also read Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Lion's Mane, For Want of a Nail (the last story from Shards and Shadows), and Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger. I'll be starting on Naked Heat by "Richard Castle" later.
Oh yeah, I got the "Richard Castle" books on the same library trip. I reviewed them on my blog:
http://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/review-the-richard-castle-novels/
http://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/review-the-richard-castle-novels/
Thanks, that was interesting. I agree with pretty much everything you said. Of course I can only base that on Heat Wave, having just started Naked Heat.
You may already know, but the graphic novel Deadly Storm, seen in a recent episode, will be available come September (as well as the next novel, Heat Rises). So I'm really looking forward to that.
Deadly Storm: http://www.amazon.com/Castle-Richar...=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1307487419&sr=1-4
"A Stitch in Time" by Andrew Robinson. The only DS9 Relaunch book I didn't have. I managed to snag it on eBay for $1 + shipping. I'm about halfway through. I'm enjoying it but for some reason I'm finding that it's taking me quite a while to read it, but school probably has something to do with that. After this week, not a problem.
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