So what are you reading now?

Ah I see what you were thinking there.

 

I've actually just finished Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit, and have just started on Cathedral. It took me a few moments to get the Aliens reference, I'd forgotten about. In fact, there's a lot I've forgotten about this series, but it's been a joy to remember it.

 

I loved the Mission Gamma books, they are a definite favourite of mine.

Since the last time I posted in this thread, I finished reading Enterprise: Rosetta and TOS: The Entropy Effect, and I'm now reading Burning Dreams.

I enjoyed Rosetta for the most part because it let the other main characters of Enterprise to shine, but I found the ending too sudden and very un-satisfactory, and I really really want to punch Archer during the first half of this book.

I liked The Entropy Effect too, but thanks to way too many time travel stories in the years since this came out, I saw the climax of this book around page 50. It was still an enjoyable read.

 

I always want to punch Archer. *lol*

Reread "A Singular Destiny" and enjoyed it more the second time.

 

I just started up Star Trek: Mere Anarchy. Really enjoying it so far. I want to get this book knocked out before Star Trek Vanguard: Open Secrets comes out. After i finish that one, hopefully Star Trek: troublesome minds will be out. I'm trying to pace myself with my TOS reading, because so few TOS books are out. I want to enjoy them longer.

 

Reading the three "Q Continum" books by Cox. Very good so far.

 

I just finished The Conqueror Worms by Brian Keene. Now I'm trying to decide between a few books. I just had the two "Wonder Stories" anthologies delivered (yes, David, you're a marketing bastard!), as well as the first "Percy Jackson" book by Rick Riordan. I keep hearing it's the next Harry Potter. But then, I heard that about Twilight too, and that was just dreadful.

At home, I'm reading one story per day from the short story collection The Rising: Selected Scenes From the End of the World.

Ah heck, Percy Jackson it is.

 

As part of an effort to try out more comics, I've just finished All Of Me and n-Vector, the two other comics that come with NF: Double Time in the reprint "Star Trek: Other Realities".

I found All Of Me quite charming and hilarious; very quirky and a lot of fun. n-Vector was complete crap, though. Horribly distracting artwork, totally implausible story, everyone acting out of character... bleh.


Up next: New Earth.

 

Patricia Highsmith - Little Tales of Misogyny - 17 stories in 110 pages. Vignettes really, not really stories. I think it was supposed to be satire, I'm not sure I got the point of a lot of them.

Patricia Highsmith - Ripley's Game - Third book in the Ripley series. Ripley playing a cruel joke on a guy just because Ripley thought the guy dissed him at a party.

Wounds - Probably my favorite SCE book yet.

I started Full Circle last night. Wasn't planning on reading that right away but people keep dropping hints about it, even when they aren't in those lame Janeway threads, that I thought I should read it sooner rather than later.

After that I want to finish off the Gateway series so I'll be reading the TNG and VOY entries in that series. And Mere Anarchy showed up in the mail yesterday as well...

 

The FC

 

Currently reading Edith Wharton's Age of Innoncence (it apparently won a Pulitzer prize... so I guess I simply have no taste for finding it quite boring); George Moore's Esther Waters (really, as if naturalism wasn't dreary enough when Zola first did it...); and Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho (utterly hardcore and purely awesome; also, lots of 'heroic deaths' according to the current definition of such ). On the non-fiction side, I'm reading Timothy Melley's Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America, an engaging if not always convincing read.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

Started on Star Trek: Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru and I'm really liking it!

I was worried about that because I struggled through Forged In Fire. I was so looking forward to it, but the plot turned me off. The whole renegade, biological weapon thing just didn't capture my fancy. However I'm really liking all the Enterprise threads Martin and Mangels are playing with. Great fun!

In preparation for Full Circle, I just finished Star Trek: Voyager: Spirit Walk, book one : Old Wounds. (What a title, eh?) I thought Christie Golden did a nice job with the characters, both old and new, and their situations. A little on the short side, but enjoyable. I liked it better than the Homecoming books.

 

For a non SF respite post-Full Circle, I picked up a copy (book and dvd) of Into the Wild. I like to keep grounded in the real world between my Trek adventures.

 

Currently halfway through John Scalzi's Agent to the Stars.

 

Just finished The Appeal by John Grisham. Just started Full Circle.

 

Just finished:
- Greg Cox's CSI: Headhunter, faaantastic book BTW.

Still reading:
- Mere Anarchy
- Temeraire (by Naomi Novik, dragons and the Napoleonic Wars)

Going to start reading:
- Criminal Minds: Jump Cut by Max Allan Collins

 

I love Octavia Butler's work. Parable of the Sower definitely had an impact on my worldview, in a totally unexpected way.

 

I munched through the four Old Man's War-verse books by John Scalzi - and if said author has any kind of meaningful impact on the development of Stargate: Universe, I will be very happy to see that series!


(I'd love an anime adaptation of OMW, though.)

 

What do you think of Temeraire? I've been wanting to read it for a while now, and I'd enjoy hearing someone I know's opinion.