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My own reading Marathon, Fall through Coda

I also read
Friends with the Sparrows from the sky's the limit by Christopher L. Bennettt
Set several months after generations.

Speaking of psychology, I felt this story was a wonderful dive into Data with an emotion chip, and I'm glad to have read it. I'm a bit unsure about the exploration of the tamarian sense of self and it's influence on the language proposed here, but it was all window dressing for the data story. I'm glad I sook it out after watching Darmok.

Thanks for the comments! Although I'd say my exploration of the Tamarians was more than "window dressing." I put a lot of thought and research into it. Here are my story annotations and my notes on Tamarian grammar.
 
I didn't mean to diminish it, I just didn't find it as interesting. I'm curious to dive into those notes when I have time.
 
The Long Mirage by David R. George III
In-Universe Date: 2386
Publish Date: February 28, 2017

I finally finished this one this week, and it took me a while mostly due to other circumstances (being sick and the annual inventory), but it does feel like a slow-paced book. There's more actively going on than the last few DRG books, as we have concurrent threads of Nog and Candlewood (who had a crush on nog in the past?) are investigating vic fontaine being kidnapped in the holosuite, Kira's return, and Ro and Quark going to track down Morn.
The two plots of what's going on in the holosuite and the Morn investigation eventually converge, where the reason Vic is in trouble is that Morn went into debt in the Las Vegas Program, and is out looking for a way to solve the trouble that he got Vic in. It feels a bit contrived but I liked it, as well as the discussion and ambiguity of whether or not Vic is Sentient.

Going to do I, Constable before original sin.
 
I, The Constable is a nice little novella, with Odo being gruff but getting a bit into detective novels and the experience while investigating a disappeared quark. Once he determines Quark is Kidnapped, we get some alternating chapters from Quark's perspective. I liked seeing some more of Ferenginar, as well as Rom wanting to be an engineer and still being a bit of a clumsy lovable character. We also get some background allusions to Ro/Quark relationship fallout. The book takes place in the Long Mirage, after the dominion refugees come through the wormhole but before Odo and Kira reunite at the end.

This one was a quick read and I again wish we saw more star trek Novellas. When I finish all this and wheel of time, at least there's a lot of Warhammer novellas to experience.

Original sin is the first book I've encountered in the liverse I am aware of with an unabridged english audiobook. I am strongly considering listening to it instead of reading a little every night, but I'm still split on that.
 
I think pretty much all of the Star Trek novels since at least 2016 have gotten unabridged audiobooks.
 
I think pretty much all of the Star Trek novels since at least 2016 have gotten unabridged audiobooks.
In terms of post-destiny books, Original Sin is the first DS9 audiobook, and then it looks like enigma tales is the only other DS9 audiobook in the pre-coda litverse run, though I know there are others after the reset (pliable truths is on my list). There's 3 more TNG/Titan books and a e-novella that don't have an audiobook I have yet to read, then there's audio for prey through coda.

I think I'll probably just stick to reading unless I manage to get through a lot of wheel of time.
 
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