Pick the best book from each series

[Thrawn]

^ This may seem odd, but I never watched DS9 either (just enough to know basically who the characters were, and some vague sense of The Dominion) and I picked up Avatar in the bookstore one day to discover that it started with a remarkably detailed timeline of everything in the show. Which was so cool, that I just kept reading, and got all the way through the first dozen or so relaunch books before I felt like it was even vaguely a problem that I'd never seen the show.

What I'm saying is, you should read the DS9 relaunch anyway, because it's awesome. Or at least that you should consider it.

 

[BigFoot]

^ You two should both watch the show.

 

[Mistral]

Please pardon the digression:

You're one of very few authors whose books I always buy, no matter the description (so long as they aren't urban fantasy, which I seem incapable of enjoying outside of Treasure Box and Harry Potter).*

*Apparently Charlotte's Web and Watership Down are considered urban fantasy. In that case, I should specify that it's urban magic that I dislike, not talking animals.

I have no idea what Treasure Box is, but nothing else you've mentioned is considered urban fantasy. The urban in urban fantasy is there for a reason: it's because this is fantasy that takes place in what is, for the most part, recognizably familiar modern cities. The clash between the modern urban world and the world of magic is the point.

That's what I'd thought, but an article I came across while checking the definition seemed to suggest that Charlotte's Web and Watership Down - and The Wind in the Willows, another of my favorite books - are considered urban fantasy. (I think the site was called Fantasy Book Review.) I'm glad to see the definition was what I'd previously thought.

Does Locus print science fiction and fantasy, or only articles about the genre?

a little OT but if you like those 3 books try Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams.

 

[Thrawn]

^ You two should both watch the show.

I'm working on it

I'm actually watching it in a way I've never watched any other shows; I know most of the surprises, so watching it all in order produces a lot of anticlimaxes and useless buildup, so I'm picking the themes I love and watching them all in a row.

Like, all the episodes about Odo's past. Then, all the episodes about Bashir's character development. Then, all the Mirror Universe episodes. Etc. Right now, I'm watching the Section 31 episodes.

It's an interesting way to watch a large body of TV episodes; you pick up all sorts of thematic parallels and stuff. Good times, and I get to skip all the filler episodes, and the long run of episodes that slowly revealed more and more about the Dominion, since I know it all already.

 

[Sxottlan]

Let's see:

TOS: Cloak
TNG: Vendetta
DS9: Avatar
VOY: Full Circle (I guess)
ENT: None
SCE: I'd say Interphase even after all these years.
Vanguard: Harbinger
Titan: Orion's Hounds
Gorkon: Diplomatic Implausibility if it counted
NF: Once Burned
Stargazer: Oblivion
MU: Sorrow of Empire
Challenger: er, Challenger