Do those stories take place before or after "Ex Machina"?
I guess I can check the book themselves when I get home, but I figure I ask for conversation's sake.
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Do those stories take place before or after "Ex Machina"?
I guess I can check the book themselves when I get home, but I figure I ask for conversation's sake.
^I've read both of those stories, so I'll comment (not that I mean to steal Christopher's thunder).
The Darkness Drops Again begins post-TMP (and post-Ex Machina) and continues until 2282 (or 2284 if you count the epilogue), and incorporates concepts such as Kirk's eventual return to the admiralty and resignation from Starfleet before TWOK (as mentioned in Generations), Spock's promotion to captain, and Chekov's transfer to Reliant.
Forgotten History takes place during TOS and includes the period between TOS and TMP, as well as events from the first 1-2 years post-TMP (and events from the 24th century).
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The Darkness Drops Again begins post-TMP (and post-Ex Machina) and continues until 2282 (or 2284 if you count the epilogue), and incorporates concepts such as Kirk's eventual return to the admiralty and resignation from Starfleet before TWOK (as mentioned in Generations), Spock's promotion to captain, and Chekov's transfer to Reliant.
Forgotten History takes place during TOS and includes the period between TOS and TMP, as well as events from the first 1-2 years post-TMP (and events from the 24th century).
--Sran
I was going to get back into WarDilmore's Seekers novel, but I've changed my mind. I just got my copy of Greg Cox's TOS: Foul Deeds Will Rise, and was checking it out, and can't put it down. Gonna read it instead
Glad you're enjoying it!
I was going to get back into WarDilmore's Seekers novel, but I've changed my mind. I just got my copy of Greg Cox's TOS: Foul Deeds Will Rise, and was checking it out, and can't put it down. Gonna read it instead
Glad you're enjoying it!
OK, I'm confuselated . . . I didn't think this book was due out for another 9 days or so . . .
^There are ways of getting copies ahead of time.
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I was going to get back into WarDilmore's Seekers novel, but I've changed my mind. I just got my copy of Greg Cox's TOS: Foul Deeds Will Rise, and was checking it out, and can't put it down. Gonna read it instead
Glad you're enjoying it!
OK, I'm confuselated . . . I didn't think this book was due out for another 9 days or so . . .
The release date is only really set in stone for the eBooks. The first paper books usually start to shop up in the wild by the middle of the month.
Finally got past Titan's Over a Torrent Sea, I don't know why but it was a long slog (took about 2 weeks of on/off reading) started Voyagers unworthy and finished it in about a day and half (might have helped that it covered a weekend and that I enjoyed it). Just downloaded Children of the storm to my kindle yesterday but not read any of it yet.
Exactly. Books aren't like movies or albums. Except for really high-profile items like, say, a new Harry Potter novel, books don't really have clear-cut release dates. The books go on sale when the truck from the warehouse drops them off at the store and some clerk gets around to shelving them . . ..
Read Jeremy Dyson's The Haunted Book- a lovely pastiche of *several* types of ghost story collection, which is a fantastic read for those of us who are fans of both the nonfiction travelogue of haunted places type of book, and different eras of fictional anthology.
It also takes a somewhat meta tone, but this is less successful, as the very end meta part just somewhat jumps the shark, changing genre, and actually strangely holds back from going ahead with what it first starts to imply. It also, unfortunately comes over as frankly intrusive, with a bit too much of a blatant message.
Still, apart from that, it's great - the Tetherdown Lock story, and the two 1907-era stories are by far and away the best, and in fact would make great TV adaptations.
It also takes a somewhat meta tone, but this is less successful, as the very end meta part just somewhat jumps the shark, changing genre, and actually strangely holds back from going ahead with what it first starts to imply. It also, unfortunately comes over as frankly intrusive, with a bit too much of a blatant message.
Still, apart from that, it's great - the Tetherdown Lock story, and the two 1907-era stories are by far and away the best, and in fact would make great TV adaptations.
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