One of my all-time favorites. By a huge margin, it's the oldest novel I still include in my personal continuity.
So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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One of my all-time favorites. By a huge margin, it's the oldest novel I still include in my personal continuity.
Finishing up Star Wars: Battlefront- Twilight Company. By far my least favorite of the new Star Wars canon.
It used to be that these threads were of finite length, so they'd start a new one after a while, and after "So What Are You Reading? Part 6" came "So What Are You Reading? Generations." So both your first two guesses were right.
Yup. This is the 7th thread titled "So What Are You Reading?". The other threads were closed as soon as they hit 1,000 comments, so each new one was labeled with Trek film titles. For some reason this thread was allowed to go past 1,000
edit: Christopher beat me to it!
Thanks, another mystery solved
For some reason this thread was allowed to go past 1,000
Because we got a server upgrade so threads could go to 8,000 before they got too unwieldy. Guess I should figure out what the limits are with XenForo now
Because we got a server upgrade so threads could go to 8,000 before they got too unwieldy. Guess I should figure out what the limits are with XenForo now
There is no limit.
http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/thread-post-limit.278663/#post-11440344
Neat, one less thing for me to remember 
And to get back on topic with this thread - I am currently re-reading my Daisy Dalrymple mysteries by Carola Dunn - I'm in the mood for enjoyable, familiar books. I'll probably get out all my old Star Trek books next.
And to get back on topic with this thread - I am currently re-reading my Daisy Dalrymple mysteries by Carola Dunn - I'm in the mood for enjoyable, familiar books. I'll probably get out all my old Star Trek books next.
Wrapped up TOS: The Covenant of the Crown, now starting TOS: The Prometheus Design. I don't have great memories of this one. But i'm 6 or so chapters in, and enjoying it more this go-around.
It's probably the, err, best of the Marshak-Culbreath novels, in that it tries to explore some interesting philosophical ideas, questions about whether intelligent life could survive aggression, an idea that was heavily on people's minds in the Cold-War era when the book was written. It certainly goes for an unusually cosmic scope. And it was the first prose novel that made any real effort to follow up on the continuity and ideas of ST:TMP (The Covenant of the Crown was set post-TMP but didn't really feel that different from TOS). Unfortunately, The Prometheus Design's followup is rather odd -- instead of exploring the ramifications of Spock's emotional epiphany, the book offhandedly reverses it and makes Spock "ultra-Vulcan." And it still rides too heavily on power games between unyielding and hyper-macho alpha males, like all the Marshak-Culbreath books.
Yeah reading these early TOS books, i'm assuming most were set during the TV series, and not post-TMP. I take it things were different then, that the authors really didn't want to explore past the motion picture?
Actually there was a higher percentage of movie-era novels at the start than there were later on. After all, with Prometheus Design we're up to four original Pocket novels, two of which are post-TMP. That's 50 percent. After that, they became scarcer -- Triangle was also post-TMP, but then it doesn't look like we get another one until Dwellers in the Crucible. (I have a hard time being sure, since there were a lot of books that I used to imagine as post-TMP even when they were written as pre-TMP, so I gt confused about which ones really were post-TMP and which ones I transposed there.)
about the only way i could tell where a book was set (as i read through these in numerical order) is going by what rank Chekov is lol! If he's an ensign i know for sure its set during the TV series.
^Also whether Uhura and Sulu were lieutenants or lieutenant commanders.
what's really been throwing me is the inconsistent artwork of the covers. for instance, the characters in TV uniforms, with a movie-era Enterprise or vice-versa. i assume alot of that just had to do with whatever material the artist could get his hands on for reference. Who probably wasn't even familiar with the series.
Also it just made sense to use the most current (movie-era) imagery to promote the books, regardless of what was inside.
Im starting Christopher's latest Rise of the Federation novel. It was an awesome deal to grab it for $1.99 last month on Itunes.
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