I read "Rough Beasts of Empire" by David R. George, III (2011) last month. This month I read "Paths of Disharmony" by Dayton Ward (2011) and "Harbinger" by David Mack (2005). Got "Elusive Salvation" by Dayton Ward (2016) today (yesterday). Is this a sequel to "From History's Shadow" (2013) or a standalone? May read it or "The Struggle Within" by Christopher L. Bennett (2011) or "Summon the Thunder" by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore (2006). I think that the newer books are the better books. I also have a bit of a question: It seems to me there were Vulcan-like characters who were a family or culture of assassins. It may mostly have been in one old novel. I wonder what the novel was so that I might check it out again sometime. Still going through TNG episodes and still in Season Four. Sometimes going at a slow speed is fine. Or at least very okay. I liked the character bios at the end of the book for Harbinger. What I am like when I am well ... I am reading Star Trek novels!
So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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I decided to skip over Paths of Disharmony (I've already read it and didn't care for it first time around). I know what plot points matter in the overall arc. Fallen Gods is TOO expensive for an e-book ($15? What is the deal with that?) so I'm going the 'cheap' paperback route. Not sure about The Struggle Within. I like CB's work but 5$ seems like a lot for a short story. I think I'm going to go the 'cheap paperback route' with Indistinguishable from Magic as well. Already have the rest of the Typhon Pact Books on the e-reader.
I read a review that said 'The Stuff of Dreams' should be read BEFORE the Cold Equations trilogy even though it is presented as a Coda. Any opinions on that?
I read a review that said 'The Stuff of Dreams' should be read BEFORE the Cold Equations trilogy even though it is presented as a Coda. Any opinions on that?
Started on Let not the deep by Mike Lunnon-Wood. I haven't read this one of his before, but so far it's decent. It's only building up the characters so far, but it's shaping up to be a good read.
The Historian's Note says that the novella takes place "some months" after Cold Equations #3, so I'd read it after the trilogy.
I'm pretty sure The Struggle Within is long enough to be a novella, not a short story. I'm not sure about the word count, but it's 83 pages and most short stories seem to be in the 20-30 page range.
It's about 25,400 words, which is novella range, yes. All the Trek e-book originals are novella-length. The standard definition for a novella is something between 17,500 and 40,000 words, and the target range for Trek e-books is generally 25-35,000.
Technically, I've never had an actual short story (i.e. under 7500 words) published to date. The shortest story I've ever had published as of this writing is 7600 words.
These both have the same answer: They're novelettes. All my stories in the anniversary collections are novelettes (ranging from 9100 to 12,000 words), as are all my original works of short fiction to date (ranging from 7600 to 12,000 words). My only published novellas are Star Trek e-books -- SCE: Aftermath, Mere Anarchy: The Darkness Drops Again, Typhon Pact: The Struggle Within, and my DTI trilogy-in-progress. And maybe you could count Hub Space, my e-book collection of my three Hub stories from Analog, which is in the novella range at 33,300 words.
After all, there isn't much of a market for novella-length stories in print anymore. They're generally considered too short to be published as standalone books, and they're too long for most short-story magazines. But e-books have created a new outlet for novella-length fiction, which is probably why so many original e-books are in that range.
My own reply. I checked Memory Beta (or Alpha) not sure. The "Adepts of T'Pel" were some kind of Vulcan like or Romulan like assassins. Perhaps in the novel "Memory Prime" by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (1988). These adepts may also have been terrorists before that word had a dense nexus of meanings. Maybe I shall review my copy of that book sometime. I seem to recall someone ordering "water from Vulcan" at a bar which was considered a very rare beverage. Perhaps the image complex is not to be considered part of the canon (if questions of "canon" are appropriate to begin with). I guess I shall just have to ask T'Prynn about them sometime... Well, maybe not.
Finished Let Not The Deep. Very good in my opinion. Now I'm on to a re-read of King's Shilling by the same author.
While the first revolves around the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and the rescue of a ship during a heavy storm, Shilling is about the Royal Navy being called in to evacuate an embassy during a civil war.
While the first revolves around the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and the rescue of a ship during a heavy storm, Shilling is about the Royal Navy being called in to evacuate an embassy during a civil war.
Like A Bee To Honey by Jennifer Beckstrand. Every time the (female) kitten named "Leonard Nimoy" does something kitten-y, it's funny.
I didn't realize there was another category between shorts story and novella. I thought they went short story - novella - novel.
I'm reading The Dark Half by Stephen King.
I should finish up The Dark Half tonight. I plan on starting Revival by Stephen King next.
Finished King's Shilling by Lunnon-Wood. (Good, but I knew that earlier).
Tomorrow, I'll start on the second Prey book by John Jackson Miller.
Tomorrow, I'll start on the second Prey book by John Jackson Miller.
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