So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[Cap'n Crunch]

I finished Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures by Dayton Ward.
I then read the comic Aliens: Nightmare Asylum.
I'm now reading Star Trek: Voyager: "Letting Go" by Keith R.A. DeCandido from the Distant Shores anthology.

 

[Daddy Todd]

My journey through ‘70’s Trek fandom continues with Joan Winston’s “The Making of the Trek Conventions.”

Winston is a delightful writer, and I’m really enjoying her book.

I’m also reading “Star Trek Lives!” by Lichtenberg, Marshak and Winston. Much less enjoyable (it reads like a religious text. I’m a 50+ year fan of Star Trek, but it’s not the BESTEST TV SHOW EVARR!!!!1!) I’m reading it to glean references to good, early fanzines to search for on eBay. So, it’s OK.

 

[marlboro]

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock by Vonda N. McIntyre

By gods, it feels like a pretty solid Saavik novel got preempted by a mediocre movie script. I've always thought that Trek 3 had some issues but without the likeable actors to cover over some of the weaker elements it really seems like a mess. Resurrecting Spock in a believable way was a Herculean task so I guess I have to cut them a little slack.

The novel only plot line concerning Scotty and his niece never seemed to be resolved. Kind of strange.

 

[marlboro]

Over the last week or so, I have read:

Glass Empires
The Sorrows of Empire
Obsidian Alliances
Shards and Shadows
Rise Like Lions

I spent two hours trying to write some decent reviews, but I am just not much of a writer, I'm afraid. I'll just say that I liked them and leave it at that.


I also read a kids book called The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain. There used to be a guy on PBS back in the 80s who would illustrate scenes from childrens books while he read them aloud. He always stopped before the end of the book (I think) to encourage children to read the books for themselves. It took me 30 years to finally figure out how this damn book ended.

 

[miccaferoc]

I'm reading Seagalogy, a brilliantly irreverent but affectionate account of the films of Steven Seagal by Vern.
The book is divided into eras; the Golden, Silver, Transition and DTV.

'I'm taking you to the bank Senator Trent.... the blood bank".

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Also coming up is Lisa Harris' Vanishing Point.

 

[John Clark]

Fantastic Voyage 2 by Isaac Asimov.

 

[Nyotarules]

TNG Q squared by Peter David, I expect it to be quirky

 

[indianatrekker26]

I'm currently on Star Wars: Lords of the Sith by Paul S. Kemp and TNG: Contamination by John Vornholt.

 

[Kilana2]

Myriad Universes - Shattered Light. Honor in the Night.

 

[Reanok]

I'm finished a interesting book about one of the first Women detectives called Mr. Bazalgette's agent . I liked it .It was a real quick read.

 

[USS Firefly]

The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

 

[Desert Kris]

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock by Vonda N. McIntyre

By gods, it feels like a pretty solid Saavik novel got preempted by a mediocre movie script. I've always thought that Trek 3 had some issues but without the likeable actors to cover over some of the weaker elements it really seems like a mess. Resurrecting Spock in a believable way was a Herculean task so I guess I have to cut them a little slack.

The novel only plot line concerning Scotty and his niece never seemed to be resolved. Kind of strange.

Holy smokes, I'm reading through this one right now. There's so much extra material to the book, I keep thinking how fascinating that the events of the movie have been included inside the story McIntyre is telling. It makes me wonder what ST novels she would have written that were entirely original if she hadn't been asked to do the novelizations. I wish she'd written a novel about the misadventures of Vance Madison and Del March; although it's a bit of a puzzle that she creates such an interesting mystery of Del March long after he joined the rest of the Genesis team. It's great that she put thought into that, but the book is painfully melancholy with the exploration of characters who died and their families so expansively.

The book also gives the impression that the absence of Spock means the absence of logic and rationality in the ST world: Saavik's efforts to forge her own path leave her feeling like she can't return to a state of composure after experimenting with feelings and relationships, and even Starfleet seems to be out-of-wack as a collective organization.

 

[John Clark]

Artemis by Andy Weir

So far, I think I'm preferring his The Martian novel, but that's not to say I'm not enjoying it.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Add to my to-read-next list The Beloved Christmas Quilt by Wanda, Jean, and Richelle Brunstetter (reserved it before Christmas from the library, just came in now)

 

[Daddy Todd]

Holy smokes, I'm reading through this one right now. There's so much extra material to the book, I keep thinking how fascinating that the events of the movie have been included inside the story McIntyre is telling. It makes me wonder what ST novels she would have written that were entirely original if she hadn't been asked to do the novelizations. I wish she'd written a novel about the misadventures of Vance Madison and Del March; although it's a bit of a puzzle that she creates such an interesting mystery of Del March long after he joined the rest of the Genesis team. It's great that she put thought into that, but the book is painfully melancholy with the exploration of characters who died and their families so expansively.

The book also gives the impression that the absence of Spock means the absence of logic and rationality in the ST world: Saavik's efforts to forge her own path leave her feeling like she can't return to a state of composure after experimenting with feelings and relationships, and even Starfleet seems to be out-of-wack as a collective organization.

Lucky for you, McIntyre's first, all-original Star Trek novel is one of the best Trek novels ever. If you haven't read The Entropy Effect, seek it out immediately. Her second original Trek novel, Enterprise: The First Adventure is, unfortunately, far less satisfying.

 

[Desert Kris]

Lucky for you, McIntyre's first, all-original Star Trek novel is one of the best Trek novels ever. If you haven't read The Entropy Effect, seek it out immediately. Her second original Trek novel, Enterprise: The First Adventure is, unfortunately, far less satisfying.

Oh, yes, I quite liked The Entropy Effect, and have enjoyed seeing little elements from that book crop up in her novelizations. I was lucky to have come across information that story elements would carry through McIntyre's books, and was able to make the decision to read Entropy first in order to see how McIntyre world-builds her corner of Trek in publication order. I've heard the warnings about Enterprise: The First Adventure, and I am usually able to cope okay. I can be a pretty forgiving reader; and I feel optimistic about First Adventure for a number of reasons.

 

[Greg Cox]

Read the first issue of LOCKJAW last night. Very cute.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

What's a LOCKJAW?

Just finished Judith (KJV Apocrypha), and am about to begin Esther (KJV, integrating the canonical and apocryphal parts).

In the last 20% of ADF's latest Humanx Commonwealth novel, Strange Music.

In the queue: Paul Hawken's Drawdown, Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light (I've always been curious about how he built an entire novel around the old spoonerpun, "Where were you when the fit hit the Shan"), Amy Chua's Political Tribes, Dayton Ward's Drastic Measures, Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, and the 2018 World Book Year Book.

Along with a whole stack of magazines including Model Railroader, Smithsonian, Popular Science, and Zoonooz.

 

[Jbarney]

Reading Greg Cox's Child of Two Worlds. Pretty good so far.