So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[Greg Cox]

The newest Positively Trek Book Club episode is up, in which Bruce and I discuss the novel Deep Space Nine #11: Devil in the Sky by Greg Cox and John Gregory Betancourt. It was fun to talk about a novel set back in the early DS9 days!



Currently reading Voyager: To Lose the Earth by Kirsten Beyer.

A quiet Sunday afternoon, so I finally had a chance to listen to this. A fun, nostalgia trip back to my very first TREK book. Hard to believe I wrote that book more than a quarter of a century ago!

 

[John Clark]

I've got some (new to me) books to read, but I've been wanting to re-read The Eugenics Wars series by Greg Cox. I'm currently on "The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh

Spoiler: Just in case

and at the point where Roberta and Gary have arrived in India

 

[JD]

I finished Star Wars: Catalyst by James Luceno last night, which I enjoyed, and I started reading the digital version of the comic collection Monstress Vol. 1: Awakening, written by Marjorie Liu, with art by Sana Takeda, and letters and design by Rus Wooton.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

MONSTER, SHE WROTE. . . .

. . .Shirley Jackson . . .

I've often wondered: was she, ahem, "stoned," when she wrote "The Lottery"?

(And I rather enjoy watching a room full of "Lottery virgins" react when they find out just what Mrs. Hutchinson "won." I even wrote a tiny little flash-fiction ultra-short, "A Fly on the Classroom Wall," about that very subject.)

At any rate, having finished To Lose the Earth, I've now resumed Don Quixote, and am a few chapters into the canonical second book.

 

[Daddy Todd]

I've now resumed Don Quixote

When I was a Spanish major, the standard joke whenever anyone took a gap semester was that she was "Reading el Quixote." Because, damn, it's a long one. (No, I never got around to it -- I was a lot more interested in Latin American lit than Spanish lit.)

 

[Happenstance]

Re-reading the Destiny trilogy at the moment. Not gonna lie, its weird going back to a physical book after almost exclusively reading Kindle books for years now. I'm missing the convenience of not needing a light/lamp and being able to just use the app on various devices to read wherever I am.

 

[Reanok]

Star Trek TOS The Captain's oath by Christopher Benett

 

[John Clark]

Finished The Eugenics War series and have now started The Valkyrie Protocol by Jacob Holo/David Weber.

 

[Greg Cox]

Rereading THE MUMMY by Anne Rice in preparation for the long-awaited sequel.

 

[indianatrekker26]

im currently a third of the way through Star Trek: Picard: The Last, Best Hope. It started slow, but now the story is getting interesting after the end of part 1.

 

[BillJ]

The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

 

[Nx-007]

Star Trek Titan - "Sword Of Damocles" by Geoffrey Thorne

 

[Reanok]

Star trek The Enterprise war by John Jackson Miller

 

[John Clark]

Saturns Children by Charles Stross.

 

[Stephen!]

I've finished DS9 "The Missing" and currently continuing with reading DTI "Watching the Clock".

 

[Smiley]

I am reading The Antares Maelstrom for the first time. Even though I know the characters make it through okay, the writing sometimes makes me forget that. The Spock/Chekov thread is my favorite, but all the regulars get a chance to shine. It probably says something that greed and irrationality seem harder to combat than a traditional military foe.

I am also finishing a reread of Crispin’s Han Solo Trilogy. It’s amazing how easily she can make you understand and empathize with Jabba’s point of view.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Didn't know that Crispin wrote a Han Solo trilogy. I only knew about the one Brian Daley wrote.

Speaking of SW novels by authors of ST novels, it kind of amazes me that Planet of Twilight, with its rather disgusting drochs, and their profoundly disgusting leader, Dzym, came from the same mind as our beloved, slightly tongue-in-cheek, Star Trek/Here Come the Brides crossover, Ishmael.

Now on page 509 of Don Quixote, eight chapters into the second canonical book, approaching the 55% mark of the complete opus (940 pages in the Grossman translation). And to escape the election night coverage*, I also finally watched the first episode of Picard.
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*The ONLY thing I EVER liked about TV election coverage was the theme Henry Mancini wrote in the 1970s, for the NBC coverage, which they used from 1976 to 1992, then retired for no good reason. https://www.networknewsmusic.com/decision-1976-1992-theme/

 

[Reanok]

I'm rereading Star Trek Tos The Antares Maelstorm by Greg Cox.

 

[John Clark]

Didn't know that Crispin wrote a Han Solo trilogy. I only knew about the one Brian Daley wrote.

Off the top of my head, that's the Han Solo trilogy I remember. I'm not sure if I've got/read the Daley one.

I'm currently reading The Long Way Round (Macgregor/Boorman)

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

The Daley one, like the L. Neil Smith Lando Calrissian trilogy, was rather forgettable (about all I remember about the latter was that the bad guy (and his species) turned out to be almost as disgusting as Hambly's Dzym and the drochs.

While I have all the Ballantine movie novelizations in publisher hardcover, and went to great lengths to obtain a publisher hardcover of ADF's Splinter of the Mind's Eye, I ultimately ended up unloading all my other Ballantine SW novels, particularly the Han Solo and Lando Calrissian trilogies.

Conversely, the only times I've ever unloaded a ST book was if I'd upgraded from a MMPB to a HC.