So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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I finished a reread of Star Trek: Diplomatic Implausibility by KRAD. It is impressive how many returning and original Klingon characters are used here and made both distinct and relatable. Let's not forget how awesome Giancarlo Wu is in this story, either. After seeing Doctor Strange, I now am picturing the character like Benedict Wong with a bat'leth.
I also recently read The Do-Over by Lynn Painter. It's a Groundhog Day-esque story centered on a teenage girl reliving a Valentine's Day that never goes as planned. I give it a 3.5 out of 5. It definitely held my interest throughout and ended decently.
Next up in Star Trek are rereads of CLB's "Brief Candle" from Distant Shores and the first three SCE stories.
I also recently read The Do-Over by Lynn Painter. It's a Groundhog Day-esque story centered on a teenage girl reliving a Valentine's Day that never goes as planned. I give it a 3.5 out of 5. It definitely held my interest throughout and ended decently.
Next up in Star Trek are rereads of CLB's "Brief Candle" from Distant Shores and the first three SCE stories.
A bit over two thirds of the way through ADF's The Deluge Drivers. Ethan, Skua, Milliken, the scientists from Brass Monkey, Hunnar and Elfa (who are now married), and the crew of the Slanderscree have found the source of the climate anomaly:
Unfortunately, they were promptly taken prisoner.
a group of rogue terraformers.
Thank you so much!
It's funny, Wong isn't at all the physical type I had in mind for Wu, but yeah, I think he'd be able to pull it off. (I loved writing Wu. I miss writing Wu.)
Just finished The Deluge Drivers. I'd forgotten about
Unfortunately, I'd stumbled into a spoiler of part of that on TVTropes.
Now on to Dante's Divine Comedy. Which really is riotously funny in places.
the whole business of the rogue terraformers hiring two Qwarm, and Williams becoming one of the few to survive a Qwarm attack.
Now on to Dante's Divine Comedy. Which really is riotously funny in places.
I was lucky enough to read an annotated version that explained all the people Dante put in there. Made it much funnier!
So the original Hardy Boys are starting to hit public domain. These were edited in the 60s and 70s for content. I'm reading the first one now. I read these originally as a kid in the 80s. I had found a bunch in garage sales back then, so the majority were revisions.
You can find the first three on Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/55530
Search around for info on the revision history. It's pretty fascinating.
These aren't high art, so don't expect much. It's more nostalgia.
You can find the first three on Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/55530
Search around for info on the revision history. It's pretty fascinating.
These aren't high art, so don't expect much. It's more nostalgia.
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The first few Bobbsey Twins books (the first of which Stratemeyer wrote himself) have been PD for many years. I'd even seriously considered hand-transcribing one for Project Gutenberg.
You do realize, I hope, that there was never a "Franklin W. Dixon" nor a "Carolyn Keene," nor a "Laura Lee Hope." They were all house pseudonyms for a whole stable of ghostwriters, working from outlines prepared by Edward Stratemeyer and his successors.
It is truly amazing how well-researched the later Stratemeyer children's novels were. One could literally find one's way around Colonial Williamsburg just from having read 1974's The Bobbsey Twins' Red, White and Blue Mystery.
And I'm now seven cantos into the Divine Comedy.
You do realize, I hope, that there was never a "Franklin W. Dixon" nor a "Carolyn Keene," nor a "Laura Lee Hope." They were all house pseudonyms for a whole stable of ghostwriters, working from outlines prepared by Edward Stratemeyer and his successors.
It is truly amazing how well-researched the later Stratemeyer children's novels were. One could literally find one's way around Colonial Williamsburg just from having read 1974's The Bobbsey Twins' Red, White and Blue Mystery.
And I'm now seven cantos into the Divine Comedy.
Not to mention "Victor Appleton."
I got to be "Victor Appleton" once, for a recent line of modern TOM SWIFT novel. And, just like in the old days, I also wrote the outlines for the other books in the series, which were then farmed out to other ghost-writers.
Ron Goulart ghost-wrote those, although I expect Shatner participated to some extent. On his Trek novels, reportedly, he outlined and wrote Kirk's material while the Reeves-Stevenses handled the rest, and they rewrote each other's material with Shatner having final say. I'd imagine the process on the Tek series was similar.
The movies were continued in an hourlong USA Network series that ran for a season.
Now 17 cantos into the Divine Comedy. Pretty soon, I'll be getting into the riotously funny parts.
Tony Isabella from DC comics?
The very one.
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