"Faith of our Fathers" by PKD. I'm sorta unmoved on whether a totalitarian state is run by some human asshole or a monster. Does it really matter?
So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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Just started Behind Blue Eyes by Anna Mocikat. (Cyberpunk novel)
Legacy. The MJF novel, not the video game, and not the Legacies trilogy.
So that's where I read about Pike and Vina's rich but illusory post-Menagerie lives ("unfettered by their physical bodies") on Talos IV.
So that's where I read about Pike and Vina's rich but illusory post-Menagerie lives ("unfettered by their physical bodies") on Talos IV.
I read the "All Good Things" first draft of Part 1. Not that different but interesting. No anti-time anomaly yet. I was hoping there was going to be scenes of them stealing the Enterprise but maybe that never went to draft.
Re-read Beneath the Raptor's Ring, Book 1 of 2 of the Romulan War.
It is as I remembered. Good. But like 2x as long as it should be. Maybe a third as long.
It sounds purple prose or a lot more... I dunno, verbose than it need to be. Also lacks some nice battle scenes, but I do enjoy the cat-and-mouse/quick short snapshots and post-battles thoughts.
What I hate is how naive the books makes earthers. Even other Starfleet officers. It wasn't even like the Romulan telecapture device is a secret. Saving a freighter or letting the Romulans capture an NX - its not really a hard decision. People act high and mighty until they have to blow up their ship when it happens to them. Same with the MACO's or Starfleet scientists. They knew the risks going offplanet days or months from a fleet that, until 5 years ago, was limited to at best warp 3. Yet they have the gall to grouse that Starfleet can't be at five places at once.
3/5. Would read again. Again.
Was re-reading for feats to contribute to a ENT-era feat thread, got nothing.
And I need an image of the Romulan fighter carrier. I imagine it like a a bird's head with a skeletal ribcage holding a handful of handful fights inside, or on its back like a spine.
It is as I remembered. Good. But like 2x as long as it should be. Maybe a third as long.
It sounds purple prose or a lot more... I dunno, verbose than it need to be. Also lacks some nice battle scenes, but I do enjoy the cat-and-mouse/quick short snapshots and post-battles thoughts.
What I hate is how naive the books makes earthers. Even other Starfleet officers. It wasn't even like the Romulan telecapture device is a secret. Saving a freighter or letting the Romulans capture an NX - its not really a hard decision. People act high and mighty until they have to blow up their ship when it happens to them. Same with the MACO's or Starfleet scientists. They knew the risks going offplanet days or months from a fleet that, until 5 years ago, was limited to at best warp 3. Yet they have the gall to grouse that Starfleet can't be at five places at once.
3/5. Would read again. Again.
Was re-reading for feats to contribute to a ENT-era feat thread, got nothing.
And I need an image of the Romulan fighter carrier. I imagine it like a a bird's head with a skeletal ribcage holding a handful of handful fights inside, or on its back like a spine.
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Moving on to Burning Dreams.
Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones. The sequel to My Heart is a Chainsaw.
I'm enjoying it so far, but, after a few chapters, I had to stop and look up a synopsis of the first book on-line, just to refresh my memory as to what happened in the previous novel and who all the characters were. The sequel seems to assume that you remember the first book vividly and don't need to be brought back up to speed on the story so far.
I'm enjoying it so far, but, after a few chapters, I had to stop and look up a synopsis of the first book on-line, just to refresh my memory as to what happened in the previous novel and who all the characters were. The sequel seems to assume that you remember the first book vividly and don't need to be brought back up to speed on the story so far.
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Sounds a lot like what I experience with multi-volume ST novel-arcs that are published over a period of several months, unless I sit on the early volumes until just before the release of the final ones.
I'm now almost exactly halfway through Burning Dreams. And I continue to notice things that fit Anson Mount's Pike even better than they fit Jeff Hunter's Pike. The outermost ("Ambassador Spock") frame has surfaced again, and Captain Sulu has put in an appearance.
I'll probably pick that up as I seem to remember enjoying Chainsaw. I will have to read that first again though to make sure I'm not mixing it up with another I read around the same time.
Currently though, I'm trying Wolf of the plains by Conn Iggulden. (In the US, it's called Genghis: Birth of an Empire or so I believe).
My advice would definitely be to reread CHAINSAW before tackling the sequel.
Now almost halfway through PD's The Rift. Which is to say, I've left the "Pike Era" portion behind, and Tyler has been reunited with Ecma. (Is it just me, or does her name sound like some kind of biological or medical term?)
Lots of PD's unique brand of lampshade-hanging comic relief.
PD's Pike really only fits the Jeff Hunter Pike. And his Number One only fits Majel.
Lots of PD's unique brand of lampshade-hanging comic relief.
PD's Pike really only fits the Jeff Hunter Pike. And his Number One only fits Majel.
To be fair, Hunter's Pike was the only Pike when that book was written.
Although I've re-read some Pike fiction written before 2009 and found that it was easy to imagine Bruce Greenwood in the role, so the same might go for Mount now.
Yes, just a few posts up, @hbquikcomjamesl said it was easy to imagine Anson Mount in Burning Dreams.
Finished The Rift last night. I'd completely forgotten about the plot twists at the end. And about the Marvin Martian reference (which had me ROFLFMAO). And the comic relief (but this is, after all, the same guy who brought us New Frontier).
Now 2 chapters into the first book of the "Legacy" trilogy, the one GC wrote. Una has just burgled Kirk's quarters.
Now 2 chapters into the first book of the "Legacy" trilogy, the one GC wrote. Una has just burgled Kirk's quarters.
My book list for most of the rest of year (thru Nov): Remarkably Bright Creatures, The Name of the Rose, The Shining, and Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Reading the Star Trek magazine short fiction compilations along with the Enola Homes stories in between along with a Cormac McCarthy book. I'll see what else I can add in there, but some of these are pretty long books.
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