So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[Denise]

Current reading: THE SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.


Just started it last night, but I'm enjoying it so far, as the book cuts back and forth between the troubled filming of a 1950s Biblical epic, starring an unknown actress as Salome, and flashbacks to the actual Salome back in the ancient past.

Hollywood versus ancient Judea!

I love her books. I pick them up from the library. So far, Silver Nitrate has been my favorite. I am curious about this one.

 

[Denise]

I think I've read all of the John Byrne New Visions photocomics. I loved all of them and wish he was still doing them.

Just finished Prime Directive and Timetrap, both of which I enjoyed.

 

[Greg Cox]

I love her books. I pick them up from the library. So far, Silver Nitrate has been my favorite. I am curious about this one.

I've been binging her stuff, on and off, for several months now. SILVER NITRATE is probably my favorite, too.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

I’m reading The Fifty Year Mission: The Next 25 years again.

This really should be updated for the 60th. Fascinating.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Toronto Pearson International Airport is located there, so if you happened to fly in or out of there, then you've been to Mississauga.

I'm pretty sure that, over the course of my visits to Toronto (it was the ending point of my first Canadian vacation, and the starting point of my second), I've been through both Pearson and Bishop, and actually, I prefer Bishop. Call me a Luddite, but I like small turboprop aircraft.

 

[publiusr]

Looking forward to this

Inspired Enterprise

Boldly discover how NASA, the Smithsonian, and the aerospace community helped craft, legitimize, and popularize the beloved television show Star Trek. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry sought to create a work of science fiction that would immerse viewers not only through clever storylines and...

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[hbquikcomjamesl]

While I've had The Amazing Stories out, I've been reading other works therein.

A number of the gags in "The Space Vortex of Doom" went over my head before; now that I've read some Doc Smith, I'm actually getting them.

 

[Daddy Todd]

I just started on a chronological read of Doc Savage. By which I mean, I’ve acquired the whole series, plus the 1990’s and 20teens extensions, and I’m reading them according to internal chronology (as best I can puzzle that out).

So, I kicked off with Phil Farmer’s Escape from Loki, then read the first couple original pulp “novels”, then read Will Murray’s Doc Savage/King Kong mashup Skull Island, before plunging back into the pulp novels.

I’ve been able to read around the racism and sexism in the vintage stuff, and recognize that Lester Dent was a hell of a writer. Even when it’s dumb, it’s riveting.

I’m hoping to retire in the next couple years, so I acquired the books as something to entertain me in my “golden years.” But I guess I got an early start. I don’t think I’m gonna be able to put these aside for later.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I'm close to halfway through the first Strange New Worlds anthology, from 1998. Which contains DW's first published opus, "Reflections."

 

[Nyotarules]

I'm reading DS9 Original Sin. I plan to complete the relaunch novelverse all the way to Mount Doom aka Coda series. Then I'll read all the old Trek novels from the 1980's for each franchise. There are about 800 novels so will take a few decades

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Hmm. SNW1998 has a few interesting works that I'd completely forgotten about. Like one about Voyager encountering Balok (and a truly ancient Dave Bailey, who was craving a chicken-fried steak). And the one I read this morning, that had an alien species imprisoning the entire Voyager crew in the holodeck, and implanting false memories that the ship had crashed on a planet, and that Chakotay had married one of the natives.

 

[Denise]

Just finished Federation by Judith Reeves-Stevens. I enjoyed it a great deal and would recommend it. Also read Prime Directive by the same author. I think I enjoyed Prime Directive more than Federation.

On other reading fronts, I also just finished A Refiner's Fire by Donna Leon and am starting Lindsey Davis' Death on the Tiber, a Flavia Albia mystery.

 

[Christopher]

Hmm. SNW1998 has a few interesting works that I'd completely forgotten about. Like one about Voyager encountering Balok (and a truly ancient Dave Bailey, who was craving a chicken-fried steak).

That one was weird, because it also featured the Cybermen from Doctor Who (thinly disguised as "Mondasians").

And the one I read this morning, that had an alien species imprisoning the entire Voyager crew in the holodeck, and implanting false memories that the ship had crashed on a planet, and that Chakotay had married one of the natives.

That was one of my favorite stories in the first SNW, but unfortunately it doesn't really work because there's no way Voyager's holodecks are big enough to fit the entire crew at once (as we saw in "The Killing Game" when the Hirogen had to expand them hugely to fit even the majority of the crew). The story also took way too long to fit into the season. Still intriguing as a might-have-been, though.

Just finished Federation by Judith Reeves-Stevens. I enjoyed it a great deal and would recommend it. Also read Prime Directive by the same author.

Authors, rather -- Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. Judith Reeves-Stevens has never written solo, only in collaboration with Garfield Reeves-Stevens (although he did write solo prior to 1990 and infrequently thereafter).

 

[Greg Cox]

Swords in the the Shadows: A Swords & Sorcery Horror Anthology, edited by Cullen Bunn.

The theme being S&S stories that deliberately lean toward the horrific, with plenty of gruesome body horror, necromancy, eldritch nightmares, etc.

 

[Reanok]

Tng Between a Rock and a hard place by Peter David

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I did get to read Kilmeny of The Orchard - more of a novella than a typical Montgomery multi-chapter novel, which usually contains multiple anecdotes from the life of the main character.

Also have read Kristy Cambron's The British Booksellers, Bethany Turner's The Do-Over and Plot Twist, Susie Finkbeiner's Stories That Bind Us.

 

[Greg Cox]

As noted elsewhere, I just got issue 12 of Star Trek Explorer in the mail, so I know what I'm reading tonight.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I just started on a chronological read of Doc Savage. By which I mean, I’ve acquired the whole series, plus the 1990’s and 20teens extensions, and I’m reading them according to internal chronology (as best I can puzzle that out).

If you're going to read them in chronological order, I would recommend 'The Revised Complete Chronology of Bronze' by Rick Lai who attempts to put every novel, radio play, comic book, and other adaptations into a complete timeline of adventures.
It does conflict with Philip Jose Farmer's timeline in his book 'Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life' in the placement of several events, but Rick Lai gets around this by saying that he had access to deleted and pre-revision pages that offered a clearer picture of when certain events happened.
Rick Lai is also the author of 'Chronology of Shadows: A Timeline of The Shadow's Exploits', which crosses over events where the two pulp heroes could conceivably have met.

 

[Daddy Todd]

I would recommend 'The Revised Complete Chronology of Bronze' by Rick Lai

That’s the chronology I’m using. Unfortunately, it doesn’t include the most recent series of pastiches by Will Murray!

 

[Greg Cox]

FROM THE DUST RETURNED by Ray Bradbury.

Tis the season . . . .