So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[TalkaboutTrek]

I was looking for Spooky Trek books for the season and read 3 good ones. DS9 " Station Rage" by Diane Carey, TOS "Shell Game" by Melissa Crandall and I am finishing up TOS "Ghost-Walker" by Barbara Hambly.
They all had their own different spooky bits but I think the best for me has been "Ghost-Walker". Very unsettling in some parts. Hope to finish up tonight!

 

[trentman359]

I just finished Death in Winter by Michael Jan Friedman. It was an enjoyable start to the post-Nemesis era.

 

[Denise]

Just finished A Traitor in Whitehall by Julia Kelley.

 

[TalkaboutTrek]

I just finished Death in Winter by Michael Jan Friedman. It was an enjoyable start to the post-Nemesis era.

I read a few of his books this year. They are always a good time for me. I look forward to getting into that era someday.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I was looking for Spooky Trek books for the season

Two of J. M. Dillard's early works (Demons and Bloodthirst) would certainly fit that theme. The former, as I recall, involves an engineered pathogen that mimics the effects of demonic possession, and the latter, an engineered pathogen that induces a form of porphyria that turns people into vampires.

 

[Greg Cox]

Two of J. M. Dillard's early works (Demons and Bloodthirst) would certainly fit that theme. The former, as I recall, involves an engineered pathogen that mimics the effects of demonic possession, and the latter, an engineered pathogen that induces a form of porphyria that turns people into vampires.

I remain jealous that Dillard did the vampire thing before I could.

 

[TalkaboutTrek]

Two of J. M. Dillard's early works (Demons and Bloodthirst) would certainly fit that theme. The former, as I recall, involves an engineered pathogen that mimics the effects of demonic possession, and the latter, an engineered pathogen that induces a form of porphyria that turns people into vampires.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll add them to the list for next years Spooky Trek reading. LLAP.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I remain jealous that Dillard did the vampire thing before I could.

Hmm. Then again, George Clayton Johnson (with The Man Trap's salt vampire) and Art Wallace (with Obsession's vampire cloud) both beat her to it, in a manner of speaking. So there's nothing stopping you from coming up with a vampire story. In fact, I seem to recall variations on the vampire theme in at least one episode of TNG, DS9, and/or VOY.

Meanwhile, I'm now about 3/4 of the way through Jeff Sharlet's The Family. It's in three sections: the first about what it is (starting with the author in one of their boot-camps, which he infiltrated quite openly); the second about its history, and the third (the last quarter of the book), about how it seduces the public. Very harrowing reading. The kind that makes you wish it were fiction.

Given the number of charities with ties to "The Family," I wish Sharlet had included an appendix listing them, so that I can blacklist them with the most extreme prejudice possible.

 

[Christopher]

Hmm. Then again, George Clayton Johnson (with The Man Trap's salt vampire) and Art Wallace (with Obsession's vampire cloud) both beat her to it, in a manner of speaking. So there's nothing stopping you from coming up with a vampire story. In fact, I seem to recall variations on the vampire theme in at least one episode of TNG, DS9, and/or VOY.

And Ryan North's first Lower Decks comic involved the characters accidentally creating a sentient holo-Dracula.

 

[JD]

I finished up The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers earlier this week after very slowly progressing through it over several months, but despite what that may imply I actually really enjoyed it. I've just gotten really bad about finding time to read recently, but I really hope to try to fix that.
Once that was done I read the second Strange New Worlds comic book miniseries, The Scorpius Run, which I really enjoyed too. So far Strange New Worlds has bit starting off pretty good with tie-ins, they've all been great so far. Well, I haven't read Asylum yet, but it's by Una McCormack, so it's probably also great.

 

[trentman359]

I read a few of his books this year. They are always a good time for me. I look forward to getting into that era someday.

Reading Death in Winter led me to Reunion, another of his with characters that showed up in Death in Winter.

 

[Reanok]

Star trek TNG Dark Mirror by Diane Duane

 

[Denise]

I remain jealous that Dillard did the vampire thing before I could.

You can still do it! I'd read it!

 

[Denise]

Started We Solve Murders by Richard Osman.

 

[TalkaboutTrek]

I finished up The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers earlier this week after very slowly progressing through it over several months, but despite what that may imply I actually really enjoyed it. I've just gotten really bad about finding time to read recently, but I really hope to try to fix that.
Once that was done I read the second Strange New Worlds comic book miniseries, The Scorpius Run, which I really enjoyed too. So far Strange New Worlds has bit starting off pretty good with tie-ins, they've all been great so far. Well, I haven't read Asylum yet, but it's by Una McCormack, so it's probably also great.

I always love reading LOTR this time of year. Such a comfort read.

 

[John Clark]

Doing a reread of Hero of the Imperium by Sandy Mitchell

 

[Greg Cox]

Reading "Dead Ringer," an old Mike Shayne detective yarn from January 1984.

I had a story in the same issue of MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY MAGAZINE, which I had reason to revisit the other day. Dawned on me that I hadn't read any of the other stories in that issue for more than forty years now.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Down to the last 50 pages of The Family. Everything is more harrowing than I remembered it being. And all the more harrowing in a week of nightmares.

I think I'll go ahead and read Dillard's 2 ST horror novels. A bit more upbeat.

 

[TalkaboutTrek]

Started the New Frontier series yesterday and am really enjoying it so far. I read the New Frontiers Gateway novel earlier and loved it. Very excited to get into a new Trek series that I have barely touched.
I am hoping to dedicate a huge chunk of Sunday to reading and nothing else. Wish me luck.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Finally finished The Family.

Now reading J. M. Dillard's Demons. I wasn't aware that "J. M. Dillard" was a pseudonym. And I'd forgotten that (1) the book featured the lower-deckers of the 1980s Novelverse (the one that Richard Arnold suppressed with extreme prejudice), and (2) that she'd written a TNG sequel.

Compared to the real-life horror of The Family, horror fiction seems as light and silly as Trek to Madworld or How Much For Just the Planet.