Damn. But I do still have the rest of the comics and House of Cards to read, so I've got plenty of your Farscape stuff that's new to me.
So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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Rather reminded of a line from an episode of the original Night Court. Harry was tasked with eulogizing, as I recall, a judge that nobody could stand. And Harry finally fell back on Bull's suggestion, and said that Judge ________ . . . . was a mammal.
That was actually Dan Fielding's (premature) funeral. I remember it vividly because I couldn't stop laughing at that bit.
That little detail was one I'd forgotten. I will note that I invoked it on TrekBBS, at the announcement of Richard Arnold's demise.
Have you found anything to add to the non-canon name list? https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/non-canon-names-for-canon-characters-the-complete-list.308832/page-5
Just started reading ADF's The Director Should Have Shot You.
And I took a moment out to read the MSDS for Zip Kicker (an accelerant for CA adhesives; extremely useful stuff). I'd spilled a bit on my hand, decanting some of it into a small glass vial, and just now noticed that I could still smell it on my skin. According to the MSDS, I should have no reason to worry. Although most likely, if I were to spill CA adhesive on that hand, anytime within the next few hours, it would go off even faster than it normally does in contact with human skin (which is bloody fast, probably why octyl alpha CA is a popular substitute for sutures).
And I took a moment out to read the MSDS for Zip Kicker (an accelerant for CA adhesives; extremely useful stuff). I'd spilled a bit on my hand, decanting some of it into a small glass vial, and just now noticed that I could still smell it on my skin. According to the MSDS, I should have no reason to worry. Although most likely, if I were to spill CA adhesive on that hand, anytime within the next few hours, it would go off even faster than it normally does in contact with human skin (which is bloody fast, probably why octyl alpha CA is a popular substitute for sutures).
And it's riotously funny. ADF's book, not the MSDS. The MSDS is as dry as any other MSDS.
I was thinking, as I began to read The Director Should Have Shot You, that this had better be good, given that I've bought publisher hardcovers that had cover prices less than I paid for a stream of DRM-protected bits. Then again, I'm an ADF fan. I trust him to keep the contracts he makes with his readers*. I trust him to make his slowest starts worth my time. And with the possible exception of the first couple of Spellsinger books, he always has.
And this is as riotously funny as Glory Lane, or Quozl, or his best Mad Amos short stories.
And now I know where "The Wanderers Who Play" came from, in Log Seven.
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* And I am intimately familiar with what happens when writers break the contract with the reader. As I'm sure a few others on this board are aware.
I just finished a preview ARC of Adam Kotsko's Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era, which looks over the post-1990s age of Star Trek (from Enterprise to present day). It's insightful stuff, and I was pleased to see the author writing some direct academic analysis of tie-in fiction, the litverse and its place in the franchise.
I always find with these kind of analytical works there's some content I concur with and other elements I don't. Kotsko misses a few things I felt he should have covered - there's no mention of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers ebook series, arguably an important work in the early 2000s litverse; the Short Treks series gets short shrift; and Star Trek games are overlooked, which feels like an oversight when you consider that titles like Star Trek Online have been consistently generating new narrative content for more than a decade.
But those nitpicks aside, the book makes for some interesting reading and it's certainly something that might be of interest to readers of this forum (which also gets namechecked).
I always find with these kind of analytical works there's some content I concur with and other elements I don't. Kotsko misses a few things I felt he should have covered - there's no mention of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers ebook series, arguably an important work in the early 2000s litverse; the Short Treks series gets short shrift; and Star Trek games are overlooked, which feels like an oversight when you consider that titles like Star Trek Online have been consistently generating new narrative content for more than a decade.
But those nitpicks aside, the book makes for some interesting reading and it's certainly something that might be of interest to readers of this forum (which also gets namechecked).
So far this year, comic books. Day of Blood, Sons of Star Trek, and Lars the Awkward Yeti Vol. 2.
Star Trek Picard, The last best hope.
A real downer. A brilliantly written downer, but still a downer. Probably the only book for which my fervent desire to un-read it has nothing to do with the quality of the writing, and everything to do with the subject matter.
Hopefully the title isn't a warning of the aftereffects.
Maybe someone should write a book called The Book of the Dammed: A Survey of Artificial Lakes.
I don't suppose that title is a reference to either Samuel Joel Mostel, or the naive, buck-toothed farm-boy from Beetle Bailey?
Scotland Yard by Simon Read. Fascinating so far.
I finished a reread of Star Trek: Silent Weapons. I had forgotten how much good Data material was in the book. Curiously, the last time I read the book was right around the start of the 2020 lockdowns (March 14-20 is when I logged it in to Goodreads).
Currently, I am about 2/3 done with Ben Bova's Privateers. The Dan Randolph books are not doing as much for me as Mars did. I hope the other planet and moon-based books in the series are more my speed.
Currently, I am about 2/3 done with Ben Bova's Privateers. The Dan Randolph books are not doing as much for me as Mars did. I hope the other planet and moon-based books in the series are more my speed.
Still reading ADF's The Director Should Have Shot You. I have now gone past the incident that almost certainly inspired the title.
And Joan Morris's memoir, Let Me Sing And I'm Happy, has joined Ben Bova's Escape in the on-deck circle. Just reading the front-matter, I've learned things I never knew about my favorite mezzo-soprano.
And Joan Morris's memoir, Let Me Sing And I'm Happy, has joined Ben Bova's Escape in the on-deck circle. Just reading the front-matter, I've learned things I never knew about my favorite mezzo-soprano.
I finished reading Star Trek SCE: Some Assembly Required on Sunday, and the last two novellas were pretty good.
Ambush by Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur: This one was pretty good, it was nice to spend a bit more time on the Da Vinci, and it was fun to have the team having to deal all the issues that popped up during the battle.
Some Assembly Required by Scott Ciencin and Dan Jolley: I really enjoyed this one too, it was nice to get a focus on Bart Faulwell and Carol Abramowitz, who hadn't been in much of the other novellas in the book, and the stuff with the computer system and how it worked was pretty interesting.
I then read Captain Marvel Vol. 3: Alis Volat Popriis by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Warren Ellis with art by David Lopez. This was the final collection in DeConnick's second series, and I was pretty happy with how it finished the series. My one issue with it was the inclusion of the Black Vortex issue, since it dumped you into the middle of the storyline and then didn't really have much of an ending. I understand it was that was because it was #11 in a 13 issue event, but it really didn't have any real connection to the other issues, so they could have easily skipped over it with no impact on the rest of the issues in the collection.
I'm now reading DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke, which has been fantastic so far.
Ambush by Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur: This one was pretty good, it was nice to spend a bit more time on the Da Vinci, and it was fun to have the team having to deal all the issues that popped up during the battle.
Some Assembly Required by Scott Ciencin and Dan Jolley: I really enjoyed this one too, it was nice to get a focus on Bart Faulwell and Carol Abramowitz, who hadn't been in much of the other novellas in the book, and the stuff with the computer system and how it worked was pretty interesting.
I then read Captain Marvel Vol. 3: Alis Volat Popriis by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Warren Ellis with art by David Lopez. This was the final collection in DeConnick's second series, and I was pretty happy with how it finished the series. My one issue with it was the inclusion of the Black Vortex issue, since it dumped you into the middle of the storyline and then didn't really have much of an ending. I understand it was that was because it was #11 in a 13 issue event, but it really didn't have any real connection to the other issues, so they could have easily skipped over it with no impact on the rest of the issues in the collection.
I'm now reading DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke, which has been fantastic so far.
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