So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[youngtrek]

August 2025 reading report (books read either entirely in August or finished in August):

“Assassination Classroom” Vol. 1 by Yusei Matsui (writer/artist) (Viz Media LLC, 2014)

“The Avengers in The Veracity Trap” by Chip Kidd (writer) and Michael Cho (co-writer/artist) (Abrams ComicArts, 2025)

“Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: “Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold!”: The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library” Vol. 1 by Carl Barks, et al. (Fantagraphics, 2025)

“Superman Archives” Vol. 7 by Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, et al. (DC Comics, 2006)

“Superman: The World’s Finest Comics Archives” Vol. 1 (DC Comics, 2004)

GoodReads 2025 Reading Challenge: 36 of 75 (48%)

— David Young

 

[JD]

I'm 6 chapters into Q-Space now, and I'm loving it so far, this might be on it's way to becoming one of my favorite books. I've always been a huge fan of Q and from Greg Cox's other box I've read I was pretty sure he was going to write a fantastic Q, and he has not disappointed so far.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Now halfway through John Williams: A Composer's Life. The first nine chapters are collectively grouped as "Part I: Hollywood," and the remaining nine chapters are collectively grouped as "Part II: Tanglewood." We've gotten as far as ET and ROTJ, and a couple of ill-advised scoring jobs that failed to salvage Heartbeeps and Monsignor.

 

[youngtrek]

Now halfway through John Williams: A Composer's Life. The first nine chapters are collectively grouped as "Part I: Hollywood," and the remaining nine chapters are collectively grouped as "Part II: Tanglewood." We've gotten as far as ET and ROTJ, and a couple of ill-advised scoring jobs that failed to salvage Heartbeeps and Monsignor.

Thank you for mentioning this one. I was unaware of it. I just placed a request for my public library to buy a copy!

(Whoops! I just noticed that you’ve been posting about this one for awhile now. I was starting at the newest post in the thread and making my way backwards.)

— David Young

 

[youngtrek]

In the Batman episode "The Impractical Joker," Bruce mentions wanting to change the TV channel to watch The Green Hornet. Conversely, two episodes of The Green Hornet, “The Secret of the Sally Bell” and “Ace in the Hole,” show characters watching Batman on TV. Despite this, Batman: "The Spell of Tut" gave the Green Hornet and Kato a window cameo during a Bat-climb, in which Batman and Robin recognized them as fellow crimefighters. This, in turn, was ignored in the subsequent crossover 2-parter, in which Batman and Robin believed the Hornet and Kato to be criminals. So there were three mutually contradictory depictions of GH&K within Batman '66.

They had a similar situation on “Emergency!” concerning the two lead characters from sister show, “Adam-12” (both produced by Jack Webb’s company). In the pilot episode of “Emergency!”, Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) make a cameo appearance. Then the “Adam-12” episode, “Lost and Found”, takes place at Rampart Hospital (from “Emergency!”). But then later on, there’s an episode where the guys at the firehouse are watching an episode of “Adam-12” on the tv and Gage (Randolph Mantooth) and DeSoto (Kevin Tighe) keep getting called away so they miss how the episode ends.

— David Young

 

[Denise]

Just finished The Bewitched by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

 

[Denise]

I mean that I was told going in that Forgotten History would probably be marketed under the TOS banner, although my contract called it a DTI novel, so I wasn't sure which way it would turn out. I basically wrote it as if it were a TOS novel and the DTI characters were newly introduced guest stars, so people could follow the book without having read Watching the Clock. So despite its banner, I consider it equally a DTI and a TOS novel.

Indeed, since FH is both a sequel and a prequel to WtC, you could read the two in either order and it would work equally well. Which is fitting for books about time travel.

Any chance you are or will be writing more Star Trek novels?

 

[Christopher]

Any chance you are or will be writing more Star Trek novels?

Hopefully soon, but there are fewer openings these days.