So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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I'm reading Historical short stories By Alexander Dumas and author like Author Conan Doyle. They're really well written stories.I've really enjoyed reading their stories. When comes to classic heroes and villians you can see these traits in a lot of the Star trek characters from the different series were influcened by the classic writers.
Think I'll give this one a try too.
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I just got two disks with a bunch of blacksmithing videos and vintage books on them.
By vintage I mean books from 1915 and before.
I have an interest in history and have always wanted to learn about black smithing.
By vintage I mean books from 1915 and before.
I have an interest in history and have always wanted to learn about black smithing.
I read "The Quiet Place" (ST-NF #7) by Peter David and have started reading "I, Q" ST-TNG also by Peter David. Not sure about going through the same author's mind force warrior series of six books. Would like to explore psionics more fully from time to time. Still watching Season 2 of ST-TNG. Also watched a few educational / documentary shows about space from Netflix. Updated the article on "Green Theory" in Wikipedia by making it yet more controversial. Transhuman traits, by definition, cannot be understood by earlier mere "humans" but I wonder if you could do an "I, Q" version of the story of a transhuman. But, then is this a "story idea" which I am gradually being socialized into understanding what is acceptable and what is unacceptable etiquette? Perhaps, "I, Q" does the autobiography of post-human and strange so well that no other stories need be done.
I was wondering if "The Quiet Place" would be some kind of internal meditative space or perhaps a sanctuary or perhaps some kind of "unimatrix zero" but it may have to be revisited some time in the future. Is this a story idea?
Will have to get "Uncertain Logic" by Christopher L. Bennett as next of my book buys. Sorry if I mixed it up with "Unspoken Truth" which I read in 2010. I have always been a fan of Spock's logic. But what to do when logics conflict with each other and paradoxes abound? Are the laws of thought inviolable? Can something be both true and false? Or, can a proposition be neither true nor false? And... more. More what? (More or less?) After hermeneutic / hermeneutick perhaps one could use logic(s) and logick(s) likewise.
I was wondering if "The Quiet Place" would be some kind of internal meditative space or perhaps a sanctuary or perhaps some kind of "unimatrix zero" but it may have to be revisited some time in the future. Is this a story idea?
Will have to get "Uncertain Logic" by Christopher L. Bennett as next of my book buys. Sorry if I mixed it up with "Unspoken Truth" which I read in 2010. I have always been a fan of Spock's logic. But what to do when logics conflict with each other and paradoxes abound? Are the laws of thought inviolable? Can something be both true and false? Or, can a proposition be neither true nor false? And... more. More what? (More or less?) After hermeneutic / hermeneutick perhaps one could use logic(s) and logick(s) likewise.
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Look into the novelette "Understand" by Ted Chiang if you're interested in seeing more first-person transhuman fiction. (And if you like that one, look into the rest of his stuff; he's an amazingly-creative author.)
Just posted my review for Slings and Arrows, Book III: The Insolence of Office by William Leisner.
Finally getting back to A Song of Ice and Fire with book three, A Storm of Swords. Forgot how much I enjoy these books!
Finally getting back to A Song of Ice and Fire with book three, A Storm of Swords. Forgot how much I enjoy these books!
^Any particular reason you're reading that, Greg? That's right around the time period you've been working with recently.
--Sran
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This morning I finished Star Wars: Lords of the Sith by Paul S. Kemp. I enjoyed it overall, though it wasn't the Vader/Palpatine team-up focus that it had been teased as.
http://bit.ly/1pnNxPY
Slight spoilers in my review, but nothing major.
http://bit.ly/1pnNxPY
Slight spoilers in my review, but nothing major.
I'm looking forward to this one. This past weekend, i FINALLY finished "Heir to the Jedi." It took me practically since it came out, when i bought it, for me to finally finish this last weekend. I had such a hard time getting into "Heir." I usually love 1st person stories, but the writing style of this book just threw me off.
You're thinking of Heir to the Empire.
The one in which Thrawn tried to reverse imperial decline through art appreciation (this was before he was Captain Mal).
This week, I'm doing short reviews of the four S.C.E. stories in the omnibus Some Assembly Required.
Yesterday, I posted my review of Aaron Rosenberg's The Riddled Post.
Today, it's Here There Be Monsters by Keith DeCandido.
Just got Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath as a gift, can't wait to start it!
Yesterday, I posted my review of Aaron Rosenberg's The Riddled Post.
Today, it's Here There Be Monsters by Keith DeCandido.
Just got Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath as a gift, can't wait to start it!
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