I just did a similar thing, though I started a few million years before A Time to...
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I was at my local Half Price Books and I found the 40th Anniversary Crucible trilogy in the dollar discount bin in almost completely brand new condition still with the old Borders Books price tag on the back. You'd better believe I snapped those up.
One question - what's the best order to read them in? I see that if you put the covers together it goes Spock, Kirk, McCoy; but according to Memory Alpha it was released as McCoy, Spock and then Kirk.
Was there a delay in finishing the Spock and Kirk book so the McCoy book was put out first? Just curious.
One question - what's the best order to read them in? I see that if you put the covers together it goes Spock, Kirk, McCoy; but according to Memory Alpha it was released as McCoy, Spock and then Kirk.
Was there a delay in finishing the Spock and Kirk book so the McCoy book was put out first? Just curious.
Started Purgatory's Key by Ward & Dilmore today
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im currently reading TOS Legacies Book 2: Best Defense by David Mack and TNG: Q-in-Law by Peter David. The latter book hasn't aged so well.
I'm still plodding through My Life by William J. Clinton in between other books. I finished Cell by Stephen King yesterday. Not sure if I'll start a new book or continue with Bill this evening.
Best Defense. Hoping the library gets Purgatory's Key soon.
Hoping the library gets Purgatory's Key soon. I just started reading Enterprise: "What Price Honor?" and I have to ask one question: Are all Enterprise novels so great? I'm excpecting a lot from the post-series novels, but from the very early during TV show tie-ins? "By the Book" was instantly one of my favorites as soon as the first Cutler rpg scene and it just kept getting better and better. Judging from the first chapters of "What Price Honor?" it is at least on par with "By the Book" and currently my favorite Enterprise publications.
I would temper your expectations for Surak's Soul (I'd put it at solidly OK
) but otherwise, I think the in-series Enterprise novels hold up really well, yeah. I still love the Daedalus duology and Rosetta.That's great! I'm especially looking forward to Rosetta, as it is the only season 4 novel and the cover and description look really intruiging. Also, unrelated to the novels, I like Enterprise more after every rewatch. After first watching it I was... Well.. Let's say not impressed. The first rewatch was pretty entertaining, though I only rewatched season 4, which I had pretty much glossed over in my initial viewing of the series due to me hating season 3 and not thinking that the show'd get better after the Xindi-arc, one of my biggest Trek-related mistakes... Now I'm on my third rewatch, chronologically accurat of course (basically publication order, just swap Silent Enemy and Cold War), and I find myself even enjoying the season 1 episodes very much, especially The Andorain Incident (which I already liked when I watched it the first time), Silent Enemy, Dear Doctor, Shadows of P'Jem. Fusion and the one I'm currently watching: Detained. The Temporal Cold Wars episodes featuring Future Guy were especially interesting to watch, with the knowledge in mind who the producers intended him to be.I would temper your expectations for Surak's Soul (I'd put it at solidly OK
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Agreed. I read them in the order they were published because it was a case where I wanted to read them as soon as they came out. Even though I liked all three of the books, the published order is also the order that I liked them. I thought the McCoy book was amazing, it's one of my favorite Trek books of all time, but then I liked the following two a little bit less than each previous one.
I just wrapped up TNG: Q-in-Law this morning. A rather comical ending, a little too silly to me now. Up next in my 24th century read-through is TNG: Fortune's Light by Michael Jan Friedman.
Finished Purgatory's Key (Good) - and am now on to Double Dealer (CSI-LV) by Max Collins.
I think I've only read this once when it first came out, but I seem to remember most of it so far.
I think I've only read this once when it first came out, but I seem to remember most of it so far.
I've got Purgatory's Key on order so that should show up soon.
I'm on the third book in the Shatnerverse Mirror Universe trilogy. I'm liking the scenes that don't involve Kirk better than those that do. Just really a mixture of good and bad for me here. I'm assuming it's the Reeves-Stevens' that pull in a lot of interesting cannon and use it well but the way Kirk is handled, I believe those parts are written by Shatner, just doesn't work for me. I had wanted to finish the Shatner books this year but now I'm trying to decide if I'm going to power through them or hold off on the next trilogy for later. It's my understanding the Totality trilogy gets even more into fan fictiony with Kirk being almost comically amazing in the 24th century.
I normally don't go in for the behind the scenes or making of books but I liked ST:TNG 365. Like the TOS 365 book this was filled with some fun background and a lot of cool pictures.
I'm on the third book in the Shatnerverse Mirror Universe trilogy. I'm liking the scenes that don't involve Kirk better than those that do. Just really a mixture of good and bad for me here. I'm assuming it's the Reeves-Stevens' that pull in a lot of interesting cannon and use it well but the way Kirk is handled, I believe those parts are written by Shatner, just doesn't work for me. I had wanted to finish the Shatner books this year but now I'm trying to decide if I'm going to power through them or hold off on the next trilogy for later. It's my understanding the Totality trilogy gets even more into fan fictiony with Kirk being almost comically amazing in the 24th century.
I normally don't go in for the behind the scenes or making of books but I liked ST:TNG 365. Like the TOS 365 book this was filled with some fun background and a lot of cool pictures.
A Bee In Her Bonnet by Jennifer Beckstrand (about to read, anyway)
The Hike by Drew Margary. Some weird fiction so far. I'm digging it.
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