I prefer to think of it as mobilizing. Some things just need to be said, as loudly and clearly as possible. Complacency is what got us into this mess in the first place.
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I prefer to think of it as mobilizing. Some things just need to be said, as loudly and clearly as possible. Complacency is what got us into this mess in the first place.
And forget the adults. For all we know, some bright eleven-year-old in a red state might be reading the book at an impressionable age, and the book might at least provide a counterpoint to what he's hearing all around him. (I probably don't want to think about how much my politics were shaped by the likes of H.G. Wells, Olaf Stapledon, etc.)
Just finished Angel: Once bitten, a great companion for everyone who's interested in the making of Angel.
Tonight I going to start with Contact
Tonight I going to start with Contact
Patterns of Interference is waiting in the wings (I'll most likely read it on my fall vacation).
I'm currently reading Jane Mayer's Dark Money. Just finished the chapter on the Koch Family (and what a profoundly screwed-up family it was). I will say it has tempered my contempt for Charles Koch with a certain level of pity. He is a perfect textbook example of Dorothy Law Nolte's poetic litany of observations, "Children Learn What they Live." Particularly
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*Frequently attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, but more likely originated by Zechariah Chafee, as: "Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins."
I'm currently reading Jane Mayer's Dark Money. Just finished the chapter on the Koch Family (and what a profoundly screwed-up family it was). I will say it has tempered my contempt for Charles Koch with a certain level of pity. He is a perfect textbook example of Dorothy Law Nolte's poetic litany of observations, "Children Learn What they Live." Particularly
as well as one that Dr. Nolte didn't think of: if a child lives with complete and utter contempt for the Golden Rule and the "Next Man's Nose" principle*, he learns to value nobody's freedom or rights but his own.
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*Frequently attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, but more likely originated by Zechariah Chafee, as: "Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins."
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Got way behind in some of my TrekLit reading over the last few years for various reasons, so I'm working on the backlog. Started with a very long overdue read of the Vulcan's Soul trilogy, which was quite good, followed by Dayton Ward's From History's Shadow, a great addition to the likes of Greg Cox's Eugenics Wars and Christopher Bennett's DTI books, bringing elements of a variety of episodes together in an entertaining new novel.
I finished Deadly Heat by "Richard Castle".
I then read Star Trek: Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor by John Byrne.
Then I read Star Trek: Voyager: Distant Shores: "Winds of Change" by Kim Sheard.
I then read Star Trek: Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor by John Byrne.
Then I read Star Trek: Voyager: Distant Shores: "Winds of Change" by Kim Sheard.
*Finally* finished Pandora's Star by Peter F Hamilton.... was great, but could definitely have lost a few hundred pages without losing any quality or style points. (The alien origins would actually make a great background for Maurice Hurley's original version of the Borg)
And it's only the first half, ending on a cliffhanger to a second doorstop (Judas Unchained)...
Though I'm desperately keen to find out how things play out in that, I'm even more desperate (having been reading this fucker since about April) for a change of pace - and, to be fair, it was brand new I'd have a year or so to wait for the conclusion's release anyway, so I'm definitely willing to spare a couple of months to read something else entirely different... But, yeah, was great to read some proper SF again after a few years
And it's only the first half, ending on a cliffhanger to a second doorstop (Judas Unchained)...
Though I'm desperately keen to find out how things play out in that, I'm even more desperate (having been reading this fucker since about April) for a change of pace - and, to be fair, it was brand new I'd have a year or so to wait for the conclusion's release anyway, so I'm definitely willing to spare a couple of months to read something else entirely different... But, yeah, was great to read some proper SF again after a few years
I finished up STTNG: Takedown yesterday and started reading Wildstorm's Star Trek Special, a comic book short story collection. I've made it through the first story and a half so far. The first one was pretty good, although I would have liked it better if it had been a bit longer so it could go more in depth. The second one is kind of bugging me though, it follows a joint Federation/Horta mining colony which is being attacked by a group of Borg. The way it's portraying the Borg is kind of weird though, it has them having a bunch of conversations with each other, which doesn't really make sense. Since they are all part of the collective they wouldn't need to converse because they would all instantly know what the others know, and they even made it pretty clear in the shows that this kind of thing wouldn't happen.
Read Child of Mine By David and Beverly Lewis and the Boldly Go omnibus (issues 1-6)
Thanks for the kind words.
Diving back into ancient history, I'm re-reading some of the Best of Trek volumes from the '80's and '90's. Some interesting stuff, and a few pieces that could even be passed off as primary research.
But they're also stuffed to the gills with speculation presented as cold, hard fact. I know it was a different time, mostly written before TNG premiered, but seriously folks, when you pull stuff straight out of your a$$, please have the courtesy to label it as something other than "nonfiction."
I did run across a letter in the "Trek Roundtable" section in one volume written by me. I had completely forgotten that ever happened.
But they're also stuffed to the gills with speculation presented as cold, hard fact. I know it was a different time, mostly written before TNG premiered, but seriously folks, when you pull stuff straight out of your a$$, please have the courtesy to label it as something other than "nonfiction."
I did run across a letter in the "Trek Roundtable" section in one volume written by me. I had completely forgotten that ever happened.
How is that any different from the Internet today?
Fake Trek News!
I'm currently reading Halo: The Cole Protocol by Tobias S. Buckell.
Bread of Angels by Tessa Afshar
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