Read lots of Trek books through the years (lots of Peter David stuff, the Vanguard novels, some of the Shatnerverse stuff, some of the DS9 relaunch), but got massively behind over the past decade or so. Decided to pick up Destiny for a good starting point. Just finished Gods of Night and now I'm on Mere Mortals. Really enjoying it so far and looking forward continuing the voyage through the rest of novels forward.
So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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Finally finished From History's Shadow. Solid job weaving together different episodes and characters from multiple series. Next will be Devil's Bargain.
Just bought The Enigma Tales. Has Garak and has Pulaski, two of my favorite characters. Hope it's good.
I finished the TOS story in ST The Badlands: Book 1, and it was... OK. It was well written, but the story wasn't anything spectacular. It was just a very low key, quieter story, which was an big change after reading Takedown and The Fall. The guest character, Romulan smuggler Commander Teral was pretty interesting, and there was a nice set up for the overall arc. One thing that bugged me was that there were a couple of 24th century related mistakes that got through, and one other thing wasn't a mistake but still felt like it would have fit better in the 24th C. At one point Kirk hits a combadge, and before Klingon battle cruiser was described as green, even thought the TOS ones were all grey. There was also a lot of technobabble that to me felt kind of out of place for a TOS story.
I'd give it a 3/5 rating.
This is the first book by Susan Wright, and while I do plan on reading book 2, I don't know if I'll go out of my way to read anything else she's written.
I'd give it a 3/5 rating.
This is the first book by Susan Wright, and while I do plan on reading book 2, I don't know if I'll go out of my way to read anything else she's written.
MANHATTAN IS MY BEAT by Jeffery Deaver.
A nice little thriller with an engaging central character, set in 1988 NYC, about a murder related to an old movie based on a real (within the context of the story) robbery. It's nicely done, fairly typical early Deaver, but has an interesting air 30 years later, as the lead character is a dreamer who works in a video rental shop – something that hasn't existed for a few years. There's a weird sort of nostalgia to that, which is appropriate considering the character's nostalgia for vitnage 1930s/40s film. So there's kind of a nostalgia within nostalgia thing going there that now is unintentionally meta.
I know there are a couple of sequels, which I have, so I'll look forward to them..
Now to pick something else...
A nice little thriller with an engaging central character, set in 1988 NYC, about a murder related to an old movie based on a real (within the context of the story) robbery. It's nicely done, fairly typical early Deaver, but has an interesting air 30 years later, as the lead character is a dreamer who works in a video rental shop – something that hasn't existed for a few years. There's a weird sort of nostalgia to that, which is appropriate considering the character's nostalgia for vitnage 1930s/40s film. So there's kind of a nostalgia within nostalgia thing going there that now is unintentionally meta.
I know there are a couple of sequels, which I have, so I'll look forward to them..
Now to pick something else...
Just finished up the last story in Star Trek Special, and I really enjoyed the last three stories.
The Seven of Nine centric Exercises in Futility was a fun little story where we see several possible scenarios for getting Voyager Home Quicker.
The TNG (with TMP era TOS flashbacks) story, The Legacy of Eleanor Dain was a nice story dealing with the fate of a woman left behind on a colony after it was abandoned. I really liked the end of this one.
The Wake was really good, in it McCoy is visited by a couple of TOS characters shortly after Kirk's death in Generations.
Over all this was a good collection of stories. The short length of the stories prevents any of them from really going deep into the themes and concepts, but they still work.
I'd give it a 4/5.
The Seven of Nine centric Exercises in Futility was a fun little story where we see several possible scenarios for getting Voyager Home Quicker.
The TNG (with TMP era TOS flashbacks) story, The Legacy of Eleanor Dain was a nice story dealing with the fate of a woman left behind on a colony after it was abandoned. I really liked the end of this one.
The Wake was really good, in it McCoy is visited by a couple of TOS characters shortly after Kirk's death in Generations.
Over all this was a good collection of stories. The short length of the stories prevents any of them from really going deep into the themes and concepts, but they still work.
I'd give it a 4/5.
I'm waiting for DRG3's latest DS9 book to show up at my local chapters, so i decided to re-read Christopher's Ex Machina while i'm waiting. Every time is read it, I lament the fact that Pocket's editorial office decided against more regular foray's into the post-TMP/pre-WOK time-frame, as penned by Christopher. His novella from Mere Anarchy and his DTI book, Forgotten History, will have to due...for now! Hopefully we get more 2270's one day 
I'm waiting for DRG3's latest DS9 book to show up at my local chapters, so i decided to re-read Christopher's Ex Machina while i'm waiting. Every time is read it, I lament the fact that Pocket's editorial office decided against more regular foray's into the post-TMP/pre-WOK time-frame, as penned by Christopher. His novella from Mere Anarchy and his DTI book, Forgotten History, will have to due...for now! Hopefully we get more 2270's one day
I appreciate the thought, but just to be clear, the editors had no objection to my doing more TMP-era stuff -- it was the sales department that didn't think it would be profitable.
A Mother's Love by Charlotte Hubbard
Star trek plaques of night, great novel but I can't gelieve they blew up DS9. And a little bit dissapointing that she had trouble with two typhon pact ships, when she did great against the Klingon fleet and the Dominion fleet.
Wasn't the station destroyed not by the ships but a bomb that was planted in the reactor?
I'm currently reading Star Trek: Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: Patterns of Interference by Christopher L. Bennett.
That's but before DS9 exploded only two Typhon pact ships had reduced the station's shield below the 50%.
And after DS9 exploded the two ships quickly attacked and heavy damaged a Galaxy class starship.
The new Discovery novel by David Mack
A Tailor-Made Bride by Karen Witemeyer.
Considering how many other novels have mentioned the Tezwa incident I figured I'd give A Time To Kill/Heal a go, but I'm not finding it easy. I like the idea of the situation, but flitting beteen so many individual missions is just getting tedious...
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