So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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I just read Green Lantern: Rebirth over the weekend. My first foray into GL and really into superhero comics. I read somewhere that Rebirth was a good jumping on point. Not knowing much about GL going into it, I was a little confused at points, but found that the comic answered any questions I had and left me wanting more.
Now I'm reading Prime Directive by Diane Carey. I have had the book forever, but never got around to reading it for some reason. I used to have a respectable collection of Star Trek paperbacks, but, as I started moving toward using iBooks, I have sadly gotten rid of all but a handful. I held onto several that I fully intend to read (including a hardcover copy of Spock's World).
A few others that I hung onto are the Invasion! series, which I believe was the first major crossover of all four (at the time) series. I'd love to hear Literary Treks cover this saga!
Now I'm reading Prime Directive by Diane Carey. I have had the book forever, but never got around to reading it for some reason. I used to have a respectable collection of Star Trek paperbacks, but, as I started moving toward using iBooks, I have sadly gotten rid of all but a handful. I held onto several that I fully intend to read (including a hardcover copy of Spock's World).
A few others that I hung onto are the Invasion! series, which I believe was the first major crossover of all four (at the time) series. I'd love to hear Literary Treks cover this saga!
Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens wrote Prime Directive.
Yes indeed. Long day. I'm wrong all over the place. I just started Best Destiny by Diane Carey. Prime Directive by the Reeves-Stevens' is next on my list. Guess I'm excited for Prime Directive, while also enjoying Diane Carey's writing.
I'm going to shut up now.
I'm going to shut up now.
Cool, thanks for the help.
I've been hearing about Diane Duane's Trek books for years, so I'm looking forward to finally reading them. Although I don't know if I'm looking forward to having to drag around Bloodwing Voyages though, that thing is huge.
No, because Honor Blade is just the second half of Swordhunt. Duane was commissioned to write a duology, Swordhunt and The Empty Chair, and they were scheduled to be published back-to-back. But Duane got delayed on TEC, and since a 2-book release had already been scheduled and couldn't be changed, they just split Swordhunt into two short volumes and called the second half of it Honor Blade. (They didn't even bother renumbering the chapters. Honor Blade opens with Chapter Six.) The edition in The Bloodwing Voyages reunites both halves under the single title Swordhunt, as was originally intended.
Uhh, yes, that's exactly the point. They're not Rihannsu stories, but they introduce and advance character arcs that are significant to the Rihannsu books, so you get an incomplete picture if you leave them out (for instance, you'd have no idea who this K's't'lk is who shows up in the last two Rihannsu books). The problem is, people get too fixated on the Rihannsu label and so they tend to omit those two books that aren't about the Romulans even though they're still part of the continuity sequence in other ways. As evidenced by their exclusion from The Bloodwing Voyages.
No, it omits Doctor's Orders, which came out after Spock's World but is set in the 5-year mission. That was her one book written under the Richard Arnold regime that cracked down on the books' continuity and creative freedom, so while Duane was able to incorporate her human characters from earlier books like Lia Burke and Janice Kerasus, she wasn't able to feature any of the nonhuman Enterprise crew she'd created or to carry forward any continuity. So it's hard to say where it would fit.
I didn't realize that. I just read those '2+' novels about 2 or 3 years ago and I thought it was odd that Honor Blade didn't start with chapter 1. I just figured at the time it was intentional since the books went hand in hand. I also thought the novels were a bit short at the time. Now I know why.
It seemed to me, at least when I read the Empty Chair, that there was a bit of an attempt to incorporate it more with modern continuity in some ways. While the foreward noted that the Romulans depicted by Duane is based on her own earlier vision before TNG ever came to me, it didn't feel totally out of sync with what we now know of Romulans. It seemed she was trying to see what elements of what we've seen of the Romulans in later shows could still fit with her depiction. Maybe others feel differently, but when I read it I felt at least in some ways it could still fit with the modern continuity.
She did have some unique stories and characters and I know I wouldn't mind if she and Pocketbooks decided it was time she wrote another Star Trek book
. Of course that's if we get any new books in this lifetime :P
I really enjoyed the Invasion! books. Especially the first one and the Voyager book.
The Romulan TOS stories are some of the best Trek stories, its a shame the rubbish version of the race we got in TNG and ENT.
Fear itself by James Swallow
That, along with Swordhunt and Honor Blade originally being intended to be a single novel, had slipped my mind. Usually, when I read Diane Duane, it's either Spock's World, The Romulan Way, or The Wounded Sky.
Given the situation in the Richard Arnold era, it's remarkable that she even got away with including Lia Burke and Janice Kerasus.
By the way, if Doctor's Orders were to be included in the sequence, the most logical place for it is sometime in the year-long gap between My Enemy, My Ally and The Romulan Way. There's only a month between The Wounded Sky and ME,MA, and the timing of TRW and Spock's World is unclear.
I don't have Doctors Orders yet, and since it sounds like it's not as interconnected as the other Diane Duane books, I'll just read the ones I have right now, and then get that one and read it later.
Technically I didn't, I'm read the Rihannsu focused books in the onmibus The Bloodwing Voyages.
I'm aware of that, but since they are connected to the Rihannsu books and I already own them I'm going to read them all together.
Listening to Fear Itself audiobook in the car. Good insight into Saru so far.
Finished The More Things Change by Scott Pearson last night. I enjoyed this quick read and the little adventure shared between Chapel and Spock. Even though it mostly takes place in one setting, the dialogue and pace of the entire narrative was fresh, witty, and entertaining.
Next up on my chronological Lit-Verse journey - DTI: Forgotten HIstory and the Rihannsu series. Does Forgotten History make sense to include in my 2275 list or is it better off somewhere else since it time jumps a little?
Finished The More Things Change by Scott Pearson last night. I enjoyed this quick read and the little adventure shared between Chapel and Spock. Even though it mostly takes place in one setting, the dialogue and pace of the entire narrative was fresh, witty, and entertaining.
Next up on my chronological Lit-Verse journey - DTI: Forgotten HIstory and the Rihannsu series. Does Forgotten History make sense to include in my 2275 list or is it better off somewhere else since it time jumps a little?
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(I am reading all of the TNG, TITAN and DS9 relaunch books in universe chronological order)
(I am reading all of the TNG, TITAN and DS9 relaunch books in universe chronological order)
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