Finished Dark Rose, and now it's Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan
So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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Voyager "Echos"
TOS "Yesterday's Son"
TOS "Yesterday's Son"
Just posted my review of J.M. Dillard's Enterprise: Surak's Soul. A small novel. Interesting, but not at the top of my list.
Finishing up Inferno by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, then I'm planning on taking a look at Star Trek: Lost Scenes.
Finishing up Inferno by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, then I'm planning on taking a look at Star Trek: Lost Scenes.
Star Trek New frontier After the fall
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Just finished the first two IKS Gorkon books. I had read Diplomatic Implausibility a while back and enjoyed it, and I finally got around to checking out A Good Day to Die. A worthy follow up. I didn't realize it was a two part story so I had to wait a couple of weeks to get a copy of Honor Bound.
I'm enjoying this take on the Klingons. They are still the honor obsessed warriors that we have seen many times before, but the characters aren't in any way two dimensional caricatures; all of them have their own personalities and their own interesting backstories.
I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
Two questions:
1) are all of the plotlines wrapped up when this series ends?
2) I'm asking to be spoiled with this one - does Kurn get any kind of justice by the end? I absolutely hated that episode of DS9 where he had his memory wiped. I guess it's too much to ask to have him disembowel Worf and Bashir, but I hope he comes out on top somehow.
I'm enjoying this take on the Klingons. They are still the honor obsessed warriors that we have seen many times before, but the characters aren't in any way two dimensional caricatures; all of them have their own personalities and their own interesting backstories.
I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
Two questions:
1) are all of the plotlines wrapped up when this series ends?
2) I'm asking to be spoiled with this one - does Kurn get any kind of justice by the end? I absolutely hated that episode of DS9 where he had his memory wiped. I guess it's too much to ask to have him disembowel Worf and Bashir, but I hope he comes out on top somehow.
It is a while since I have read the novels but I believe the serie didn't have a ending
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Well, that is pretty disappointing news.
Thanks for the info.
Thanks for the info.
Did you read The Brave and The Bold duology? The second one features the IKS Gorkon crew and was released between Diplomatic Implausability and A Good Day to Die.
The answer to both questions is "more or less." U.S.S. Firefly is incorrect in that the series did have an ending, the Klingon Empire novel A Burning House, which I wrote both as a jumping-on point for the series under a new title, but I also tried to wrap up all the outstanding plot points (including resolving the whole Kurn/Rodek thing) in case there weren't any more books. (As, in fact, there weren't.)
Just finished “A Stich In Time” by Andrew J. Robinson. Loved it! Can’t wait to read the other Cardassia-centered DS9 novels now.
My apologie, it has been a while since I have read your novels
Took a break from Star Trek books but I just can’t stay away. Started reading Stargazer: Progenitor by Michael Jan Friedman.
No worries. The books with the I.K.S. Gorkon in them came out between 17 and 10 years ago, after all....
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No, I haven't read those as a matter of fact. I'll add them to my (never ending) list of books I want to read.
Good enough for me. I'll be sure to give them a read.
Coincidentally, I read another Klag story today. It was "Brothers and Fathers" from The Captain's Table anthology. Quite good. I'm glad I read it after the first two books, though. I think it and the Kira story by Heather Jarman were my favorites of the bunch. The post Stargazer Picard story was ok, too.
The publishing industry is a complete mystery to me so this might not be feasible, but I would love to see series like IKS Gorkon, The Captain's Table, and Stargazer get a shot in the novella ebook format. 1) I like the format as they frequently feel like tv episodes 2) They are affordable and, hopefully, that might draw in readers who might otherwise have stuck to the core series.
Basically, what I'm saying is, I'll give you five bucks if you write a story about Kurn beating up Worf.
TOKYO VICE by Jake Adelstein
Not a bad bit of true crime journalism memoir, covering Adelstein's career as a journalist on the crime beat for the Yomiuri Shinbun in Tokyo, and his rising from small local crimes to bringing down one of the biggest Yakuza gang bosses. It's eminently readable, and with some self-deprecating humour. I'm actually surprised it hasn't been turned into an HBO/Netflix type prestige miniseries. Some of it's hard to read, especially on the sex-trafficking front, and how he seriously fucked up and got a woman brutally murdered. Some of it's funny. Some of it seems oddly familiar (as a UK reader I vaguely remember the Lucy Blackman case from a few years ago, so it was interesting to get a fuller story on what happened there). And some of it I can sympathise with far too much.
There are some flaws – the opening scene doesn't get returned to in a way that places it chronologically in the progress of the story, for example – but the biggest problem is really its lack of an index- there are a lot of characters with confusing or similar names, nicknames,and so on, all getting the occasional “I'd known him since we had...” which all blend together, and it would be so fucking improved just by being to be able to go back and check the previous appearance on whichever page.
But it was worth reading, even if I came out of it thinking the guy is in many ways a fucking idiot who should have known better.
Not a bad bit of true crime journalism memoir, covering Adelstein's career as a journalist on the crime beat for the Yomiuri Shinbun in Tokyo, and his rising from small local crimes to bringing down one of the biggest Yakuza gang bosses. It's eminently readable, and with some self-deprecating humour. I'm actually surprised it hasn't been turned into an HBO/Netflix type prestige miniseries. Some of it's hard to read, especially on the sex-trafficking front, and how he seriously fucked up and got a woman brutally murdered. Some of it's funny. Some of it seems oddly familiar (as a UK reader I vaguely remember the Lucy Blackman case from a few years ago, so it was interesting to get a fuller story on what happened there). And some of it I can sympathise with far too much.
There are some flaws – the opening scene doesn't get returned to in a way that places it chronologically in the progress of the story, for example – but the biggest problem is really its lack of an index- there are a lot of characters with confusing or similar names, nicknames,and so on, all getting the occasional “I'd known him since we had...” which all blend together, and it would be so fucking improved just by being to be able to go back and check the previous appearance on whichever page.
But it was worth reading, even if I came out of it thinking the guy is in many ways a fucking idiot who should have known better.
New Literary Treks is up! #247: A 24th Century Jack Ryan Movie - A Time to Kill by David Mack.
Currently reading TNG: The Valiant by Michael Jan Friedman. I've had this one in my collection since it first came out in paperback, but never got around to reading it. Better late than never, I suppose!
Currently reading TNG: The Valiant by Michael Jan Friedman. I've had this one in my collection since it first came out in paperback, but never got around to reading it. Better late than never, I suppose!
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