I just literally started Enterprise: The First Adventure by Voda Mcintyre
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I've read that one a few times. It's probably my favorite Vonda McIntyre book.
Anybody know why that's never been released as an e-book? It's one of the last Trek books I've come across that hasn't been. For a long time I believe Mudd in Your Eye and Assignment: Eternity weren't either, but those two have been now, but still no Enterprise: The First Adventure.
Finished up Available Light by Dayton Ward.
Now reading The Rings of Tautee by Dean Wesley Smith. I might have read this one years ago or not but what the heck, for 99 cents I picked it up.
Now reading The Rings of Tautee by Dean Wesley Smith. I might have read this one years ago or not but what the heck, for 99 cents I picked it up.
It honestly never occurred to me that someone would have to go back and scan the old paperbacks for the pre-digital era books.
I finished reading New Avengers Vol. 3 a couple days ago, and I haven't decided what comic I want to read next.
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I just posted my review of Klingon Empire: A Burning House by Keith R.A. DeCandido. I'm really sad to be finished this series, and I wish it had continued. Some of my favourite recent Trek reads have been in this series.
I'm currently reading Titan: The Red King for an upcoming episode of Literary Treks.
I'm currently reading Titan: The Red King for an upcoming episode of Literary Treks.
I started Vol. 2 of the Kelvinverse comic on Thursday night, and made it all the way through the Operation: Annihilate! adaptation, which I enjoyed. I didn't really remember the episode so I watched that after I started to comic in order to compare them.
I actually thought they were both close in terms of quality, and there actually a few things I liked better about the comic, which kind of surprised me.
I really like that the comic actually kept Kirk's brother alive, it allowed for some nice character development for Kirk.
Of course the fact that the comic doesn't have to rely on a budget meant that we were able to get more interesting looking aliens and Denevan architecture.
I also liked the fact that Spock was the one who thought of the light rather than Kirk. Watching the episode I thought it was a bit odd that Spock forgot one of the biggest things a star does.
I actually thought they were both close in terms of quality, and there actually a few things I liked better about the comic, which kind of surprised me.
I really like that the comic actually kept Kirk's brother alive, it allowed for some nice character development for Kirk.
Of course the fact that the comic doesn't have to rely on a budget meant that we were able to get more interesting looking aliens and Denevan architecture.
I also liked the fact that Spock was the one who thought of the light rather than Kirk. Watching the episode I thought it was a bit odd that Spock forgot one of the biggest things a star does.
^Yeah, the "Operation -- Annihilate" adaptation is a definite improvement over the first two. It didn't make any sense that the events of the episodes would be duplicated so exactly in a parallel universe 7-8 years earlier -- plus, of course, the slavish retellings were not that interesting to read. But "Annihilate" was essentially a whole new take on the same premise -- the same basic situation, setting, and characters, but unfolding in a very different way, and in some respects a better way, as you say. It's far more plausible, because I simply have to assume that in that timeline, a different population of parasites managed to reach Deneva some years earlier (which would explain the differences in their anatomy).
I finished up Star Wars: Most Wanted last night and started the second story in Star Trek Vol. 2. It's been pretty good so far, but first scene is supposed to be set in the Delta Quadrant, which really doesn't make sense since nobody from any of the Alpha or Beta Quadrants should be able to get back and forth from the DQ as easily as they seem to here.
Took me only four days to read The Rings of Tautee. Good stuff.
Latest episode of Literary Treks is up! Literary Treks 267: That Word "Sacrifice" Keeps Coming Up, all about Margaret Wander Bonanno's Christopher Pike novel, Burning Dreams!
I reread the Destiny trilogy, and I found it a frustrating experience. Some of the ideas and scenes are so good (Bacco with the ambassadors, the transformation of the Borg), and others are just a slog to read (almost anything with the Columbia's crew, the Hirogen battle). It was a little easier to read Picard's story in Lost Souls the second time around, knowing the arc of his relationship with the Borg and seeing the setup for why he thought the thalaron weapon was the only choice.
I finished Star Wars: Most Wanted last night and I've now started The Flash (New 52) Vol. 3: Gorilla Warfare, written by Francis Manapul & Brian Buccellato, art by Francis Manapul, Marcus To, Ryan Winn, colors by Brian Buccellato & Ian Herring, and letters by Carlos M. Mangual & Wes Abbott. This morning I also started The World of The Orville by Jeff Bond, the behind the scenes book for The Orville TV series.
I will start Rise like Lions this week
I just finished "Available Light" leaving me caught up with the current novels. I still have a few older novels left from my college years to get to. But I decided to start a re-read of "Enterprise: The First Adventure" by Vonda McIntyre. I was planning on going back to re-read my 1980's Pocketbook collection once I finished up my few stragglers from the 90's but three things made me decide to do a re-read of this novel now. One is the renewed interest in that era with the Abrams films and Discovery. It will be interesting to see how her story stacks up now with all the information we have today (most of which wasn't there when the book was released. There are some discontinuities with her book that I recall (Sulu being a helmsman, Dr McCoy being CMO) that doesn't really fit. I mean, it never really did if you consider WNMHGB, but now it's a bit more glaring with everything we know. But I'll be looking beyond that this time to see if there are other elements that might fit in the existing continuity.
Two, McIntyre's recent passing away sort of gave me a desire to re-read one of her Star Trek novels again. It's been years since I read any by her. She was one of the more unique writers.
Third, Christopher Bennett's novel coming out later this month. "The Captain's Oath" is a story of Captain Kirk's first command. I figure it'd be an excellent opportunity to re-read an alternate version of that story (if I recall correctly McIntyre went with the idea that the Enterprise was his first command---something I admit I didn't really question all those years ago). I don't expect the two to be consistent with one another. But it will be interesting to read the two stories and perhaps see if there are areas where they can co-exist.
Two, McIntyre's recent passing away sort of gave me a desire to re-read one of her Star Trek novels again. It's been years since I read any by her. She was one of the more unique writers.
Third, Christopher Bennett's novel coming out later this month. "The Captain's Oath" is a story of Captain Kirk's first command. I figure it'd be an excellent opportunity to re-read an alternate version of that story (if I recall correctly McIntyre went with the idea that the Enterprise was his first command---something I admit I didn't really question all those years ago). I don't expect the two to be consistent with one another. But it will be interesting to read the two stories and perhaps see if there are areas where they can co-exist.
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No, McIntyre based her Kirk backstory on the same passage from The Making of Star Trek that I did -- that his first command had been a smaller, destroyer-equivalent spacecraft. She named it the Lydia Sutherland, after two ships from the Horatio Hornblower novels.
I very much doubt it.
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