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So What Are you Reading?: Generations

Currently, I'm on a reread of the Dahak series by David Weber.

Recently though, I've gone through

Batman: The Court of Owls by Greg Cox (Enjoyed)
Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn (OK)
I was a Teenage Were Deer by CT Phipps (Fun and there were a few shoutouts to various other things I've read/watched)
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (I'd seen the film so thought I'd try the book. - Different, but I enjoyed both)
Stargate SG1: Female of The Species by Geonn Cannon (OK)
Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray (Ok)

There's a few others, but those are the ones that spring to mind right now.
 
I've pictured Kristofer Hivju from game of thrones as Torin ban Wyvald.
Or which actors did you had in mind when you wrote the novels?
He's got the right look and physicality for the role. That's not remotely how I imagined his voice, but I think he could work, yea. :)

Keep in mind that I created these characters in the 1990s, and they first appeared in a book in 2004. I also don't often cast my original characters (with occasional exceptions) -- I know exactly what they look and sound like, but that rarely corresponds to an actor....
 
I was just able to get my hands on a copy of Christopher's The Captain's Oath, and have made it about 50 pages in. I'm really enjoying it! Much easier to get into than the last trek book I was reading :)
 
I've finished Exploring Calvin and Hobbes: An Exhibition Catalogue (by Bill Watterson, of course) and, like many others, have just started The Captain's Oath by Christopher L Bennett (which, as expected, is bloody brilliant so far).
 
i'm a few chapters into Christopher Bennett's new novel, TOS: The Captain's Oath. I'm really enjoying it so far, especially the style of how the book is playing out.
 
Star Trek Log One by Foster, and The Best of Trek #7, edited by Irwin&Love.

Since I finished the Blishverse re-read on Sunday, I started a run through the Fosterverse. And I'm still working on The Best of Trek series. sometimes interesting, sometimes infuriating.

My in-car/treadmill audio book is The Hydrogen Sonata by Banks. This is my first exposure to The Culture, and I'm frankly loving it to pieces!

As soon as that's done, I'll start in on The Captain's Oath.
 
Now reading my late mother's copy of The Arabian Nights. It's a 1946 Grossett & Dunlap edition; the illustrator is credited, but the translator is not. She read it in junior high school; I'm almost 57, and reading it for the first time (although I have read a few Arabian Nights tales before, and know the general framing arc).

Very quaint language.

In my car (reading while eating lunch, not reading while driving!), I just finished the May issue of the NMRA Magazine (formerly Scale Rails, formerly the NMRA Bulletin); the latest issue of the Zoological Society of San Diego's ZOONOOZ is "on deck."
 
Rereading Australis’ Catching Light. It’s a short story anthology of fantasy and sci-fi. I’ve started a read-along review thread here:

Our very own Australis published a book of fantasy sci-fi which is available on Amazon for a paltry $3.

It’s been worth every Penney several times over and I thought a read along/ review would be fun.

There are 17 stories; some are related, some not. A poem which he posted on the board Catching Light is also included; it is of course also the title of the book.

I’m hoping perhaps a story per every few-ish days if responses allow.

****SPOILERS****

Green and Pleasant Land is the first up.

It is an alt-universe in which Hannibal’s defeat is avenged by a united Africa led by King Nakoma 300 years later. They plan and rebuild and strategize the defeat of Europe from Russia to Scotland and everything in between.

It’s an alternate history-reversal glimpsed through the eyes of Simon, a young man who has never known independent English rule and his grandfather Nigel, a ptsd-suffering veteran of the long, grueling, humiliating defeat.

A play written by Wm Shakespeare and performed at the Globe Theater depicting HenryVIII’s capitulation to Nakoma is the flashpoint of a riot which sends Simon on a quest to discover his new world.

I had to read this twice; knowing that I am not catching all the allusions made to English history and the monarchy I still found it fascinating and compelling.

I hope many of you will read it and I’d love to hear your thoughts on it please!

I bought the hard copy too -it’s a fairly large font which was much easier on my eyes.

Would love to see some of you there!
 
Started The Captain's Oath by Christopher. I was reading the novelization to "Trials and Tribbleations" but set it aside when I got the Captain's Oath in the mail (I'll finish it once I'm done).
 
I finished The Captain's oath is a really good Star trek story I really like it alot. I highly recommend this book!:bolian::bolian::bolian::bolian::biggrin:
 
I'm reading Star Trek TNG Do Comets Dream? The Asian mythology in this story is really interesting and I like like this book so far .I like Deanna Troi having a storyrac in this book and that Data is in this book.
 
I’m not familiar with Somtow’s work. Sounds interesting.

When Comets Dream is loosely based on a short story Somtow sold to AMAZING stories a few years earlier. He's also written some very good horror novels under the pseudonym "S.P. Somtow," mostly notably Vampire Junction and Moon Dance. He's also a composer and conductor, who, in recent years, has largely been concentrating on his music career.

(Full disclosure: I edited Somtow's Civil War horror novel, Darker Angels, many years ago.)
 
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