I can see it now: a four-hour Star Trek movie.
So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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I finished up The Dresden Files: Turncoat last night, and this morning I started the Wildstorm graphic novel, STTNG: The Gorn Crisis, written by Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta, with art by Igor Kordey. I've been curious about this one since I found out that some of the novels have referred to it, but I just never got around to reading it until now.
This week, finishing up the Fall 2019 issue of Popular Science.
Since I want some newsletters to be left to pack along on my vacation, starting in a little over a week, and I've got a lot of lunchtime errands between now and then, I'll probably take the September Model Railroader (which I'd expected to read on my lunch breaks) out of my car, and read it at home, next. Then I'll pack up all the remaining newsletters and magazines for my vacation, knowing that when I go through my accumulated mail, there will be plenty more.
Since I want some newsletters to be left to pack along on my vacation, starting in a little over a week, and I've got a lot of lunchtime errands between now and then, I'll probably take the September Model Railroader (which I'd expected to read on my lunch breaks) out of my car, and read it at home, next. Then I'll pack up all the remaining newsletters and magazines for my vacation, knowing that when I go through my accumulated mail, there will be plenty more.
Read about a third of the novelization of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock today. Vonda did a good job. She spent three chapters logically moving all the players into their proper places, which the movie itself didn’t bother to do.
It's an extraordinary novelization. As you say, the first three chapters, amounting to 75 pages of extra story content before the actual events of the movie get started. And that's without the extra sequences scattered throughout the rest of the book. It does have a weird effect though, when they finally steal the Enterprise to go to Genesis, which is where the story finally feels like it starts to take off. It feels like a late moment in the movie, but with the book it almost looks like 2/3rd of the page count has already been used up! Still and all, a very enjoyable novelization; I'm glad for all the expanded content McIntyre added to it.
I just posted my review of Before Dishonor. I definitely wasn't the biggest fan of this novel.
I just finished reading The Official Guide to the Animated Series by Aaron Harvey & Rich Schepis as well as Vendetta by Peter David. I'm currently reading Greater Than the Sum by Christopher L. Bennett.
I just finished reading The Official Guide to the Animated Series by Aaron Harvey & Rich Schepis as well as Vendetta by Peter David. I'm currently reading Greater Than the Sum by Christopher L. Bennett.
Re-reading, 1984 by Orwell
For study, Postcapitalism by Mason
And I just finished the most recent run of Marvel's Angela comics, loved it
For study, Postcapitalism by Mason
And I just finished the most recent run of Marvel's Angela comics, loved it
I recently finished the first Trek novels I've read in over a year or maybe two. I'm working on finishing off all the old numbered TOS books. I have almost 2 dozen left. And I haven't read much post mid 2017.
#42 Memory Prime by the Reeves-Stevens - I like everything they've done. Most more than this but this was still pretty good. It's the last Reeves-Stevens Trek books I needed to read.
#47 The Kobayashi Maru by L.A. Graf - I generally like the Graf and this was no exception. I liked the different takes on how people worked the test.
Original Sin by David R. George III - I just found this one to be sort of meh. DS9 has always been by favorite Trek series but it feels like it's running out of steam.
Architects of Infinity by Kirsten Beyer - This is the best series right now and this was a great book. And yeah, I can't wait to find out what happened at the end...
The old TOS books I have left are mostly scattered through out the 50's and 60's. I was reading about them in Voyages of the Imagination and this is the period when the books were most heavily restricted by Roddenberry and that guy that worked for him. I'm blanking on his name. But I'm not thinking these are going to be the best of the series there. I think I've already read the highlights in this range of books.
#42 Memory Prime by the Reeves-Stevens - I like everything they've done. Most more than this but this was still pretty good. It's the last Reeves-Stevens Trek books I needed to read.
#47 The Kobayashi Maru by L.A. Graf - I generally like the Graf and this was no exception. I liked the different takes on how people worked the test.
Original Sin by David R. George III - I just found this one to be sort of meh. DS9 has always been by favorite Trek series but it feels like it's running out of steam.
Architects of Infinity by Kirsten Beyer - This is the best series right now and this was a great book. And yeah, I can't wait to find out what happened at the end...
The old TOS books I have left are mostly scattered through out the 50's and 60's. I was reading about them in Voyages of the Imagination and this is the period when the books were most heavily restricted by Roddenberry and that guy that worked for him. I'm blanking on his name. But I'm not thinking these are going to be the best of the series there. I think I've already read the highlights in this range of books.
Finished Original Sin by David R. George III, the 2386 are good but I skipped most of the 2380, a mediocre book.
But David R. George III isn't my kind of writer.
Now halfway through ''hearts and minds'' by Dayton Ward, it's ok by now.
But maybe every novel is a littlebit dissapointing after you have read a novel by David Mack and Una McCormack
But David R. George III isn't my kind of writer.
Now halfway through ''hearts and minds'' by Dayton Ward, it's ok by now.
But maybe every novel is a littlebit dissapointing after you have read a novel by David Mack and Una McCormack
You mean the numbered novels were in the 50-60 range? Took me a moment to figure out you didn't mean decades. It's been so long since they were numbered...
The guy was Richard Arnold.
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Yeah, Richard Arnold, thanks. And yeah, I meant the number ranges.
I'm finally getting around to reading The Lost Era series. I just started book 1 The Sundered.
I finished of STTNG: The Gorn Crisis earlier today, it was..... kinda OK. Next up will be another Trek comic, IDW's Star Trek Special: Flesh and Stone, a one off comic that teams up all of the shows' medical officers. It was written by Scott and David Tipton, with art by the Sharp Brothers.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home by Vonda McIntyre. Just starting, so no reactions yet.
Over the last couple of weeks:-
Gears of War: Ascendance by Jason M Hough.
The Librarians and the Pot of Gold by @Greg Cox
BTVS: Coyote Moon by John Vornholt.
Alphabet Squadron by Alexander Freed.
Spiderman: Last Hunt of Kraven by Nick Kleid
Currently on Somewhere out there by Mike-Lunnon-Wood.
Gears of War: Ascendance by Jason M Hough.
The Librarians and the Pot of Gold by @Greg Cox
BTVS: Coyote Moon by John Vornholt.
Alphabet Squadron by Alexander Freed.
Spiderman: Last Hunt of Kraven by Nick Kleid
Currently on Somewhere out there by Mike-Lunnon-Wood.
Finished up Star Trek Special: Flesh and Stone last night, and I really enjoyed it. It was only a 25 page on-off comic, so the story wasn't real deep, but it was still pretty interesting. I liked how they were able to work all of the doctors, even McCoy, M'Benga, and Phlox into it. The art was pretty good too.
The latest Literary Treks podcast episode is up: Literary Treks 282: And Then Wonder Woman Shows Up!, in which we speak with Aaron Harvey, one of the authors of The Official Guide to the Animated Series. Loved the book, and it was a really fun discussion!
Made a start on The Gordian Protocol by David Weber and Jacob Holo.
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