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So What Are you Reading?: Generations

I finished The Persistence of Memory. I had forgotten how much of it was Noonien's story, but it makes sense because it is also his last. Now, onto Silent Weapons!
 
Last night I finished The Klingon Gambit.

Spoiler: it doesn’t get better. If there was a logical reason how Kirk figured out what was causing three ship’s crews to go crazy, it apparently got left out of the text. With something like 800 Star Trek novels to choose from, there’s no reason to make reading this one a priority.

Onto The Covenant of the Crown.
 
I'd completely forgotten what The Klingon Gambit was all about.

At any rate, Psalms.

FYI, integrating the canonical and apocryphal parts of Esther involved 8 Post-It (TM) Notes.
 
I found Drastic Measures, The Last Roundup, and From History's Shadow at the library this week. If any of the three are particularly beloved by you, please give them a shout-out, and I will prioritize it.

I am almost halfway through my reread of Silent Weapons. I had forgotten how much of the second book grows out of what was set up in the first. All I remembered was the major death and that there was an assassination attempt. Mack knows how to write espionage and action, and I'm enjoying reading this story.
 
I found Drastic Measures, The Last Roundup, and From History's Shadow at the library this week. If any of the three are particularly beloved by you, please give them a shout-out, and I will prioritize it.
I'm very fond of From History's Shadow, and for that matter, other Trek books set partly in the 20th century.
 
I am almost finished with Silent Weapons. Picard is such a badass when facing down the Breen after the extraction is discovered.

I also finished Sisterhood of Dune and am moving on to Mentats of Dune.
 
I decided to finally start reading some of the classics I've never read, and I started with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (translated by Lewis Mercier).
 
I have a few chapters left of "Available Light" and then will probably go back to "Hearts and Minds", since I was only a few chapters into that.
 
I finished The Last Best Hope last night, and now I'm conflicted about what to read next. I need some suggestions, and I didn't want to start a new thread, so I figured asking here would be okay (if it's not, forgive me. Let me know, and I'll go make that separate thread). I need something hopeful, but I also I need to get caught up on post-The Fall novels, or Christopher's TMP-era books, so I can read The Higher Frontier.

The most recent stories I've read in the 24th century Litverse book lines are: Takedown, The Light Fantastic, The Missing, Absent Enemies, and the Prometheus trilogy. I had started Armageddon's Arrow back when that came out, but just couldn't get into it - so far, the only one of Dayton's books I haven't absolutely devoured within a day or two.

After TLBH, I need a dose of hope right now. Titan's normally been good for that, so should I start with Sight Unseen? Or the next DS9 Relaunch book (Sacraments of Fire, I think)? Or try and get back into Armageddon's Arrow? Basically I want to get caught up on everything chronologically up to the Prey trilogy before I get into that.

Or, I drop back to the TMP era, with Ex Machina. I really want to read The Higher Frontier, but I want to read Christopher's previous books TOS/TMP books first. I know I don't need to, but I want to. I also need to finish up Vanguard, and What Judgments Come is next on that list. And apart from the Legacies trilogy, The Face of the Unknown and The Antares Maelstrom, I really haven't read any TOS book published after Cast No Shadow, so From History's Shadow and all the other stuff that more recent books are building on, I still need to get to. For the Discovery books, the next one on my list is The Enterprise War.

Apart from Trek, there's The Squire's Crystal, the next Bernice Summerfield book on my list, or Sophie Aldred's Doctor Who: At Childhood's End. Outside of tie-ins entirely, I've got the most recent Rivers of London novel on deck, Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane, or maybe something by Brandon Sanderson so my best friend can finally be happy that I've read his current favorite author. Real hard SF is off the table right now, and I know all this is pretty light, but having come off a long stretch of Russian literature, political science, and Octavia Butler, I need something lighter in my literary diet right now.

So with all that in mind, what Trek book would you suggest for me next?
 
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