So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[thribs]

Just finished reading both Alien Phalanx and Rise of Skywalker. The former is pretty good. It’s easily to guess the situation from the start but the answer is just as satisfying. I just wish it wasn’t in the last 40 pages of the book.
Skywalker was fine. The answers to the questions left from the movie were fine but they would have been better if they didn’t spoil it weeks ago online. There was one that wasn’t that I found surprising.

 

[Isaac]

Well, I managed to return here faster than I thought after I stopped using socials for exams haha, I'm taking my chance in self isolation to read the gamma quest trilogy by Greg Cox and also a bunch of trek books I have in my backlog, cold equations, imzadi, ds9 warped, voyager mosaic

 

[Kilana2]

Well, I managed to return here faster than I thought after I stopped using socials for exams haha, I'm taking my chance in self isolation to read the gamma quest trilogy by Greg Cox and also a bunch of trek books I have in my backlog, cold equations, imzadi, ds9 warped, voyager mosaic

Did you celebrate Brophday?

 

[Isaac]

Did you celebrate Brophday?

I said I was studying for exams not that I lost my faith

 

[Kilana2]

I hope your exams went well!

 

[Isaac]

I hope your exams went well!

They actually got cancelled because of the virus and they're just taking my predicted grades so I'll have to see how it goes but it's honestly a toss up, I'm just trying to look on the bright side in all honesty and enjoy a break

 

[Kilana2]

That's the best one can do at the moment.

 

[indianatrekker26]

I'm just waiting for Indiana to get shut down next due to the virus. I work for a small engineering survey firm. So I know we wont be deemed essential. So I'm already lining up a bunch of TOS books I've had but havent read yet. Beginning with The Captains Oath by christopher Bennett. I'm loving it so far.

 

[JD]

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?

I'd vote for What Judgements Come, just because every Vanguard book was awesome.
I'm taking a short break from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and No Man's Land and I started reading the digital version of Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1: Gifted, the first collection of the AXM run written by Joss Whedon with art by John Cassaday. I'm a huge Joss Whedon fan, so I've been looking forward to reading this series for a while.

 

[thribs]

Going to start Voyager Homecoming today. Rather exciting since I have never read a Voyager book before. This is a whole new frontier for me.

 

[Christopher]

I'm just waiting for Indiana to get shut down next due to the virus.

Ohio's stay-at-home order was just issued today. Which means starting Tuesday, I'll have to stay at home aside from grocery shopping and solo walks for exercise. Which... is pretty much exactly the same as my normal routine these days anyway, except for being unable to go to the library. I've been so broke the past couple of years that I haven't gotten out much.

But luckily I've recently discovered the wonders of library e-books and digital comics. I'm currently working my way through the original Crisis on Infinite Earths on the Hoopla digital library, and I have the three volumes of the CoIE tie-in comics to read after it. (I'd already exhausted my 10 borrowings per month on stuff like the Young Justice TV tie-in comic and the original Batman and the Outsiders, but apparently Hoopla's upped it to 15 per month, presumably due to the virus.) And I've read a number of library books on Kindle recently, including The Antares Maelstrom, Star Wars: Master and Apprentice, and several Doctor Who novels. Though I'm currently rereading the complete Sherlock Holmes collection I've had sitting on Kindle for a while. I just finished The Sign of the Four today. I find it surprisingly comfortable to read e-books on my phone. (Once I discovered you could get library books on Kindle, I decided to see about downloading a phone app for it, and found I already had one preinstalled when I got the phone! )

 

[TJ Sinclair]

I'd vote for What Judgements Come, just because every Vanguard book was awesome.

Well, that's the only vote so far, so I appreciate it! I may be wrong, but something tells me the last two Vanguard books aren't necessarily the kind of "hopeful" story I'm in the mood for right now...

I'm taking a short break from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and No Man's Land and I started reading the digital version of Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1: Gifted, the first collection of the AXM run written by Joss Whedon with art by John Cassaday. I'm a huge Joss Whedon fan, so I've been looking forward to reading this series for a while.

AXM started off really strong. I lost interest after the first couple of arcs, but "Gifted" and the next couple of trades are really good, at least. I can't speak for the rest. Hope you enjoy!

 

[RandyS]

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).

That was a great book. I read it about five or six years back.

I don't know if you know this, but THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND is a loose sequel to 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA. You don't really need to read it next, but if you're a completist like me, you may want to.

Oh, and as for what I'm currently reading, I'm finishing up THE DISAPPERANCE by Phillip Wylie.

 

[Reanok]

Star Trek Tos The Higher frontier by Christopher L.Bennett

 

[Lonemagpie]

THE BURGLAR CAUGHT BY A SKELETON by Jeremy Clay

A fun romp through the bizarre stories presented as fact – though doubtless some are more factual than many others – in Victorian newspapers, curated by Clay. The reports, spanning the length of Vicky’sreign, are short, and grouped into chapters of various subjects – animals, politics, crime, marriage, the supernatural, etc. They’re all nice and short, and vary wildly between funny, weird, sad, nasty, and mundane.

Obviously the supernatural and crime chapters are going to be most people’s first go-to, and they don’t disappoint, including the likes of vampires, witches, Spring-Heeled Jack, and of course the Ripper. Other sections include bigamists, drunken monkeys, and the surprising prevalence of lions and tigers jumping through the windows of seaside hotels.

It’s a bog-book of course; something to dip into in brief moments, rather than being a history of the medium or anything, but it’s good fun, and like a massive block of Fortean Times sidebars in one go...

 

[JD]

That was a great book. I read it about five or six years back.

I don't know if you know this, but THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND is a loose sequel to 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA. You don't really need to read it next, but if you're a completist like me, you may want to.

Oh, and as for what I'm currently reading, I'm finishing up THE DISAPPERANCE by Phillip Wylie.

I actually just found out about The Mysterious Island fairly recently, whether or not I read it or not will depend on how I feel about 20K.
I know this is off topic, but I just watched the 20K movie and I have a quick question about something kind of ambiguous in it. Is Nemo's mysterious power source supposed to be nuclear power, or just some generic mysteriously powerful energy?

 

[RandyS]

I actually just found out about The Mysterious Island fairly recently, whether or not I read it or not will depend on how I feel about 20K.
I know this is off topic, but I just watched the 20K movie and I have a quick question about something kind of ambiguous in it. Is Nemo's mysterious power source supposed to be nuclear power, or just some generic mysteriously powerful energy?

I'm not sure myself, but yeah, I also got the impression that it was nuclear power. I know that's historically impossible, but we ARE talking science fiction here.

 

[Christopher]

I know this is off topic, but I just watched the 20K movie and I have a quick question about something kind of ambiguous in it. Is Nemo's mysterious power source supposed to be nuclear power, or just some generic mysteriously powerful energy?

In the movie, I believe the idea was meant to be that Nemo had invented nuclear power decades ahead of its time. Of course, that wasn't the case in the novel, since the concept didn't exist yet. In the book, the Nautilus was powered by sodium/mercury batteries.

 

[JD]

I was wondering about that too, since I didn't think the idea of nuclear power was even around yet when the book was written.

I'm not sure myself, but yeah, I also got the impression that it was nuclear power. I know that's historically impossible, but we ARE talking science fiction here.

Yeah, I knew it was historically impossible, but the way they did all of the glowing stuff, and then the references to people discovering it again in the future got me wondering.

 

[Christopher]

Yeah, I knew it was historically impossible, but the way they did all of the glowing stuff, and then the references to people discovering it again in the future got me wondering.

Well, of course the 1954 movie made it nuclear power, because nuclear power was on everyone's minds then and they wanted to make it topical. What better way to show what a forward-looking genius Nemo was than to show that he'd invented a modern technology decades ahead of anyone else? It's the same dynamic you see in steampunk fiction, back-projecting modern technologies into past settings.