So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[Christopher]

I just finished reading Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Inside the Art & Visual Effects (2020, Titan Books) by Jeff Bond and Gene Kozicki. I highly recommend this book for both fans of Star Trek (the 1979 film specifically) and also for aficionados of how motion picture visual special effects are made (or, at least, were made on now classic films like this).

I got it from the library a while back. Pretty cool book.

Star Wars visual effects veterans Douglas Trumbull and John Dykstra then had to be brought in the create nearly all of the movie’s visual effects

Only Dykstra was a Star Wars veteran. Trumbull was offered work on SW, but turned it down and did Close Encounters of the Third Kind for Spielberg instead. And before that he was known for 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Andromeda Strain (for Robert Wise), and Silent Running (Trumbull's directorial debut).

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Quite.

And as I recall, they had to be called in to save the picture because the folks Paramount had hired to build their own in-house version of ILM didn't know what they were doing.

 

[Bryan Levy]

I just finished The Power of the Dog and am following it up with the first Elric book. No thematic connection, the one just happens to follow the other.

 

[Brendan Moody]

A vacation allowed me to catch up a little on my reading. In the past week I’ve finished:

Rogue Elements
The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King
Transactions in a Foreign Currency by Deborah Eisenberg
There There by Tommy Orange
A Maze for the Minotaur by Reggie Oliver

I’m still working on Marilynne Robinson’s Home and Caitlin R. Kiernan’ s Houses Under the Sea, and have recently started Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts and Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch. And I’m rereading the first volume of Usagi Yojimbo as well.

 

[Reanok]

Star Trek Discovery Drastic Measures by Dayton ward

 

[Kilana2]

I've finally started with TOS - Living Memory

 

[Reanok]

Star Trek Ds9 Revenant by Alex White

 

[John Clark]

Reading The Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carre.

 

[Starbreaker]

The Book of Accidents - Chuck Wendig.

He reminds me a lot of Stephen King but with updated pop culture references. But not annoying references by Peter Clines. I loved The Wanderers and still can't get it out of my head. This book is just as compelling.

 

[Reanok]

Murder in a lobster shack by Maddie Day

 

[F. King Daniel]

The Good That Men Do. I've been very outspoken about my feelings for the original ENT relaunch and it's direction. Fucking hated it. But I've also been curious if time (ten years now!) and distance from preconceptions (if they can semi-reboot Trek with Disco and all the baggage there, I can deal with cloaking devices and whatnot being written out of the books) can shed a new and more positive light on them.

 

[JD]

Started Star Wars (Marvel series) Vol. 6: Out Among The Stars, which has issues #33 - #37, and Annual #6 written by Jason Aaron, Dash Aaron, and Jason Latour, with art by Salvador Larroca, Andrea Sorentino, and Michael Walsh. A couple issues in and it's been pretty good so far. The first couple issue were pretty much one offs, #33 is a Luke/Leia story with them stranded on an island together, and #34 focused on Sana Starros, one of the new characters who was introduced in the Disney era comics, running a scam with Lando Calrissian.

 

[Reanok]

Star Trek Coda 1 Torn Assunder by Dayton ward I finished it last night and now reading Coda book 2 Ashes of Tomorrow by James Swallow.

 

[Starbreaker]

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I freaking love it so far.

 

[captainmkb]

When you are done with the book, check out Maggin's sequel: Superman:Miracle Monday. It is definitely worth a read as well. As much as I enjoy his take on Superman, I really enjoy his version of Lex Luthor.

this takes me back - this was the first novel i ever read, probably when i was 7 or 8 years old.

 

[Reanok]

Star Trek Coda 3 The ashes of tomorrow by David Mack

 

[Lonemagpie]

MR SCARLETTI’S GHOST by Linda Stratmann

A nice relaxed period mystery set in Brighton in 1871. The lead character is fascinating (I’m sure I know her), and there’s a fun supporting cast. Plot-wise it’s a genteel case of a partially disabled young woman with a secret life as a writer of penny dreadfuls setting out to prove that a popular medium is a fraud. If you’re expecting Holmesian deduction or Murdochian grittiness – or even steampunk – you’re going to be disappointed.

If, on the other hand, you’re looking for a quirky and intriguing mystery with engaging characters, which is steeped in Fortean history on the subject of mediums and conjurer’s in the Victorian age, this is a certain delight. There’s are lots of great references to the cases and figures of the era, a well formed plot with a good last-minute twist, and did I mention the engaging character, especially the lead?

The title’s a little misleading, but otherwise this is a delight, and very different from Linda’s other series. Nice end to the year.

 

[Greg Cox]

MR SCARLETTI’S GHOST by Linda Stratmann

A nice relaxed period mystery set in Brighton in 1871. The lead character is fascinating (I’m sure I know her), and there’s a fun supporting cast. Plot-wise it’s a genteel case of a partially disabled young woman with a secret life as a writer of penny dreadfuls setting out to prove that a popular medium is a fraud. If you’re expecting Holmesian deduction or Murdochian grittiness – or even steampunk – you’re going to be disappointed.

If, on the other hand, you’re looking for a quirky and intriguing mystery with engaging characters, which is steeped in Fortean history on the subject of mediums and conjurer’s in the Victorian age, this is a certain delight. There’s are lots of great references to the cases and figures of the era, a well formed plot with a good last-minute twist, and did I mention the engaging character, especially the lead?

The title’s a little misleading, but otherwise this is a delight, and very different from Linda’s other series. Nice end to the year.

This sounds great, honestly.

 

[Lonemagpie]

This sounds great, honestly.

It is!

 

[Reanok]

Able one by Ben Bova