So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Second Esdras.

While First Esdras is basically an alternate version of Ezra and Nehemiah, Second Esdras is an entirely different animal (or rather, at least two entirely different animals; see the Wikipedia article). The first two chapters are basically a supersessionist (and rather antisemitic) tract forming a late addition, while the main body is a series of apocalyptic visions that make the most psychedelic parts of Daniel and Revelation (and for that matter, the "Stargate" sequence of Kubrick's 2001) seem downright tame.

 

[Daddy Todd]

I finished How Much for Just the Planet? (just OK in my book) and started on The Tears of the Singers. It's probable I’ve never read this one before It has some strange lapses, with the Big Three seeming slightly off.

Bones, for example, comes across as a bit of a dick. A little of his Vulcanophobia goes a long, LONG way for me. Some Trek novels make the mistake of using it too much. I'm good with one "you pointy-eared hobgoblin" exchange (or even none) in a novel. Too often, there are a lot more than that. It's a bit unfortunate.

Anyway, I hope to get back to it tonight.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Bones, for example, comes across as a bit of a dick.

Don't mince words, "Daddy Todd"; what do you really think?

Second Esdras
Second Maccabees
The Gospel According to St. Matthew Mark Luke.

Lent is now 3/4 over.

 

[Reanok]

Tng Rogue Saucer by John Vornholt

 

[Smiley]

Tng Rogue Saucer by John Vornholt

The only thing more aggravating is a rogue teacup!

I'm still in the midst of reading Queen: All the Songs by Benoit Clerc and rereading Dune: House Harkonnen by Herbert and Anderson.

 

[Damian]

Tng Rogue Saucer by John Vornholt

I wonder what ever happened to Vornholt. He was a pretty prolific Star Trek writer for a while.

I really enjoyed the first two Genesis Wave novels he wrote (and generally treat that series as the unofficial start of TNG part of the relaunches). The 3rd novel and 4th novels were ok too, but not quite as good. He had some other good novels as well, though I don't recall much about Rogue Saucer at the moment.

 

[Christopher]

I wonder what ever happened to Vornholt. He was a pretty prolific Star Trek writer for a while.

According to his ISFDb page, he did a Magic: The Gathering novel in 2010, but that's his only new published work since 2004.

 

[Damian]

According to his ISFDb page, he did a Magic: The Gathering novel in 2010, but that's his only new published work since 2004.

Hmm. I didn't see anything recent on his Wikipedia page either. I saw he's 71 so maybe he just retired or got into something else. It looks like his last Star Trek novels were his A Time To....novels.

Some former authors are still pretty active, like KRAD and Peter David. Some have sadly passed away. And I guess some just disappear into the sunset.

 

[Reanok]

I wondered what happened to John Vornholt too, I liked his Star trek books.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians.

At the beginning of Chapter 5, he calls them (in an only slightly circumlocutory manner) a bunch of mother-f***ers.

 

[Christopher]

The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians.

All I know about this one is the joke question, "Did the Corinthians ever write back?"

 

[Damian]

I wondered what happened to John Vornholt too, I liked his Star trek books.

Yeah, I sometimes wonder about once prolific Star Trek authors that disappear. Sometimes it seems it seems to be a publisher decision. I believe it was KRAD and Peter David (in an interview somewhere) that noted they just stopped getting call backs. Friedman was another author I always enjoyed his books, I think he moved into comics maybe, along with other franchises. But Vornholt was one of those that you basically just never heard from again.

 

[Stevil2001]

Vornholt was primarily in the Ordover stable, I think; I don't remember any of his book being Marco or Margaret commissions.

 

[Greg Cox]

Current reading: "Nothing But Blackened Teeth" by Cassandra Khaw.

One-hundred-plus pages, but I read it in pretty much one sitting because I couldn't stop turning the pages.

(It's a haunted-house story about five friends exploring a famously haunted old residence in Japan. It doesn't go well . . . )

 

[Defcon]

Vornholt also is one of the authors who used pen names when writing in different genres. I seem to remember from the research for the A time to - roundtable I did for Unreality SF almost a decade ago that he wrote romance as Caroline Goode (?) I think. So maybe he is writing under a pen names if he is still active.

 

[seigezunt]

Tower of Babel
(Star Trek: Enterprise: Rise of the Federation #2)

Black Elk Speaks

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Sasquatch: Apes Among Us

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

[Vornholt] wrote romance as Caroline Goode

Vornholt wrote bodice rippers?!?

For my own part, with Lent over with for the year, recent discussions have led me to re-read Black Fire, Uhura's Song, and Tears of the Singers.

Then, too, there's my chosen Eastertide novel (this year, re-reading Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, and no, it involves neither a trip to Lourdes, nor a trip to Mecca, nor any Plymouth colonists). And since the pastor of one of the churches I attend based her Lenten sermon series on Bishop Spong's Unbelievable, I've got a copy of that in the queue as well.

After all, it's not as if I were hip-deep in new-release ST novels. Or even as if I had so much as one new-release Humanx Commonwealth novel.

 

[Christopher]

Vornholt wrote bodice rippers?!?

No, the only published book I could find under the Caroline Goode pseudonym is a young adult romantic comedy-fantasy called Cupidity, about a high school girl summoning the god Cupid for help with her dating life. Not surprising, since Vornholt wrote several of the YA Starfleet Academy books and YA adaptations of all four TNG movies.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

That seems more believable.

 

[Daddy Todd]

Finished The Vulcan Academy Murders a day or two ago. Started The IDIC Epidemic yesterday.

I was a fan of Academy Murders when I first read it 38 years ago. Unfortunately, it has since been visited by the Suck Fairy, and I'm a lot less impressed today. It's not a bad book, but the Mystery is all too easy to solve. Plus, Kirk letting his "little head" guide his interactions with the villain was not his finest hour.

I've read reviews of Lorrah's fanzine stories from the 70's, which seem to be of the opinion that her Sarek and Amanda series (fan novels Night of the Twin Moons, Full Moon Rising, and the two NTM Collected short story collections) were superior to her Pro Trek novels, so I'm going to dive into those once I finish IDIC.