So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[Greg Cox]

I think you mean, "Legends & Lattes." And the whole premise has me ROFLMFAO. Even more after looking it up on Wikipedia. And I see that most or all of the local B&Ns have it in stock. Along with what appears to be a sequel.

Oops. I knew I should have double-checked that before posting. Thanks for the correction.

And, yes, I gather it's doing quite well for Tor. Apparently, it was originally self-published, print-on-demand, but it took off on social media, TikTok, etc, so Tor acquired the rights to the series.

 

[Defcon]

The Librarians trilogy ebook by Greg Cox

 

[Stevil2001]

I think you mean, "Legends & Lattes." And the whole premise has me ROFLMFAO. Even more after looking it up on Wikipedia. And I see that most or all of the local B&Ns have it in stock. Along with what appears to be a sequel.

I believe the second book is a prequel.

I thought it was pretty bad, tbh, but people seem to like it.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Now about 10% into Jeter's Warped. Wanted to know if it's really bad enough to be rated as worst, and all I could remember was that Jeter hadn't impressed me.

Feels, so far, like what had been (up until the Dominion War) my least favorite DS9 episodes.


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I'd so completely forgotten this opus that before I started re-reading, I was certain that it involved some reality-warping effect similar to how DC described a malfunctioning transwarp drive in Battlestations!, rather than some nutjob using holosuites to breed homicidal-suicidal nutjobs.

This is quite possibly the only ST novel in which the word "turd" appears. And just noticing that reminds me of the old George Carlin line that (at least as of 1972) "You can't say 'turd' on television, but who wants to?"

The holosuite plot reminds me of "The Game." And also of the "Janus Jewels" from ADF's Orphan Star. (And I fully expect [and welcome] CLB to come along and point out even earlier examples of the trope, maybe even including ones I'd encountered, but never noticed.)

Page 68: "Major, I have yet to meat a Bajoran that I wouldn't consider dangerous." Two simple words: Opaka Sulan.

Page 165, McHogue: ". . . rather like trying to multiply by zero . . ."

Multiplication by zero is well-defined; it is division by zero that's an absurdity. Was Jeter trying to hint that McHogue was an idiot, or is it something much simpler: is Jeter an idiot?

"Moagitty," to my ear, sounds like "Mahagonny." As in the Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht opera, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. And there may be something to that: according to Brecht and Weill, "Mahagonny" was a mad-up word, said to mean "The City of Nets." And Brecht does get explicitly alluded to at least once.

At any rate, I can understand how it got mentioned on the "Worst" thread, although, as I just said there, as much as it reminds me of my least-favorite (at least pre-Dominion-War) DS9 episodes, I wouldn't put it in the same category as Marshak & Culbreath.

 

[Cyfa]

Lattes and Legends by Travis Baldtree.

A cozy fantasy novel about an orc who retires from pillaging to open a coffee shop.

I think you mean, "Legends & Lattes."

Oops. I knew I should have double-checked that before posting. Thanks for the correction.

And, yes, I gather it's doing quite well for Tor. Apparently, it was originally self-published, print-on-demand, but it took off on social media, TikTok, etc, so Tor acquired the rights to the series.

~ Whichever way around the title is, this is one I want to read (after having read a couple of articles about it at Tor).

I'm currently re-reading Becky Chambers' The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (for the sixth or seventh time) - I don't think I'll ever get tired of reading this novel. Just wonderful!

 

[USS Firefly]

I'm currently re-reading Becky Chambers' The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (for the sixth or seventh time) - I don't think I'll ever get tired of reading this novel. Just wonderful!

I have that book on my to read list, are the rest of that serie books good?

 

[Cyfa]

Well, I think so, but "good" is a somewhat relative/subjective term I'm not very good at describing something/getting my point across succinctly, but here goes:
I love TLWtaSAP (and the others in the series) because - with few exceptions - it portrays a wonderfully diverse, accepting, tolerant, interesting set of characters going about their business while learning about each other and their cultures*. There are some heart-warming, exciting, and rather harrowing circumstances (I'm fully expecting to have a little cry - AGAIN - near the end of the novel), but it's all the personal interactions and world-building that I love the most.
So, yes, they're very good, and I highly recommend them (and Becky Chambers' other books, too)

* the Galactic Commonwealth in TLWtaSMP is how I imagine Star Trek's Federation could be if it wasn't so human-centric. I hope that one day Becky Chambers writes a Star Trek novel, because I think she'd do the Federation and its inhabitants justice (to coin a phrase).

 

[Commander Troi]

My husband just read that series and really liked them.

 

[Reanok]

I'm reading The chase by Clive Cussler. I like the history that takes place in the early 1900s and the police detectives who are trying to catch a bank robber who wear disguises and rides in a train car to escape the law in the wild West. They're profiling the crook. To try and catch him I enjoy reading his books.

 

[Greg Cox]

A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak.

Just in time for October.

 

[Rosendust]

For now, I'm reading, "A Stitch in Time" by Andrew Robinson- the audio book version.
So far so good.

 

[Reanok]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

 

[Greg Cox]

Reread a classic Trek graphic novel: DEBT OF HONOR by Chris Claremont & Adam Hughes.

Also: "Lot 249," a classic mummy story by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Next on deck: SWORDS IN THE MIST by Fritz Leiber, a vintage Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser book from the sixties -- which I picked up at a library book sale for fifty cents yesterday.

 

[Arpy]

I’m about to start the very first TNG novel Ghost Ship.

It was written by Diane Carey from the show bible before the series premiered so I’m curious to see how it’s different from the TNG we know.

Published in 1988, the story includes a Soviet aircraft carrier from 1995….which is funny given that in the real world the Soviet Union collapsed in ‘91.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

That's "Frohnkensteen."

 

[wahwahkits]

Currently reading ‘Warriors of the Storm’ by Bernard Cornwell. I love The Last Kingdom Books.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Next on deck: SWORDS IN THE MIST by Fritz Leiber, a vintage Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser book from the sixties -- which I picked up at a library book sale for fifty cents yesterday.

"Lean Times in Lankhmar" is my favorite short story. And I love the Howard Chaykin/Mike Mignola comic adaptation of the story from 1990.

"Where is the jug!"

 

[Cyfa]

The Galaxy and the Ground Within - another one by the awesome Becky Chambers!

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Now a quarter of the way into a re-read of DC's Final Frontier. Because it's still (in broad strokes, along with ADF's Log Seven) in my headcanon.

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I'll note that much of the technological stuff that was later contradicted by canon (e.g., "Internally Metered Pulse Drive") sounded hokey the day it hit the bookstore shelves, and the whole business of the Enterprise being built in secret is a direct contradiction of stuff in TMOST, stuff that presumably came straight out of the TOS Writers' Guide.

Still, the broad strokes of this, like the broad strokes of ADF's Log Seven prologue, still hold up well (and the whole Abramsverse notion of a bigger, beefier, more heavily armed Enterprise being built in an Iowa cornfield can be explained with the assumption that Starfleet was scared that a whole armada of ships like the Narada would soon be knocking at the doors of the Federation).

I'm now about a third of the way in, which is to say that the saboteur has done his work.

 

[Kilana2]

I've finished Enterprise - The Good that Men Do. Very exciting with Trip undercover.