So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[KRAD]

Hmm. Any new Mad Amos story from ADF?

Nope. The stories in The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny are by R.S. Belcher, Maurice Broaddus, Jennifer Brody, Cullen Bunn, Laura Anne Gilman, Carrie Harris, John Hartness, Josh Malerman, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, James A. Moore, Marguerite Reed, Aaron Rosenberg, C. Edward Sellner, Scott Sigler, and me and @Greg Cox.

My story is a team-up between legendary figures Bass Reeves and Calamity Jane, with a fantastical twist or two....

 

[Greg Cox]

Nope. The stories in The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny are by R.S. Belcher, Maurice Broaddus, Jennifer Brody, Cullen Bunn, Laura Anne Gilman, Carrie Harris, John Hartness, Josh Malerman, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, James A. Moore, Marguerite Reed, Aaron Rosenberg, C. Edward Sellner, Scott Sigler, and me and @Greg Cox.

My story is a team-up between legendary figures Bass Reeves and Calamity Jane, with a fantastical twist or two....

Let it be noted that (along with many other fine writers) there are at least five Trek writers in that list: me, Keith, Aaron Rosenberg, Jeff Mariotte, and R.S. Belcher.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

The Weight of Air by Kimberly Duffy.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Just started on Patrick Stewart's memoir, Making It So.

From a panel cartoon that appeared in Starlog:
Data: "It is a primitive device for constructing garments by stitching together pieces of textiles."
Picard: "I know that, Data; Make it SEW!:

 

[Reanok]

Death by Peppermint Cappachino by Alex Erickson

 

[Smiley]

I'm rereading Ferenginar: Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed by KRAD. I appreciate the remark about reducing the surplus population. Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life would probably do very well for himself on Ferenginar.

 

[KRAD]

I'm rereading Ferenginar: Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed by KRAD. I appreciate the remark about reducing the surplus population. Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life would probably do very well for himself on Ferenginar.

Thanks! Though that line wasn't a reference to It's a Wonderful Life, it was a reference to Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, as that was Scrooge's reply when told by the men requesting a charitable donation that the poor may die.

 

[Smiley]

I was mixing up my Scrooges and Potters. I am very fond of both It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol.

Another book I'm reading is Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel by Beth Revis. The first section deals with the wedding of Han and Leia, and it is beautifully written.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I'm now about 1/5 of the way into Making It So. Like Patrick Stewart, my father grew up in a house that lacked indoor plumbing, but he had several excuses: he was on a farm, in North Dakota, several miles out of a tiny little hamlet of a county seat, practically at the Canadian border, and he's about 5 years older than Patrick Stewart. How on Earth were there places without indoor plumbing in an English town with textile mills?

Speaking of which, is he wearing age makeup in Picard? Because he looks about 10 years older in Picard than he does on the cover of Making It So.

 

[KRAD]

Speaking of which, is he wearing age makeup in Picard? Because he looks about 10 years older in Picard than he does on the cover of Making It So.

It is much more likely that there was some photomanipulation going on with the cover to the book. Or they used an older picture.

 

[Denise]

I'm reading both Child of Two Worlds by Greg Cox (actually, a re-read) and Chains of Attack by Gene DeWeese, which I don't remember having read before at all.

 

[LastRideOut]

I'm reading both Child of Two Worlds by Greg Cox (actually, a re-read) and Chains of Attack by Gene DeWeese, which I don't remember having read before at all.

I'm reading Chains of Attack by Gene, and I find he has excellent prose. His characterization of Spock and Bones are spot on so far.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Just finished Chapter 11 of Making It So. With the anecdote of Blackie as "Crab," in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. I'm reminded of the old chestnut about "Why do dogs lick their genitals" (for the same reason that Alison Balsom plays well-known and fiendishly difficult oboe and violin solos on her trumpet: They do it because they can.)

 

[Denise]

I'm reading Chains of Attack by Gene, and I find he has excellent prose. His characterization of Spock and Bones are spot on so far.

I enjoyed this book quite a lot. It was interesting to see how the whole plot played out. I wasn't sure how Crandall would fit, but I was pleasantly surprised.

I am reading the other Gene DeWeese book, Renegade now. I think I read it before long ago, but I am taking a second look.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

With all this talk of Chain of Attack (of which I actually do have a vague recollection of the overall plot), it may be next.

Meanwhile, I just got to the point where Patrick Stewart has (as he rather delicately puts it) jamaharon with Jennifer Hettrick, splits up with his first wife, begins his Dickens one-man-show, and takes it back to the UK.

And where he becomes tabloid fodder.

 

[Reanok]

I'm reading the Ben Sisko autobiography. I'm glad t hey finally did a book like this about character and fill in his backstory about his life.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I blew past Chapter 23 several hours ago.
MDMA?!?
That had me doing a quadruple-take of my own. If there had been anything in my mouth (other than the beastly taste that's a side effect of the Paxlovid I'm taking), I might have done a completely involuntary spit-take all over a decidedly-not-cheap book.

Although it's probably no worse than his ethanol intake has been at certain points in his career.

(As a child, I suffered a self-inflicted whiplash in my own living room, as a result of a violent and not entirely involuntary double-take.)

 

[youngtrek]

Read (or finished reading) in December 2023:

Star Trek: Resurgence collected edition (Andrew Grant, et al.)
Star Trek: Discovery: The Enterprise War (John Jackson Miller)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds—The Illyrian Enigma collected edition (Kirsten Beyer, et al.)
Superman Archives Volume 3 (Jerry Siegel, et al.)
The Music of Star Trek (Jeff Bond)
Making It So: A Memoir (Patrick Stewart)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Suzanne Collins)

Which brought me to thirty books read (or finished reading) in 2023. It was twenty less than my GoodReads goal for the year and also six less than I logged in 2022. But still more than in any recent years prior to 2022.

I’m again starting the new year partway through several books (six to be exact) that will count towards my 2024 list when I finish them. I’m keeping my reading goal set at fifty for 2024.

— David Young

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Now a bit over halfway through re-reading Chain of Attack. Not a case of "reading it again for the first time"; I certainly remembered that (ignoring the spoiler considerations, and the fact that it would be an awkwardly verbose title),

Spoiler: it may as well have been titled

Chain of Tragically Misplaced Blame.

Certain elements remind me a bit of the "DMA" story arc of DSC Season 4: namely, a self-important civilian who's completely dismissive of everybody around him, and the small matter of magnetic anomalies that turn out to be artificial in nature.

Neither of which, of course, are exactly uncommon in ST.

Why does Crandall remind me of Donald Trump?

 

[Kertrats47]

Just published my review of 2020's Picard: The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack. Man, I love her writing.

Currently reading While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams.