So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[Zarm]

Both an author I'd like to hear from again (if anybody is going to bring back Aurelia Steiner, the friendly Drelb astrophysicist, she would), AND an author who has worked in both ST and SW. (Although as to the latter, wasn't she the one who grossed readers out with the Death Seed Plague, and its decidely macroscopic pathogen, the Droch?)

That's her!

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Hard to believe that drochs and a ST/HCTB crossover could come out of the same mind. (Says the guy who usually writes pleasant stuff about a child prodigy organist, but who once wrote a literal* nightmare short-short story about a large, sentient, hostile insect ["an assassin, from a race of assassins" is the canonical description] with an enormous stinger, dispensing a venom that causes a lingering, excruciatingly painful death.)

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*By literal nightmare short story, I mean I woke up from a very unpleasant dream that needed very little work to turn it into a short-short.

 

[Stevil2001]

Both an author I'd like to hear from again (if anybody is going to bring back Aurelia Steiner, the friendly Drelb astrophysicist, she would), AND an author who has worked in both ST and SW. (Although as to the latter, wasn't she the one who grossed readers out with the Death Seed Plague, and its decidely macroscopic pathogen, the Droch?)

Barbara Hambly has a Doctor Who audio drama forthcoming, which I think will make her be the first person to ever write tie-ins for Star Trek, Star Wars, and Doctor Who? Willing to be corrected if I'm forgetting someone.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Meanwhile, I'm nearing the end of the penultimate chapter of John Williams: A Composer's Life. He scored the late Kobe Bryant's animated short, Dear Basketball, and Spielberg's political film, The Papers, but he turned down Ready Player One. He was less-than-pleased with Giacchino's score for Rogue One, and now Solo is in the works.

 

[JD]

Both an author I'd like to hear from again (if anybody is going to bring back Aurelia Steiner, the friendly Drelb astrophysicist, she would), AND an author who has worked in both ST and SW. (Although as to the latter, wasn't she the one who grossed readers out with the Death Seed Plague, and its decidely macroscopic pathogen, the Droch?)

Yeah, her Star Wars and Star Trek books seem to have gotten almost the total opposite reactions.

Among other things, Richard Donner directed the classic TZ episode starring William Shatner and the creature on the wing of the airplane. Aka "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" by Richard Matheson.

Interesting, I did not know that.

 

[Greg Cox]

Hard to believe that drochs and a ST/HCTB crossover could come out of the same mind. (Says the guy who usually writes pleasant stuff about a child prodigy organist, but who once wrote a literal* nightmare short-short story about a large, sentient, hostile insect ["an assassin, from a race of assassins" is the canonical description] with an enormous stinger, dispensing a venom that causes a lingering, excruciatingly painful death.)

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*By literal nightmare short story, I mean I woke up from a very unpleasant dream that needed very little work to turn it into a short-short.

Heck, Roddenberry created Star Trek AND Pretty Maids All In Row . . .

We are large; we contain multitudes.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

One was his aspirations; the other was his libido, I guess.

 

[Christopher]

Heck, Roddenberry created Star Trek AND Pretty Maids All In Row . . .

Pretty Maids wasn't Roddenberry's creation. It was based on (and heavily toned down from) a hardcore porn novel by Francis Pollini, and the film adaptation initially had a different director, producer, and writer before Roger Vadim and Roddenberry replaced them. Although the final film does have a lot of Roddenberry's sensibilities in it, on more than one level.

 

[Bryan Levy]

This week's comic book haul: Conan, Event Horizon, and "Elvira Meets Harley Quinn."

I’m assuming it was Conan #25? I thought it was absolutely excellent. The story was great, but the art was superb.

 

[Greg Cox]

I’m assuming it was Conan #25? I thought it was absolutely excellent. The story was great, but the art was superb.

Bingo, by Crom!