So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[Christopher]

Warslayer is basically Galaxy Quest meets Xena, with the star of a syndicated fantasy-adventure series being magically transported to a fantasy kingdom where she's expected to be "Vixen the Slayer" for real.

It also sounds like the TV movie The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space from 1995 (predating Galaxy Quest by 4 years), where it was the star of a 1950s live-TV Captain Video type of sci-fi show who got transported to a distant planet by someone who mistook him for a real space hero.

 

[Victoria]

Read another Wodehouse story. This guy is also fantastic. The premise was so clever. They get together with Bingo to gamble on, get this, the length of sermons at church. It's wild. Never expected to read a story with that premise.

"The Great Sermon Handicap" has a strong claim to be Wodehouse's best story. Its sequel, "The Purity of the Turf", is very good as well but TGSH has the definite edge.

 

[FredH]

If this counts, I’m catching up on the current Flash Gordon comic strip by Dan Schkade on comicskingdom.com. Even ninety years later, I still always hear Flash’s dialogue in Buster Crabbe’s voice.

 

[bdub76]

"The Great Sermon Handicap" has a strong claim to be Wodehouse's best story. Its sequel, "The Purity of the Turf", is very good as well but TGSH has the definite edge.

I'm reading through this collection of short stories:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/p-g-wodehouse/jeeves-stories

And that was the last one I read. I'm working my way through his public domain stuff first. Then, I hope to read the non-PD stuff from the library.

There are a lot of good stories. And I'm only to the half way point in that collection.

 

[Daddy Todd]

Read two more Octavia Butler stories. She's a really good writer. Looking forward to reading her longer works once I get them from the library.

I can’t recommend Butler’s Wild Seed highly enough. Absolutely brilliant. Start there, or maybe Parable of the Sower.

 

[bdub76]

I can’t recommend Butler’s Wild Seed highly enough. Absolutely brilliant. Start there, or maybe Parable of the Sower.

I have a three week hold on Parable of the Sower. The sequel looks like it's always available at my library.

Right now, my reading plan with her is to finish up the Bloodchild collection of short stories. Then, I plan to read her two novellas in Unexpected Stories. By time I get through those, I should be able to start Parable of the Sower.

However, I do want to read Pilgrims, which I'm tentatively planning to read after finishing The Man Who Was Thursday, which so far is an enjoyable read. Pilgrims is available on Kindle Unlimited, so I can read it on the wife's device. The premise looks interesting.

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And I have the current book club read, which so far isn't doing much for me. There are two narratives. One is about a guy trying to retrieve a book of memories from a woman, but he has the hots for her, so forget about his mission. The other storyline is about an angst driven teen who doesn't want to live up to her destiny. Neither narrative is good. Pretty sure I'll finish it for book club, but it's so far not one I would recommend. Lots of duds in my bookclub this year, so if more possible duds come up, I'll skip.

 

[JD]

I finished Star Wars: Weapon of a Jedi earlier, and posted my thoughts over in the Star Wars section of the boards.

I finished up The Weapon of a Jedi earlier today, and I liked it a lot. Technically it's marketed as a kid's book, but it really didn't feel all that different from the "adult" books. I liked it a lot, it was fun getting to see Luke's early efforts to work on the different ways you can use The Force.

After that I read the new issue of the Lower Decks comic, which was a lot of fun. I was pretty happy with how this one tied up this last story arc, I did not expect the identity of the bad guys, it was a fun twist. We didn't get a ton of stuff with Worf, but what we did get was pretty good. There were a couple of other fun returning characters too.
I'm now working on the 2024 Star Trek Celebrations issue. I'm up to the third story now, and I liked the first two a lot. Obviously with the issue only being 40 pages, the stories are short, but they're well written, and stories don't feel to rushed.

 

[Greg Cox]

Just picked up Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree, the third in his "cozy fantasy" series.

And apparently we have a short-story collection set in the same world coming up soon.

 

[bdub76]

"The Great Sermon Handicap" has a strong claim to be Wodehouse's best story. Its sequel, "The Purity of the Turf", is very good as well but TGSH has the definite edge.

Read Purity of the Turf today at lunch. It was another fun story.

I also completed the essays in Bloodchild about the writing craft. Those were good too.

To bring it back to Star Trek.

https://reactormag.com/qmy-star-trek-novelq-octavia-butlers-survivor/

Octavia Butler:

People ask me why I don’t like Survivor, my third novel. And it’s because it feels a little bit like that. Some humans go up to another world, and immediately begin mating with the aliens and having children with them. I think of it as my Star Trek novel.

But here's the interesting bit. That book is coming back into print this September according to Amazon.

 

[Vulcanoid]

Finished up the ole' Doctor's Orders by Diane Duane with a rousing bit of music behind it. That and the much needed title and credit music I have to play whilst reading the beginning and ending of the pocket book itself. Fun read, even if it proves rocks can be terrifying creatures.

Next up is Spock's World. Shame we never got 'Quark's World'.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe.

 

[KRAD]

Shame we never got 'Quark's World'.

Um, excuse me, but we did, too.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

. . . and you gave it to us, too!

Only one chapter into The Robe, but Gaius reminds me a great deal of somebody in Washington. He's the current tenant of a big White House.

 

[Smiley]

In Peril at End House, there is a funny moment in Hasting's narration. He mentions that Poirot told him to bring up the phrase "chocolate box" if he ever threatened to become too full of himself. Poirot was highly irritated when Hastings did so a minute and a quarter later.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Gaius reminds me a great deal of somebody in Washington.

Oh. Gaius = Caligula. That would explain much.

 

[Vulcanoid]

Um, excuse me, but we did, too.

And, excuse me, I'm going to have to buy it now! Thanks!

 

[KRAD]

And, excuse me, I'm going to have to buy it now! Thanks!

 

[JD]

I finished up Star Trek Celebrations last night, which was a lot of fun, and decided to go back to my Enterprise-E era TNG reading. I'm actually jumping a little in the timeline to read a book I missed, TNG: Section 31: Rogue by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangles. I ended up waiting at my mom's eye doctor appointment for almost 3 hours this morning, so I got a lot of reading done. I'm really liking it so far, I've always enjoyed spy stories and the bits of plotting and conspiring that it's had so far has been good. I'm also enjoying getting to see Picard's friends from Tapestry, I've always been curious what became of them after the Academy.

 

[bdub76]

Finished The Man Who Was Thursday.

It was an enjoyable read. It goes off the rails in parts since it's pretty much a nightmare. But I would recommend it.

Also, I have one story left to read in Bloodchild and Other Stories. I pretty much loved all of the stories in this collection. I would recommend.

 

[Smiley]

Guards! Guards! ended up being quite enjoyable. I think it could do quite well as an animated film. Out of the many adaptations it has had into other media, has anyone experienced one that they would recommend?

My Asimov online group read continues today with I, Robot. I don't know if I read the stories this way before with interstitial material. I probably just read them in a different collection with author reminisces.

I'm also starting None of This is True, the title of which would apply to most novels.