Yes i purchased all 3 of these in January, I liked them all. McCoy is my favorite one. Kirk one is action packed. Spock one is good. Someone told me the ending contradicts the end of the Sarek book, but since i never read that it didnt affect me!
So what are you reading now? Part 2
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Yes i purchased all 3 of these in January, I liked them all. McCoy is my favorite one. Kirk one is action packed. Spock one is good. Someone told me the ending contradicts the end of the Sarek book, but since i never read that it didnt affect me!
^ Thanks for the kind words, TenLubak (if that is your true designation!).
The Bellmaker by Brian Jacques, Number 7 in the Redwall Series. 
I just finished Titan: Taking Wing. Just before that I read Vanguard: Harbinger, and I should be getting Summon the Thunder in the mail any day now. I've been on a Trek novel kick lately. Also I've started Donald Westlake's Parker books, though I've only read the first so far.
Since the last time I posted in here, I finished:
- The Original Series: Crucible: Kirk: The Star to Every Wandering by David R. George III
- The Original Series: Mere Anarchy edited by Keith R. A. DeCandido
- Doctor Who Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership, edited by Keith R. A. DeCandido
I've enjoyed all three books.
- The Original Series: Crucible: Kirk: The Star to Every Wandering by David R. George III
- The Original Series: Mere Anarchy edited by Keith R. A. DeCandido
- Doctor Who Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership, edited by Keith R. A. DeCandido
I've enjoyed all three books.
I've started to re-read Harry Turtledove's excellent alternative history series WorldWar. It's basically WWII meets war of the worlds.
FWIW, I didn't consider death and destruction to be the plot, I considered war to be the plot. My starting point for the story was to consider what would happen if the Dominion did everything they did -- but nobody knew who they were. Their infiltration of the Alpha Quadrant would've been considerably more effective if no one even knew there were shapechangers around doing that.
As for killing off so many familiar characters, I find that war stories are more effective if people die whom we actually care about. One of my frustrations with DS9's Dominion War arc was how few of the lengthy casualty lists included anybody we knew (and why things like having Betazed fall and having Nog lose his leg wound up being considerably more effective than Sisko talking about some guy he went to the Academy with on a random list of dead people).
In any case, I'm sorry that AGW didn't work for you.
I am currently reading SPIN by Robert Charles Wilson. I am 67 pages in of 422 and not thinking about stopping so I will probably finish. I have a 50 pages rule. If I am having difficulty maintaining interest at 50 pages then I am probably wasting my time. I primarily started Spin to compare it to a story that sounded very similar but is from the 50's.
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OK! I did it. In the last few weeks I have managed to finish 4 Star Trek books.
Rogue Saucer by John Vornholt
http://www.amazon.com/Rogue-Saucer-Star-Trek-Generation/dp/0671549170
Section 31: Rogue (Star Trek: TNG) by Andy Mangels
http://www.amazon.com/Section-31-Rogue-Star-Generation/dp/0671774778
Section 31: Abyss (Star Trek: DS9) by Jeffrey Lang
http://www.amazon.com/Section-31-Abyss-Star-Space/dp/0671774832
Section 31: Shadow (Star Trek Voy) by Dean Wesley Smith
http://www.amazon.com/Section-31-Shadow-Star-Voyager/dp/0671774786
That is more Trek reading than I have done in the previous 20 years. LOL
Rogue Saucer 2 1/2 stars
Rogue 2 1/2 stars
Abyss 3 stars
Shadow 3 1/2 stars
Rogue Saucer was just action and conflict with nothing thought provoking about it. I liked the appearance of Ro Laren with the Maquis. It has that DUMB Next Generation trope of running out of oxygen and freezing in a short period of time if life support is turned off. It was even more ridiculous in this case because there were so few people aboard the ship.
Rogue is somewhat better and more complex. I had to do a search to find how many shuttles were on the Enterprise-D. One site says it had more than 20. But this story has Picard going on a rescue mission with just one shuttle when they know they will probably be attacked. The shuttle gets destroyed of course. There should have been 3 shuttles on the mission with 2 riding shotgun. But that would have made too much sense and screwed up the story.
Finally the Abyss is a reasonably decent story. It also has Ro Laren on DS9 after the Dominion War. My problem with this is that it has Section 31 doing something really horrible for the sake of an extreme long shot that probably would not work. Although Section 31 is not supposed to be likeable, evil and stupid does not cut it. It is also ridiculous for a combadge to be able to deactivate a brig's force field. But the story is pretty good otherwise.
Shadow is the best of these 4. You can see on Amazon that all of these stories got higher ratings than I give them. I am not really a Trek fan. I am a sci-fi fan. I found the culture on the alien ship rather interesting. It harks back to Roddenbery's anti-capitalist streak. A Section 31 agent acting indepentently in the Gamma quadrant isn't that surprising. I disagreed with Janeway's actions a lot and I don't believe a lot of stuff she did could have possibly worked in a realistic universe but hey, it was television. In the real universe, Seven never would have become anything vaguely resembling a normal human being. Once a Borg from childhood, always a Borg.
Resistance is Futile! LOL
None of these books bored me like Day of the Viper. I find it quite annoying that it was boring. I wanted a really good DS9 book. The Abyss was acceptable.
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OK! I did it. In the last few weeks I have managed to finish 4 Star Trek books.
Rogue Saucer by John Vornholt
http://www.amazon.com/Rogue-Saucer-Star-Trek-Generation/dp/0671549170
Section 31: Rogue (Star Trek: TNG) by Andy Mangels
http://www.amazon.com/Section-31-Rogue-Star-Generation/dp/0671774778
Section 31: Abyss (Star Trek: DS9) by Jeffrey Lang
http://www.amazon.com/Section-31-Abyss-Star-Space/dp/0671774832
Section 31: Shadow (Star Trek Voy) by Dean Wesley Smith
http://www.amazon.com/Section-31-Shadow-Star-Voyager/dp/0671774786
That is more Trek reading than I have done in the previous 20 years. LOL
Rogue Saucer 2 1/2 stars
Rogue 2 1/2 stars
Abyss 3 stars
Shadow 3 1/2 stars
Rogue Saucer was just action and conflict with nothing thought provoking about it. I liked the appearance of Ro Laren with the Maquis. It has that DUMB Next Generation trope of running out of oxygen and freezing in a short period of time if life support is turned off. It was even more ridiculous in this case because there were so few people aboard the ship.
Rogue is somewhat better and more complex. I had to do a search to find how many shuttles were on the Enterprise-D. One site says it had more than 20. But this story has Picard going on a rescue mission with just one shuttle when they know they will probably be attacked. The shuttle gets destroyed of course. There should have been 3 shuttles on the mission with 2 riding shotgun. But that would have made too much sense and screwed up the story.
Finally the Abyss is a reasonably decent story. It also has Ro Laren on DS9 after the Dominion War. My problem with this is that it has Section 31 doing something really horrible for the sake of an extreme long shot that probably would not work. Although Section 31 is not supposed to be likeable, evil and stupid does not cut it. It is also ridiculous for a combadge to be able to deactivate a brig's force field. But the story is pretty good otherwise.
Shadow is the best of these 4. You can see on Amazon that all of these stories got higher ratings than I give them. I am not really a Trek fan. I am a sci-fi fan. I found the culture on the alien ship rather interesting. It harks back to Roddenbery's anti-capitalist streak. A Section 31 agent acting indepentently in the Gamma quadrant isn't that surprising. I disagreed with Janeway's actions a lot and I don't believe a lot of stuff she did could have possibly worked in a realistic universe but hey, it was television. In the real universe, Seven never would have become anything vaguely resembling a normal human being. Once a Borg from childhood, always a Borg.
Resistance is Futile! LOL
None of these books bored me like Day of the Viper. I find it quite annoying that it was boring. I wanted a really good DS9 book. The Abyss was acceptable.
psik
Just finished: Avatar, books 1 + 2.
After a somewhat slow start (was there any doubt that Kira’s dream would come true?) I enjoyed these. They weren’t as mind-blowing as I was led to believe, more like standard ST/DS9 books that just happen to continue the story beyond the TV series. The pace picked up and Book 2 went by in a blur.
I’m not convinced by this Vaughn guy. His character seems like a generic, ultra-cheesy “he was a cop (Starfleet officer)…and good at his job” type. I had no idea what he was doing on the Enterprise to begin with (although it was obvious he would end up on DS9).
Everyone loves him. There’s nothing he can’t do. He’s a legend. Am I the only one who immediately wants him to fail? Also, on the cover he looks far too much like Old Grey Riker from the TNG finale (which is what Riker should look like on the Titan covers now! It’s not 1996 anymore!). The rest of the new (and returning) characters were fine. Taran’atar should be interesting, as long as he doesn’t turn out to be a Teal’c rip-off.
I hope that The 34th Rule gets (or rather got) a mention/reference in the relaunch. I loved that book (formula: likable characters + suffering), but I couldn’t believe that Quark and Rom would be ‘back to normal’ by the next episode. You don’t just go back to work the next day like nothing happened…
Up next: TNG Greater Than the Sum (I’m jumping around the Trek timeline).
So far: A Vulcan woman who isn’t funny. Very alien aliens. Fast-zombie Borg. An over-long recap of books leading up to this one. Tea with an Admiral.
After a somewhat slow start (was there any doubt that Kira’s dream would come true?) I enjoyed these. They weren’t as mind-blowing as I was led to believe, more like standard ST/DS9 books that just happen to continue the story beyond the TV series. The pace picked up and Book 2 went by in a blur.
I’m not convinced by this Vaughn guy. His character seems like a generic, ultra-cheesy “he was a cop (Starfleet officer)…and good at his job” type. I had no idea what he was doing on the Enterprise to begin with (although it was obvious he would end up on DS9).
Everyone loves him. There’s nothing he can’t do. He’s a legend. Am I the only one who immediately wants him to fail? Also, on the cover he looks far too much like Old Grey Riker from the TNG finale (which is what Riker should look like on the Titan covers now! It’s not 1996 anymore!). The rest of the new (and returning) characters were fine. Taran’atar should be interesting, as long as he doesn’t turn out to be a Teal’c rip-off.
I hope that The 34th Rule gets (or rather got) a mention/reference in the relaunch. I loved that book (formula: likable characters + suffering), but I couldn’t believe that Quark and Rom would be ‘back to normal’ by the next episode. You don’t just go back to work the next day like nothing happened…
Up next: TNG Greater Than the Sum (I’m jumping around the Trek timeline).
So far: A Vulcan woman who isn’t funny. Very alien aliens. Fast-zombie Borg. An over-long recap of books leading up to this one. Tea with an Admiral.
I'm almost done with Treason, and The Soul Key, so I went ahead and went back to Starless Night, the second book in the Legacy of the Drow Drizzt Do'Urden miniseries, and started the newest Sigma Force book ,The Doomsday Key (I'll go back to Last Oracle later. TBH interests me more since it two of my favorite elements from this series, the recurring character Seichan, and Sigma's main enemies, The Guild). So far I am loving both books.
Finally read Music of the Spheres, Margaret Wander Bonanno's original version of the Star Trek novel published as Probe and rewritten by another author or two, and wasn't really crazy about it. Oh, well.
Now about to start reading Garbo Laughs by Elizabeth Hay. (From Booklist: "Greta Garbo is one of many movie stars who fascinate the alluringly eccentric characters found in the latest tale by one of Canada's most gifted novelists. In this witty, gracefully choreographed, and potent Ottawa-based family drama, Hay ponders our enthrallment to movies, conjuring a cast of ardent souls who cope with a catastrophic ice storm, unwelcome guests, undermined dreams, distressing infatuations, lingering illnesses, and sudden death by finding solace, even guidance, in classic films.")
Now about to start reading Garbo Laughs by Elizabeth Hay. (From Booklist: "Greta Garbo is one of many movie stars who fascinate the alluringly eccentric characters found in the latest tale by one of Canada's most gifted novelists. In this witty, gracefully choreographed, and potent Ottawa-based family drama, Hay ponders our enthrallment to movies, conjuring a cast of ardent souls who cope with a catastrophic ice storm, unwelcome guests, undermined dreams, distressing infatuations, lingering illnesses, and sudden death by finding solace, even guidance, in classic films.")
Which version of the story did you prefer?
Or is it an "apples and oranges" thing, where you prefer some things in the Music of the Spheres version and other things in the Probe version?
Trek: Shards and Shadows, before that I finished Vulcan's Soul 2: Exiles, not actually my favourite, but it was at least better than Book 1, Exodus.
Non Trek: Skipping between Peter F. Hamiltons The Dreaming Void (wow), Chris Moriartys Spin State (German translation, quite interesting so far) and Eric Flints 1632 from Baens Free Library (Haven't read much of it so far, but the start was quite nice to read)
Non Trek: Skipping between Peter F. Hamiltons The Dreaming Void (wow), Chris Moriartys Spin State (German translation, quite interesting so far) and Eric Flints 1632 from Baens Free Library (Haven't read much of it so far, but the start was quite nice to read)
Just finished Star Trek the next generation Losing the Peace, and currently in the middle of Excellscior Forged in Fire and Star Trek Titan Over a Torrent Sea.
I've read the first 2 titan novels but not the second 2. But i did read Destiny. I understand whats going on pretty much on that ship. I always worry i miss something.
I like Forged in Fire so far.
Losing the Peace was pretty good.
I've read the first 2 titan novels but not the second 2. But i did read Destiny. I understand whats going on pretty much on that ship. I always worry i miss something.
I like Forged in Fire so far.
Losing the Peace was pretty good.
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