That's one of my absolute favorite sci-fi series. I remember going to sleep every night for a couple weeks listing all the characters in Brightness Reef and Infinity's Shore in my head, over and over, to keep them straight...
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That's one of my absolute favorite sci-fi series. I remember going to sleep every night for a couple weeks listing all the characters in Brightness Reef and Infinity's Shore in my head, over and over, to keep them straight...
Finished Over a Torrent Sea last night, and absolutely loved it. I'm gonna start on Star Trek: Voyager: Full Circle by Kirsten Beyer in a few minutes. After that...well, I just realized I don't have anything new, so I'll have to buy something. I might get back to reading some Sherlock Holmes instead.
I recently got a Kindle DX, so I'm finally taking a look at the Slings and Arrows e-books (out of order, as it happens, but that's only caused minor spoilers), and I picked up PAD's Strike Zone since it was discounted and it introduced the Kreel (who are now sort of part of the Typhon Pact, having been conquored by the Kinshaya).
SZ is 2nd season TNG with PAD not firing on all pistons, so that's taken a back seat to the Slings and Arrows bunch. I have one left of those, but Unworthy just came in, and that has the front seat at the moment. Non-Trek stuff includes some things from Eric Flint's 1632 series, and a PDf of an 1826 account of the Boston Tea Party by one of its last surviving participants.
SZ is 2nd season TNG with PAD not firing on all pistons, so that's taken a back seat to the Slings and Arrows bunch. I have one left of those, but Unworthy just came in, and that has the front seat at the moment. Non-Trek stuff includes some things from Eric Flint's 1632 series, and a PDf of an 1826 account of the Boston Tea Party by one of its last surviving participants.
I'm on 19 of the Redwall series, Eulalia . 
Finally finished Never-Ending Sacrifice (wonderful, but life kept getting in the way) and now I have some more time to read so I'm blasting through Unworthy.
This has been/continues to be a banner year for TrekLit. I'm really enjoying Unworthy, too, and NES was a minor classic.
This has been/continues to be a banner year for TrekLit. I'm really enjoying Unworthy, too, and NES was a minor classic.
I'm continuing to read my old TNG books in chronological order. I'm currently 3/4 of the way through Federation. Such a an awesome classic. Next few on my list is "Contamination" "Dark Mirror" and "Reunion"
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I’ve finished Captain’s Peril. Although the holiday-gone-wrong/early mission stories were somewhat of a comedown after the usual Shatnerverse saving-the-universe (actually two universes last time) stuff, I don’t think the novel deserves the “worst ever” votes it’s recently received. It wasn’t a masterpiece, it was cliché (but what Shat stuff isn’t?) but as a light read it was fine. The epilogue about (another) mighty force coming to lay waste to the galaxy probably would have gone down better if I hadn’t recently read something almost identical at the end of Before Dishonor. If you’ve read one cliffhanger epilogue about mortal danger to the federation, you’ve read them all…
Now – Ringworld’s Children. I’ll miss the Ringworld when I’m done. I might have to dig out that old TNG Dyson Sphere novel when withdrawal sets in. Not that it’ll be the same…
Now – Ringworld’s Children. I’ll miss the Ringworld when I’m done. I might have to dig out that old TNG Dyson Sphere novel when withdrawal sets in. Not that it’ll be the same…
I just finished Troublesome Minds last night and I loved it. I really feel that this book could easily have been a TOS episode if they had a modern day budget. I especially loved the Isitri, they were an absolutely fascinating race, who really weren't like anything I've come across in Trek before. I also thought the book did a great job with all of the characters, especially the big three. I definitely was not expecting that ending, very shocking. MY RATING: 9/10
Now on to Dead Until Dark. I already started a little bit of it and it's been good so far. I'm pretty shocked at how close the first season of True Blood actually was to (at least the first few chapters of) the book. Some of it is actually word for word.
Now on to Dead Until Dark. I already started a little bit of it and it's been good so far. I'm pretty shocked at how close the first season of True Blood actually was to (at least the first few chapters of) the book. Some of it is actually word for word.
Despite my ever-changing sig (I'm in one of these "so many choices" moods), I think I've finally settled on Lamentation by Ken Scholes. It's fantasy with some science fiction elements; or science fiction with some fantasy elements. It's the first of a projected five-book series.
Among my other books that have been momentarily put aside for this one (but almost weren't) is The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes, about the convicts transported to Australia.
Among my other books that have been momentarily put aside for this one (but almost weren't) is The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes, about the convicts transported to Australia.
Finished the last of the Stargazer books, then read The Taqwacores by Michael Muhammad Knight, a novel about punk Muslims in Buffalo, NY (a fun and thought-provoking read), and now I'm reading Unworthy.
Currently starting a re-read of some DS9 novels set during the series; the plan is to do The Siege, Fallen Heroes, The 34th Rule, Hollow Men (which I haven't read), the Millennium trilogy, The Battle Of Betazed (which is more or less DS9), and Prophecy & Change.
So far, really enjoying The Siege. First time I've read it in probably a decade, and it still holds up. A great story and very much a PAD story, it still fits really nicely with the DS9 vibe. Compared to The Escape, it's fricking ridiculous how much of a better handle he had on the series and characters than Smith & Rusch did for Voyager.
So far, really enjoying The Siege. First time I've read it in probably a decade, and it still holds up. A great story and very much a PAD story, it still fits really nicely with the DS9 vibe. Compared to The Escape, it's fricking ridiculous how much of a better handle he had on the series and characters than Smith & Rusch did for Voyager.
Hope your copy of Contamination is better than mine. It fell out of the cover a few days after I bought it.
Just finished Killing Time, the slashy edition. I was enjoying it for a while, just for the ew factor, and comparing it mentally to the new movie, what with the Romulan changing of the timeline. But it just strained credulity too far, and the writing is just not great. A lot of stock phrases about supporting characters (McCoy is constantly bouncing on his feet, etc,). And a complete mishandling of the Romulan Commander from Enterprise Incident. Took forever for me to finish because it just got painful.
Now onto Dwellers in the Crucible.
Now onto Dwellers in the Crucible.
In preparation for a network canceling a serialized TV show before it "ends" I read Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer before I started watching the show. I really liked the first 300 pages or so. For the last 20 pages I just thought to myself "That's how he's going to end it? Where did that come from?" Wife had the same reaction. Even though the end didn't feel like a satisfactory pay off I still found it worth while because I liked the bulk of it so much. FWIW, seems like they've made enough changes to the plot you can still be kept guessing even if you've read the book.
Has anyone else read much Robert J. Sawyer? I'm interested in reading but not sure where to begin since he's got over a dozen other novels.
Has anyone else read much Robert J. Sawyer? I'm interested in reading but not sure where to begin since he's got over a dozen other novels.
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