So what are you reading now? Part 2
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I noticed a copy of Bjo Trimble’s Star Trek Concordance (an edition from the 90s) in my local library, and (loaded with nostalgia over my old Star Trek Encyclopedia) I thought I’d have a look. I like the art, and I love that the animated Trek gets equal footing with TOS (as it should have had all along, imo). What I don’t like so much is the Mike Okuda-assigned registry numbers to various TOS-era ships (pilfered from the Star Trek Ency) - I’m always annoyed they didn’t just use Franz Joseph’s numbers from the old Technical Manual (why? Not sure – it’s not like a number written on a pretend spaceship means much. Maybe it’s because FJ’s manual has been there for decades, then Mike comes along and is all “FU, FJ. I know better”)
I wonder what Bjo thinks of the remade Star Trek?
I wonder what Bjo thinks of the remade Star Trek?
Does the later edition have the episode wheel on the cover? Just curious. I have the old edition, and sorry to hear about the slight against the great FJ.
No. It's also not as good as the first edition. It has some worthwhile new features, like coverage of the movies and of 24th-century episodes and films featuring TOS characters, and attributions of the origins or meanings of episode titles (though some attributions are highly speculative or erroneous). But its lexicon (the "encyclopedia" section) is reorganized in a very awkward and confusing way that makes it hard to find entries. In many cases, looking up an entry alphabetically won't do you any good, because you have to guess what category it's indexed under as a subheading.
Finished Beneath the Raptor's Wing last night, and was pleased to see my (signed! Thanks, Jim!) copy of Synthesis on my doormat when I got in - it survived the Royal Mail blockade...
Am also currently reading The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis.
Am also currently reading The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis.
I started reading Kevin J. Anderson's The Martian War on Halloween; I needed something to keep me company on the front porch while waiting for kids to show.
Currently starting Synthesis. I gave Beneath The Raptor's Wing a shot, but I'm so busy right now that I got a quarter of the way through it across two whole weeks of time, and was losing track of all the various plot threads (especially since it's been so long since I read Kobayashi Maru). So, I think I'll try that again on an airplane at some point, when I can read most of it in one sitting. Which, actually, is how I read both TGTMD and KM 
Synthesis is pretty awesome so far. I thought Swallow would be a natural fit with the Titan style of storytelling, and I was absolutely right.
Synthesis is pretty awesome so far. I thought Swallow would be a natural fit with the Titan style of storytelling, and I was absolutely right.
I'll be interested to hear how that goes. I will probably be reading that over the winter some time.
I’ve just finished The Lost Years, and I enjoyed it very much. I liked that Kirk and McCoy managed to have an adventure without either really knowing WTF was going on (thus not mucking up STIII). And of course Kirk’s egotistic belief he could help almost got them all killed. You’d think that would happen more often.
I'm not convinced that these events would have caused Spock to "dump" his friends and family to persure Kolinahr (sp?). Even though his emotions almost got everyone killed a couple of times, it's not like that sort of situation is gonna come up often.
Poor T’Sura. She really deserved a happy ending. Considering Vulcan lifespans, maybe it’s time we see her again (assuming she didn’t already crop up again. And “she died old and alone during the Borg attack in Destiny” isn’t what I had in mind…)
I'm not convinced that these events would have caused Spock to "dump" his friends and family to persure Kolinahr (sp?). Even though his emotions almost got everyone killed a couple of times, it's not like that sort of situation is gonna come up often.
Poor T’Sura. She really deserved a happy ending. Considering Vulcan lifespans, maybe it’s time we see her again (assuming she didn’t already crop up again. And “she died old and alone during the Borg attack in Destiny” isn’t what I had in mind…)
. Due to all the talk of MJF and the SGR books in another thread, I've decided to read Oblivion, the fourth SGR book, which just happens to feature the first meeting between Picard and Guinan 
That's interesting, because I had the exact same feelings about the Spock Crucible title when I (belatedly) read it last spring. I remember wishing DRGIII
had written about Spock's decision to undergo Kolinahr the FIRST time, and was seriously unconvinced that Spock would've done it a second time, decades later.
I've decided to set aside A Game of Thrones aside in favor TTN: Synthesis. I wasn't that thrilled with AGT so I'm not sure if or when I'm gonna finish it. I know A Song of Fire and Ice is one of big popular fantasy series right now, but I just couldn't really get into. I think it just isn't my kind of book.
Uhm, Trekwise, on my holiday last month I got back into Treklit for the first time in, oh, years and years. Finished the last Worlds of Deep Space Nine book (Ferenginar/Dominion) and also Warpath. Have just ordered Fearful Symmetry to keep that going.
Outside of Trek, I just finished No Country For Old Men- very depressing but well written. Also started the last book of Stephen King's Dark Tower series last night. Just ordered, in addition to FS, Mechanicum (book nine in the Horus Heresy series) and Treason's Harbour (book 9 in the Auvrey/Maturin series).
Outside of Trek, I just finished No Country For Old Men- very depressing but well written. Also started the last book of Stephen King's Dark Tower series last night. Just ordered, in addition to FS, Mechanicum (book nine in the Horus Heresy series) and Treason's Harbour (book 9 in the Auvrey/Maturin series).
Urgh, that piece of crap put me off the series until Gardner handed over the reins to Raymond Benson.
And then Never Dream Of Dying had the same effect (though I did enjoy Zero Minus Ten, The Facts of Death and High Time To Kill beforehand)...
I just hit this part of the book, and, yeah, it kinda puts a poopie in the soup, don't it? I'm having a hard time believing a Vulcan would have a hard time with collectivism. My impression has always been that the utopia or Roddenberry et alia would strike a libertarian as, well, socialism. Whatever, I'm still enjoying the plot of the book, political rant insertions aside.
I've recently read my way through the DS9 relaunch, up until Unity (a friend of mine was kind enough to lend me her books).
I bought Q-Squared by Peter David in a used book store a while ago and started reading that yesterday, but so far I'm not impressed. I might just read The Left Hand of Destiny instead. At the moment I don't have the money to buy any new books, so I'll have to wait a little before I can get my hands on Synthesis and The Romulan War.
Maybe I should read something non-Trek for a change. But I'm not sure what.
I bought Q-Squared by Peter David in a used book store a while ago and started reading that yesterday, but so far I'm not impressed. I might just read The Left Hand of Destiny instead. At the moment I don't have the money to buy any new books, so I'll have to wait a little before I can get my hands on Synthesis and The Romulan War.
Maybe I should read something non-Trek for a change. But I'm not sure what.
About to begin reading "Opening Atlantis", by Harry Turtledove.
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