Too many unread books to be rereading anything. Today I've finished Black Wings and started on Life on Mars: The Official Companion.
So what are you reading now? (Part 3)
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Currently reading The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, and Terok Nor: Night of the Wolves by S.D Perry and Britta Dennison.
Just finished The Hunt for Atlantis by Andy McDermont,and about to read the Tomb of Hercules.
I've started the Janus Gate TOS trilogy. Why? A version of George Kirk is in the second one.
The blurb makes a big deal about the story being told from the perspective of the hapless redshirts. Nothing remotely like that so far.
Bones: "How much damage can we do to the timeline in three days?"
I have the strangest feeling I'm about to find out...
Apparently they weren't willing to pay for real cover art in 2002.
The blurb makes a big deal about the story being told from the perspective of the hapless redshirts. Nothing remotely like that so far.
Bones: "How much damage can we do to the timeline in three days?"
I have the strangest feeling I'm about to find out...
Apparently they weren't willing to pay for real cover art in 2002.
As I recall, the cover copy was based on the original proposal, not the final manuscript . . . .
I just read it myself a few weeks ago -- and was lucky to get the book-club edition with all three books in one handy hardbound volume. Actually there is a fair amount of emphasis on the bit players from TOS, such as Tomlinson, Martine, Barrows, D'Amato, Giotto, and a few original characters. They aren't the primary characters in the book, but they're given a lot more attention than they got onscreen. Kind of an extension of L. A. Graf's usual focus on Sulu, Uhura, and Chekov (which is also the case here).
The George Kirk here is
basically the same as Diane Carey's version from Final Frontier/Best Destiny, a security chief rather than a command officer as the now-canonical George Kirk was. Jim Kirk's relationship with his father is also portrayed differently from what Spock Prime suggested was the case in the Prime timeline.
Quite. My wife told me that I'm not allowed to buy any more books since we don't have the space and we have the baby on the way, but I managed to convince her that if I bought the books on my Sony Reader that I wouldn't be taking up space. So right now I'm kind of reading all the dtf books I have so that I can get them off my to-read pile and start buying them in eBook format, as I am not allowed to do so until my to-read pile is empty...
Reading now:
SGU: Air by James Swallow
CSI: The Killing Jar by Donn Cortez
STTNG: Eyes of the Beholders by A.C. Crispin
1st to Die by James Patterson
The Calling by David Mack
And I still have loads more.
It doesn't quite count as reading, but I'm also currently listening to the unabridged recording of Vulcan's Soul. I'm glad I did: I had listened to the abridged one, and was kind of meh about it, and about bothering to read/listen to the rest. But I am really enjoying it in full.
I finished The 4400: Promises Broken by David Mack last week. I can only think of one word to describe it: Wow!
I've since started The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor's Wing. I'm about halfway through and so far it's pretty good. The parts that focus on Gannet Brooks, however, aren't doing much for me.
I've since started The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor's Wing. I'm about halfway through and so far it's pretty good. The parts that focus on Gannet Brooks, however, aren't doing much for me.
Finished Present Tense, the first Janus Gate book.
It was mostly boring. A group of TOS nobodies as well as Uhura and Chekov go caving. For a whole book.
Very little happens.
The bits where Kirk is drowning and then lost in total darkness were good, but the book feels like three chapters padded out to the extreme.
Also: Technology doesn't work in the cave. No lights, tricorders, transporters...so why does the special caving gear (which automatically wrings out water, adjusts it's weave to keep the wearer warm etc) keep working?
The end picked up a bit. On to book 2: Future Imperfect. I think we're at war with the Gorn in a borked timeline...
It was mostly boring. A group of TOS nobodies as well as Uhura and Chekov go caving. For a whole book.
Very little happens.
The bits where Kirk is drowning and then lost in total darkness were good, but the book feels like three chapters padded out to the extreme.
Also: Technology doesn't work in the cave. No lights, tricorders, transporters...so why does the special caving gear (which automatically wrings out water, adjusts it's weave to keep the wearer warm etc) keep working?
The end picked up a bit. On to book 2: Future Imperfect. I think we're at war with the Gorn in a borked timeline...
I think it works better in the book-club edition, where it's just the first part of a single volume rather than a "whole book" of its own. You wouldn't think packaging would make such a difference, but it helps.
Because that's more a mechanical process than something that requires a lot of current flow or energy fields.
Russell T. Davies and Benjamin Cook's Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter.
I found it witty and funny and informative. Russell T. Davies is clearly a geek, and he "gets" geekdom. One e-mail is about how awesome it was that Nick Briggs was finally on screen in Torchwood. Or his lunch meeting with Michael Grade.
However, I also found it a tragic portrait of a creator seeking validation who becomes trapped by his own past successes and the sycophantic retinue around him who can't or won't tell him no, nor give him the perspective that he needs.
Interesting reading, it was.
I found it witty and funny and informative. Russell T. Davies is clearly a geek, and he "gets" geekdom. One e-mail is about how awesome it was that Nick Briggs was finally on screen in Torchwood. Or his lunch meeting with Michael Grade.
However, I also found it a tragic portrait of a creator seeking validation who becomes trapped by his own past successes and the sycophantic retinue around him who can't or won't tell him no, nor give him the perspective that he needs.
Interesting reading, it was.
I'm about a hundred pages into The Manual of Detection, a surreal dream/mystery novel by Jedediah Berry. Liking it very much so far. If Franz Kafka and David Lynch teamed up to write a 1930s crime novel it might be something like this.
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