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So what are you reading now (Part 4)?

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Abandoned my attempted re-read of TNG: Q-Squared after about 250 pages or so. Wow, I can't believe how much I don't care about this book. I feel like I was absolutely blown away by it when I read it in 1994. My, how times have changed. I have several other re-reads lined up for books that I loved several years ago. I wonder if any of them will still hold up today.

Currently reading the last available paperback in the Dresden Files series, Turn Coat.
 
I'll play.

Recently finished Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Millennium: Book II of III: The War of the Prophets, which may have the longest title in the history of literature. Now I've moved onto Inferno, the third book in the trilogy, and reading Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning's short-lived "Star Trek: Early Voyages" comic series published by Marvel in the late nineties.

On the non-Trek front, I'm reading Bill Willingham's Peter and Max, the first prose entry in his excellent "Fables" comic book series, and on and off picking up A Fire in the Mind, the biography of Joseph Campbell.
 
srs1701 said:
I'll play.

Recently finished Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Millennium: Book II of III: The War of the Prophets, which may have the longest title in the history of literature. Now I've moved onto Inferno, the third book in the trilogy, and reading Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning's short-lived "Star Trek: Early Voyages" comic series published by Marvel in the late nineties.
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How are you enjoying the series? Parts of it actually made it into a PC game, The Fallen.


My last Trek read was Greater than the Sum, which I enjoyed immensely. I recently acquired a box of DS9 paperbacks from eBay, and right now I'm reading Betrayed, by Lois Tilton. It may be set in the tail-end of the first season: Sisko is hosting a conference on the station for various powers to negotiate passage rights through the wormhole, but someone keeps setting off bombs and there's a Cardassian deserter hiding in the station.

Gul Macet is on the front cover, not sure why. The only Cardassian gul who's shown up is not Macet.
 
JD said:
Actually, it's not uncomon for them to use images of old one off characters to represent characters in the books. They used a Jem'Hadar (Remata'klan?) from one of the episodes for Taran'atar on the covers of Lesser Evil and Warpath, and they used Jhamel for Thriss on the cover of These Haunted Seas.
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Even one of the Star Wars novels used a pic of Harrison Ford from Blade Runner....

Going back to Star Trek, I recall a Klingon being used on one of the covers; a pic used from a behind-the-scenes photo....(Someone might remember which novel).
 
I just finished reading The Terror by Dan Simmons. It took me two whole weeks - 750 pages with the smallest print of all time - and I really enjoyed it. I was just completely sucked into the book and could barely put it down. If I weren't in the process of moving (and watching All-Star festivities and working and going to the dentist and posting on TrekBBS) I would have finished much sooner. Highly recommended.

I have NO idea what I'm going to read next. I have a pile of stuff from floor to ceiling, so I'll probably just throw them all and see which one lands the furthest. ;)

But seriously... I've thought about finishing Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton. I put that book down after a 10 or 15 page description of terrain. I put down Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson for the second time in the last few years at roughly the same place. It just gets so whiny and melodramatic. I'm thinking Hyperion is next.
 
Pandora's Star is sooooo good. The prologue is just setting the stage; let that thing unfold for a couple hundred pages and you'll be hooked solid.

Hyperion is pretty stunningly awesome too, though. Either would be a good choice.
 
Smellincoffee said:
How are you enjoying the series? Parts of it actually made it into a PC game, The Fallen.
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I had heard that, but I haven't played the game. Is it any good? I know the Grigari also show up in Federation, but haven't read that. Are they mentioned anywhere else? If they're a Delta Quadrant race, in what capacity do they show up in those other stories?

I've really enjoyed the Millennium trilogy so far. I generally stick to the post-finale books, but I've heard so many good things that I had to give it a shot. I guess technically they could be considered post-finale, since the framing sequence takes place after the end of WYLB... sort of...
 
Thrawn said:
Pandora's Star is sooooo good. The prologue is just setting the stage; let that thing unfold for a couple hundred pages and you'll be hooked solid.

Hyperion is pretty stunningly awesome too, though. Either would be a good choice.
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I might jump back into Pandora's Star then. I liked the first couple of chapters until I lost interest with one of the stories (seemingly unrelated).
 
By the way, are there are any good websites that have lists of new science fiction books? I really don't like Amazon because it's hard to filter out all the teen vampire romance crap.
 
I usually pick a recent book that I liked, and then start scrolling through the "people who bought this book also bought" lists. Most of the good stuff shows up eventually.
 
Thrawn said:
I usually pick a recent book that I liked, and then start scrolling through the "people who bought this book also bought" lists. Most of the good stuff shows up eventually.
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That sounds like a good trick.

The funny part, of course, is that amazon keeps trying to sell me my own books! :)
 
Greg Cox said:
Thrawn said:
I usually pick a recent book that I liked, and then start scrolling through the "people who bought this book also bought" lists. Most of the good stuff shows up eventually.
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That sounds like a good trick.

The funny part, of course, is that amazon keeps trying to sell me my own books! :)
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Well, it does it for like 20 pages, and usually around page 10 I start seeing stuff I haven't read already. A lot of the same books end up showing up over and over (not unexpectedly).
 
srs1701 said:
Smellincoffee said:
How are you enjoying the series? Parts of it actually made it into a PC game, The Fallen.
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I had heard that, but I haven't played the game. Is it any good? I know the Grigari also show up in Federation, but haven't read that. Are they mentioned anywhere else? If they're a Delta Quadrant race, in what capacity do they show up in those other stories?

I've really enjoyed the Millennium trilogy so far. I generally stick to the post-finale books, but I've heard so many good things that I had to give it a shot. I guess technically they could be considered post-finale, since the framing sequence takes place after the end of WYLB... sort of...
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I have the game, but I've never been able to move past the first few levels...I couldn't get Kira out of a Bajoran monastery in the introduction. :lol: It's a third-person shooter, and if I remember correctly, the player switches characters depending on the mission -- between Kira, Worf, and perhaps another.

I don't know much about the Grigari, but here's an article you might find helpful:
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Grigari
 
TrekCore has a really good section on The Fallen. I played the whole game through two or three times when I got it and I've gone back and played it part of it again a couple of times. I'm tempted to go through it again soon.
 
Thrawn said:
Greg Cox said:
Thrawn said:
I usually pick a recent book that I liked, and then start scrolling through the "people who bought this book also bought" lists. Most of the good stuff shows up eventually.
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That sounds like a good trick.

The funny part, of course, is that amazon keeps trying to sell me my own books! :)
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Well, it does it for like 20 pages, and usually around page 10 I start seeing stuff I haven't read already. A lot of the same books end up showing up over and over (not unexpectedly).
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www.scifan.com is a good database, if incomplete. It has several different categories where you can find stuff with similar themes as what you've just read.

I decided to read Inherit the Stars by James P. Hogan in memory of him, because I've never read anything by his and has this sitting here. He had the concept of a laptop almost down pat in 1977, except for the concept of a cord holder in the back... somebody needs to get on that.
 
I literally just completed the S.C.E. omnibus Foundations and I have moved onto the Deep Space Nine novel Betrayal
 
I just started reading A Fist Full of Charms, the fourth book in Kim Harrison's The Hollows series, and the first book I've read in the series.

Is The Fallen the only game that has been related the the books like it was?
 
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