So what are you reading now (Part 4)?
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Currently blasting through Kobayashi Maru, then I'm on an Enterprise hiatus until I get more money to buy the Romulan War novel.
After that, I'm not sure whether to pick up SCE again at No Surrender or re-read the New Frontier 1-4 omnibus so I can actually read the rest of the series now I have it. Hmmm...
After that, I'm not sure whether to pick up SCE again at No Surrender or re-read the New Frontier 1-4 omnibus so I can actually read the rest of the series now I have it. Hmmm...
Between the two, I think New Frontier is by far the better series, though I'm sure others disagree. I didn't really love an SCE story until Wildfire, then for two collections after that there were only a couple of good ones, so I stopped.
But you should be able to tell. If you liked SCE 1-3 more than NF 1-4, then you'll like SCE 4-whatever more than NF 5-whatever. The spirit of each series doesn't change much.
But you should be able to tell. If you liked SCE 1-3 more than NF 1-4, then you'll like SCE 4-whatever more than NF 5-whatever. The spirit of each series doesn't change much.
Thanks for the advice 
I remember seeing the cover art for those books and reading the blurb on the back and wishing desperately I had the money to get them.
I think I will go back to NF after Kobayashi Maru. I've always found Peter David's novels to be entertaining to read and easy to visualise, and it's been a while since I read any of his books.
Sorry to go slightly off topic here, but when reading NF, am I better just to read the numbered novels in order, or take a break before The Quiet Place and read the Double Helix series in case I miss out any plot or character advancement?
I remember seeing the cover art for those books and reading the blurb on the back and wishing desperately I had the money to get them.
I think I will go back to NF after Kobayashi Maru. I've always found Peter David's novels to be entertaining to read and easy to visualise, and it's been a while since I read any of his books.
Sorry to go slightly off topic here, but when reading NF, am I better just to read the numbered novels in order, or take a break before The Quiet Place and read the Double Helix series in case I miss out any plot or character advancement?
You want to read:
Fire On High (#6)
Captain's Table book 5 (don't worry about the others)
-- the Double Time comic, if you can; if not, just find a summary (it's so short, it's practically a summary of itself)
Double Helix book 5 (don't worry about the others)
then continue with #7.
If you don't have Captain's Table yet, you can skip it, because it's backstory and not a part of the ongoing narrative, but you should really pick it up at some point because it's phenomenal.
Fire On High (#6)
Captain's Table book 5 (don't worry about the others)
-- the Double Time comic, if you can; if not, just find a summary (it's so short, it's practically a summary of itself)
Double Helix book 5 (don't worry about the others)
then continue with #7.
If you don't have Captain's Table yet, you can skip it, because it's backstory and not a part of the ongoing narrative, but you should really pick it up at some point because it's phenomenal.
That was supposed to be 2 or 3.
Thanks for that!)
As far as the comic goes, it's easier to find the compilation Other Realities, which includes Double Time, than it is to find Double Time by itself. At least, that was the experience I had.
Good luck!
Yes, it is. Every Trek comic book is there except the recent IDW & TokyoPop stuff, the two Trek/X-Men crossovers, and the Klingon-language issue of Starfleet Academy.
I finished Star Trek Online: The Needs of the Many the other day. I enjoyed this quite a bit and found the format very interesting. I'd like to see another book like this sometime.
Yesterday I read The Adventure of the Dying Detective, a Sherlock Holmes story. Kind of predictable and pretty short compared to other Holmes stories, but still entertaining.
I also started The First Peer yesterday, the Pride/Romulan story from the Star Trek: Seven Deadly Sins anthology. So far it's pretty good.
Yesterday I read The Adventure of the Dying Detective, a Sherlock Holmes story. Kind of predictable and pretty short compared to other Holmes stories, but still entertaining.
I also started The First Peer yesterday, the Pride/Romulan story from the Star Trek: Seven Deadly Sins anthology. So far it's pretty good.
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Storm From The Shadows....an Honorverse book.
I'm still debating on whether or not I should delve into those huge ass books....
And that kind of gets into my debate on what to read in the immediate future:
Ender novels...or the Foundation novel series....?
Then there is 'Mutiny on the Enterprise' again...and other non-sci-fi novels I just acquired that are lying about....
I'm halfway though Stargate Rebellion and enjoying it very much (O'Neil is a marine in it, btw), and I've started reading DS9 Devil in the Sky, which I'm enjoying too (Eeiauoan porn? 
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Also: Hundreds of Star Trek comics. All at once. Heaven
)Also: Hundreds of Star Trek comics. All at once. Heaven
Speaker for the Dead is, I think, the best of the Ender series, though I must confess that I read only through Children of the Mind, not because Orson Scott Card is a racist, homophobic, religiously intolerant bigot and fascist but because I didn't enjoy either Xenocide or Children. By the time the sidequel series began, I had decided that I could no longer, in good conscience, support Card by buying his work.
I liked the first four Ender books okay, but the ones with Bean just struck me as too implausible and self-referential. I mean, a book where the protagonist is a 4-year-old Macchiavellian supergenius? Come on. And I didn't have much interest in filling in the gaps in a story that had already been told, and told better.
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