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So what are you reading now (Part 4)?

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Just finished David Mack's Vanguard: Harbinger.

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At first I was a bit leery about starting watch I assumed would essentially be DS9 in the TOS era. When you have an entire space station, which is the home base for 3 different starships, there are a lot of characters to keep track of. Fortunately killing off the Bombay crew was helpful. By the end I found myself really interested in some characters, and others are "meh". But we are only one book in so there is plenty of time to develop them more.

I'm not entirely sold on Reyes. He seems like a bit of a jerk and I haven't seen much to make me like him yet. I also think Pennington was royally screwed over. I find it hard to believe that the crew would completely ruin this guy (who was just doing his job, and was very good at it). Was a war avoided because of it? Perhaps. But what did they crew of the Bombay die for? Did they have another story to avoid saying they were killed by the Tholanians?

In short, I trust Mack and I'm on board for more. I'm sure the other writers of the series will do the setup justice as well.
 
Just read TIME AND CHANCE by Alan Brennert. A very engrossing, TWILIGHT ZONE-ish novel about parallel lives . . . .
 
Thrawn said:
In, say, 1999, 17 different authors were published; last year, it was 14 (more, if you include Mere Anarchy). It's not THAT different.
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That would be including anthologies, would it not? I should have been clearer. I was speaking of novels.
 
I just watched the first episode of The Pillars of the Earth on Netflix, and I was now curious about the book. Has anyone here read it? If so what did you think, is it good?
 
^ Maybe tomorrow I'll run the numbers for you, but I don't think it's any less diverse than it would have to be based on the reduction in published novels. I bet the proportions are pretty similar. The DS9 relaunch certainly had about half of its books written by newcomers or people with only one prior sale, and that was the most serialized narrative Trek has ever produced.

And out of the 8 new novels commissioned by the new editor so far, 2 of the authors are brand new to full-length Trek novels. One in four is pretty reasonable! In 1999, my previous example, there were over 25 novels published, and only ONE was by a new person. One other was coauthored by a new writer, but the other coauthor had written Trek several times before.
 
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I just finished "Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Out of the Cocoon", and I really enjoyed it. Looking at the copyright page, I am amazed that these stories were written 4+ years ago. Where can I find the current online stories?

Previous to COE, I read Greg Cox's "Infinite Crisis" and "Final Crisis". Excellent reads! However,
It seems that the events in Infinite Crisis persisted throughout the time leading up to Final Crisis. Except... Martian Manhunter died in Infinite crisis, and apparently came back to life in time to die again in Final Crisis! In Both books, I believe he was the first Hero to die both times! How did he escape death after Infinite Crisis, and has he come back in the comics after Final Crisis?
 
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I just finished "Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Out of the Cocoon", and I really enjoyed it. Looking at the copyright page, I am amazed that these stories were written 4+ years ago. Where can I find the current online stories?
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There aren't any. The Corps of Engineers series was discontinued several years ago. Although you can still buy the eBooks from various dealers.
 
NotLKH said:
I just finished "Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Out of the Cocoon", and I really enjoyed it. Looking at the copyright page, I am amazed that these stories were written 4+ years ago. Where can I find the current online stories?

Previous to COE, I read Greg Cox's "Infinite Crisis" and "Final Crisis". Excellent reads! However,
It seems that the events in Infinite Crisis persisted throughout the time leading up to Final Crisis. Except... Martian Manhunter died in Infinite crisis, and apparently came back to life in time to die again in Final Crisis! In Both books, I believe he was the first Hero to die both times! How did he escape death after Infinite Crisis, and has he come back in the comics after Final Crisis?
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Not sure how to do the spoiler codes, so BEWARE! OLD DC COMICS SPOILERS AHEAD!
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Martian Manhunter didn't die in INFINITE CRISIS. He's attacked in the first scene, but is just taken captive by the bad guys and is rescued by the other heroes near the end of the book.

He does get killed in FINAL CRISIS, but was restored to life at the end of the recent BLACKEST NIGHT saga . . . .
 
Ah, yep! I forgot he was rescued at the end of Infinite Crisis.

Greg, are you doing the novelization of "BLACKEST NIGHT"?

FYI: You apply spoiler tags via the smiley button to the furthest right of the control bar above the post message box in the advanced response area, {directly above the smilies box}
 
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Ah, yep! I forgot he was rescued at the end of Infinite Crisis.

Greg, are you doing the novelization of "BLACKEST NIGHT"?

FYI: You apply spoiler tags via the smiley button to the furthest right of the control bar above the post message box in the advanced response area, {directly above the smilies box}
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No immediate plans to do a BLACKEST NIGHT novel, but I'm definitely available if DC wants to do one! :)
 
I'm currently just finishing up Issac Asimov's Foundation -- how I never read that before, I don't know -- and then following that up with the English translation of Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude).
 
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No immediate plans to do a BLACKEST NIGHT novel, but I'm definitely available if DC wants to do one! :)
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How well do novelizations of graphic novels sell? To me, the story without the art kind of defeats the purpose. Why do companies do them at all?
 
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Greg Cox said:
No immediate plans to do a BLACKEST NIGHT novel, but I'm definitely available if DC wants to do one! :)
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How well do novelizations of graphic novels sell? To me, the story without the art kind of defeats the purpose. Why do companies do them at all?
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Judging from my fan mail, many of the readers are former comic book fans whom, for whatever reasons, have stopped reading the actual comics, but are still kind of curious as to what's going on with Batman, Wonder Woman, the Justice League, and so on. The novelizations give them a quick Reader's Digest version that is perhaps not quite as intimidating as trying to figure out how all the various crossover miniseries fit together.

Plus, some people just like reading about their favorite superheroes in prose. Lord knows I remember buying DOCTOR STRANGE and FANTASTIC FOUR novels when I was a kid . . . .

Another thought. These days there are probably lots of people who know SPIDER-MAN and BATMAN from the movies, but have never gotten into the habit of reading actual comics. So if they see an IRON MAN novel at the bookstore or airport, they may pick it up because they like the movies . . ..
 
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Greg Cox said:
Xenu Cruise said:
Greg Cox said:
No immediate plans to do a BLACKEST NIGHT novel, but I'm definitely available if DC wants to do one! :)
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How well do novelizations of graphic novels sell? To me, the story without the art kind of defeats the purpose. Why do companies do them at all?
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Judging from my fan mail, many of the readers are former comic book fans whom, for whatever reasons, have stopped reading the actual comics, but are still kind of curious as to what's going on with Batman, Wonder Woman, the Justice League, and so on. The novelizations give them a quick Reader's Digest version that is perhaps not quite as intimidating as trying to figure out how all the various crossover miniseries work.
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That sums up my reasoning for buying your DC books. I don't have the time to chase down all the comics or TPBs.
 
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