So what are you reading now (Part 4)?
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My best friend bugged me to read it for about two years, so I napped/read in the hammock for a few hours and wasn't disappointed. Seems like they're really played up the romance aspects of the book when there are actually interesting and tense sequences in the novel.
About half way through TOS: Inception. After that I'll be ready for Star Wars: Jedi Trial. I've been reading through the Star Wars EU for about 3 years now, and I'm firmly in the midst of the Clone Wars. Half the fun has been figuring out a good reading order which reconciles the original Clone Wars continuity and the newer continuity based on the tv series.
For those who don't know, during the interval between Episode II and Episode III many novels and comics were published, mostly in real time, chronociling the Clone Wars. It was a very tight and interesting continuity. But then Lucas decided to reimagine it all for the Clone Wars tv series, and changed many of the basic principles underlying the old continuity (Anakin is knighted late in the war, no Ahoska). To make matters worse the new chronological details make it even harder to mesh with the old material, even though, supposedly, Star Wars has one unified continiuty.
TPTB claim everything will get sorted out in the end, but in the mean time I was stuck having my Star Wars read through come along to the Clone Wars in this interval when the continuity/timeline issues are in flux. So this is my shot at reconciling everything into a coherant reading order:
- Attack of the Clones
- Republic: Sacrifice
- Republic: The Defense of Kamino
- Republic: The New Face of War
- Republic Commando I: Hard Contact
- Republic: Blast Radius
- Jedi: Mace Windu
- Jedi: Shaak Ti
- Republic: Double Blind
- Jedi: Aayla Secura
- Shatterpoint
- Jedi: Dooku
- Republic: The Battle of Jabiim
- Republic: Enemy Lines
- Republic: Dead Ends
- Republic: Striking From the Shadows
- Republic: Bloodlines
- Republic: Hate and Fear
- Republic: No Man's Land
- Jedi: Yoda
- Republic: Show of Force
- Republic: Forever Young
- Republic: Armor
- The Cestus Deception
- Jedi Trial
- Republic: Dreadnaughts of Rendilli
- Republic: Trackdown
- Obsession
- The Clone Wars
- Wild Space
- Shipyards of Doom
- Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
- No Prisoners
- Slaves of the Republic
- Crash Course
- Republic Commando II: Triple Zero
- In Service of the Republic
- The Wind Raiders of Talloran
- Clone Wars Gambit I: Stealth
- Clone Wars Gambit II: Siege
- The Collosus of Destiny
- Hero of the Confederacy
- Republic Commando III: True Colors
- Deadly Hands of Shon-Ju
- Visionaries
- General Grevious
- Medstar I: Battle Surgeons
- Medstar II: Jedi Healer
- Republic: Siege of Saleucami
- Labyrinth of Evil
- Revenge of the Sith
I just finished Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga, the two books Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained. Hell of a story; I think better in every way than the Night's Dawn trilogy, which I loved to begin with.
I'm debating if I want to read something else before jumping in to the Void trilogy, which takes place 1500 years later in the same universe, and recently finished.
I'm debating if I want to read something else before jumping in to the Void trilogy, which takes place 1500 years later in the same universe, and recently finished.
About to finish up TOS "Yesterday's Son." Really good book. Then it's on to TOS "Mutiny on the Enterprise"
Who?
I've just picked up the latest double issue of Asimov's Science Fiction with a cool story by Kristin Kathryn Rusch, "Becoming One With the Ghosts." Enjoying it so far. A review to come once I'm done.
Well, since my last post here (about 2 months ago), I've finished Seven Deadly Sins, and read Spider-Man Drowned in Thunder (Christopher L. Bennett), Mr. Monk in Outer Space (Lee Goldberg), Bones: Buried Deep (Max Allan Collins) and Corps of Engineers: Out of the Cocoon.
I'm a bit behind with my reviews as I was busy with a new article for Unreality SF, but since my draft for the article is with the editor right now I hope I can motivate my lazy ass to finally write them.
I'm currently reading Progress by Terri Osborne, the first novella in Corps of Engineers: What's Past. Since I just got the five 11th Doctor novels I didn't had yet (as i said elsewhere I fully blame Una McCormack's The King's Dragon for sucking me into yet another tie-in line
), I think I'll mix it up: one novella from What's Past, then one Doctor Who novel and so on.
I'm a bit behind with my reviews as I was busy with a new article for Unreality SF, but since my draft for the article is with the editor right now I hope I can motivate my lazy ass to finally write them.
I'm currently reading Progress by Terri Osborne, the first novella in Corps of Engineers: What's Past. Since I just got the five 11th Doctor novels I didn't had yet (as i said elsewhere I fully blame Una McCormack's The King's Dragon for sucking me into yet another tie-in line
), I think I'll mix it up: one novella from What's Past, then one Doctor Who novel and so on.
Speaking of which, Rod Belcher, who won the Grand Prize for STRANGE NEW WORLDS back in 2006, just sold his first novel to Tor . . . .
Which you happen to be editing, I suppose?
Which you happen to be editing, I suppose?
By amazing coincidence, yes.
[Gibbs]I don't believe in coincidences[/Gibbs]
Nice, are you allowed to provide a hint as to what the book is about?
Nice, are you allowed to provide a hint as to what the book is about?
Rod is still doing revisions, but it's basically a dark historical fantasy set in the Old West. I keep describing it around the office as "BUFFY meets DEADWOOD" . . . .
No title yet. We're still working on that.
That's the book I will be reading too after I finish 'Sisters of the Sword.'
I've revisited 'MOTE' a couple times, and I will see--again--if it holds up to my expectations...
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