So what are you reading now (Part 4)?

[JD]

I recently finished David Mack's Star Trek Mirror Universe: The Sorrows of Empire novel - it was very good. I liked the "Foundation" vibe - I was expecting something more tragic, though.

I almost feel like trying some more of the other Mirror/Myriad Universe stuff now.

You should, the majority of the stories in the series are great.

Thanks for the recommendation. But after all the inter-continuity in Trek books of recent years I find the idea stand-alone stories a little off-putting. .

Actually they aren't stanalones at all, they have their own arc going on, which will be concluded (or at least continued) in David Mack's Rise Like Lions next year.
EDIT: Just the Mirror Universe books have the arc. The Myriad Universe books have all been stand alone so far.

 

[indianatrekker26]

Indianatrekker I'm a little suprised that you got Zero sum game so quickly.I can't wait for this book to finally comes in to my local Barnes&Noble. How has Bashir changed as acharacter since he hasn't had alot to do in the last several Ds9 books.

The borders here in fort wayne had it out. they had the books hidden behind the star trek books on the shelves. i noticed one sticking out, grabbed it.
I can't tell you how much julian has changed because this is the first DS9-R book i've read.

 

[JD]

If you haven't read any of the DS9R books, I bet you were pretty shocked by

Spoiler: minor spoiler for ZSG

who DS9's new commander is.

 

[indianatrekker26]

If you haven't read any of the DS9R books, I bet you were pretty shocked by

Spoiler: minor spoiler for ZSG

who DS9's new commander is.

got that right, JD lol

 

[S. Gomez]

The Myriad Universe books have all been stand alone so far.

If they weren't standalones, would they still be myriad?

 

[Starscape]

^Whoa. I liked The Thirty-Nine Steps a lot when I read it. I had no idea there were more.

It does seem a fairly well kept secret.

The sequels are definitely worth checking out if you liked Steps. Wordworth Classics have published an omnibus of all 5 books that's selling for next-to-nothing on-line.

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Actually they aren't stanalones at all, they have their own arc going on, which will be concluded (or at least continued) in David Mack's Rise Like Lions next year.
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That sounds more promising, I might give them a try.

 

[JD]

The arc is really good, and it definitely makes you look at the whole MU story in a whole new light.

 

[Lunarflower]

Currently reading War Horse by Michael Morpurgo.

Probably going to start Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game soon (and then read the fifth Vangaurd book after it).

 

[F. King Daniel]

I finished Q-Squared. I enjoyed it, but it really overdid the "small universe" thing worse than any Trek novel ever.

Until Peter David ruined it at the end by saying thay Trelane was Q's son, I liked that Trelane was never specifically called a Q. It gave the impression that the "Q Continuum" could actually be a group of similar beings with godlike powers rather than just one species. He could still be a half-breed, I guess.

I think it's odd that this book, crammed with outrageous happenings, is regarded fondly, when similarly-nutty Before Dishonor is so often panned.

Up next: Demons.

 

[JWD75]

I'm reading Your Government Failed You by Richard A Clarke. Near the beginning of the book when describing the massive size of the Pentagon he compares the building to "the fictional space station Deep Space Nine" of all things.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Fallen Heroes, Dafydd Ab Hugh, in which Odo and Quark are thrown three days into the future to find everyone on the station dead: the promenade is littered with bodies, some neatly stacked.

 

[ronny]

^^ Hold onto your hat... in fact, there's four books that follow the adventures of Richard Hannay after the events of "The Thirty-Nine Steps".

And the cool thing is they are in the public domain so they are free. Well, most of them are free in the US but I guess the laws are different in Australia because they are all available via http://gutenberg.net.au

I've read and enjoyed 39 Steps and I've got Greenmantle on my Kindle, I just haven't had a a chance to get to it yet.

As for what I've been reading lately, I think this is the first month this year I've read 2 Star Trek books and I regretted it. First book was Seven Deadly Sins which had a lot of good stories in it, and one clunker, and the 2nd book was the third book in the String Trilogy and that thing was a bear to finish. I ended up skimming through 2 of the 3 story lines just to get through it.

 

[Greg Cox]

Fallen Heroes, Dafydd Ab Hugh, in which Odo and Quark are thrown three days into the future to find everyone on the station dead: the promenade is littered with bodies, some neatly stacked.

That was definitely the best of the early DS9 novels, including my own.

 

[Thrawn]

^ I liked The Siege the best, actually, but it's up there.

 

[Buck Rogers]

I'm reading a series of books on Atlantis by Thomas Greanias Raising Atlantis talks about the Hapgood crust displacement theory,and that Atlantis is what we call Antarctica now is just a matter of time we get to excavate that location.
The other books I yet to read are Atlantis Prophesy,and Atlantis Revelation.
Signed
Buck Rogers

 

[Christopher]

It is so weird that people believe there really was an Atlantis when the only ancient reference to it is in two dialogues by Plato, and one of those dialogues essentially said outright that it was just a made-up allegory. It's like somebody 2000 years from now believing there really was a Gilligan's Island.

 

[Thrawn]

Just finished Hamilton's Void trilogy. Every bit as excellent as I'd hoped for; he's pretty unquestionably the best (pretty much only) real epic sci-fi writer out there. This felt like one 2,000-odd-page novel, and was worth every moment of it.

Next up: Zero Sum Game!!!! WOOO!!!

 

[ICW]

Just finished the TNG novel Infiltrator and founded it to be quite disappointing, even for a # novel.

I am now reading the DS9 comic "Fool's Gold".

 

[Smellincoffee]

It is so weird that people believe there really was an Atlantis when the only ancient reference to it is in two dialogues by Plato, and one of those dialogues essentially said outright that it was just a made-up allegory. It's like somebody 2000 years from now believing there really was a Gilligan's Island.

There are people in the US who still believe Columbus had to prove to the snooty intellectuals of Europe that the world wasn't flat. THAT little gem comes from a children's book, I think.

I'm reading Dafydd ab Hugh's Fallen Heroes. Odo and Quark are thrown three days into the future, where everyone on the station (including the kids) is dead, shot by projectile bullets.

 

[S. Gomez]

It is so weird that people believe there really was an Atlantis when the only ancient reference to it is in two dialogues by Plato, and one of those dialogues essentially said outright that it was just a made-up allegory. It's like somebody 2000 years from now believing there really was a Gilligan's Island.

There are people in the US who still believe Columbus had to prove to the snooty intellectuals of Europe that the world wasn't flat. THAT little gem comes from a children's book, I think.

Actually, it was Washington Irving.