So what are you reading now?

[SicOne]

Just finished Full Circle and Over A Torrent Sea, which catches me up with current Trek lit (well, excepting Treason, but I never really got into New Frontier).

Now reading "Plague Of The Dead" by Z.A. Recht...yep, a zombie novel. I'd like to say I was reading something that expands my intellectual horizons, but alas I am not. Just something fun.

 

[Excalibur7]

Just finished reading A Singular Destiny (good read, cant wait for the Typhon Pact) and am now continuing with my reading of the Flashman Papers. Currently on book 7, Flashman and the Redskins, by George MacDonald Fraser.

 

[John Clark]

Just picked up Star Trek: Gods of Night so I'll be giving that a go

 

[Trent Roman]

Finished Sky's the Limit (good antho), starting Gods of Night.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Greg Cox]

Read two MONK novels over vacation: MR. MONK GOES TO HAWAII and MR. MONK GOES TO GERMANY. Perfect airplane reading!

 

[neogothboy74]

Last week I read "New Frontier: Treason", "Star Trek: Countdown" & "Voyager: Homecoming" - I'm currently reading "Q-In-Law" by Peter David.

I enjoyed 'Treason' a great deal. I also loved 'Countdown'; it made me even more excited about the new Trek film - and while a few moments struck me as odd, I hope Trek lit bring the comic even more in continuity. I'd read the first Voyager Relaunch book 'Homecoming' when it was new, but wanted to reread it along with the other titles in that series (plus a host of other titles) before eventually diving into 'Full Circle'. I've never read 'Q-In-Law' despite wanting to when it was new in 1991? I finally bought a copy last year (along with "Q-Squared" & "Imzadi" both of which I've never read and intend to read this year). I've only read the first 3 chapters but I'm enjoying it so far.

 

[Spacehamster]

For some odd reason I've been reading the Trek books out of chronological order, so I finished Gods of Night (whoa, what an ending!), A Singular Destiny (another solid entry from Keith R.A. DeCandido) and Full Circle. Full Circle was particular noteworthy because I wasn't all that crazy about the VOY TV Series to begin with. But Full Circle was so well written it actually made me like and sympathise with the characters, which was quite surprising.

I've started reading Over A Torrent Sea. A very entertaining book thus far, and I love the emphasis on what I believe is Star Trek's core mission of exploration and discovery. After the sturm and drang of Destiny, it's fun to see the Titan crew get back to the basics.

 

[Hoshi_Mayweather]

Reading 'Atlas Shrugged'...

 

[Steve Roby]

Just started reading Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth, a short story anthology edited by Peter Wild (and released as Empty Pages in the UK). The stories take their titles and inspiration from various Sonic Youth songs, some apparently trying to reflect something of what the song's about, others taking the title as a starting point and going in their own direction. Mary Gaitskill's the only writer here I've read before.

I've dug out all my SY albums to make a playlist of the songs included, because some of them are from albums I haven't listened to in a while.

 

[Frazzled]

Last week I read "New Frontier: Treason", "Star Trek: Countdown" & "Voyager: Homecoming" - I'm currently reading "Q-In-Law" by Peter David.
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I loved 'Q in Law' when I first read it years ago - it still comes off the shelf when I'm unwell to read under the duvet as some comforting comic refief.

It raises the issue for me of the books not being 'Canon' though .... no matter how hard I try I just can't imagine it really happening. My head can't compute Picard and the others hosting that wedding inbetween episodes! Same goes for a few other books.

As I've posted already somewhere today, I didn't like Homecoming, would prefer to flush it away than believe in it happening! Shame really, I've liked everything else by Christie Golden, it wasn't her style of writing I objected to it was the storyline.

I'm deep in the Voyager universe, the original one in the Delta Quadrant that is with everyone alive I'm finishing the third Dark Matters book (another Golden) that somehow I didn't read after the first two, I loved them. I'm waiting for my first String Theory Trilogy book to arrive. I may move on to some TNG after that, but again even though they're all happily ever after except Data, I still prefer the stuff set during the TV series to getting to know a new crew.

If I ever try anything post TV apart from my brief and disappointing flirt with Homecoming, (and Before Dishonour to check out if the rumours about it were true.... bluurrrghhhhhh), It'll be the DS9 relaunch. Even thoguh it was my least favourite of the 24th century trek series, I enjoyed the final series, I've read nothing but rave reviews about the books.

My kids are reading Artemis Fowl, which while unrelated in a bizarre way feels very similar to Trek to me, I can almost imagine him growing up and turning into Q! It could be a good way to gently push some trek stuff under their noses as they get older.

 

[T'Ressa Dax]

Just started Treason. And it looks like my alternating pattern of liking and disliking the NF books is still holding true. Treason's a like so far, the last one was a very slow read. In comparison I really didn't want to put Treason down mid chapter.

 

[Nivilla1982]

Started the first Vanguard book over the weekend. Seems interesting.

 

[dbush]

I am in the middle of Galaxy Blues by Allen Steele. Just love his stuff. A Star Trek book is coming up next. Not sure which one out of the many, many ones I haven't read in my house.

 

[captcalhoun]

Full Circle.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Just picked up Open Secrets. Good so far.

 

[Anika Hanson]

Star Trek New Frontier- The Captains Table: Once Burned

 

[Count Zero]

Since my last post I've read Mere Anarchy, which was very hard to put down so I read through it pretty fast, and started another book by Theodor Fontane, Irrungen Wirrungen, which I finished today while waiting over two hours to register for my final exam in Ancient History.

 

[Reanok]

Mere Anarchy is a great book. I really like the different stories I've read in the book so far.I'm glad that Mike Barr and Howard weinstein an& Margaret Wander Bonnano have written new Tos stories for this series.I also like the stories from the the other writers too.

 

[Count Zero]

I really enjoyed it, too.

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

I just finished Ex Machina last night. So far it's probably my favorite book by CLB, though I haven't read Over a Torrent Sea yet. I just started A Time to Sow today, and when I'm done I'll be starting on A Time to Harvest.