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Over A Torrent Sea. worth all the hype. Fascinating how Bennet conceptualizes an aquatic people's use of technology in the absence of technology! My husband collects Marvel's Sub-Mariner and I thoroughly enjoy them but my largest quibble is how the underwater technology so closely mirrors upworlder's without the benefit of fire and the direction our technolgy has taken based upon the harnessing of fire. I always thought technology w/o fire would be very different from our own. Bennet shows it can be.
I'd forgotten how much fun a first contact book can be - and I'm quite taken by Torvig. He's like a little kid in a big sandbox!
I'd forgotten how much fun a first contact book can be - and I'm quite taken by Torvig. He's like a little kid in a big sandbox!
The Pa'haquel and the rest of the Star-Jelly gang, Orisha, the Caeliar, Droplet- the Titan series excels at fascinating first contact scenarios. It's one of the real strengths of the series.
Also, yeah, Torvig's great, isn't he? So happily enthusiastic. I suppose he's bucking the stereotypical image of a prey animal...
Finally knocked off Open Secrets yesterday, and I also zipped through Green Arrow: Sounds of Violence, which collects the second half of Kevin Smith's run on the title. I think I'm going to seek out the rest of the Green Arrow series via the library: has anyone here read it? How does Judd Winick handle the character?
Now I'm on to Paul Cornell's Fantastic Four mini, True Story. The story is decent, the dialogue is excellent, the art... is problematic.
Just finished the complete works of Shakespeare. It's a good thing I like Shakespeare...
Finished Crown of Slaves by David Weber last week and started Before Dishonor by Peter David on Saturday. Have being enjoying it so far... I found the characterization much better than Resistance. I found the whole of R flat and uninteresting. At least I'm enjoying BD.
I was hoping someone would ask "Brain and Brain!! What is Brain?!?!?!?"
"You are not Morg," Spock told McCoy, then turned to Kirk. "And you are not Eymorg." He pivoted in place and looked far in the distance. "Squirrel!"
I'm now over 200 pages into NF: Treason after less than 24 hours. Is it just me or are Trek books by Peter David easy to read? Not to say his stuff is juvenile. I just say this because Summon the Thunder by Wardilmore was very good, and I heartily enjoyed it, but it took me a month to get through, while Treason has been a cake walk in comparison. It's not as if i'm any more invested in the NF crew as compared to the Vanguard crew. If anything, i'm more interested in what is going on in the Taurus Reach and on Vanguard. Even PAD's Before Dishonor (which I loved, but seem to be in the minority) I blew through. Oh well...Treason has been great so far
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Home reading:
Warped
Mere Anarchy
Commute reading:
Dominion War Book 1: Behind Enemy Lines
Warped
Mere Anarchy
Commute reading:
Dominion War Book 1: Behind Enemy Lines
(*spoilers ahoy*)
Just finished Ship of the Line. A strange read, and I’m not entirely sure what I think of it. I liked Captain Bateson and his crew. I loved Bateson’s epic argument with Riker on the bridge of the Enterprise. Then things went a bit awry - two long chapters that amount to Captain Picard watching the TOS episode “Balance of Terror” (do I really need Picard to explain the meaning behind every damn facial movement William Shatner makes?!). Then he does it again with that episode where Kirk is split in two by the transporter. Picard learns a lesson (“act crazy more”? “WWKD”?) and acts totally out of character in his confrontation with Gul Madrid. The poor guys on the planet suffer for ages, then go straight back to work and are never heard from again.
I liked Riker, Bateson and Scotty’s retaking of the Enterprise, until the Klingon inexplicably surrendered, apparently only to spite his annoying whiny son.
Overall the book had lots of that Glorious Madness that I like in the Shatnerverse novels, but it’s a bit hit-and-miss.
George Hill was great.
Up next…
I’ve always hated Captain Janeway. I’ve hated her holier-than-thou attitude. I’ve hated the way she’s tried to be the mother-to-the-galaxy. I’ve hated the way she’d save the ship in the last 5 minutes of the show by spouting meaningless technobabble (“invert flux polarizers to 85%!” “Genius idea Captain! There shields are dropping! They’re retreating!” – roll credits). In Before Dishonor, Janeway will finally get what’s coming to her.
Just finished Ship of the Line. A strange read, and I’m not entirely sure what I think of it. I liked Captain Bateson and his crew. I loved Bateson’s epic argument with Riker on the bridge of the Enterprise. Then things went a bit awry - two long chapters that amount to Captain Picard watching the TOS episode “Balance of Terror” (do I really need Picard to explain the meaning behind every damn facial movement William Shatner makes?!). Then he does it again with that episode where Kirk is split in two by the transporter. Picard learns a lesson (“act crazy more”? “WWKD”?) and acts totally out of character in his confrontation with Gul Madrid. The poor guys on the planet suffer for ages, then go straight back to work and are never heard from again.
I liked Riker, Bateson and Scotty’s retaking of the Enterprise, until the Klingon inexplicably surrendered, apparently only to spite his annoying whiny son.
Overall the book had lots of that Glorious Madness that I like in the Shatnerverse novels, but it’s a bit hit-and-miss.
George Hill was great.
Up next…
I’ve always hated Captain Janeway. I’ve hated her holier-than-thou attitude. I’ve hated the way she’s tried to be the mother-to-the-galaxy. I’ve hated the way she’d save the ship in the last 5 minutes of the show by spouting meaningless technobabble (“invert flux polarizers to 85%!” “Genius idea Captain! There shields are dropping! They’re retreating!” – roll credits). In Before Dishonor, Janeway will finally get what’s coming to her.
Finished David Goodis's noir novel Of Tender Sin the other day. There's been a couple times when it looked like Goodis might get the same kind of cult following that Cornell Woolrich and Jim Thompson (the two opposite poles of noir fiction) have obtained, but it doesn't seem to have happened. He might do better if he were compared more to Charles Bukowski than Cornell Woolrich or Jim Thompson. This one's a rather plotless story about a man whose life starts going downhill when repressed memories of a girl with platinum blonde hair resurface.
And now I'm two thirds of the way through Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith, which starts off seeming like a fairly typical post-cyberpunk SF novel but goes off in a much stranger direction partway through. I have no idea where this is going.
And now I'm two thirds of the way through Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith, which starts off seeming like a fairly typical post-cyberpunk SF novel but goes off in a much stranger direction partway through. I have no idea where this is going.
No controversy in this post...
Aside from a couple of Robert A. Heinleins that I'm planning on getting from the library today, I'll be stopping at the bookstore to get one of two choices on my list. Initially it was going to be Oliver Twist, but now I'm leaning more towards the Terok Nor trilogy...
The "Terok Nor" trilogy is fantastic. "Day of the Vipers" would make my list of top five Star Trek books.
You're right. I agree 100% with what KingDaniel said in his post. I've said in the past it was a mistake to make her into this huge character in the Next Gen books. Promoting her to Admiral? Another big mistake, one of many in Nemesis. But to compound it by making her one of the regulars ... no, thanks. She should have been immediately put on trial and served the rest of her days in a penal colony. It's a perfect, stereotypical example of someone in management failing upwards.
Finished Pride & Prejudice in preparation for reading Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. It was OK but I'm not sure Jane Austen is my cup of tea.
I bought the Star Trek Novelization based on the fact that Alan Dean Foster was the author and he delivered. Kind of made more sense out of Kirk being a jerk as a kid tried to explain away a couple of the plot issues. Overall I liked it.
I'm cleaning up the backlog of early Simenon Maigret's I've got sitting on the shelf. I like the later ones better. I think the character grew and Simenon grew as a writer. I'm reading a 2nd one, they are around 120 pages so they go quick. I'm reading two a month until the stash I found at a couple used book stores is done.
I'm in a down cycle as far as ST books go. Not surprising since I've been going full bore for the last 3 or 4 years and I've read all the backlog of books I wanted to read so I'm just filling gaps now and the books I have left aren't as exciting. But I haven't even ready Open Secrets or Treason yet either, I'm expecting them to be good, just had other things on my plate right now.
I bought the Star Trek Novelization based on the fact that Alan Dean Foster was the author and he delivered. Kind of made more sense out of Kirk being a jerk as a kid tried to explain away a couple of the plot issues. Overall I liked it.
I'm cleaning up the backlog of early Simenon Maigret's I've got sitting on the shelf. I like the later ones better. I think the character grew and Simenon grew as a writer. I'm reading a 2nd one, they are around 120 pages so they go quick. I'm reading two a month until the stash I found at a couple used book stores is done.
I'm in a down cycle as far as ST books go. Not surprising since I've been going full bore for the last 3 or 4 years and I've read all the backlog of books I wanted to read so I'm just filling gaps now and the books I have left aren't as exciting. But I haven't even ready Open Secrets or Treason yet either, I'm expecting them to be good, just had other things on my plate right now.
Good, because that's what I decided to get.
I'm planning a "Big Read" of ST books, both re-reading ones I have and catching up on what I've missed in the past little while.- Status
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