So what are you reading now?
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Just read the last three Torchwood novels. Phil Ford's Skypoint was a reasonably entertaining story, but despite the sex and violence was written in a kind of YA prose style,which I didn't care for. Peter Anghelides's Pack Animals was really good; some elements of the story were a little silly, but the characters were written perfectly. James Goss's Almost Perfect was at least as good, and was surprisingly funny at times considering it's the first Torchwood novel set after the end of the second season. I wouldn't go so far as to call it the Torchwood equivalent of Paul Magrs's Third Doctor novel Verdigris, but tonally and stylistically it was definitely a change after the much more conventional Skypoint.
Started Over a Torrent Sea today, 43 pages in and liking it so far. Still reading Voice of the Gods and Mere Anarchy.
Just finished reading the last post here, before that just finished the comic GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra - Duke. Thanks to Countdown I've been into comics for the first time in years. Picking up Over A Torrent Sea & Treason Friday.
Still reading Sky's the Limit, but enjoying it a lot so far (I'll be hard pressed, I think, to choose a favourite). On the non-genre side, I'm almost done reading Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (not particularly mirthful, I assure you), midway through Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street (surprisingly gripping), and have started on George Gissing's The Odd Women.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
I finished Over A Torrent Sea earlier this week, and I had originally started to reread the first Vanguard book, Harbinger. But on Tuesday I went to Borders and picked up the 3rd Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book, Life, the Universe, and Everything and the first Dresden Files book Storm Front, so I put Harbinger aside to Storm Front. I'm also reading Star Wars: Yoda: Dark Renedozvous.
Not Trek, but I'm just starting on Raymond Feist's Rides A Dread Legion, which I'm reviewing for Death Ray
I'm just about to start the Titan novel 'Orions' Hounds'. I'm hoping this continues the excellent standards of the first two.
Just started Mere Anarchy, and if Mino and Raya weren't so interesting I'd be wanting Mr Ward and Mr Dilmore to get on with it already. 
Had to rest my eyes after chapter 4 of Things Fall Apart , but I am enjoying it so far.
May end up alternating with Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Anne Scarbaroough's Deluge, which is smaller and easier to hold in a comfortable reading position for a longer time.
Had to rest my eyes after chapter 4 of Things Fall Apart , but I am enjoying it so far.May end up alternating with Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Anne Scarbaroough's Deluge, which is smaller and easier to hold in a comfortable reading position for a longer time.
Augh! Amazon is still in the process of shipping mine!
I swear, Amazon's shipping time is inversely proportional to how badly you want the book.
Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit. I'm trying to catch up on some of the ongoing series. I'm up to Destiny with Titan and the TNG-R, and up to date on Vanguard, but, with all the 24th century continuity seemingly on a collision course (in Destiny and potentially after), I'm trying to get caught up so I don't miss the nuances. As a result, I'll mostly be reading DS9-R, A Time To..., Articles of the Federation, etc. this year, then backtracking to pick up the new releases from Destiny onward. I'll read the new Vanguard book and Troublesome Minds when they come out, though.
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For the record, DS9 has almost nothing to do with Destiny or anything beyond; "Now" in the DS9 relaunch is about 4 years before Destiny. One character gets carried from DS9 to Destiny, but you don't have to be up to date on DS9 to get it.
The rest you mentioned, though, do indeed enhance your enjoyment of Destiny and the post-Destiny books by a substantial amount. Have fun!
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