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Just finished Children of the Storm. A VERY good read that continues the excellence that is the current Voyager relaunch. Full review in the appropriate thread.
Now moving on to re-reading Precipice, finishing up my Vanguard re-read in preparation for the new Vanguard books that are now out and out in the near future.
Now moving on to re-reading Precipice, finishing up my Vanguard re-read in preparation for the new Vanguard books that are now out and out in the near future.
Finished the CoE "What's Past" -Omnibus yesterday and already started with the newest TNG, "Indistinguishable from Magic". Next one the to-read-pile is the new Vanguard, "Declassified".
I've been doing a lot of reading on the subway lately. I've just finished Vanguard: Open Secrets and Precipice, David Mack's The Sorrows of Empire, and I am partway through Declassified. LOVING Trek lit lately!
Finished : Naked Heat (Castle tie-in) Review below.
Reading : World War Z
Review for Naked Heat
All in all, the second book in fiction-within-a-fiction told book ends up being a nice step up from the first Nikki Heat/Castle novel and a reasonably enjoyable novel on it's own merits. While this basically reads like a longer episode of Castle, it's also able to go a few places a TV show on one of the major stations can't go so it definitely differentiates itself in some important ways. Personally, when I read the Nikki Heat books I basically see the characters from the TV show in their roles in the books but with some important tweaks to the Castle/Beckett relationships which clearly come from the mind of the character of Castle on the show. As for the story itself, it's not going to blow you away and while there are a few twists, there not jaw dropping either. All in all, a great way to fill your Castle fix during the summer months and a nice improvement over Heat Wave.
Reading : World War Z
Review for Naked Heat
All in all, the second book in fiction-within-a-fiction told book ends up being a nice step up from the first Nikki Heat/Castle novel and a reasonably enjoyable novel on it's own merits. While this basically reads like a longer episode of Castle, it's also able to go a few places a TV show on one of the major stations can't go so it definitely differentiates itself in some important ways. Personally, when I read the Nikki Heat books I basically see the characters from the TV show in their roles in the books but with some important tweaks to the Castle/Beckett relationships which clearly come from the mind of the character of Castle on the show. As for the story itself, it's not going to blow you away and while there are a few twists, there not jaw dropping either. All in all, a great way to fill your Castle fix during the summer months and a nice improvement over Heat Wave.
I just started reading "The Sundered". It's first in the Lost Era series of books from the Ordover era of super sagas. The series last six books from Ordover's editorial rein. Four books were added during Marco Palmeri's time as editor. There was a trilogy of what happend on DS9 before the Federtion had command of the station. There was another "Lost Era" book about Picard's Stargazer trial. In total thats ten "Lost Era" books. That's not to be confused with the "Lost Years" series. Tbat was an earlier original series era set of books (about four of them) that chronicled the events before and after Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
There are three super sagas from the Ordover era of books I'd like to finish this year:
The Lost Era Saga
The New Earth books (six in total)
The "A Time To" series of nine books by various authors
The Lost Era Saga
The New Earth books (six in total)
The "A Time To" series of nine books by various authors
That's incorrect. The Lost Era was entirely Marco's project. He worked alongside Ordover for several years, doing separate projects, and TLE was one of his from the start. You can tell they're his instead of Ordover's because Marco's books were generally a lot thicker with smaller print.
Only the first and shortest portion of The Buried Age deals with Picard's court-martial. The majority of the book is about what happens in the 9 years between that and the start of TNG.
Only before it.
Watching the Clock arrived in the post today. I'm a hundred pages in already, despite having books I need to finish first. 
I don't know if I'd really describe Terok Nor that way, it's more about Bajor than DS9. Hell, the first book is set decades before the station was even built.
Star Trek: The Next Generation #1 GHOST SHIP!
It is so scary! There is a Soviet Aircraft Carrier crew that disappeared in 95 zooming around space and appearing to LaForge and Riker and company on the starship Enterprise right after its mission at Farpoint im assuming. Riker doesn't like Lt. Data. And Troi calls him Bill. Also Crusher has to tell Riker La Forge is in pain and he never knew that! Changes the whole way he sees him.
Plus in Betazoid Bill means Shaving Cream! LOL
Its goofy but fun.
BTW Picard is a crotchty ass. Worf is on Klingze decsent or something and Yar is describes many times as having a boyish haircut and being Lithouainian.
About 1/3 of the way thru. Waiting for Wil Wheaton as the cracker to save the ship and then yep its season 1 dead on! But where oh where is Argyle!
It is so scary! There is a Soviet Aircraft Carrier crew that disappeared in 95 zooming around space and appearing to LaForge and Riker and company on the starship Enterprise right after its mission at Farpoint im assuming. Riker doesn't like Lt. Data. And Troi calls him Bill. Also Crusher has to tell Riker La Forge is in pain and he never knew that! Changes the whole way he sees him.
Plus in Betazoid Bill means Shaving Cream! LOL
Its goofy but fun.
BTW Picard is a crotchty ass. Worf is on Klingze decsent or something and Yar is describes many times as having a boyish haircut and being Lithouainian.
About 1/3 of the way thru. Waiting for Wil Wheaton as the cracker to save the ship and then yep its season 1 dead on! But where oh where is Argyle!
Reading the Torchwood novel Risk Assessment by James Goss, set between the second series and Children of Earth. Funny and enjoyable so far.
Nobody successfully predicted that the Soviet Union would fall in '91. "I, Mudd" even had Chekov referring to Leningrad in the 23rd century.
These are from the original series bible. Ghost Ship was written so early in production that Diane Carey only had the bible and the "Farpoint" script for reference, and a lot changed in production. Riker's intolerance for Data was supposed to be a recurring thread, but it was dropped after "Farpoint." Although we do actually hear Deanna use "Bill" in "Farpoint" and "Haven."
That's odd, because the bible says she's of "(unspecified) Ukrainian descent." And it doesn't mention her hairstyle, so I guess Carey had access to some production photos, at least in revisions.
Argyle hadn't been created yet when the book was written. There was no chief engineer character specified in the series bible; the idea was that the technology had become so advanced that it had little need for supervision or maintenance. Which is why we only got a scattering of guest engineers in the first season, until they decided that it still made story sense to have a regular engineer character.
But, I'm back now!
I'm still reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I only got through the introduction (which is 75 pages in the edition I have) last week, because I was visiting family and didn't do much reading. Now I'm about half way through the story and I'm really enjoying it. Once I finish I plan to start Vanguard: Declassified.
Finished Vanguard: Declassified today. 
Will probably start re-reading Gregory Benford's Timescape soon.
Will probably start re-reading Gregory Benford's Timescape soon.
Hey guys!
I finished reading the DS9 novel Devil in the Sky and I LOVED it! I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone that loves DS9 and wants a pretty interesting story. Easily one of my favorites. Seems to be the DS9 numbered novels are much better than the TNG ones.
I'm now about 50 pages in the Vanguard novel Open Secrets
I finished reading the DS9 novel Devil in the Sky and I LOVED it! I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone that loves DS9 and wants a pretty interesting story. Easily one of my favorites. Seems to be the DS9 numbered novels are much better than the TNG ones.
I'm now about 50 pages in the Vanguard novel Open Secrets
Wow! Talk about a blast from the past. I haven't heard much about that book in years. That was actually my very first Trek book, so I have fond memories of it.
For the record, I wrote most of the scenes on the station, while my collaborator, John Gregory Betancourt, wrote all the away team scenes. (We deliberately divied the plot up that way, so we would be able to work independently of each other until the two stories converged at the end.)
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