So what are you reading? Part VI
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Consequences, a Torchwood short story anthology. The stories are set at different points in series continuity, including a Victorian Torchwood story. I would love to see more of that era on TV but that really doesn't seem very likely with the Children of Earth/Miracle Day style of storytelling.
Reading alastair reynolds is like watching an expert craftsman lovingly assemble an absurdly complicated watch out of pieces almost too small to see, fitting together perfectly. Which is to say, he's a bit like arthur c clarke squared; cold, mysterious, magical universes, not so good with characters, but much longer and more complex than clarke ever wrote.
I love him. I read every book instantly.
I finally finished Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the other day. It was very good story and I really enjoyed it. I just wish Tom Sawyer had stayed out of it, not that I necessarily have a problem with the character, I just didn't think he was necessary.
I then read the Star Trek: Myriad Universes comic The Last Generation. It was pretty good, but I would have preferred a non-time travel story.
Now, I'm about to start Almost Tomorrow, the first story in Vanguard: Declassified. When I first came across it in the store I was somewhat surprised that was a mass market paperback, for some reason I was thinking it was a trade paperback. I'm really looking forward to starting it.
I then read the Star Trek: Myriad Universes comic The Last Generation. It was pretty good, but I would have preferred a non-time travel story.
Now, I'm about to start Almost Tomorrow, the first story in Vanguard: Declassified. When I first came across it in the store I was somewhat surprised that was a mass market paperback, for some reason I was thinking it was a trade paperback. I'm really looking forward to starting it.
Gave up on the "Time To..." series again, this time after the fourth book. Maybe I'm not that into TNG books...
Now reading ""Burning Dreams." Much happier, so far.
Non-Trek I'm reading? Still plugging through Gibbon's history of the Fall of Rome. Also, "The Eight Doctors."
Now reading ""Burning Dreams." Much happier, so far.
Non-Trek I'm reading? Still plugging through Gibbon's history of the Fall of Rome. Also, "The Eight Doctors."
Have you ever read the short story by Clarke entitled, "The Sentinel"? It's the basis and inspiration for the book 2001.
So, KRAD has managed to do something I thought impossible - made me WANT to read stories about Klingons. The universe just inverted itself.
He did that for me too... which stinks, because I am a Romulan nut! Imagine the wars going on inside my head!
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A good book about Romulans are in the "Maximum Warp" series by Dave Galanter. If I remember( I read this book 10 years ago) Ambassador Spock was fighting the Romulans in the NG era. It was a two book series and it might be on Amazon.com.
Sure have... it's included in the Collected Stories set... over 50 hours of pure Clarke!
Indeed, I read that one shortly after it came out. I think it feels slightly dated now, but I remember it being quite a fun pair of books.
Ah, the Pike masterwork! Love it!
Here, I finished Cast No Shadow last night, and will be writing my review to go up soon on TrekMovie.com. Now it is back to Paths of Disharmony. After that, depending on when my next review copy book arrives (should be middle of next month for What Judgements Come) I may read the novel-length version of The Songs of Distant Earth again, or I may go back and read Yesterday's Son and Time For Yesterday. I last gave these books a try about 15 years ago and found them unreadable... but, being older and more interested in the broader array of stories, I may enjoy it more now. We'll see. For whatever reason, I also have a hankering to go back and read McIntyre's novelizations of Trek II and III. Not sure when I'll get to that.
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Isn't it a great series, I wish S&S would sign KRAD to start the series up again.
So, KRAD has managed to do something I thought impossible - made me WANT to read stories about Klingons. The universe just inverted itself.
Being Klingon, I've found Krad to be the penultimate Klingon scribe. Not to take anything away from any other authors that have penned Klingon Literature, to me he is now the measuring stick.
Just finished reading Vanguard: Reap the Whirlwind. I was going to put Vanguard aside for a little while to read Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series (I've read book one... 5 more to go). However, I picked up Open Secrets, Precipice and Declassified at Borders yesterday (everything was 20% off) so I think I will continue with Vanguard for at least one more installment before switching gears.
Being Klingon, I've found Krad to be the penultimate Klingon scribe. Not to take anything away from any other authors that have penned Klingon Literature, to me he is now the measuring stick.
(Since you're Klingon I won't harp too much, but "penultimate" means "the one just before the end", not "the end". :P)
Just started reading The Astounding, the Amazing,and the Unknown by Paul Malmont, which is a novel (not nonfiction) about various famous real-life science fiction writers' experiences during World War II. Asimov, Heinlein, DeCamp, and L. Ron Hubbard are the main characters . . . .
I'm only about a hundred pages in, but so far I'm really enjoying it.
I'm only about a hundred pages in, but so far I'm really enjoying it.
Ooh, The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril was so fantastic - if he has a new one out I have to catch it!
Off to amazon to see if it's out in the UK...
Ah, only just out in hardback - since I have neither the cash nor, more importantly, the shelf-space for hardbacks, I shall have to wait for the paperback. Damn.
This is as disappointing as Tuesday, when I got the newest Michael Connelly paperback, thinking I was up to date, and discovered when putting it on the shelf that I'm actually missing The Brass Verdict
This is as disappointing as Tuesday, when I got the newest Michael Connelly paperback, thinking I was up to date, and discovered when putting it on the shelf that I'm actually missing The Brass Verdict
This takes places several decades after the the Chinatown book, which is referenced in places.
And, yeah, Chinatown Death Cloud Peril was wonderful. This looks to be more of the same, except focusing on John W. Cambell era of sf instead of the earlier pulp era.
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