Starting a DS9: Relaunch re-read

[jhempel24]

As part of my 100 books in 2011 challenge from Goodreads, I've decided that I'm actually going to do this.

I've read the first 3 books before, and I've kept up with the TNG/Destiny/Typhon Pac stuff, so I know there were some spoilers in there, but I figured I really should read the re-launch.

So today I started with Avatar Book 1....I'm going to skip over Lives of Dax and A Stitch in Time (maybe read this one...not a giant Garek person though).

I really need to re-acquaint myself with some characters though. Shar is one....Jast is another, I remember who Vaughn is (although as of yet he's not been introduced to the series, only on Chapter 4 of Avatar)

But I'm really enjoying re-discovering this book....a great read so far!

 

[Smellincoffee]

The two Avatar books (and Abyss) stand apart for me in Trek literature -- I'd never read anything like them before. They boldly reinvented a familiar setting and gave it new stories to tell. You've got a lot to look forward to.

 

[bfollowell]

I too am reading the relaunch, though it is a first time through for me. I rarely re-read books. I took a ten-year hiatus from TrekLit and recently put together a reading list to get me caught up, starting with the DS9 relaunch, all the way through Typhon Pact and beyond.

I started reading Christmas Day with my new Kindle 3 and so far I've ready from A Stitch in Time through the Horn and Ivory novella and have just started the Mission Gamma tetralogy. So far I am loving what I've missed over the years.

- Byron

 

[ryan123450]

Wow, 100 books in a year. I wish...

 

[Mage]

I was thinking the same thing a few days, and today I unpacked all of my books. They were still in boxes after moving, but after seeing how many they were, I realized I was just gonna re-read Warpath, since I ordered 12 books today, including the 2 books after Warpath.

After all of that, I might re-read the Relaunch.

 

[jhempel24]

Wow, 100 books in a year. I wish...

Lol. Would it help if I said I was on book 12 so far?

 

[Thrawn]

Wow, 100 books in a year. I wish...

Lol. Would it help if I said I was on book 12 so far?

Last year I made it past 100. This year, I'm focusing on fewer, longer books. Been reading Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver since New Year's, and I'm only halfway through.

 

[ryan123450]

I'm only on book 4. And that's amazing for me.

 

[jhempel24]

Wow, 100 books in a year. I wish...

Lol. Would it help if I said I was on book 12 so far?

Last year I made it past 100. This year, I'm focusing on fewer, longer books. Been reading Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver since New Year's, and I'm only halfway through.

I'm an extremely fast reader....about 100 pages an hour on a bad day. I don't know how long that Neal Stephenson book is, but I can get through a 600 page book in a few days.

It'll be an easy goal to hit, but I don't read longer books just to read them, they really have to hold my attention and be great...George RR Martin and Robert Jordan do that, as well as Tom Clancy...I'll have to check out that book you mentioned though.

 

[Thrawn]

^ It's the first of a trilogy of notoriously dense thousand-pagers. He's nominally a sci-fi writer (and an incredibly good one) but this trilogy is actually set around 1700, and involves Newton and the Royal Society, and also most of Europe and actually the entire world at the time. Nerdy science / pirate adventure / meticulous research. Amazing but dense.

Oh, and, um, that DS9 relaunch is pretty great... Actually back on topic, I'm also finishing up a re-read of that, whenever Stephenson gets too dense for me and I need to take a break. In the middle of Worlds: Dominion right now; looking forward to Warpath.

 

[JD]

The DS9 Relaunch will always be special to me, since it was what introduced me the wider Trek Lit universe. Before reading it, I had only read New Frontier and the old YA Starfleet Academy books.

 

[jhempel24]

I'm about to finish up Abyss, and I have really completely forgotten everything that has happened since the last time I read it LOL.

I'm really enjoying Taran'tar, love that character, just such an ass without really knowing he's being one.

Always enjoy Quark, and kind of interested in Vaughs' past, I hope they get into that in another book.

Plus after reading the passages regarding Bashir and Garak, I think it's peaked my interest to go buy a Stitch in Time.

 

[JD]

If you're interested in Vaughn's past then you should check out Serpents Among the Ruins, and The Art of the Impossible. We'll also see more of Vaughn's past in next year's Cast No Shadow.

 

[jhempel24]

Oh cool, I have both of those, but have never read them! Gives me a reason to!

Thanks!

 

[JD]

You should, because they are also absolutely amazing books.

 

[ryan123450]

Vaughn is also in The Battle of Betazed. Granted that's not very far in his past, but still.

 

[jhempel24]

Finished up Twist of Faith a couple days ago...great great books, The Gateways book wasn't as good as the first three I don't think though.

I was confused a bit on everything, but I really did like the whole Ro being a dabo girl...that was funny!

 

[JD]

Yeah, I thought that was pretty good too. I did not see it coming at all.