Travel Guide to Vulcan by Dayton Ward
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I am still ruminating on buying it.
StarTrek.com has posted another teaser article for this, this time with a look inside the book:
http://www.startrek.com/article/inside-a-travel-guide-to-vulcan
http://www.startrek.com/article/inside-a-travel-guide-to-vulcan
"Lake Yuron" is exactly how my father pronounces "Lake Huron". For some reason that I have never been able to figure out. Perhaps he's not really from around here? 
"Lake Yuron" is exactly how my father pronounces "Lake Huron". For some reason that I have never been able to figure out. Perhaps he's not really from around here?
That's a New York accent sort of thing, isn't it? Like how Donald Trump is caricatured for saying "Yuge."
^ Not sure. He's never lived in New York, nor outside of Canada at all (AFAIK, anyway), but he did move around a lot as a child because his father was military.
Besides turning Hs into Ys, he also pronounces As that sound like "aw" as "or". So, for example, he would pronounce the pilot on Firefly as "Worsh". No one else in his family speaks this way, though.
Besides turning Hs into Ys, he also pronounces As that sound like "aw" as "or". So, for example, he would pronounce the pilot on Firefly as "Worsh". No one else in his family speaks this way, though.
The intrusive r also happens in Pennsylvania and southern Ohio. My grandmother and her daughters (though not my father) and many other adults from my childhood do that. Much less common in my generation, though.
Some posters on Stack Exchange speculate a Scotch-Irish origin for it, so maybe he picked it up in a part of Canada with Scotch-Irish population. My family is of German descent, though.
That sounds entirely plausible. Plus, I believe his family has an Irish background, too. Thank you for the insight!
I don't know if this has been posted yet, but Amazon now has 8 preview pages up now
Might have to page though it to make a final decision.
They also have a Quark's Bar. I guess Quark must have decided to franchise somewhere along the line.
Any other Netgalley users around here? If so, there's an advance e-copy available there. (It's legit, it's a site for publishers to promote their books to book reviewers, librarians, book bloggers, etc.) Haven't gone through all of it yet, but I like it. It's a far cry from those little touristy booklets Pocket published way back when, like the Federation Passport. It's not a five-minute read. The art's good, too. I strongly suspect Dayton had fun writing this one.
I wouldn't mind someone (Dayton himself, preferably), writing a Vulcan-set novel with a lot of action in the locations described. An espionage novel would work pretty well for that.
I wouldn't mind someone (Dayton himself, preferably), writing a Vulcan-set novel with a lot of action in the locations described. An espionage novel would work pretty well for that.
It's out and about!
Latest acquisition!
Latest acquisition!
Still ruminating whether to get it...
'Explore the most logical destination in the known universe!' is a great slogan^^
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