Both Paradigm and Lotus Flower in one of the Worlds of Deep Space 9 book were literally the most boring things I've ever read in my life, and I read some 3-4000 pages of law books last year.
How do you make four sexes boring? Just how? Granted, Paradigm is still preferable to the sheer oblivion of McCormack's Lotus Flower, which I only finished in the sense that I skipped to the end, vindicating my choice to avoid fifty or so pages because by the last page nothing still has happened. I'm highly wary of pretty much all the DS9-R stuff now, and haven't read any of it, because of the horrible introduction.
Also, I didn't really like Destiny. Mack only shined when he was writing Hernandez and Inyx, and to a much lesser degree the other NX-02 and Caeliar people. Every other character is pointless and flaccid, and the Borg suck (that's not Mack's fault, and at least he got rid of them). However, I am glad I got to read the Captain Proton fan fiction joke, which is pretty much the funniest thing I've ever seen in a Trek novel.
How do you make four sexes boring? Just how? Granted, Paradigm is still preferable to the sheer oblivion of McCormack's Lotus Flower, which I only finished in the sense that I skipped to the end, vindicating my choice to avoid fifty or so pages because by the last page nothing still has happened. I'm highly wary of pretty much all the DS9-R stuff now, and haven't read any of it, because of the horrible introduction.
Also, I didn't really like Destiny. Mack only shined when he was writing Hernandez and Inyx, and to a much lesser degree the other NX-02 and Caeliar people. Every other character is pointless and flaccid, and the Borg suck (that's not Mack's fault, and at least he got rid of them). However, I am glad I got to read the Captain Proton fan fiction joke, which is pretty much the funniest thing I've ever seen in a Trek novel.
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