What Books Would You Like To See Someday?

[Dayton3]

Ever thought about what books you would like to see someday?

I always wanted to see the following (among many):

1) Starships- an oversized book looks at the different types of starships that might be built with various propulsion technolgies. With artwork for each one. Mostly slower than light designs but the a couple of FTL possibilities as well.

2) The Military Atlas of World War 3- speculative historical fiction in an atlas form obviously.

3) The Best of Fan Designed Starships (Star Trek)- the title says it all.

4) Aircraft of the American Civil War-speculative historical fiction

5) First to Worst: Rating America's Presidents

6) That Sinking Feeling: A History of American Economic Downturns

7) The Next Superpower- future foreign policy speculation

8) I Wish I Had Spent More Time In Water Sports- biography about my dad.

9) Proposed Star Trek Series- look in detail at 10-12 Trek series ideas in great detail with the advantages and disadvantages of each analyzed

10) Greatest Warplanes That Never Were- speculative nonfiction

11) Manned Missions To Mars- an oversized nonfiction book (lavishly illustrated) that looks at a number of the mission plans proposed for a manned mission to Mars and analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of each.

I wish I was a competent writer...

I'm lucky to pound out a paragraph in the FanFiction section.

 

[Misfit Toy]

Did you mean to post this in Misc?

 

[Dayton3]

Did you mean to post this in Misc?

Well yes.

I didn't think it was Trek related enough to put in Trek Lit and I didn't really think it qualified for other media either.

 

[The Lady Eve]

I Wish I Had Spent More Time In Water Sports- biography about my dad.

Dayton, could you explain the meaning of this title?

 

[trekkiedane]

Ever thought about what books you would like to see someday?

Can't say that I ever have, not with the internet around…

The only book I'd really like is an affordable decent sized e-book reader (that can also show colour images).

 

[RJDiogenes]

Well, I'd love to see more novels by Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, but that ain't gonna happen.

 

[Dayton3]

I Wish I Had Spent More Time In Water Sports- biography about my dad.

Dayton, could you explain the meaning of this title?

I was collecting personal and family historical information from my Dad a couple of years ago.

Details about his Korean War service, his first jobs out of high school. His and moms early years stuff like that.

I asked him at the end of it if he had any regrets in life.

Dad seemed to lapse deep into thought and considered the question for a long time.

He finally came up with

"I wish I had spent more time in water sports."

That was it. Nearly eighty years old and that was the sum total of his regrets in life.

He didn't have to regret spending more time with family. He spent more than enough for any man. His children and grandchildren were all growing up healthy and happy.

He went to church plenty. He had traveled enough of the world and the United States to be content.

He had plenty of money. His health was pretty decent for his age. He was active in his community and was respected by nearly everyone.

Live eighty years and THAT IS ALL YOU REGRET!! That you had not gone swimming enough!!!

Every person should be so fortunate with regrets so small.

 

[Canadave]

10) Greatest Warplanes That Never Were- speculative nonfiction

That's called pretty much any book written about the Avro Arrow.

 

[Omnius]

10) Greatest Warplanes That Never Were- speculative nonfiction

That's called pretty much any book written about the Avro Arrow.

Or on the Fokker G-1

 

[Amaris]

I Wish I Had Spent More Time In Water Sports- biography about my dad.

Dayton, could you explain the meaning of this title?

I was collecting personal and family historical information from my Dad a couple of years ago.

Details about his Korean War service, his first jobs out of high school. His and moms early years stuff like that.

I asked him at the end of it if he had any regrets in life.

Dad seemed to lapse deep into thought and considered the question for a long time.

He finally came up with

"I wish I had spent more time in water sports."

That was it. Nearly eighty years old and that was the sum total of his regrets in life.

He didn't have to regret spending more time with family. He spent more than enough for any man. His children and grandchildren were all growing up healthy and happy.

He went to church plenty. He had traveled enough of the world and the United States to be content.

He had plenty of money. His health was pretty decent for his age. He was active in his community and was respected by nearly everyone.

Live eighty years and THAT IS ALL YOU REGRET!! That you had not gone swimming enough!!!

Every person should be so fortunate with regrets so small.

Wow. We should all be so lucky.

J.

 

[Rii]

Well, I'd love to see more novels by Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, but that ain't gonna happen.

I would've liked to have seen a sixth Dune novel from Frank Herbert.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

'How to survive the Apocalypse for dummies.'

 

[Amaris]

'How to survive the Apocalypse for dummies.'

No, because then the whole point of the apocalypse would be for nothing!


J.

 

[Mr. B]

Star Trek Voyager: Technical Manual
Battlestar Galactica Companion
The Making of K Street
Roger Ebert: The Great Movies III

 

[All Seeing Eye]

'Survivors Guide To The TrekBBS'

 

[ThankQ]

'Survivors Guide To The TrekBBS'

Chapter 1:
Duck, cover and scream bloody murder.





Okay, it's more of a novella, really.

 

[T'Baio]

5) First to Worst: Rating America's Presidents

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/16/presidential.survey/index.html#cnnSTCOther1

 

[Miss Chicken]

I would like someone to write a novel "After Ragnarok: The New Mythology" about what happens to those Norse Gods that were destined to survive Ragnarok.

 

[trekkiedane]

10) Greatest Warplanes That Never Were- speculative nonfiction

That's called pretty much any book written about the Avro Arrow.

Or on the Fokker G-1

I was thinking about nuclear propulsion when I read that title.

I would like someone to write a novel "After Ragnarok: The New Mythology" about what happens to those Norse Gods that were destined to survive Ragnarok.

Sounds like something Douglas Adams should have written.

I've had a few hours to think about this and think I'd like to see a book like this one:

"The best in-flight movies by Alan Smithee"

 

[Dayton3]

Some of the planes I considered were the

TSR-2

Arrow

B-70 Valkryie

and that Soviet knockoff of the B-70 (actually a smaller version).