What Do You Plan to Read in 2011?

[bfollowell]

I'm currently reading Twist of Faith, the DS9 relaunch omnibus. I'm about 80% through Avatar , Book One. I'll continue on through the next three books and the novella in this volume and then on through the rest of the DS9 relaunch. If I get through the entire DS9 relaunch, doubtful, but possible, I'll start the Voyager/TNG relaunches. I'm hoping to be up to Destiny/Typhon Pact timeframe by the end of 2012. Then it'll just be playing catchup with whatever comes out in 2011 & 2012, assuming that whole 2012 end of the world scenario doesn't pan out.

Oh , I almost forgot Vanguard. I'll probably take a break from my relaunch catchup and read the new Vanguard titles as they come out.

Happy reading everyone, TrekLit or otherwise.

- Byron

 

[JD]

I remembered some of the other stuff I hope to get read this coming year.
I've started getting into superhero (Marvel and DC) comics, so I hope to work through as many of the comics availble for my PSP as I can, and I have at least two novels, The Last Days of Krypton, and Batman/Superman: Enemies and Allies both by Kevin J. Anderson. I also hope to check out some of the Trek authors Marvel novels.
Then I also have at least the first books in Anthony E. Zuicker's Level 26 and Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogans the Strain series. And I want to read Micheal Crichton's Pirate Latitudes.

 

[ronny]

Just like last year I'll be reading the new ST books when they come out. I don't know what back log of ST books I'll read. It probably won't be a lot even though I've got a ton of older books unread numbered books to go.

Also like last year I'll be reading two Maigrets a month until I finish which will be sometime late this year.

Things on my short list:

Fuzzy Sapiens and Fuzzies and Other People by H. Beam Piper in preparation for Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi, which I'm also reading when it comes out. Yeah, I know it's a reboot and I don't need to read the originals but I'm just broken that way.

The Androids Dream by Scalzi - My last unread Scalzi novel

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

REAMDE by Neal Stephenson - assuming it comes out in 2011

Perdido Street Station and King Rat by China Mieville

Some Montalbano novels by Andrea Camilleri

Anvil of the World by Kage Baker - My first non-company story by her I'll be reading.

Dreadnought and Clementine by Cherie Priest

Some Langdon St. Ives books and stories by James Blaylock

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

Uh, I guess that's a longish short list but it will get me started this year.

 

[nickyboy]

Non-Trek
6x Hunter s. Thompson books
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Bret 'Hitman' Hart's Autobiography
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Team of Rivals
Fatherland

Is that Fatherland by Robert Harris? That's the book that made me interested in him -- I've since enjoyed his Roman novels.

Yep, it is the Robert Harris book, I have read Enigma which I thought was pretty good

 

[JD]

After seeing The Wind Up Girl on so many people's lists, I looked it up on Amazon, and now it's on my list too.

 

[Johnhead99]

My list is quite long, but Children of the Storm is the one I am most anxious for.

 

[Daddy Todd]

Things on my short list:

Fuzzy Sapiens and Fuzzies and Other People by H. Beam Piper in preparation for Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi...

I read Piper's Fuzzy trilogy in November. Very entertaining!

I'm currently reading William Tuning's Fuzzy Bones, and planning to follow up with Ardath Mayhar's Golden Dream. Both were written before the manuscript for Fuzzies and Other People was rediscovered, and can be seen as an alternate universe continuation of the series, proceeding on from Fuzzy Sapiens.

Piper's stuff holds up surprisingly well, and Tuning's book is shaping up pretty well, too (I'm about 10 chapters into it.)

 

[Stevil2001]

My to-read list has some 299 books on it these days! It's a complicated beast, but the following are already on it.

My "general" short term list, stuff I want to read in the immediate future:
- Masked edited by Lou Anders
- Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction edited by Jetse de Vries
- Sapphire and Steel by P. J. Hammond
- Fade In: From Idea to Final Draft: The Writing of Star Trek: Insurrection by Michael Piller
- A Knot in the Grain by Robin McKinley
- 80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Karen Joy Fowler & Debbie Notkin

My tie-in, comic book, or other things I'd prefer to read close to when they come out list ("close" being relative):
- All-Star Superman, volume 2 by Grant Morrison
- Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware: A Pals in Peril Tale by M. T. Anderson
- Star Trek: Spock: Reflections by Scott & David Tipton
- Star Trek: Nero by Mike Johnson & Tim Jones with Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman
- Dark Reign: Young Avengers by Paul Cornell
- Doctor Who: The King’s Dragon by Una McCormack
- Star Wars: Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber
- Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga: The Deluxe Edition by Paul Levitz
- Triumph of a Time Lord: Regenerating Doctor Who in the Twenty-first Century by Matt Hills
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Deadly Hands of Shon-Ju by Jeremy Barlow
- Utopia: X-Men/Avengers by Matt Fraction with Craig Kyle & Chris Yost, Mike Carey, Kieron Gillen, Paul Cornell, James Asmus, Shane McCarthy, Marc Bernardin & Adam Freeman, Rob Williams, Jason Aaron, and Simon Spurrier

And then here's the first few items on my "long-term" list, stuff that's not time-dependent, so I just get to it when I get to it. Right now I'm in the middle of stuff I bought/got in late 2007!
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman by Walter M. Miller, Jr. with Terry Bisson
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
- Wessex Tales: That Is to Say, The Three Strangers, A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four, The Melancholy Hussar, The Withered Arm, Fellow-townsmen, Interlopers at the Knap, The Distracted Preacher by Thomas Hardy
- About Time 4: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who: 1975-1979 / Seasons 12 to 17 by Lawrence Miles & Tat Wood
- Starslip Crisis, Volume 1 by Kristofer Straub
- Psychohistorical Crisis by Donald Kingsbury
- The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Words by Anu Garg
- The Minervan Experiment by James P. Hogan

And God knows what books I've yet to pick up, or what books I have to read for my seminars.

 

[Stephen!]

Voyager: Children of the Storm
Enterprise: In Shariel's Jaws

Most likely those two. I'm undecided on some of the others.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I plan on catching up with my old numbered Trek novels, the new ones this year (except the YA and NF), reading some more of the crime novels I have and borrowing the the others in their respective series from the library. I'd like to revisit Anne McCaffrey's Pern series, just the more recent ones, and perhaps start Cussler's Dirk Pitt series from the beginning and then expand into his other series. I have a huge amount I want to read and nowhere near enough time to read everything since I plan on doing a lot of writing this year.

 

[Johnhead99]

Trek:

Everything coming out this year
Everything Marco edited that I haven't read yet (the tail end of the DS9 Relaunch, String Theory, Crucible, the TNG and VOY anthologies)
Possibly Stargazer, Rihannsu & Duane books, Errand Of..., Vulcan's Noun, Shatnerverse. We'll see.

Non-Trek:

Everything by Neal Stephenson
The Miles Vorkosigan series
The rest of the Mistborn trilogy (I've only read the first)
Iain M. Bank's Culture series
About a dozen random other novels; I'm sure there'll be plenty that strike my fancy

Oh god. String Theory. What a mess... Fusion was the best of the bunch, but even that novel was tolerable at best.

 

[Defcon]

I thought I already had posted in here, than I realized it was in the normal What are you reading thread. So here it goes again. Not sure if I will really read all of it in 2011, but I will give it a try.


Books I already have, but haven't read yet:

Tie-in:

Star Trek:
The Children of Kings by David Stern
Academy: Collision Course by William Shatner
Strange New Worlds 10 by various
Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire by Michael A. Martin (currently reading)
Starfleet Academy: The Delta Anomaly by Rick Barba
Starfleet Academy: The Edge by Rudy Josephs
Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire by David R. George III
Myriad Universes: Shattered Light by David R. George III / Steve Mollmann & Michael Schuster / Scott Pearson

Marvel Universe:
Spider-Man: Requiem by Jeff Mariotte
Fantastic Four: What Lies Between by Peter David
Wolverine: Road of Bones by David Mack

DC Universe:
Infinite Crisis by Greg Cox

Monk
Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants by Lee Goldberg

Doctor Who:
Only Human by Gareth Roberts
Winner Takes All by Jacqueline Rayner
The Stealers of Dreams by Mike Tucker
The Deviant Strain by Justin Richards

Original:

The Calling by David Mack
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
New Blood by various (including Terri Osborne)
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
Klonk! by Terry Pratchett (German translation of Thud!)
Ab die Post by Terry Pratchett (German translation of Going Postal)
The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde

Books I have on preorder:

Tie-in:

Star Trek:
Thypon Pact: Paths of Disharmony by Dayton Ward
TNG: Indistinguishable from Magic by David A. McIntee
DTI: Watching the Clock by Christopher L. Bennett
New Frontier: Blind Man's Bluff by Peter David
TOS: A Choice of Catastrophes by Michael Schuster & Steve Mollmann
Starfleet Academy: The Gemini Agent by Rudy Josephs
Starfleet Academy #4 by Rick Barba
Starfleet Academy #5 by ???
Vanguard: Declassified by David Mack/ Dayton Ward/ Kevin Dilmore/ Marco Palmieri
TOS: Cast no Shadow by James Swallow


Doctor Who:
The Way Through the Woods by Una McCormack
Hunter's Moon by Paul Finch
Dead of Winter by James Goss
Touched by an Angel by Jonathan Morris
Borrowed Time by Naomi Alderman
Paradox Lost by George Mann
The Coming of the Terraphiles by Michael Moorcock (paperback reprint)

Warehouse 13
A Touch of Fever by Greg Cox

Eureka:
Road Less Traveled by Aaron Rosenberg (as Cris Ramsay)

Supernatural:
One Year Gone by Rebecca Dessertine
Coyote's Kiss by Christa Faust

Dungeons and Dragons
Dark Sun: The Abyssal Plague: Under the Crimson Sun by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Original:
One of our Thursday's is missing by Jasper Fforde
Die Nacht der lebenden Trekkies by Kevin David Anderson & Sam Stall (German translation of Night of the Living Trekkies)

Books I will preorder once they're listed on Amazon.de:

Unicorn Precinct by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Stargate Atlantis: Portals of Discovery by Terri Osborne (if it comes out in 2011)
Enterprise - The Romulan War: In Shariel's Jaws by Michael A. Martin
Vanguard: The Taurus Key: A Crystalline Fairy Tale, Founded Upon The Mysteries of the Shedai and the Oppression of Their Servants. It Was Written for Kollotuul, But Others Should Read It (working title ) by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore
Mirror Universe: Rise Like Lions by David Mack (although I doubt I'll even get this in 2011)

 

[terpette]

Short answer: Everything I didn't get around to reading in 2010.

I have a giant pile of Trek books next to my bookcase. I also follow about a dozen mystery series, I like to get old DragonLance books at the used bookstore, and I recently started reading the Dresden Files series.

Aaahhh... books. Legal brain crack.

Karen

 

[Cicero]

Star Trek:
Definite

• Declassified
• (Vanguard 7)

Possible

• Cast No Shadow
• Children of the Storm
• Indistinguishable From Magic
• Rise Like Lions
  

Non-Star Trek Fiction:

• A Gentleman Player by Robert Neilson Stephens
• A Soldier of Valley Forge by Robert Neilson Stephens and G.E. Theodore Roberts
• An Enemy To the King by Robert Neilson Stephens
• The Bright Face of Danger by Robert Neilson Stephens
• Captain Ravenshaw by Robert Neilson Stephens
• Clementina's Highwayman by Robert Neilson Stephens and George Hembert Westley
• The Continental Dragoon by Robert Neilson Stephens
• The Disintegration Machine by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Flight of Georgiana by Robert Neilson Stephens
• The Land of Mist by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Murder Is Easy by Agatha Christie
• The Mystery of Murray Davenport by Robert Neilson Stephens
• Philip Winwood by Robert Neilson Stephens
• The Road To Paris by Robert Neilson Stephens
• Tales From Bohemia by Robert Neilson Stephens
• The World of Null-A by A.E. Van Vogt
• When the World Screamed by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Word of A Gentleman by Robert Neilson Stephens and Herman Nickerson

Non-Fiction:

• A Life of Farragut by A.T. Mahan
• A Naval History of the American Revolution by Gardner Weld Allen
• Armaments and Arbitration by A.T. Mahan
• The Army of the Potomac by Prince Francois de Joinville
• Back To Hampton Roads by Franklin Matthews
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
• Butler's Book by Benjamin F. Butler
• Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles In the Rise To Western Power by Victor Hansen
• Causes of the Civil War by French Chadwick
• Catiline's War by Sallust
• The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
• The Congo by Henry M. Stanley
• England on the Sea by W. H. Davenport Adams
• The Evolution of Physics by Leopold Infeld and Albert Einstein
• The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme by John Keegan
• Fifteen Decisive Battles of the Western World: From Marathon to Waterloo by Edward Creasy
• The Grand Fleet 1914-1916 by John Jellicoe
• Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill
• Heroic Deeds of American Sailors by Albert Franklin Blaisdell and Francis Kingsley Ball
• The Histories by Polybius
• The History of Rome by Livy
• History of the United States of America by George Bancroft
• History of the Polk Administration by Lucien B. Chase
• The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire by A.T. Mahan
• The Interest of America In Sea Power by A.T. Mahan
• The Jugurthine War by Sallust
• Khrushchev Remembers by Nikita Khrushchev
• Lessons of the War With Spain by A.T. Mahan
• Life and Character of Stephen Decatur by S. Putnam Waldo
• The Life and Services of Commodore William Bainbridge by Thomas Harris
• The Life and Services of Major General John Thomas by Charles Coffin
• The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart by George Champlin Mason
• The Life of Admiral Mahan by Charles Carlisle Taylor
• The Life of Commodore Thomas Macdonough, U.S. Navy by Rodney Macdonough
• The Life of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry by Alex Slidell MacKenzie
• The Life of Nelson by A.T. Mahan
• The Life of William Alexander by William Alexander Duer
• The Lives of Eminent Philadelphians by Henry Simpson
• The Magnetic Universe: The Elusive Traces of an Invisible Force by J.B. Zirker
• The Monitor and the Navy Under Steam by Frank Marion Bennett
• Naval Administration and Warfare by A.T. Mahan
• The Naval History of the United States by Willis J. Abbot
• Naval Lessons of the Great War by Tracy Barrett Kittredge
• The Navy of the American Revolution by Charles Oscar Paullin
• Notes for a Memoir: On Isaac Asimov, Life, And Writing by Janet Asimov
• Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
• The Price of Freedom by Calvin Coolidge
• The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
• Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
• The Tyrannosaurus Prescription: And 100 Other Essays by Isaac and Janet Asimov
• The Victory At Sea by William S. Sims
• With the Battle Fleet by Franklin Matthews
• With the American Fleet From the Atlantic To the Pacific by Robert Dorsey Jones
• Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris

 

[Rosalind]

^ that is a big list of non-fiction books!

 

[Lonemagpie]

• The Disintegration Machine by Arthur Conan Doyle
• When the World Screamed by Arthur Conan Doyle

The whats?

I've never heard of those two... Will have to look them up.

 

[ryan123450]

Oh god. String Theory. What a mess... Fusion was the best of the bunch, but even that novel was tolerable at best.

Hey, I liked String Theory. It was fun and explained so many of the weird "what the heck" moments of Voyager's later years.

 

[Johnhead99]

Oh god. String Theory. What a mess... Fusion was the best of the bunch, but even that novel was tolerable at best.

Hey, I liked String Theory. It was fun and explained so many of the weird "what the heck" moments of Voyager's later years.

You might be one of the few; you and a few Kes fans.

 

[Keptin J D Reed]

Obviously I'll be reading every star trek book released this year

Non star trek wise I have started the Voyagers trilogy by Ben Bova which were written in the 80s and intend to work through them. So far so very very good. Then I'll read the follow up called The Return which was published in 09 and ties in with his Grand Tour books. If you've not read them DO. They are awesome. And then I'll read his next grand tour book which comes out next month.

The grand tour books delve into how he thinks the exploration of our solar system will play out over the next 100 years and the problems we will encounter out there and back on earth. Things like solar satellites, bases on the moon, mining the asteroids, exploring Mars and all the other planets. Most of his ideas are quite plausible. I highly recommend giving them a go.

 

[Defcon]

There have been a few new additions to my "to read in 2011" pile:

Voyager: Children of the Storm by Kirsten Beyer (just realized today that I hadn't preordered this one yet )
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds VI by various
CSI: Shock Treatment by Greg Cox
Fable: The Balverine Order by Peter David