I'd like to try to at least finish the Worlds of DS9 books but then finally read Homecoming and Further Shore. Have to find out what happened to Voyager after they got home.
What Do You Plan To Read in 2018?
- Thread starter JD
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Finishing Vulcan soul trilogy
then re reading The never ending sacrifice
Then starting the preDestiny TNG novels (apart from Death in Winter and Articles of the Fed)
leading up to the Destiny novels
then The Typhon Pact series
The fall Series
Section 31 Control
I have the first Titan story to read as well
And I hope there is a new Rise of the Federation story for 2018, if so then it becomes before all of the above!
This will keep me busy till 2020!
then re reading The never ending sacrifice
Then starting the preDestiny TNG novels (apart from Death in Winter and Articles of the Fed)
leading up to the Destiny novels
then The Typhon Pact series
The fall Series
Section 31 Control
I have the first Titan story to read as well
And I hope there is a new Rise of the Federation story for 2018, if so then it becomes before all of the above!
This will keep me busy till 2020!
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Wow JD, that is quite a list you are going to read for 2018 - don't get a burnout!. I hope you will enjoy Neuromancer by William Gibson, that book has been long overdue for a movie adaptation. However, I am not certain I approve of all those movie novelizations. After all, you have already seen those movies. Try to broaden your horizon with the following list if you have not read them already.
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
- Dune by Frank Herbert (getting an adaptation by none other than Denis Villeneuve).
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
- The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F Hamilton.
- Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.
I’m sure that JD’s reading choices do not need defending but I will add my opinion.
Novelisations can provide greater backgrounds and backstory, scenes that were in the script but not filmed and scenes that were shot but didn’t make the final cut.
Novelisations have their place for some people.
Bite your tongue!
Seriously, in my younger days, I read plenty of movie novelizations--and I devoured the likes of Wells, Stapledon, Leiber, Sturgeon, Matheson, etc. This isn't a required reading list. Sometimes you want to read something complex and challenging; sometimes you want to read a good novelization.
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Bite your tongue!
Seriously, in my younger days, I read plenty of movie novelizations--and I devoured the likes of Wells, Stapledon, Leiber, Sturgeon, Matheson, etc. This isn't a required reading list. Sometimes you want to read something complex and challening; sometimes you want to read a good novelization.
And when I was younger there were no such things as VHS or DVD or movie channels or streaming services.
Novelisations were the only permanent version of a movie that you could get.
Mind you, I'm slightly biased since I wrote a good chunk of the novelizations on JD's list, but it's a funny thing: ever since the dawn of home video, people have been predicting the demise of movie novelizations. But we're still writing them and people are still reading them, even putting them on the bestseller lists occasionally.
Go figure.
Go figure.
And when Target started publishing the Doctor Who novelisations in the 1970s we had only three channels; stories were shown once, maybe twice, before the tapes were wiped because the tapes were deemed more valuable than the content.
Therefore, if you wanted to relive a past story or experience it for the first time, you only had the novelisations.
Therefore, if you wanted to relive a past story or experience it for the first time, you only had the novelisations.
Yep. That was certainly part of the appeal in the past, but apparently it wasn't the only reason people read novelizations since they're still selling and folks like JD still want to read them, thank goodness.
I guess there are still people who want to read their favorite movies. And who appreciate "bonus" material like scenes that didn't make the final cut of the movie.
Trivia: Movie novelizations date back to the silent era so they've been around for about a hundred years now,. As I understand it, they were originally serialized in magazines and newspapers before being compiled into books. Chances are, they'll outlive us all.
I guess there are still people who want to read their favorite movies. And who appreciate "bonus" material like scenes that didn't make the final cut of the movie.
Trivia: Movie novelizations date back to the silent era so they've been around for about a hundred years now,. As I understand it, they were originally serialized in magazines and newspapers before being compiled into books. Chances are, they'll outlive us all.
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I plan to finish reading the Star Wars Aftermath trilogy. I'm half way through the second book now. Then i'll probably read the Star Trek Discovery novels and also Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds and maybe catch up on the rest of big pile of Trek books I have probably starting with the Enterprise ones.
Last year I went on a pretty crazy reading binge and averaged 100 pages a day for 2017. It was pretty awesome, I caught up on a lot of Trek I had fallen behind on. There is still so much. I'm past the Destiny Trilogy, and looking forward to reading any of the late 2381 books.....then EVERYTHING after that. I'm so far behind that I may never catch up.....but....1 page at a time.
Or how about cases like “Star Trek Generations” where there are 2 very similar but different novelizations out there—-and I’m not talking an adult version and a kids version!
With Generations you still had the same author; they just revised the book for the paperback edition to bring it more in line with the final cut of the movie.
Believe it or not, there have been more extreme cases where you've gotten two different novelizations of the same movie by two different authors and publishers. (Usually, an American novelization and a British edition, produced by different people for different markets.)
Believe it or not, there have been more extreme cases where you've gotten two different novelizations of the same movie by two different authors and publishers. (Usually, an American novelization and a British edition, produced by different people for different markets.)
After I have reread my Star Trek novels I am going tot reread my Star wars and stephen king novels.
And I am looking for new series
And I am looking for new series
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