free books! I has some!

[eliyes]

The great thing about frequently spending money at, basically, a mom'n'pop book store is that sometimes, on your birthday (or the day after) they give you stuff for free.

Today I brought home three Star Trek novels that I didn't have to pay for! N'awwww, I feel so loved. I guess blowing $90+ in a day really endears you to a small business owner. X3

BTW, two of those novels? DEEP SPACE NINE. I blame you, ed! I blame you. (And also I love the writer.)

Comments

[edward-hyde.livejournal.com]

Ha! :D I should finish my own Trek novels, I still have half a box left unread from several years ago. All TOS, but pretty good. Mostly.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I also bought a TOS book. It took me a long time to get into reading those, and some of them are FREAKING AWESOME. I discovered I really liked the book by L.A. Graf (which is actually a group of writers) because of how they always put in the Sulu-Chekov-Uhura friendship, and food, and I have made an actual checklist of Chekov whump. L.A. Graf wrote both DS9 books I picked up; I'm looking forward to seeing what they do to with Worf. *ebil glee*

[edward-hyde.livejournal.com]

Chekov whump? I think I have that book. XD Read it during a TOS kick back in middle school and it remained memorable due to a scene involving fixing a broken arm in a hilariously sleazy sex hotel; picked up a copy years later, though I don't think I ever got around to re-reading it.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Traitor Winds! I was rereading that just today. You might also want to check out Ice Trap, Death Count and Firestorm. All by L.A. Graf, all have Sulu-Chekov-Uhura friendship, and random McCoy being awesome and cantankerous moments. Like in Traitor Winds, there is injured!Chekov versus the elements in each one, except that it's not always a hurricane. I am sure you can guess which one has the volcano.

[edward-hyde.livejournal.com]

loool I love how many Trek novels turned out to totally be published fanfiction, and I mean in the sense of being as fannish as possible rather than simply books about a tv show that someone else was paid to write. (I never did finish reading the two-part book series that I'm pretty sure is directly responsible for Paramount or whoever making the official policy of "no more slash fanfics, guys, seriously" either. I should find them, they were kinda bad but in a practically-parody way.)

Traitor Winds, yes that's totally the one! It did have a pretty glorious McCoy as I recall. I kinda love finding out that the book series is basically someone's livejournal archive of woobie!Chekov fics or something. Oh fandom. You are so strangely endearing.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I consider the ones that aren't adaptations of episodes or movies to be sanctioned and paid-for fanfic, frankly. Especially after I found out how many authors were recruited from 'zines. I also had to LOL at Peter David, in the forward to Q-Squared said that some people call his more ambitious Trek novels "fannish", and points out that he is a fan. Frankly, if he wants Picard fencing with a holo-version of Sulu, I am A-OK with that! And if he wants to explain some of the weirder shit in TOS with "a Q did it", well, at least he backed it up for the length of that one book.

As for that slashy two-parter, I think you might mean The Price of the Phoenix and The Fate of the Phoenix? I've heard they're really horrible, so I haven't even tried to read them, even though I keep seeing them at the book store.

Not that that really stopped the slash subtext in Trek novels.

L.A. Graf writes good McCoy. Occasionally traumatized woobie McCoy dealing with a) phobias and b) ripped!shirt Kirk, but since McCoy seems to be the one ripping Kirk's shirt in the how half the time anyway -- and no that's not a McCoy/Kirk comment, I am talking about instances of McCoy ripping Kirk's shirt, usually at the shoulder, to inject him with crap -- I don't think he was terribly bothered... I enjoy the ongoing saga of Chekov's occasionally successful attempts to escape Sickbay. X3 The thing is, Graf books have Chekov whumping, but he's usually not woobie... exactly. Sometimes emotionally woobie. Usually fairly stoic and put-upon; the reader sort of woobies for him. I like his security minions. :3