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Today in the mail I received four Star Trek TNG audiobooks on cassette and a walkman. :D

The books are Q-in-Law (read by Majel Barrett and John de Lancie!!! *fangirl scream&flail*), I, Q (read by John de Lancie and Peter David *fangirl flapping*), Gulliver's Fugitives (read by Jonathan Frakes *huge grin*), and Reunion (read by Gates McFadden *double thumbs up*).

I just need to get some batteries for the walkman. I wonder if I'll still be able to fuck up nearby cell phone reception by hitting the fast-forward button? >:}

Thank you, Kalloway~~~~~~

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Let's Misbehave - Elvis Costello

I was expecting Simon Illyan to look a bit like Illya Kuryakin, and he does.

I was taken by surprise when Duv Galeni looked like Kerr Avon and Elena Bothari-Jesek looked like Servalan. X3 LAughing like a loon at my desk is a go!

(Elli Quinn also looks familiar but I can't put my finger on it...)

Current Mood: amused

SO BETWEEN SHADOWRUN 2050 AND CAPTAIN VORPATRIL'S ALLIANCE I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT BOOKS THIS YEAR.

Also what's this I hear about a second Captain America movie in 2014? :D

~~IVAN'S GETTING HIS OWN BOOK AND I GET TO READ ABOUT THE CAP'N CHAOS?! WOOOOO!!!!~~

So I just finished reading The Janus Gate trilogy by L.A. Graf, and it has some of the most wildly inaccurate back cover blurbs I have ever seen on a Star Trek novel, and that's REALLY SAYING SOMETHING.

So I'm gonna talk about it! (Under the cuts, this post is huge.)

( Book 1: Present Tense )

It was a helluva cliff-hanger ending, I actually went DUN DUN DUNNNN so loud I hurt my throat. Moving on --

( Boot 2: Future Imperfect )

There's one weirdly, probably unintentionally flirty line from young!Sulu in this book that may cause some readers to activate their slashgoggles. Also, Spock's reaction to the kid offering to shake hands is great.

( Book 3: Past Prologue )

So, despite all this bitching, it's just the blurbs I'm irritated with: the books are really good. Being L.A. Graf books, they are especially good if you like Kirk being awesome and Sulu, Uhura and Chekov being not only individually awesome, but also the greatest of friends.

These books are also great if you like seeing more of canonical minor or background characters among the crew, including ones that were maybe spotlighted in an episode. I think that all the people we saw were canonical, but Memory Alpha's search function is apparently fuxxored, so I can't confirm that at this time.

TL;DR I RECOMMEND THIS TRILOGY BUT IGNORE THE JACKET BLURBS.

So, a little over a month ago, I ordered some books via ALibris from a used book seller in the states. The books themselves were dirt cheap -- $1.11 a pop -- but the shipping brought that up to $40~ despite me getting a combined shipping discount.

They sent them all seperately.

( This was a mistake. )

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Starbase security: *arresting Chekov*
Kirk: Handcuffs? Is that really necessary? The man has one arm in a cast!
nervous guard: Sir, we heard he killed an Orion in unarmed combat.
Sulu: Yes, but his arm was already broken then.
Uhura: That's really not helpful, Sulu.
Chekov: *weary sigh*

Bought a Commander Rogers action figure, put the Luke and Danny figure set on hold in my file, also bought the Callahan book I'd accidentally skipped (damn wikipedia entry listed them in the wrong order), ate a piece of chocolate cake, and watched Connie and Carla which was better than I expected and heartwarming and fun and shiny.

Authors Say Agents Try to “Straighten” Gay Characters in YA -- includes an account of an agent telling authors to make straight or entirely remove a viewpoint character who is gay. Note that this is an agent, not a publisher. There's a list of What You Can Do, for publishers, agents, writers, readers and reviewers. I would like to see more gay and/or non-white and/or other "minority" leads and major characters in all types of fantasy and science fiction, and fiction in general.

I am a white person who grew up in a predominantly white community, reading sci-fi and fantasy, and romances, and mysteries, and none of the things I read except comic books (which have their own problems) really reflected a diverse world.

(I think Claudia in the babysitters club was meant to be Japanese? But it wasn't really dealt with, that I recall -- I'm pretty sure I remember reading at least one book where she didn't know how to use chopsticks, for example; her cultural heritage was not present.)

Interesting update! So, a company of literary agent-type stuff (I'm not sure what to call them -- help, anyone?) read the above article and reacted like most of us, i.e. "I can't believe someone did that to them! That's terrible, and they are absolutely right about the need for more diversity in YA fiction."

And then they found out the authors meant were talking about them.

Here is their response. To summarise: Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith are misrepresenting the conversations that happened betweeen them and this agent (the company gives their side of the story), which is exploitive of the issue (and the agent!) -- however, the issue of greater diversity and more glbt characters in YA fiction is important and we should discuss it and do stuff about it (so long as our discussion is based on honesty).

Sorting through boxes. So many comics, so many books...

I have a cardboard box with "FREE BOOKS!" written on the flaps that's getting dropped on a high-traffic footpath up the street later this morning, which is mostly old romance novels, old Canadiana stuff, and a couple Chicken Soup for the Soul books.

Buuuuut I also have scads of Nancy Drew and Baby-sitters' Club and Forgotten Realms novels. The FR books (and some other misc. SF), I'll call some book stores here in town to see if they want. (I'm keeping the handful I actually enjoyed.) The Nancy Drew books are staying with me.

But the Baby-sitters' Club books are going away. I'll probably end up taking them to a used book store here, unless someone on my f-list would be interested in them. You pay shipping, and you can have them for no additional cost! Here's what I've got:

regular Baby-sitters' Club novels
#10 Logan Likes Mary Anne!
#17 Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery
#23 Dawn on the Coast
#53 Kristy for President
#54 Mallory and the Dream Horse
#55 Jessi's Gold Medal
#56 Keep Out, Claudia!
#60 Mary Anne's Makeover
#61 Jessi and the Awful Secret
#62 Kristy and the Worst Kid Ever

BSC Mystery
#1 Stacey and the Missing Ring

BSC Super Special
#2 Baby-sitters' Summer Vacation
#9 Starring the Baby-sitters' Club!

And I also have The Fabulous Five #11: Hit And Run, by Betsy Haynes. Girl gang/gaggle not focusing on Baby-sitting, this book spotlighting one girl's struggling with her boyfriend being in a coma, for which she blames herself, but she grows as a person, power of love, shmoopy teddy bears, etc.

If you want any of these, leave a comment, first come first serve, for a limited time only! (Addresses will be handled seperately, don't leave them in the comments!)

Good thing: Sue is at a local museum and me and the roomie both have the day off!

Bad thing: Turns out the museum is closed on Mondays.

Good thing: However, the Chapters book store across the harbour has The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs in stock, so we make an outing! They also have a bunch of nifty stuff, an art book the roomie wanted, and several novels I've been trying to track down.

Arguably bad thing: Even using the $30 left on the gift card I got for X-mas, I still spent a little over $40 there.

Good thing: We eventually found the wily Toys'R'Us and not only do they stock Transformers toys again, they had them on sale!

Bad thing: ...So of course there was nothing left. Well. Nothing that wasn't for 4 year olds. (I did have fun making Hound's guns pop out, but we didn't buy anything.)

Good thing: The food court has a New York Fries now, and the mediterranean place makes awesome falafels.

Bad thing: I LOST MY BUS PASS. Somewhere. Maybe on the bus to the mall, maybe in the Chapters' ladies room, maybe walking to the mall from the Chapters, maybe in the Toys'R'Us, etc. No clue. Gonna have to buy tickets for the rest of the month.

Good thing: I no longer keep my bank card in with my bus pass, so the pass is all I lost. Phew!

Books purchased by yours truly: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (since I have never read it and it was on sale -- I've been on a '20s kick lately), Mike Shepherd's Kris Longknife: Redoubtable (I only find this series sporadically, but I've reread the ones I can find several times, so yay for getting another one), and most of Tanya Huff's "Confederation" series: A Confederation of Valor, which is an omnibus of the first two books, Valor's Choice and The Better Part of Valor; The Heart of Valor, which is the third book and the one that initially hooked me when I borrowed it from a coworker; and the fifth book, The Truth of Valor, now out in hardback. (I already own the 4th book, Valor's Trial. Actually, I own the 2nd book, too, but I can never find the 1st book except as an omnibus.) Space Marines!

Also, I saw Crossover there in paperback, instead of TPB (which is how I got it). I really recommend this book and this author, especially to any of you who want your sci-fi with intense action, moral debates, strong female characters, and people of colour. (Although not Cassandra.)

Current Music: Gimme Gimme - Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie for Broadway

So here's that list:

Chekov vs. Man (he fights someone, or several someones, at least twice, and is hurt during at least one of these) CHECK!
Chekov vs. Nature (he struggles, usually alone, against the dangers of nature -- which can include the vacuum of space) CHECK!
Chekov vs. Himself (he struggles with his own feelings: inadequacy, grief, anger, fear, whatever) CHECK!
Chekov vs. McCoy (he attempts to escape from the doctor or Sickbay -- sometimes he even succeeds!) Only referenced as past event.
Sulu the Awesome Pilot CHECK!
Cheerful Bickering About Food CHECK!
and probably also some McCoy Is Cranky Love, which usually gets in there whether he's a major character in the plot or not. CHECK!

b(^o^)d

Today we went to a comic shop, a used bookstore, and a new bookstore.

At the comic shop, I bought nothing. I did tell them what I thought of their new layout (it sucks in terms of traffic flow)... just as the music in the shop stopped playing. Basically everyone heard me. *sigh*

Skipping ahead, at the new bookstore (by which I mean, the store that sells new books) I was hoping to get Cryoburn but they didn't have it. Apparently only two stores in the area have it, and they are both very far away. *shakes fist* It's the new Vorkosigan book, and I really want to read it, so I guess I'll order it from Amazon.ca.

At the used bookstore, I hit the jackpot. >3 This is a store with floor-to-ceiling books, on two levels. The only problem with that is that sometimes you need a ladder to see the shelves, and I... have an issue with ladders. But today, I climbed that ladder! Yes! And then I moved it further along and climbed it again! At one point I had one arm stuck through the stairwell to the second level so that I wouldn't lean over too far and fall. (The scifi/fantasy section is under the stairwell.) Even over and above the arguable merit of confronting one of my fears, it was well worth it for what I found. :3

( BOOKS! 8D )

And then I had a yummy sandwich from the deli. :9

¹ "They" is used literally here; "L.A. Graf" is actually multiple writers. Usually Julia Ecklar and Karen Rose Cercone, and once also including Melissa Crandall.

Current Mood: triumphant
Current Music: Escaflowne: The Movie OST

ST: DS9 #16, Invasion! #3

Page 316, last paragraph.

;o;

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.)

YAY YAY MY BOOKS ARE HERE YAY!!!

Barrayar and Brothers in Arms, finally, FINALLY I have the complete series!

(Until November, when the new book comes out.)

eta: I read them and I love them and I am rereading them immediately! :D :D 8DDDD

Current Mood: giddy

The mutiny on the Bounty happened before the Battle of Trafalgar.

No love,

Me

Okay, today I caved and bought the ST:TNG Starfleet Academy books about Worf (and K'Ehleyr! and Mark!) and since there was one of the Geordi books and two of the Data ones there as well, and since I haven't read them, I also picked those up.

But I left the Picard ones there. XD

Check out these titles!
#1 Worf's First Adventure (gripping!)
#2 Line of Fire (chilling!)
#3 Survival (so romantic!)
#4 Capture the Flag (you fight those athletic bullies, Geordi!)
#6 Mystery of the Missing Crew (how Keene!)
#7 Secret of the Lizard People (BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHHH! *gasp* ahHAhahahahhahaha!)

I also bought some non-YA Trek novels:

Probe -- this is a sequel to STIV:TVH (aka The One With The Whales), and I've heard it's pretty good. eta: Although Chapter one, paragrap 3 starts with a sentence in which lurks a continuity gaff so glaring I literally threw the book away from me. But I took a few hours calming down time and skipped over that bit, and it's been fair since. I LOVE Sulu and Riley's insta-reunion, I'm frowny about how much space the Romulans are taking up.

The Lost Years -- this is the end of the 5-year mission and what happened next. I will probably hate it, but I admit, I'm curious. Especially since a book I love -- Traitor Winds -- is supposedly a follow-up to this.

First Frontier -- KIRK AND SPOCK VERSUS DINOSAURS!!! (If you believe the front cover, which you should never, ever do with Trek books.) I've resisted buying this for a long time, but, hell, no one can outlast a velociraptor forever. This is a "ohshit someone travelled back in time and destroyed humanity WE MUST FIX IT" story. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping it wasn't drugged-out McCoy again.

Crisis On Centaurus -- ...this is the one with Joanna McCoy in it. I anticipate that reading it will be like punching myself in the face, but, man, I have all this unresolved irritation about her. I might as well see if it's as warranted as I think it is. (I hear she hits on Kirk. eta: SHE DOES NOT. I WAS MISLEAD!) The one about how McCoy's wife left him for the diplomat her parents arranged for her to marry when she was a kid and he had to leave his baby girl to be raised by his sister was also there, but reading that would be like kicking myself in the box, and since I'm already punching myself in the face, it seemed like overkill. eta: Actually a decent read! A lot like an episode.

And the one TNG book of the novels-for-grown-ups -- Sins of Commission. I totally bought this just for Simon Tarses. I would have loved to have found Do Comets Dream? because it looks awesome in that cracky way Star Trek pulls off fairly well, but alas, it wasn't there.

Wish me luck! *adjusts spectacles* 83

Current Mood: acquisitive
Current Location: beyond Antares
Current Music: Supercats - Divine Strumpet

I've been rereading Lackey books of late. By the Sword and Magic's Promise, the whole of the Owls trilogy and the Storms trilogy -- yes, in that order, even though Owls is after Storms -- and now I'm into Black Gryphon, and will probably read White Gryphon afterwards, and continue pretending the third book doesn't exist. I'll probably hit the Oath books after that. I'm basically doing a round through because I realised how much I'd forgotten, and it's difficult to properly bitch when one can't recall the details.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy them, but there are things in the books and things about Lackey's writing which I feel the need to dissect to keep them from grating on my nerves so much.

I've "finished" the Star Trek Corps of Engineers. Those quotation marks are there because I haven't read through the final story, but I don't intend to, ever. My first attempt was during a lunch break at work, and suddenly there was monkey dissection and my stomach turned. Also, I really dislike Dr. Elizabeth Lense. A lot. I mean, Julian Bashir is also in the story, and I adore him, but he's getting horribly injured and having other bad things happen to him, and none of his support network are there because he's stuck in an alternate timeline with Lense, crashed on a planet full of people who will probably become the Borg. Who dissect (alien) monkeys! Yes, I got all that without reading it.

I much prefer the story with Abramowitz and the Prime Directive. Oh, and I kinda love Vinx. Not so much Stevens, oddly, even though he's the type of charcter I often go for, but he just doesn't have the kind of development to draw me in. Few of the male characters do, I notice. Hm.

And of course there's a lot of fanfic being posted just now as various holiday fic exchanges come to an end. I actually poked at Yuletide today; here are some of the stories I enjoyed( under the cut )

HOLY CRAP, I WANT THIS BOOK!!!

Current Mood: entertained
Current Music: Eat The Rich -- Aerosmith

Guess what I bought? :D

If your answer is "books", then you're catching on. ;3

In fact, today I bought 6 books, one of which is the reprint version of Killing Time! So now I can do a comparison read and identify all the slashy bits they took out. ;D

I also bought The Vulcan Academy Murders, which I had read previously. There's only two things about the book that sort of dissatisfy me: Kirk falling into an obvious (to the reader) trap, and Spock's characterization in general. But this book has a lot of warm fuzziness. Sarek/Amanda! Sorel/T'Zan! Daniel/T'Mir! Kirk and T'Pau have a quite interesting moment, as well; she's a very difficult character to handle, but I think the author succeeded. And, of course, this is the book where Vulcans As Inveterate Matchmakers is explicitly stated, with logical reasons for. XD When I find the passage, I'll quote it. I recommend this one for light reading with some detective work (on Kirk's part) and a whole lot of warm fuzzies. Don't be put off by the vaguely greasy cover art of Spock With Phaser Versus A Lizard-Jaguar -- that doesn't even happen in the book!

I also picked up The IDIC Epidemic, which takes place during 1^st five-year mission, and The Last Roundup, which takes place after The Undiscovered Country. Check out the middle paragraph of the blurb on the back:

Bored with retirement, and ill-suited to teaching at Starfleet Academy, Kirk jumps at the chance to help his young nephews colonize an uninhabited planet in a distant corner of the Alpha Quadrant. He even manages to persuade Scotty and Chekov to come along for the ride.

"He even manages to persuade Scotty and Chekov to come along for the ride." By the Great Bird of the Galaxy, I hope that conversations in there!!! XD

(I also picked up two non-Trek books: Martian Knightlife and The Golden Shield of IBF, about which I shall say no more until I've read them.)

To my great joy today, Star Trek was on a random channel, and to my further delight, it was the episode "A Piece of the Action". If the name doesn't ring any bells, it's the one with the gangsters. Or, as I like to call it, the episode where the Prime Directive is totally fucked, but they have a lot of fun. And also they didn't start it. XD Nothing like cleaning up somebody's messes! Oh, what a happy-making show it is, it is~

( Highlights! )
Bye now. ;3 ♥ \\//_

Current Music: That Great Big Way Out There - Joe Bethancourt

Title: Turbulence
Fandom: Star Trek TOS
Author's Note: Tag to the novel Home Is The Hunter by Dana Kramer-Rolls. SPOILERS FOR THE BOOK. The book has time travel; this fic features James T. Kirk's ancestor and his reaction to the death of his friend -- Pavel Andreievich Chekov. The dialogue in italics is from the novel.

( London, November 1942 )
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Want Sulu, Chekov, and Uhura friendship stories? This seems to be the author to go to for that. I read Ice Trap first, which was Chekov and Uhura povs with a side-order of bravelittetoaster!McCoy. Death Count is Sulu and Chekov povs, with a side order of besiegedbybureaucratsandOrions!Kirk. Sulu and Chekov and Uhura on shore leave together is endearing and hysterical. I just love how much they're friends. I checked out the lists for other L.A. Graf books (it's actually a writing team; L.A. Graf is an acronym and a pseudonym all at once! Let's All Get Rich And Famous. X3) and this seems to be a theme. So I'll be looking for more of their books. I think I especially want to get the Janus trilogy; accidental time travel fuck-up leads to creation of alternate timeline! Sulu shunted to a future not his own, where he hooks up with a grizzled freedom fighter Chekov! Kirk shunted into the horror of his own past, and Tarsus IV!

Speaking of Tarsus IV, the very first "also available now" ad at the back of Death Count is for Best Destiny, which I've had the opportunity to read and/or buy a few times now and keep passing over. It's all about Kirk's first journey into space, with his dad, when he was 16. The problem I have with this is that it was established that Kirk was visiting another planet when he was 13, when everything went tits up: Tarsus IV. There's an episode about it! Obviously the author of Best Destiny either doesn't know or doesn't care. Meanwhile, it's the splitting point for the very excellent Shatner/Reeves-Stevens collab Collision Course, which I love, and this prejudices me regarding the point.

Gonna go read Firestorm now. :3

I had a crap day; not enough sleep + getting on the wrong bus = teh suck, lads and lasses. Also terrible black crud dripped on my uniform shirt and now I am am following my boss's recommended "augh get the stain out" procedures. (eta: which do not appear to be working, and I got a mouthful of detergent for my troubles. DX)

So I'ma cheer myself up by using my new Riker icon and blabbing about ST:TOS novels. ;P

Re: this post, I did finish Ice Trap, and then I went out and bought meself a copy, since it's such an enjoyable read. Murder! Mayhem! Magnetism! Chekov & Uhura being awesome! McCoy the brave little toaster! Kirk's shirt slashed open in a knife fight! What's not to love?

I bought two more books by the same author, as well, because why not? Death Count and Firestorm. I'll let you know how those go.

I also bought Sarek, which, as you can probably guess by the title, is about Spock's dad. Now, I like Sarek, but strangely that's not why I bought the book. X3 No, I got it because Peter Kirk is in it, and -- wait, you don't know who that is? Jim's only surviving nephew. Adorable little redhaired creature. Anyway, I have been spoiled as to what all happens with him in this book, and am tickled by the idea of James T. having to cope with his nephew eloping with the sister of the Klingon that killed his son. Kirk's son, that is; Dr. David Marcus. No, not the guy JFlan played in Providence. David's in the movies, y'know, that blond mad scientist who attacked Kirk with a knife? Yeah, him.

It just strikes me as ironic.

I also read Memory Prime, which was a pretty good adventure (though not as good as Ice Trap). I liked how the Andorians were portrayed; I think

chaletian must be channeling them when she writes her village!verse Chekov. X3 Scotty got some face time with his lady love, which was cool. There was a part where a non-Star Fleet character meets (most of) the Enterprise bridge crew for the first time, and his impressions were interesting. Sulu's blinding smile! Chekov's outrage and willingness to drink vodka with total strangers! The terrifying spectre of what the Federation would be like with Kirk as president! *shudder*

However, my favourite bit of the book has got to be when Kirk needed to get a message to Spock, and make sure Spock knew it was from him and not a trick. HE SENT IT TO AMANDA FROM WINONA. ♥♥♥omg♥!!! asdfghjkl;! It was freaking adorable! Do they use The Secret Mom Code a lot, I wonder? ;D

What else, what else... Oh, yes. I tried to read The Entropy Effect, but it was taking way too long to murder Kirk, and when Sulu had sex with a woman the suspension of my disbelief just came crashing down like a drunk on stilettos. Much prefer the book where he reveals his greatest love was not a woman, but, in fact, chocolate -- and then gets an alien hooked on the stuff. X3

Hmm. I feel better!

Current Location: TAKRON-GALTOS
Current Music: Let's Talk About Spaceships -- Say Hi To Your Mom

Co-worker who'd been leaving Star Trek novels all over the office has been taking them home again en masse lately. Am now paranoid that I won't get to finish the one I had to leave there this morning, and damn it, Uhura and Chekov are adrift on an iceberg, Kirk just saved McCoy from drowning in a submarine, the planet's poles keep reversing and I wanna see how it ends.

Also this author clearly rocks the Bones-love. And I love Bones.

And Bones loves Kirk.

EXCERPT:

Kirk surprised his friend by leaning down and placing a firm hand on the bed on either side of McCoy, effectively trapping the doctor where he sat. "What's eating you?"

"Nothing's --"

"Bones." He spoke quietly, without annoyance, and drew McCoy's attention like steel filings to a magnet. Blue eyes met hazel ones of an intensity the doctor had never experienced with any other single human being. "I need you with me on this one. I need your way of looking at things to help me figure out what's happening on Nordstral. I can't do it by myself."

Staring into those eyes, McCoy found himself wondering just when he decided he would die for this man. He felt a flush of shame for pulling away, even momentarily, from the friendship and understanding he knew Kirk constantly offered. "I'm with you, Jim," he murmured, then nodded his head firmly. "I am."

pgs. 60-61 Ice Trap by L.A. Graf

...I did actually bring a Star Trek novel of my own with me. Actually, I brought two. The first one I read (everyone on planet Vulcan loses their shit and goes psycho; ditto for the crew of the Enterprise; terrible crimes perpetrated against rose bushes), but the second one... The second one was dedicated to the woman who pitched an episode where Joanna McCoy showed up and slept with Kirk. *flail* The episode was actually sorta made -- it's the one with the space hippies -- but changed so much that chickywriterface refused to have her actual name on it. Frankly, I'm glad someone had the sense to see how utterly distasteful that would have been!

Joanna McCoy has been causing me stress lately. (As has her comics-only sister, who is so much cooler. But comics-only.) This is why I need more McCoy fiction in my life!

Damn it, I'm going to end up with my own copy of Ice Trap anyway, I can just see it....

Current Mood: frustrated
Current Location: Nordstral
Current Music: Dr. McCoy -- S.P.O.C.K.

It occurred to five or six years ago, my FLCS had a box of used novels for various of th Star Trek series. Today I asked after it, and got to root through what was left. I picked up 12 books for $20!

Here's what I got:
My Enemy, My Ally by Diane Duane
Demons by J.M. Dillard
Memory Prime by Gar and Judith Reeves-Stevens (who regularly co-write with Shatner)
Black Fire by Sonni Cooper
The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane
The Prometheus Design by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath
Corona by Greg Bear
Mindshadow by J.M. Dillard
Deep Domain by Howard Weinstein
The Entropy Effect by Vonda N. McIntyre
Enemy Unseen by V.E. Mitchell
and the lone TNG book of the lot, A Rock and a Hard Place by Peter David (aka the second cover here).

I need to stay the hell away from Shatner's blog, it's addictive.

Fruit of the day: Delcious Monster. (I am not kidding, that's what it's called.)

Books I bought today:

Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold. A Vorkosigan book, yay! Now I can get some background on Mark! *excited*

Pegasus In Space by Anne McCaffrey. I read the one before it, and a bunch that take place decades later, but I never got my hands on this one before.

Sassinak by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon. I used to own this, but my mom's dog destroyed it. Been jonesin' to read it again, so I snapped it up.

Space Opera which looks to be an anthology of music-themed scifi short stories, edited by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough.

Fiddler Fair, which is a poorly structured collection of short stories by Mercedes Lackey. Another one I used to own and wanted again.

Reserved For The Cat by Mercedes Lackey. Haven't read anything else in the 'Elemental Masters' setting, but eh. *shrugs* This is about a French ballerina, and you see, once a long time ago, before Lackey took issue with her Tregarde books, she promised a book involving the vampire character in those which would involve French ballerinas. My memory of that, combined with OH HEY TALKING CAT (which I am, alas, a complete sucker for) is why I bought this 'un.

These last two are both Star Trek (TOS) novels --

Renegade by Gene Deweese (or possibly DeWeese -- it's always DEWEESE in the text on and in the book). Spock and McCoy apparently killed! Kirk doubting the Prime Directive! One of the few at the store that didn't involve Klingons and/or Romulans! eta: Involves Klingons.

The Tears of the Singers by Melinda Snodgrass. This one has Klingons in. But it also has Uhura on the cover wearing pants, and is furthermore some kind of metaphor about seal-clubbing, I begin to suspect. But it has Uhura singing, so I will put up with it. Probably.

Notable non-book purchase of the day: TMNT (2007) on DVD. Turtle power, dudes!

So, a book arrived in the mail this morning. It's not mine -- it's for my roomie, who isn't here and gave me advance permission to open the package.

It's a book of essays about the Legion of Superheroes. Or, really, the Legions -- all of them so far.

Teenagers From the Future: essays on the Legion of Superheroes

Just reading the foreword has me all excited. The Table of Contents has me bouncing with glee like Chuck Taine. Here's just sample of some of the essay titles I figure people on my f-list might be intrigued by:

Liberating the Future: Women in the Early Legion

Revisionism, Radical Experimentation, and Dystopia in Giffen's Legion

Coming Out of Future Closets: Gender Identity and Homosexuality in the Legion

Generational Theory and the Waid Threeboot

The Racial Politics of the Legion

There are eighteen essays, plus foreword, introduction, and afterword. I am really looking forward to reading through this. :D

So You Want to Be a Wizard arrived in the mail today, and then I went out and bought Sea of Monsters and The Titan's Curse.

I'm in a YA modern fantasy mood, it seems.

Today, on the way home, the sci-fi bookstore that is never open when I'm in the area WAS OPEN and lo! did I enter into its badly-carpeted embrace.

I bought eleven books. 8D

Only one of them is for someone else. X3

Yaaaaaay!

eta: The actual books I got (not counting the gift one):

Diane Duane's Deep Wizardry, High Wizardry, and Wizard's Holiday. edit:~~(Still haven't found the first book, alas.)~~ Got the first book and was pleasantly surprised to find out Kit is younger than Nita and skipping grades. :3 Somehow didn't catch that in the later stuff. Currently stuck in the early bits of High Wizardry because I'm having trouble hacking Dairine.

Chris Claremont's First Flight and Sundowner -- I already have the middle book of this trilogy. I mostly got them because I want to see how Shea met the cat-people-aliens in the first place, and also to see if there's anymore X-Men easter eggs. ;3 eta: There was a Guthrie. X3 And more Lila Cheney -- though not in the same place, sadly. The end made NO sense whatsoever.

Bruce Sterling's Heavy Weather. It's Bruce Sterling. It's weather hackers. It was half price! ;3 eta: It was actually really interesting! I may do a crossover with *coughsoemthingRictor'sincough*

Walter Jon Williams' Hard Wired, which looks like enjoyably bad neon cyberpunk. :D

James White's Final Diagnosis and Mind Changer, which both bear the subtitle "A Sector General Novel". They are one after the other, but there are nine books before them. X3 I've never seen these before! eta: Interesting! I liked FD better, I think, mostly because panicky Patient Hewlitt and his ridiculously healthy cat and the miracles... Yeah. It was like watching an episode of SGA, in a very weird way...

Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles, Mystery & Mayhem (apparently a compilation of Cetaganda, Ethan of Athos, and "Labyrinth"). I bought this because people used to always tell me that since I like Elizabeth Moon, I'd probably like this author, and I figured I might as well pick up something big enough to judge by. eta: Looks like they were right! This was really enjoyable.

Lester del Rey's Rocket Jockey. Sometimes you gotta. :3

Current Mood: chipper

Today I bought books. (I also bought two pens, two pins, and two dinners.) They are:
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, which I have long wanted to read;
The Diamond Age, Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson, which comes after Snow Crash and I most recently heard about in the news posts over on Penny Arcade;
and, STEAMPUNK which is an anthology edited by Ann & Jeff Vandermeer. It happens to contain a short story by Neal Stephenson. ;3 It also has an essay about steampunk in comics, which I may just read first. :D

Current Music: Flower Child - The Higgins

Good things in the mail today~

art in the Vorkosigan GURPS book

2012 is gonna RAWWWWWWWK

books that should not be judged by their covers

What the devil?

I need to find where I put this book

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Check out this article

Bookapalooza! {We don't need no steenking Baby-sitters!}

Today:

I read Rough Trails (see previous post)

icon used because Uhura always sees through Chakov & Sulu when they bullshit her, which is relevant

Time's Enemy

free books! I has some!

dances around giddily

Dear Naomi Novik,

Books I bought today:

What I've been reading

CAPTAIN PROTON

happy babbling of a mostly Trekkie nature

Star Trek TOS fanfic: "Turbulence" (feat. John C. Kirk & Pavel A. Chekov)

book review: Death Count by L.A. Graf

Let's talk about spaceships

"I'm with you." Not just a catch phrase from Koko wa Greenwood.

Star Trek books get!

lists of the day

Teenagers From the Future!

more books

Books!

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