Ancillary (Warp Factor)

[jheti]

Trek books! THEY MATTER.



The Kobayashi Maru - Julia Ecklar: Wow! A book that DOESN'T focus on Kirk, Spock, and McCoy! I'm hoping this one is good. HNR.

Deep Domain - Howard Weinstein: Carey's confidence is misplaced. Interesting concept, hideous execution. Tonight only, ladies and gentlmen: Darkhair Daala and the Improbables! Performing their hit singles, Martial Law Doesn't Work That Way and Me Coup You Long Time.

Black Fire - Sonni Cooper: HNR.

Time Trap - David Dvorkin: HNR.

Dreams of the Raven - Carmen Carter: HNR.

Doctor's Orders - Diane Duane: I'm saving this; it looks tasty. HNR.

Double, Double - Michael Jan Friedman: I dunno, this is the same guy that wrote a horrendous TNG/X-Men crossover and got paid for it. I wish I were making that up! HNR.

Memory Prime - Gar and Judith Reeves-Stevens: The cover is full of lulz. HNR.

Ghost-Walker - Barbara Hambly: I keep typing her name as "Baraka". Apparently I have a slight tendency to fixate? Also, the cover is horrific.HNR.

Time for Yesterday - A.C. Crispin: I know and like her work. HNR.

The Cry of the Onlies - Judy Klass: HNR.

Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories - Nichelle Nichols: MY HERO. Yay! <3 HNR.

Crossroads - Barbara Hambly: If you can find a Trek book not written by Barbara Hambly, it's probably worth a fortune. XD HNR.

First Frontier - Diane Carey and Dr. James I. Kirkland: KIRK FIGHTS VELOCIRAPTORS. Enough explaining. I'm keeping it.

The Patrian Transgression - Simon Hawke: By Chapter Three, I was literally fighting to keep my eyes open. I've read some very bad fic, professional and otherwise, in my time, but this is DEADLY FUCKING BORING. A shame, because it promised me telepathic secret police and the Big Three fighting their way out of a deathtrap arena, but it's too BORING for me to pick around for those parts. Also? Huge giant tone problems. Massive. Urrgh.

Dreadnought! - Diane Carey: Is one of the few Trek books in first person. It's okay, and I had fun reading it, but I don't like it enough to keep it.

Comments

[nyohah.livejournal.com]

Barbara Hambly. Oh, dear. She wrote some of the worst SW books. Maybe she's better with Trek?

[jheti.livejournal.com]

I haven't read her SW efforts; I remember seeing her name on a book jacket (Truce at [Somewhere]?), and remember you don't like her, but can't remember why.

(This may shock you, but I've basically only read the Thrawn trilogy and a fistful of the Young Jedi. That Anderson guy is funny, but I'm not sure that was his intent. ^_~)

I'm reading Witches of Wenshar (original!Hambly) on a friend's advice, and other than the headdesk-inducing title, it's okay, so I have some faint hope.

Her style is...really flowery? Which must be deeply weird in SW-'verse.

I can't wait to see what she does to Spock. The flowery ones always go after Spock. *Evil grin.*

[nyohah.livejournal.com]

I always get Barbara Hambly mixed up with the other lady who wrote SW books, so let me just go check...

Okay, yeah, Barbara Hambly is the one who sucked. Truce at Bakura I don't remember much, but that was by Kathy Tyers, who wrote certainly one of the better NJO books. She's okay.

Hambly did the book where Luke falls in love with the Jedi memory trapped in the computer in this weird superweapon or something. I don't remember. I thought that was awful when I was like eleven. I never read her other SW book, but apparently, it was even worse. I don't know whether her writing style itself would drive me crazy, but I remember deeply disliking the story she chose to write. Maybe she'll do better with Trek.

I'm actually kind of surprised you read some of Young Jedi Knights. I know this from back whenever it was when you knew who Tenel Ka was, but before then, I had assumed your knowledge of super-goof Anderson came from the Jedi Academy trilogy. I think YJK was probably better. XD

[jheti.livejournal.com]

'Kay. I find her to be resoundingly...a solid C-minus student? I can't hate her 'cause she's so uninteresting. At least so far. Maybe she'll do something really stupid and then I can feel the hate. Right now, all I get is solid "meh".

Of course I read Young Jedi! They had hologram covers and a redheaded witch fighter. Tench was mad into 'Wars and that was kind of our truce on the situation.

I read a little of the first volume of Jedi Academy, looking for the redhead, but she was a retard, so I had no reason to keep reading it. *Shrug.*

I also read some of "Tales from Jabba's Palace", but the story about the dancer did not impress me, and that story was literally the reason I read the book, so.

He liked whichever "Tales" had IG-88 in it? (I think it was a "Tales" volume.) I think Boba Fett was in that one.

(Witness my super-limited knowledge of all things 'Wars tie-in! XD)

[nyohah.livejournal.com]

Daala. *enormous sigh* That was just so baffling because she makes this big deal about blah blah women are so mistreated in the Imperial Navy, and then the only reason she is an admiral is because she let Tarkin into her pants. *headdesk*

"Tales of the Bounty Hunters". I had all the Tales books. I still do, actually.

[jheti.livejournal.com]

Yes. I still recall the precise imprint your teeth made on my ear that one time I accidentally said her name. ^_~

The military so completely doesn't work that way that I laughed when I met her and put the book on the charity pile where it belongs.

I recently encountered brunette!Daala in a Trek book, (of course it was written by a dude) so it's possible men find this a very exciting and wonderful trope for military chicks?

I get the giggles. Sluts don't get promoted; they get cashiered.

The Tales were fun! I like anthologies, they're generally pretty broad. A handful of different approaches, perspectives and content for the same eight bucks. They're like magazines, but more awesome. ^_^