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Dec. 31st, 2013 10:03 amHoping the next year's better than this one was for you!
Dec. 31st, 2013
Happy birthday,
Dec. 31st, 2013 10:03 am
Two Books to Close the Year
Dec. 31st, 2013 02:26 pmPicked up a couple of books yesterday.
1. Space: 1999 - Aftershock and Awe by Andrew Gaska, Grey Morrow, Miki and David Hueso
Collected edition from Archaia Black Label, featuring old and new material in the "Awe" story - a retelling of "Breakaway" with elements from several sources, including an earlier script for the pilot of that TV series, and older material from Power Records and Charlton Comics as well...and characters from later episodes thrown into the mix as well.
And then there's "Aftershock", telling the tale as experienced by those left behind on Earth. As you might guess, catastrophe physics has its way with the lives of millions. Also mildly surprising was the decision to go straight to "alternative history" as well, with elements like John F. Kennedy surviving all the way from 1963 as a driving political force behind the organization(s) that built Moonbase Alpha.
Recommended.
2. Star Trek: The Fall - Peaceable Kingdoms bydaytonward.
This wraps up the pentalogy begun with Revelation and Dust four months ago. It ends pretty much as I hoped it would, with consequences meet for many future writers in this particular Trek novel-'verse to play with for years to come. At least one character ends up in a place where there's hope for many political adventures to occupy more nights.
(Yes, I do believe politics can be an adventure. If practiced well, in fiction or reality. Sometimes, it can even be inspiring and in several good ways. But I digress...)
There was one revelation that I considered a false note - not sure I want to get into details yet - in what was otherwise a very good yarn indeed.
Recommended.
1. Space: 1999 - Aftershock and Awe by Andrew Gaska, Grey Morrow, Miki and David Hueso
Collected edition from Archaia Black Label, featuring old and new material in the "Awe" story - a retelling of "Breakaway" with elements from several sources, including an earlier script for the pilot of that TV series, and older material from Power Records and Charlton Comics as well...and characters from later episodes thrown into the mix as well.
And then there's "Aftershock", telling the tale as experienced by those left behind on Earth. As you might guess, catastrophe physics has its way with the lives of millions. Also mildly surprising was the decision to go straight to "alternative history" as well, with elements like John F. Kennedy surviving all the way from 1963 as a driving political force behind the organization(s) that built Moonbase Alpha.
Recommended.
2. Star Trek: The Fall - Peaceable Kingdoms by
daytonward.This wraps up the pentalogy begun with Revelation and Dust four months ago. It ends pretty much as I hoped it would, with consequences meet for many future writers in this particular Trek novel-'verse to play with for years to come. At least one character ends up in a place where there's hope for many political adventures to occupy more nights.
(Yes, I do believe politics can be an adventure. If practiced well, in fiction or reality. Sometimes, it can even be inspiring and in several good ways. But I digress...)
There was one revelation that I considered a false note - not sure I want to get into details yet - in what was otherwise a very good yarn indeed.
Recommended.
Welcoming in 2014
Dec. 31st, 2013 07:29 pmAccording to LiveJournal, we've already begun the New (Gregorian) Year of 2014.
So there's that done.
I'm loathe to write up a list of resolutions. More inclined towards unreasonable expectations, really. Should "unreasonable expectations" be capitalized? I ask because I want to capitalize the phrase for the next posting. And the tumblers are already clicking on a shopping list of such things.
What say you?
So there's that done.
I'm loathe to write up a list of resolutions. More inclined towards unreasonable expectations, really. Should "unreasonable expectations" be capitalized? I ask because I want to capitalize the phrase for the next posting. And the tumblers are already clicking on a shopping list of such things.
What say you?
Just had a leaf-through at the local public library, specifically the first post-Flashpoint Flash collection, Move Forward, featuring Francis Manapul's material.
I have a vague feeling we covered this before...here or elsewhere...but anyway:
Did Manapul really go and replace all the existing Keystone-Central neighbourhood names with names of cities and neighbourhoods from the Greater Toronto Area? I had to take off my glasses and squint and I'm still not sure that I actually saw names like Vaughan, Pickering, Scarborough, and so forth on the map that showed up in that hardcover.