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bill_leisner's new novel for the Star Trek office at Pocket Books, TNG: Losing the Peace.
So, the novel in question shows up at Perfect Books on Elgin in Centretown this week, and today I picked it up. Speed-reading racer that I am, it's demolished in a day - in the good way, Bill! - and some of the things I note below are accidental connections. Not sure if they constitute meaningful coincidences, and at some points, it's going to look like random babbling.
Pleased to note that Geordi LaForge finally gets a home town of his own. This is the first of the accidental connections forming: the town in question is Mogadishu, Somalia. Whence also hails one of the real-world musicians performing in the 9 PM show on Parliament Hill here in Ottawa tomorrow night - Canada Day night - a gentleman of no small talent and informed opinions going by the stage name of K'Naan.
The next coincidence is found in his Wikipedia bio notes: K'Naan's home neighbourhood back in Mogadishu? Its name allegedly translates into English as "River of Blood". No idea yet if there's truth to this story, although the accidental linkage to Klingon ritual utterances surprised me.
In the acknowledgements, Bill takes a paragraph to pay respect to the work of the CBC on one web resource in particular that he came across in his background work for the book: Anatomy of a Refugee Camp. Another accidental coincidence: Bill had no clue that any of the readership of his novel might maintain active connections to CBC. Such as myself.
I used to do courtroom art for the local Broadcast Centre's news arm, back when the TV news people were largely based out of Lanark Crescent over by Westboro Station on the Transitway. The work was irregular, it lasted about four years, and I miss it terribly.
I still keep in touch with some of the reporters I worked with on assorted stories back then, although the contact is irregular at best due to the pressures of our respective workloads and other obligations. That's okay. They're doing good work, and so it is with much of the rest of the news division elsewhere across Canada.
It seems important to remember this, seeing as the CBC's been under a lot of budgetary stress - a lot of stress in general - these last few years. They deserve all the respect they get for getting the job done in spite of that stress, and more besides in my already admittedly biased opinion.
I don't know if any of the people who worked on that specific item Bill referenced for Losing the Peace are still at CBC, what they're doing now, or if any of them are Trek fans.
But it seemed right to put the word out.
You never know.
Bill, for the record: you did good work here. Thank you.
bill_leisner's new novel for the Star Trek office at Pocket Books, TNG: Losing the Peace.So, the novel in question shows up at Perfect Books on Elgin in Centretown this week, and today I picked it up. Speed-reading racer that I am, it's demolished in a day - in the good way, Bill! - and some of the things I note below are accidental connections. Not sure if they constitute meaningful coincidences, and at some points, it's going to look like random babbling.
Pleased to note that Geordi LaForge finally gets a home town of his own. This is the first of the accidental connections forming: the town in question is Mogadishu, Somalia. Whence also hails one of the real-world musicians performing in the 9 PM show on Parliament Hill here in Ottawa tomorrow night - Canada Day night - a gentleman of no small talent and informed opinions going by the stage name of K'Naan.
The next coincidence is found in his Wikipedia bio notes: K'Naan's home neighbourhood back in Mogadishu? Its name allegedly translates into English as "River of Blood". No idea yet if there's truth to this story, although the accidental linkage to Klingon ritual utterances surprised me.
In the acknowledgements, Bill takes a paragraph to pay respect to the work of the CBC on one web resource in particular that he came across in his background work for the book: Anatomy of a Refugee Camp. Another accidental coincidence: Bill had no clue that any of the readership of his novel might maintain active connections to CBC. Such as myself.
I used to do courtroom art for the local Broadcast Centre's news arm, back when the TV news people were largely based out of Lanark Crescent over by Westboro Station on the Transitway. The work was irregular, it lasted about four years, and I miss it terribly.
I still keep in touch with some of the reporters I worked with on assorted stories back then, although the contact is irregular at best due to the pressures of our respective workloads and other obligations. That's okay. They're doing good work, and so it is with much of the rest of the news division elsewhere across Canada.
It seems important to remember this, seeing as the CBC's been under a lot of budgetary stress - a lot of stress in general - these last few years. They deserve all the respect they get for getting the job done in spite of that stress, and more besides in my already admittedly biased opinion.
I don't know if any of the people who worked on that specific item Bill referenced for Losing the Peace are still at CBC, what they're doing now, or if any of them are Trek fans.
But it seemed right to put the word out.
You never know.
Bill, for the record: you did good work here. Thank you.
