The books I read, the songs I hear: my source code; my journals: my documentation

[azurelunatic]

I suppose.

Azure-blue, where are you?

Hiding out under the bed, with the dust-bunnies, of course.

No wonder the name struck such a note in me, when I heard it. Of all the s.oteri, Azure was the one I identified with most.

...and ooooh! All Star Trek fans, especially Trek Classic! Good "fanfic"! http://www.homestead.com/margaretwanderbonanno/home.html

Got printer?

...Just supporting my idea that the original Trek novels were Good Fanfic packaged with the company label, later stuff had a higher crap content, and now it might be rebalancing in the other side, see ST:TNG Section 31: Rogue as an example.

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[amberite.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can dearly hope . . . Muchly loved a number of the early Trek novels. Mmmm, Janet Kagan, Diane Duane, Vonda McIntyre, Peter David, and there was that woman who did Mindshadow and stuff, can't remember her name -- it's been so long . . .

[azurelunatic]

J.M. Dillard. Also famed for Bloodthirst. Someone had highlighted the spelling error "cecurity" in the FNSB library copy of that one...

I can devoutly hope.

One hears that Peter David is coming out with a new book, Sir Apropos of Nothing, and that ought to be one of the famed Peter David laugh riots, terminal illnesses notwithstanding.

And have you read Miribile?

Anything Diane Duane rights, I will buy if budget allows the moment it hits my hands.

[azurelunatic]

Augh. writes.

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[amberite.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think I've read Mirabile -- it's been a long time. I know Janet Kagan wrote pretty much two other books, and I know I read one of them.

Had no idea Peter David was terminally ill?

[azurelunatic]

WHAT!?!?!?!!!

Oh. um.

No, I had no idea.

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[amberite.livejournal.com]

HUH? YOU said something about terminal illness. I didn't think he was. What I meant by the question mark at the end of my statement was "I had no idea, what?" Eh, this seems to be a strange misunderstanding caused by my evil tendency to misuse question marks. What did YOU mean?

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[amberite.livejournal.com]

No wonder I couldn't find anything about it on all the sites I searched. Heh.

[azurelunatic]

Oh, I was making reference to the rather bitter comment at the beginning of one of his books.

It seems that in the previous book, he had thought that he'd written a fairly serious book, dealing as it did with hysterical concepts such as terminal illness and death. Reviews from fans informed him that it was yet another laugh riot. He made grouchy commentary to this effect in the introduction to the next book. Apparently he gave up trying to write serious stuff in Star Trek after that.

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[amberite.livejournal.com]

Oh, heh. Okay. :-) Well, I don't see why a book has to be one or the other. My very favorite works of fiction make me laugh so hard my stomach hurts and blur my vision with tears not long later. (So You Want to Be A Wizard is one of those, naturally . . .)

Sorry 'bout the misunderstanding.

[azurelunatic]

Naturally. The Wizard's Dilemma is another good one for that... interestingly, they become better and better at describing the wizardry the better I become at it myself, in the re-reading... heh.