Books

[azurelunatic]

Finished: Brightly Burning, Mercedes Lackey. Take one Gift for fire. Add some trauma. Shake, garnish with a small war. Instant tragedy. Whewh, a relief from some of the happy endings. Hopeful ending, though. Nice.

The Super Hugos. Lots of nice short stories. Finally read Ellison's "I have no mouth and I must scream"; that was also delightful.

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[amberite.livejournal.com]

YAY Harlan Ellison! SHINEEEEEY!

. . . okay, maybe I'm a wee bit manic.

[azurelunatic]

A wee bit.

I recall the Asimov tale, where Asimov recounts how Harlan Ellison embarrassed him, publicly... Harlan came up and did the classic fanboy thing, and Asimov puffed up some... to be deflated. Asimov thought it a great joke.

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

I haven't read Brightly Burning yet. I just started Take a Thief this morning; borrowed it from Meercat. Borrowed a whole stack of books from her when I was at her place on Wednesday to exercise with her. ^_^ Most of 'em I've read before, don't own a copy, and just wanted to read again. Three I hadn't read yet: Take a Thief, already mentioned. Sing Four Quarters, by Tanya Huff, and OMG a must-read-again book. Fabulous, fascinating, must think about how much the elementals are the kigh and the kigh are the elementals and learn what is applicable to this world...quite a bit, from the resonance I got from it first reading through. And third, Uhura's Song, because Meer's been pushing this one off on me for years and I've never read it (not fond of Star Trek novels, in general). Finally did. Decent enough book, but only tolerable by assuming it was a crossover with the Pretender universe. And only made an acceptable crossover by discovering at the end that the woman was not *really* Dr. Evan Wilson, but had merely borrowed that identity for a while, and evidence that she had done the same at least once, probably many times before, and the one they mentioned she had done Much Good...and she left the Enterprise because she "wasn't needed anymore". If you don't look at it as a Pretender crossover, it becomes a truly awful Mary Sue with a decent plot and decent enough new alien race to carry the book...but you'd have to totally ignore the MarySue, without whom the day could not be saved, who intrigues Mr. Spock and attracts Captain Kirk, of *course*...does unprecedented things with a mindmeld...you get the idea. ^_^ As a Pretender crossover, though, it makes a pretty decent fic, though I dunno why the heck it got published. :)

[azurelunatic]

Because it was back in the day when fanfic still got published?

Dunno. Always loved that one. Haven't re-read it recently. Would have been nice to see her failing at something, I suppose.

For good original character Star Trek Old Stuff, John M. Ford's The Final Reflection. Since been contradicted by canon, but what the hell, it's still good, at least as of last reading. Not sure if this is the book with the disasterously misnamed female character (there is one TOS book, otherwise good, which has a female character who for whatever reason has the name "Rogaine" ... hopefully it was written before the release of the product...) but otherwise excellent.

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[iroshi.livejournal.com]

No, no, I don't *like* Star Trek books, in general. That's why it took Meer this long to get me to read this one. And *only* because we were watching Pretender at the time and she discussed it in terms of a Pretender crossover. I would have gotten disgusted with it too early to discover the woman really *was* Pretending if Meer hadn't put it in that light before I started.

[azurelunatic]

Ah.

My mileage varies.

At least there are some Miles we can agree on...