Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsThe C plot of an early TNG episode has Picard practicing a formal greeting for the Jarada. They’re very touchy about protocol, very insular, and this is the first chance in a while for the Federation to try negotiating with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the first book in Ben Bova’s “Grand Tour” series—chronologically at least. I get the idea it was one of the later ones written, but I haven’t looked deeply into that. Each one was written about a particular location[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third Ancillary book is a direct follow on to Ancillary Sword, picking up very shortly after the that one. The start re-introduces everything going on, which I needed. However, while much more of a piece with the second book[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This TNG novel is set in early fourth season (an actual stardate is given at the end), and was written in that period. The series had settled down into a long haul of success, and the novels are doing better.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second Lost Fleet novel continues on from the first. It is more of the same: space opera military SF that is well-crafted all the way around. Now, while it is more of the same, Campbell is definitely paying attention[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After way too long, I’ve finally gotten to Thomas Harlan’s Time of the Sixth Sun series. It is well written and therefore easy to get into. It’s also potentially very hard to get into. At one level, this is general[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As with other Ailette de Bodard stories I have read, this is a largely character-focused story with unfamiliar signposts. In this case, we have three different stories going on at the same time, but they’re all focused on the same[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I got this at the same time as the two Enterprise Romulan War novels, but it was written noticeably before those. Those were done in 2009-11, after Star Trek: Enterprise was off the air and a lot more had been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I actually like Star Trek: Enterprise. It had its problems, and plenty of problem episodes, and I’m not a fan of the Expanse story. But whenever the series dealt with the Vulcans and Andorians (especially), the series was at its[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By this point in the TNG novel series, we’re up to about fourth season, and the line is settling down into some actual competence. (The next one, #18, is one of the few TNG novels I truly recommend, thank you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…