Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerIt does seem like every well-written Expanse novel comes with a problem of its own. This time, the problem is physics instead of plot structure. So, there’s now a new, alien made, structure in the outer solar system (maybe 21[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While the story as a whole is well put together, you can see how things are being introduced as they are thought up. This was originally a single short story/novella, and then the rest was done a couple years later,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, first, it should be noted that this novel certainly happens in the time of the original series. In fact, it seems like it’s fairly early in, and Sulu isn’t entirely sure of his position on the ship, and is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After fighting it out before Troy, Mark and I decided to try out the second Microgame, Chitin I. It’s a fragment of a larger project that was never finished, and sounds to me like kind of like a proto-Civilization (computer[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s a lot of different things to go into here. First, this is a novelization of the first Star Trek movie. I do generally enjoy the film, but I’m certainly nowhere near agreeing with the people who celebrate it. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I can remember, back in the day, hearing about the producers for ST:TNG at conventions giving some of their own thoughts on certain subjects (it’s only cannon if it makes it to the screen…). It had been said that the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a direct sequel to Alliance Rising; you could read this alone, but reading that first would be highly recommended. That said, while Rising left off on a cliffhanger, nothing about that gets resolved here. It will take time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After trying Congress of Vienna, Mark and I decided to try out Renegade Legion: Centurion. I’d been interested in it since it came out in ’89, and got a second edition copy around ’94; I had started priming the miniatures[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third Picard novel finishes up the initial run of prequels of the series (the fifth novel is a fourth prequel…). And it is easily the best of the lot. Following in the trend of The Last Best Hope, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Book two of The Expanse has the same outline structure. Bad things happen, a man becomes very single-focused obsessed with finding a missing person, he runs into James Holden, mayhem ensues. Structurally, it is different. We do change viewpoint characters,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…