Smudge Marks & Engel Werks Flash of Steel Wargame [space] 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 Grumble Jones Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsThe third Vatta’s War book picks up where the second left off, but keeps itself largely on immediate concerns, instead of doing a lot with the big McGuffin-related issued that dominate the second book. Mostly, that’s because there’s other issues[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark got Space Corp a bit ago, and we tried it out ahead of a future group game. The is about the exploration and exploitation of space, and goes through three ‘eras’, starting with the exploration of the inner solar[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Star Trek: Picard picked up later Star Trek continuity with a fairly tough job. It had been nearly twenty years since the last TNG-era movie came out. Since then we did find out that the Romulan star had gone nova[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, this was interesting. It’s the far-future, the galaxy is well-settled, though there’s no sign of aliens. But there’s not just humans. There are genetically-modified animals, given human thought, near-human shapes, and powers beyond normal humans. The Bestiae are rare,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many Star Trek novels are basically ‘just another episode’. An adventure happening alongside all the normal ones of the TV series. Some of them go after bigger subjects, like this one which presents Kirk’s evolution as a command officer into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a relatively early Star Trek novel and it shows. Vulcans were one of the obsessions of the early fandom (…with good reason), and this novel obviously flows out of that. The bulk of the novel happens on Vulcan,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Prime Directive came out a bit after my primary era of reading Trek novels, money was tighter, and there were just too many coming out. But, it got a fairly good marketing push at the time, as one of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The “giant” novels were Pocket’s stepping stone to hardcover Star Trek novels, which took over the ‘premium’ slots in the production of way too many novels at the start of the ’90s. They were longer, more involved stories, and the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been quite a while since I’ve gotten back to the Honor Harrington series. It’s been more than long enough for me to forget a number of details, and anything more than the bare outlines of the plot of previous[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Way back when, I read through several early ST:TNG novels (all put out during first season). It was a pretty sad bunch. One of them was notably better than the others (not to say that it was worth recommending), and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…