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…
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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…
The second Star Trek: Picard novel is more successful as a story, but this is at the price of it being less successful as a prequel. For those who kept up with post-series novels over the last twenty years (I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Julia Ecklar wrote a number of short stories (in Analog, and a few anthologies), but no novels, which might explain why this Star Trek novel is more of a short story collection. However, she did later write other TOS novels[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the same length as the other New Frontiers books, but it feels just a bit meatier, and more than just a longer episode. Also, the subplots feel more natural to the overall plot this time. There’s still odd[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
