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 Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerAfter 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…
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…