Vulcan Love Slave IV, anyone? Just leave it to Quark to get you the latest and greatest installment!
This book continues the adventures of the U.S.S. Voyager after it returns to the Delta Quadrant on a mission of exploration. And while Tom Paris returns to Earth with Seven of Nine, each to deal with personal matters, Admiral Janeway takes command of the Full Circle Fleet to open diplomatic relations with the Confederacy of the Worlds of the First Quadrant. But the Confederacy has pissed off a lot of other races – many of which Janeway and Voyager have pissed off in the past…
I never thought I’d be a person who enjoyed coffee table books, but I’m starting to build up quite a collection. Some are better than others, but Titan Books is on kind of a roll with their Star Trek coffee table books.
Not all books with a child as the main character are kids’ books. Especially when the central kid witnesses a gruesome suicide right off the bat and then plays games with the FBI for fear that his own life is in danger from the Mafia. You know, John Grisham could write a sequel to this called “The Client” where this kid is in therapy the rest of his life…
This book is widely hailed as one of the greatest science fiction novels. So naturally I’m going to read it. Originally published in Russia, the novel takes place near what are referred to as Zones, which are mysterious areas of a mysterious origin, with a mysterious impact on anyone who enters. Sounds spoooooky… but was it worth the hype?
This is a book that I picked for Black History Month 2024 by looking at what books other black authors thought were powerful. This one stuck out to me when I saw it. And I’m so glad I picked it up! As far as non-fiction books go, it’s always nice to have one that’s got a through-story weaving it all together. What makes this book so good is that it has three through-stories of people that, while they never meet, the themes and overall story connects them in ways that the individuals in question never could have anticipated. If you want a great historical read, this is fantastic!
I read this book in one day. I had no idea some of these classics were so short! Good thing too… I wouldn’t have wanted much more of this one.
This was another one of my reads for Black History Month 2024. I found somewhere, probably on Goodreads, a list of books by black authors that were meaningful to other black authors. When I came across this pick, the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner, I read the description and something just stuck out to me. Probably the injustice, which arguably is something of a theme in black literature, what with the gross injustices imparted upon many black citizens, especially in the 1960s. Let’s just say that this book was well worth the read.
February 2024 sees the release of David Mack’s newest Star Trek novel set in the Picard era – Firewall. I had the opportunity to talk with the author about the book on the Literary Treks podcast, so definitely check that out! For more of my standalone thoughts, keep on reading on!
We landed on the Moon! Like, today – as I write this! Intuitive Machines, a US-based company, successfully landed the Odysseus lander on the Moon. This is the first private company to land on the Moon and the first US landing on the Moon in over 50 years! That may be why this book is the Planetary Society book club pick for February 2024.