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(non Trek) What are you Reading?

patrickngopatrickngo Member Posts: 9,954 Arc User
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What non-Star Trek material are you reading for yourself?
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member Posts: 58,008 Community Moderator
    Mostly fanfics these days. But I do have some Battletech, seaQuest, and Star Wars books. Also like Dragonriders of Pern and even have an Area 51 book.

    Really should pull out a real book again one of these days.
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    Yang Xiao Long wrote:
    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
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  • jamieblanchardjamieblanchard Member Posts: 556 Arc User
    edited March 2019
    The novelization of the Black Hole, and the original Star Wars by Alan Dean Foster, the latter of which was ghost written.

    I also have Heinlein's Starship Troopers around here somewhere. That is a fun read.
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  • brian334brian334 Member Posts: 2,214 Arc User
    edited March 2019
    That's a lot of simultaneous reading, PawPaw. I can only handle two or three books at a time.

    I'm reading A Century of Dishonor by Helen Jackson at the moment. Recently finished The Stand, and before that it was Dragonsong, (rereading, I first encountered the Harpers of Pern books in the early 80s.)
  • rattler2rattler2 Member Posts: 58,008 Community Moderator
    jamieblanchard wrote: »
    I also have Heinlein's Starship Troopers around here somewhere. That is a fun read.

    Heard a rumor that there's another movie in the works thats closer to the book than what we have right now.
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    Yang Xiao Long wrote:
    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
    The nut who actually ground out many packs. The resident forum voice of reason (I HAZ FORUM REP! YAY!)
  • theraven2378theraven2378 Member Posts: 5,985 Arc User
    edited March 2019
    The First Heretic by Aaron Dembski-Bowden.
    It covers the Word Bearers' path to heresy and the seeds of the Horus Heresy
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    • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
      Queen of Zazzau by J.S. Emuakpor. It's a historical epic fantasy novel set in what is now Nigeria in the 1500s; picked it up at IllogiCon in January. It's based on real events and people, with plenty of magic and politics and warring gods, and a very well-written and endearing heroine.
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    • vetteguy904vetteguy904 Member Posts: 3,857 Arc User
      bouncing between Quickbooks for dummies (for work) and Man on the Moon, by Chaikan, a history of the Apollo program.
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    • xungnguyenxungnguyen Member Posts: 233 Arc User
      Caliban's War
      Tiamat's Wrath (James SA Corey's Expanse series)
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    • mneme0mneme0 Member Posts: 498 Arc User
      edited April 2019
      Recently:

      The Magicians, The Magician King, The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman
      Death Wave, Survival, Apes and Angels by Ben Bova
      Flood by Stephen Baxter
      The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes, The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman

      Currently:

      2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
      The Sandman: Dream Country, Seasons of Mist by Neil Gaiman

      Soon:

      The Crucible by Arthur Miller
      Venus on the Half-Shell by Philip Jose Farmer
      Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War, Abadon's Gate by James S.A. Corey
    • risian6#1997 risian6
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      The Economist and Karl Popper's The Open Society and its Enemies. ;)

      As for fiction: I'm considering buying some of The Expanse novels. It's a shame season 3 was never added to Netflix.
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    • legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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      the only reading i have time to do anymore is while i'm on the toilet...so yeah - some people read newspapers, i read books

      my current one is a forensic science crime book - the kind that explains how crime scene investigation actually works - and while i don't own it yet, as soon as i get it, i fully intend to make reading this my highest priority

      https://www.amazon.com/Circus-WolfMan-Francine-Woodward-ebook/dp/B077MX8Q7Y​​
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    • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,360 Arc User
      Haven't had a lot of money for books lately, so not a lot of non-online reading. I did recently finish my third or fourth reread of The Silmarillion, and had to skim The Hitchhiker's Quartet for a quote. Oh, also reread Pratchett's Going Postal for the umpteenth time.

      Been collecting Gail Simone's new Domino series, although after issue 10 it apparently segues into a new series called HotShots - basically a Marvel version of DC's Birds of Prey concept, except half the team are semi-reformed villains (the aforementioned Domino, Outlaw, and Diamondback; they're joined by Black Widow, a South Korean called White Fox who is in fact perhaps the last of the kumiho, and a Wakandan expat who goes by Atlas Bear).
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    • jamieblanchardjamieblanchard Member Posts: 556 Arc User
      Revisiting Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and also reading Gidget.
      Resident TOS, G.I. Joe, Transformers and hair metal fangirl.

      And knowing is half the battle!

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    • iamjmphiamjmph Member Posts: 210 Arc User
      fanfic mostly, but I recently bought the first three in the dune series and the complete hitchhikers guide series(in one book), and own the main books of orson scott card's Ender/Shadow series. I reread them pretty regularly.
    • evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,950 Arc User
      I have so many things i want to read but i never manage to get around to it anymore. And like I read a chapter at most before getting distracted with a forum post, a news article, or a game. The closest I've managed to accomplish is audio books through Audible, first I listened to LotR while driving because I can't read them without falling asleep, then when I wanted to reread Jurassic Park I got that audio book as well. Maybe I'll try it with some of the other books I've been meaning to read.
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    • theraven2378theraven2378 Member Posts: 5,985 Arc User
      Got Xenos by Dan Abnett to start soon,
      It's about the Emperor's most holy Inquisition
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        -Lord Commander Solar Macharius
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