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I R Trek-Novel Geek
Jun. 1st, 2007 04:22 pm***Expository interlude***
My mother's infatuation (dating back to Original Series, First Run) makes me a second-generation Trekkie, minus the Convention / Newsletter subculture. Trek is one of the few live-action shows I remember from being Rather Small--first episode I recall seeing is The One With The Chick Who Folded Flat ("That Which Survives"?).
***END Expository Interlude***
During the Eighties, our house acquired a daunting collection of paperback canon and non-canon novels, including several titles written by Diane Duane (of "So You Want To Be A Wizard?" fame). One of our favorites was "My Enemy, My Ally", which, in Duane's own parlance, began to "give the Romulans the John M. Ford (Klingon developer) treatment". One quasi-sequel was written, enjoyed, but Just Not As Good (tm) because of a plethora of new characters ("not in the first book, either" new) got the lion's share of the page-time.
Time passed.
Life happened. Brother Cadfael and works by Nora Roberts replaced the Trek novels on my mother's shelves.
However, she has a daughter who compulsively searches Amazon . com from time to time on random quests. One such quest unearthed the presence of not one, but two subsequent Duane books which continue the story, with a return of the beloved characters and fewer new ones.
This daughter also lives near a Borders and sometimes lacks patience.
Once the volumes have been suitably vetted (Kwalitty Kontrolz R Us), they will travel south for an extended sabbatical 8)
My mother's infatuation (dating back to Original Series, First Run) makes me a second-generation Trekkie, minus the Convention / Newsletter subculture. Trek is one of the few live-action shows I remember from being Rather Small--first episode I recall seeing is The One With The Chick Who Folded Flat ("That Which Survives"?).
***END Expository Interlude***
During the Eighties, our house acquired a daunting collection of paperback canon and non-canon novels, including several titles written by Diane Duane (of "So You Want To Be A Wizard?" fame). One of our favorites was "My Enemy, My Ally", which, in Duane's own parlance, began to "give the Romulans the John M. Ford (Klingon developer) treatment". One quasi-sequel was written, enjoyed, but Just Not As Good (tm) because of a plethora of new characters ("not in the first book, either" new) got the lion's share of the page-time.
Time passed.
Life happened. Brother Cadfael and works by Nora Roberts replaced the Trek novels on my mother's shelves.
However, she has a daughter who compulsively searches Amazon . com from time to time on random quests. One such quest unearthed the presence of not one, but two subsequent Duane books which continue the story, with a return of the beloved characters and fewer new ones.
This daughter also lives near a Borders and sometimes lacks patience.
Once the volumes have been suitably vetted (Kwalitty Kontrolz R Us), they will travel south for an extended sabbatical 8)
