| New review |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|08:21 pm] |
My review of Wolverine: Election Day by Peter David is now up at Unreality SF.
"The best you can say about a tie-in novel, in my opinion, is if you could still say it’s a good novel even if you strip it of anything that is unique to the property it ties in to - and that’s certainly true for Election Day. Okay, some scenes and sequences only work in a superhero world, but the core of the novel could have just as easily worked as an original political thriller..."
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| Unreality SF at Facebook |
[Aug. 14th, 2009|06:25 pm] |
Unreality-SF.net now has its own group over at Facebook.
If you want to discuss the reviews, interviews and articles this is the place to go.
Check it out.
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| My nrwest article online at Unreality SF |
[Aug. 13th, 2009|08:18 pm] |
Over at Unreality-SF.net, my newest article has been posted , discussing how the release of the 2009 Star Trek film was handled by the Trek books, with contributions from authors Keith R.A. DeCandido, Allyn Gibson, and Geoffrey Thorne, and blogger Steve Roby.
Between them, they talk about what they'd have done if they were editing the TrekLit line, the suggestion that the 2010 schedule is overcompensating for the lack of movie tie-ins, and whether ending the line of Prime Universe books would be a good (or likely) move.
“I find it difficult not to be baffled by Pocket's response to the film,” says Allyn. “I have seen more Star Trek merchandise in stores, ranging from board games and t-shirts to breakfast cereal and candy, than at any time in the past. Five years ago, if you wanted Star Trek merchandise, you had to go out and find it. This spring, I couldn't avoid Star Trek if I tried. Spock was on the front of cereal boxes. The comparative dearth of Star Trek product from Pocket Books was conspicuous by its absence. It was as if the company had decided that the film was simply business as usual and planned accordingly...”
Read it here.
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| New Review at Unreality SF |
[Jul. 29th, 2009|08:33 pm] |
My review of Supernatural: Witch's Canyon by Jeff Mariotte is now up at Unreality SF:
"One of the bigger problems for me was that the novel is a bit too long for the story it tries to tell. It isn’t boring, but tends to drag a bit occasionally in my opinion. Some of the elements of the plot are really interesting, but in the end the formulaic storytelling tends to drown out those moments..."
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| German Star Trek line |
[Jul. 14th, 2009|06:48 pm] |
Not sure if anyone reading this really cares about this, but I figured since the German Star Trek line is expanding to one book a month later this year I could post the tentative and provisional list of planned titles here:
Note: Especially those titles with unannounced release dates are far away from being 100% confirmed.
Star Trek - The Next Generation
September 2009: Tod im Winter * Michael Jan Friedman
November 2009: Widerstand * J.M. Dillard
January 2010: Q&A * Keith R.A. DeCandido
March 2010: tba * Peter David
May 2010: Mehr als die Summe * Christopher L. Bennett
Star Trek - Deep Space Nine
October 2009: Offenbarung I * S.D. Perry
December 2009: Offenbarung II * S.D. Perry
April 2010: Der Abgrund * David Weedle & Jeffrey Lang
tba: Dämonen der Luft und der Dunkelheit * Keith R.A. DeCandido
tba: Mission Gamma I - Zwielicht * David R. George III
tba: Mission Gamma II - Dieser graue Geist * Heather Jarman
tba: Mission Gamma III - Kathedrale * Andy Mangels & Michael A. Martin
tba: Mission Gamma IV - Das kleinere Übel * Robert Simpson
tba: So der Sohn * S.D. Perry
tba: Einheit * S.D. Perry
tba: Die linke Hand des Schicksals I * J.G. Hertzler & Jeffrey Lang
tba: Die linke Hand des Schicksals II * J.G. Hertzler & Jeffrey Lang
tba: Die Welten von Star Trek - Deep Space Nine I * Una McCormack / Heather Jarman
tba: Die Welten von Star Trek - Deep Space Nine II * Andy Mangels & Michael A. Martin / J. Noah Kym
tba: Die Welten von Star Trek - Deep Space Nine III * Keith R.A. DeCandido / David R. George III
Star Trek - Titan
August 2009: Schwert des Damokles * Geoffrey Thorne
September 2010: Über ein reißendes Meer * Christopher L. Bennett
tba: Synthese * James Swallow
Star Trek - Vanguard
February 2010: Am Abgrund * David Mack
Star Trek - various
June 2010: Destiny - Götter der Nacht * David Mack
July 2010: Destiny - Gewöhnliche Sterbliche * David Mack
August 2010: Destiny - Verlorene Seelen * David Mack
tba: Ein Einzelschicksal * Keith R.A. DeCandido
P.S.: You can figure out yourself which book is which. ;P
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| My new article on Unreality SF: Strange New Worlds - A Look Back |
[Jun. 21st, 2009|07:39 pm] |
Strange New Worlds: A Look Back
"'Star Trek stories by the fans, for the fans.' That was the motto of the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds anthologies published by Pocket Books until 2007. Now, two years after the range’s demise, Unreality SF has gathered several people who were involved with SNW over the years - Allyn Gibson, William Leisner, Terri Osborne, Dean Wesley Smith, and Dayton Ward - to take a look back..."
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