| Interview with David Mack |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|08:59 pm] |
My new interview with David Mack is now online over at unreality-sf.net.
The main focus is Star Trek Vanguard - there's discussion of the recently-released Precipice, and talk about the series' future - but the conversation also takes in the forthcoming Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game and Mirror Universe: The Sorrows of Empire.
David also talks about More Beautiful Than Death, his 2010 followup to this year's Star Trek movie...
"The Enterprise crew is ordered to escort Ambassador Sarek to a dilithium-rich planet called Akiron, which has sent out a planetary distress signal. When the Enterprise crew reaches Akiron, they find that the planet is under siege by dark-energy creatures that some of the planet’s more religious denizens believe are demons. In short order, one calamity after another puts our heroes in jeopardy. Sarek begins trying to pull diplomatic rank so he can pull the plug on the mission, and young Captain Kirk must fend off this unexpected challenge to his still-fragile command authority.
As Kirk sinks himself, his crew, and his ship deeper into danger with each passing minute, he finds his own beliefs in a rational universe challenged by a mystic who insists it’s no coincidence that has brought Kirk to Akiron but rather the alien equivalent of a Karmic debt. Meanwhile, one of Sarek’s young Vulcan aides has a sinister agenda - and its chief objective appears to be the cold-blooded murder of Spock."
Read the interview in full here. |
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| Unreality update |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|10:10 pm] |
Haven't posted much about my work for Unreality SF lately, so here's a little update.
One new interview is currently in the works, with another one already agreed on for late December/early January. I also have a tentative plan to have a new interview next year almost every month and maybe throw in an article or two if I come by an interesting topic..
It's kind of weird, had anybody told me only 1 1/2 years ago that I would have more than half a dozen Interviews conducted with authors (I don't really count the first too co-credited to me on my about page on Unreality because I only contributed a question or two to each of them) by the end of 2009 I would've showed them the way to the next asylum, and yet her I am planning on more than doubling that number over the course of the next year.
Since it was Thanksgiving a few days ago in the US, I guess now is an as good time as ever to thank the authors and non-authors who talked to me either for interviews or articles - you made all that really easy for me and I hope it was nearly as much fun for you as it was for me.
Last but not least I want to thank Dan for his editing, support and patience when I'm once again way behind on my reviews like at the moment. :) |
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| 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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| 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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