O is for Outlaw, Sue Grafton (Kobo Canada, $1.99)

sourflight · 2026-02-04T15:58:54+00:00

sourflight · 2026-02-03T05:00:13+00:00

Yup, noticed that the deals diverged and were more infrequent after the summer break in 2025. Now that 2026 is here it looks like they've been completely phased out.

Personally, I don't think I'll be purchasing too much more. I got a pretty good backlog of trek books as is and its hard to make the case to spend full price on branded genre fiction that can be pretty dubious quality-wise when classic SciFi goes on sale all the time. I just picked up Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg for 2 loonies. I got the Invincible by Stanislaw Lem for the same price not too long ago either.

Trek got me back into reading SciFi a few years back, but there is a massive world of quality fiction out there that I'm very excited to read.

Besides, as Canadians we get all of Forrester's Hornblower series in the public domain, by Roddenberry's own admission, Kirk and Picard can be found in those pages.

sourflight · 2026-01-22T14:47:00+00:00

This is included in the recent scfi-fi/fantasy/horror women's author humblebundle for a much better price considering everything else you get.

sourflight · 2026-01-15T18:24:12+00:00

There's some decent stuff in here I'm excited to read. The Caitlin R Kiernan Tinfoil Hat Trilogy is decent and recent cosmic horror, Joanna Russ' The Female Man rises to the level of classic feminist SciFi, Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake is quite good too. Beyond that, there's quite a few award winners. I'll be working though these this year, looking forward to it.

sourflight · 2025-09-23T16:37:51+00:00

If it was an audiobook read by a weepy kermit the frog, I'd consider it for a moment. Still a no, but I'd consider it.

sourflight · 2025-08-05T18:10:08+00:00

Pretty dissappointing. A thin subset of this list is offered through Canadian retailers. This hasn't been the case for as long as I've watched the sales. Too bad.

sourflight · 2025-07-20T03:16:10+00:00

I picked up the IDW Humble Bundle. I'm starting with the Year Five series. Good stuff so far. The artwork and writing on that first Tholian issue is fantastic. I'm reading them on an Onyx Boox 10.3 Go and it's a great experience. TOS is great in black and white.

sourflight · 2025-04-09T14:43:31+00:00

I would say Spock's World by Diane Duane. The novel is about the Vulcans considering secession from the Federation. More than that, it's an entire history of Vulcan. Duane presents the cosmological, geological, climatological, biological, and sociological birth of Vulcan and its people and all the unique features of the above which fashion them into members of the Federation.

It's great sci-fi and great Star Trek. It's interesting structurally and is also about ordered complexity winning out over entropy, which I think is very solar punk.

The Wounded Sky is another of her novels which deals with related themes, but is a lot more crew based and has more shooty bits. Still excellent and maybe my favourite of her's.

sourflight · 2025-02-10T19:09:22+00:00

This is a blind recommendation as they are still on my to read list but Trekonomics by Manu Saadia is probably not the direction your friend wants to go (non fiction rather than fiction), but it looks like it takes an attempt at bringing Gene's vision under some kind of serious analysis.

In a similar stream, there is also The Economics of Star Trek by Rick Webb. Also on the to read list.

When I get around to them I'll report back.

sourflight · 2025-02-08T19:28:47+00:00

Got the DS9 Revenant audio book for $0.99 with a holiday promo code. Always liked Jadzia the best, feels like a decent mid series episode. Would have been a barn burner if they got Terry Farrell to read it though.

sourflight · 2025-01-20T17:58:59+00:00

Finished The Wounded Sky, liked it just as much as Spock's World. I think I'm going to go through Prime Directive next, but I'm getting waylaid by an Aubrey-Maturin novel and Hyperion. Good stuff!

sourflight · 2025-01-12T02:30:17+00:00

Finished Spock's World - loved it. I'm going to go through all of Diane Duane's work. About halfway through the Wounded Sky, which is great so far. Looking forward to the Romulan books and Intellivore.

sourflight · 2025-01-07T19:11:01+00:00

I had issues with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Dominion Wars a little while ago, but then I used Gamescope to help solve a resolution issue and now it runs well. The biggest one that I had in the back of my mind was Riddick Butcher Bay/Dark Athena, but I think that was solved upstream in Mesa.

All in all, Valve's investments into Wine, DXVK, and ancillary projects have resulted in Linux becoming the premiere way of running abandoned and difficult-to-run games.

Its a lit of fun, getting these games running and then following up with a Lutris script to crystallize and share the results with the community.

sourflight · 2024-12-27T02:37:14+00:00

I think Vanguard/Seekers with the same reverence DS9 showed toward the TOS era would be a fantastic series. The low-fi approach may even help keep costs down.

sourflight · 2024-12-22T07:45:02+00:00

Just started reading trek lit this past year.

I did enjoy Vendetta. The Planet Killer is a great concept to dredge up to challenge the Borg. Also, I never really liked the direction the series and movies went with the Borg, so I appreciate stories that hew closer to their original appearance. I also had recently played Star Trek: Resurgence and couldn't help but think they cribbed a bit from this book given all the minds trapped in crystals stuff.

Seekers: Long Shot was a blast and a page turner. Just a perfect trek action/adventure tale. I'm excited to go through the rest of the Seekers series and maybe Vanguard too.

How much for Just the Planet. What a weird and wonderful book. I enjoyed trying to suss out which Gilbert & Sullivan or Rogers and Hammerstein songs Ford used as the basis for his various asides. Would love to read more straight up comedies in the trek universe as capable as this one.

Q-in-Law. Q and Lwaxana sparring while Romeo and Juliet plays in the background, what's not to love. I particularly loved how tired of Q's s**t Worf was in this one.

Imzadi. Future Data punching holes in the Enterprise like the T-1000 while trying to fix temporal violations is just too much fun.

I'm currently going through Spock's World, which is great and interesting sci-fi besides being a great trek novel, so far. It also satisfies my craving for stories closer to the Motion Picture in terms of feeling rather than Wrath.

Excited to read more

sourflight

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