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Enjoyer of science fiction, fantasy, comics, video games, whiskey and porn. Not necessarily in that order, and often at the same time. Mostly using this platform to log recently read novels. I occasionally repost and/or reply to adult content. Deal.
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The Backlash Mission, by Timothy Zahn The second Blackcollar book. Not much to say. I like Zahn generally. I liked the first book. I liked this one. I see there is a third in the series now, published quite a while after the first two. I'm sure I'll get to it eventually.

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Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett I held this one in reserve for the longest time, since it was the final proper Discworld novel (I've not really followed the Tiffany Aching books after Wee Free Men). It's okay. I feel the satirical edge was gone and it just tells a story. Which is fine, I suppose.

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Star Trek: TOS - Mindshadow, by J.M. Dillard I sort of vaguely remember liking this one, but in all honesty I have no memory of what it was about. I'm looking at synopses to refresh my memory, but absolutely nothing rings a bell.

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A Coming Of Age, by Timothy Zahn An interesting sort of YA novel. Basically a sci-fi mystery set on a world where children have telekinetic powers they lose as they enter adulthood. A middle of the road effort, but I continue to enjoy the variety of concept that Zahn brings to his works.

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Happy MILF Day 😘

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Did a Blade Runner poster 🦉

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Just doing goddess stuff ✨

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They never seem to remake/remaster games I actually want to play again. Where's my remake of Crimson Skies? The original PC game, please, though High Road To Revenge can get thrown in as a bonus if you like.

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Starter Villain, by John Scalzi Reliably Scalzi. Briskly paced, snarkily humorous, insightfully reality adjacent. The man has a talent for taking a questionable premise and writing an intelligent story around it.

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Secondborn, by Amy A. Bartol Not my usual fare, but a decent read. YA dystopian sci-fi-ish. I imagine it compares with Hunger Games, Divergent, etc. (I only know those from film). I liked it enough to go ahead and buy the sequels, but not enough to jump right into them. I'll get to them eventually.

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We Can Build You, by Philip K. Dick The only other PKD I've read was "Do Androids Dream...?", which I read decades ago due to being the Blade Runner fan that I am. I remember it being quite hard to follow. This felt much more coherent, but it's...uh. Mr. Dick was an odd duck.

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Welcome To The Monkey House, by Kurt Vonnegut I started reading this ages ago, finally got around to finishing it a month or two back. Looking at the story titles now, I honestly can't recall much about most of them. I remember liking them, but not many have stuck in memory for some reason.

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Star Trek: Picard - The Dark Veil, by James Swallow Continuing to fill in between TNG and Picard. We're just after the first book, following what's happening to Riker and Troi (and son) on the Titan. I enjoy how much more cohesive the novels are these days. The early ones (80s/90s) were often...not.

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Moonraker, by Ian Fleming I don't think there's much of anything in this one that ended up in any of the films. It's certainly nothing like the Moonraker film, which is to the good. The book is instead a proper 1950's spy novel. Beginning of the cold war, nuclear paranoia, fears of Nazi resurgence.

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Star Trek: TOS - The Pandora Principle, by Carolyn Clowes I really liked this one. A good story, but primarily it fills in a lot of Saavik's backstory. Where she's from, how she met Spock, how she landed in Starfleet, all of that.

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The Black Stiletto, by Raymond Benson This was fun. Pulp/comic book hero stuff. It does have a sort of self published feel to it, but I enjoyed it enough to grab the rest of the series, so...

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Tsalmoth, by Steven Brust I've always liked how you never know when you're going to be with the next Vlad Taltos book. This is the 16th, I think, but the 4th(?) chronologically. Unless another slips in somewhere down the road. It's nice that they work in just about any order.

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Warhorse, by Timothy Zahn I liked this one. I've read quite a few of Zahn's books now, and while he does have more than a couple of series, it's nice that he also has so many one-offs. Not everything needs to be a franchise.

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Battle Ground, by Jim Butcher Part 2 of Peace Talks, essentially. I'd held off reading these last couple of Dresden novels because I somehow had the idea they were the last. Seems I was wrong and there are a few more to come, plus a grand finale trilogy.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Contamination, by John Vornholt I couldn't recall this book without reading the description. Now that I'm remembering, I think it's because it isn't very Trek-y. A decent read, but it feels a bit like the TNG framing was shoehorned in after the fact.

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Star Trek: Picard The Last Best Hope, by Una McCormack Set before the Picard TV series, this one fills in the details leading up to Picard leaving Starfleet. I've read one of McCormack's DS9 novels and found it tedious, but this was excellent.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Survivors, by Jean Lorrah An early TNG novel that expands Tasha Yar's backstory and explores her relationship with Data a bit. It has been a couple months since I read it, and while I remember liking it, the actual plot has completely escaped my memory.

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Star Trek: TOS - The Entropy Effect, by Vonda N. McIntyre This was the first of the Pocket Books Trek novels (aside from the novelisation of the first film). Much better than most of the early stuff I've read. A proper sci-fi story and a real attempt to expand the characters. No lame fanfic here.

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At The Queen's Command, by Michael A. Stackpole I quite enjoyed this one. An alternate history of north american colonization set in a world with magic and dragons. Apparently there's a sequel, but a planned third hasn't happened due to publisher financial woe.

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Live And Let Die, by Ian Fleming Unlike Casino Royale, this one only vaguely resembles the film. Bits and pieces of it turn up in other Bond films, in fact. It's...pretty cringey. To be expected, I suppose. British white dude writing in the 1950's about black characters in New York/Jamaica? Heh.

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