Anybody still here?

[melannen]

Hi! Um. It's been awhile. I am sorry. I'm afraid I let entropy win for awhile there.

But I do want this community to live!

Does anyone have any Star Trek Book related fanworks from the past few months they want to mention here?

Is anyone interested in re-starting the read-through? (I have the rest of the Rihannsu books ready. I just ... never posted them.)

Is anyone interested in becoming a co-mod? Your primary duty would be to start discussion posts when the community is being too quiet.

I'll start things off: As a companion to ljc's T'Kay Stories, based on Vulcan mythology from "Spock's World" and "Uhura's Song", I recently posted some artifacts relating to Vulcan Mythology that I found at Starfleet Academy's Annapolis library, along with discussion of their provenance and historical significance.

Comments

[mllesays]

Hi! I never got a chance to participate before (I wasn't at dw often enough to keep up), but I'd love to get a chance now.

I think re-starting the read-through would be a good idea. I'd need a chance to catch up to everyone else though.

[melannen]

At this point, I think *everybody* would need a chance to catch up. Or at least review.

[starlady]

I'm still here, and I'd definitely be up for a read-through. One possible idea I have: at some point in the future members could lead read-throughs/discussions of their favorite non-Rihannsu Trek books?

...And now I'm thinking of finishing that sequel to my Treknovelfest fic.

[melannen]

Members can lead discussions or activities of any kind at any time they want, period (as long at it's star-trek-novel related, of course) :D

Would a sign-up sheet with a schedule for members leading discussions be a good idea? It would certainly cut down on the work for me, which is always a good thing.

We were going to move on to other books after we finished Rihannsu anyway! We just ... never got through Rihannsu. Because I suck.

sequel sequel yay!

[sineala]

*fights the Lone Power for you* Wait, wrong fandom! (...Or not! There are Sulamids in both!)

I would be up for more readthrough. I have now purchased the Rihannsu books on my Kindle (this is, I think, the third time I've bought most of them), so I am set. I just need to read them again. Oh, the hardship.

I would also like this community to live. Because this community is made of awesome. *makes note to self: post more, lurk less*

[melannen]

Actually, there's a sentient dolphin in one of her Next Generation novels who talks about the Song of the Twelve. So they are *totally* the same fandom. :D (Also, the Doctor shows up in one of the YW novels, so by the law of fandom transitiveness, my half-finished Jack Harkness/K't'lk PWP is not technically a crossover.)

Wounded Sky actually covers a lot of the same mystical/moral/metaphorical ground re:entropy etc as YW, only inside-out-and-backwards. I would kind of really love to see an extended discussion of Wounded Sky as taking place in the Young Wizards pleroma, with K't'lk in the part of Sa'rrahh. :D

Post more, lurk less: one of those wonderful ideas that's harder than it sounds.

[sineala]

Oh man, I totally forgot about Hwiii until right now. And he's one of my favorite of DD's nonhumans and everything.

I remembered the Dairine-Doctor scene, though. I definitely am interested in reading Jack Harkness/K't'lk. (My cross-species kink, let me show you it.) I think we can safely conclude that pretty much all of Diane Duane's works are in the same universe, what with Stealing the Elf King's Roses also being in YW. (Not sure how the Tale of the Five fits, but am thinking about it.)

I think one of the things I love so much about Wounded Sky is that it reads, to me, as a rougher and more raw version of the way entropy is handled in the YW-verse. It's less codified and refined by in-universe magic rules, but I think I like it better.

...sa'Rrahh is the cats' Lone Power, right? How do you see that working? *is curious* Man, now I have to reread those. Hmm.

[melannen]

Tale of the Five is totally in YW-verse; Herewiss S'Haern is one of the listed authors of the Book of Night with Moon. (Also, I am convinced that the Doctor occasionally visits there to talk non-linearity with the Dragons. Prydon castle has to have gotten its name from *somewhere*, after all.)

K't'lk is totally the Power who brought entropy to the Universe in Wounded Sky! Only she did it *right*, that time. One of the things that fascinates me thinking about it is that while entropy is handled in a more raw way in Wounded Sky, it's also in a much more clearly *ambiguous* way than in YW - entropy is pain, but anentropia, sometimes, is *worse*; the ambiguity is there in places in YW, but it's never as inescapable.

[klangley56]

I'm here too. I just seem to be out of sync with the group--whatever book y'all are on at a given moment, I'm on another one. :-)

[melannen]

starlady, above, suggested switching to member-led read-throughs - so you can lead a discussion on whatever book *you're* on! Would you be interested in doing that? I like the idea.

*waves cheerily*

[elke_tanzer]

I'm still here but am still very far behind on all of my book-reading.

*eyes stacks of books beside the bed dubiously*

:-)

Re: *waves cheerily*

[melannen]

I have just discovered the acronym SABLE that yarn fiends use - it means "Stash Accumulated Beyond Life Expentancy". I am trying to come up with a similar acronym for books. :D (It seems like it ought to be able to spell TROUBLE - To Read something something Beyond Life Expectancy. Because at my current reading rate, I literally have fifty years' worth of books on my to-read pile. If I never acquire any more ever.)

[stellar_dust]

I think a sign-up list is a good idea - how about something like what poetry's started doing, have a post where people sign up to lead discussion about $my_favorite_trek_novel for whichever two-week period they get tagged for it by the mod? And once you get that list of books people want to lead, you can just drop all the relevant ebooks somewhere for people to dl and read at leisure.

(I call dibs on Shadows on the Sun if we do this, btw!)