From: South Central (Tamazunchale@web72tv.net) Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:54:05 -0700 Subject: Space1999: OT-What is everyone reading these days? I am reading/just read (within the last 3 months): Tar Baby (Toni Morrison) And We Are Not Saved (Derek Bell) Dark City (Frank Lauria) The Trial (Franz Kafka) ST:DS9 Trials and Tribblations (Diane Carey) The Motorcycle Diaries (Ernesto "Che" Guevara) Alien Seed (E.C. Tubb) The Rodrigo Chronicles (Richard Delgado) 3001 (Arthur C. Clarke) It's not that I have a lot of time (or don''t have a life--believe me with four kids...) but I commute to work (and everywhere else) on the bus. I read on every trip. Anyone ever try to bus to work in L.A.? Ever hear of the phrase, "Going nowhere fast"? Try, "Going somewhere very, very slowly"! Mateo
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 18:22:42 -0700 From: Mark Eidemiller (skylab@e-39-z.net) Subject: Re: Space1999: OT-What is everyone reading these days? Interesting off-topic: Okay, here's a partial list (not in any order, by the way) - How Few Remain (Harry Turtledove) Spectre (William Shatner) Lost In Space (novelization of the movie) ST: New Frontiers #6, "Fire On High" Millenium's Eve (Ed Stewart) Millenium's Dawn (Ed Stewart) Most of the paperbacks are "browsers" through my library. All but the Turtledove book came from the library. Now, in the wings, we have waiting: ST: DS9, "Far Beyond The Stars" Doomsday Flight (Ed Stewart) The Ringworld Engineers (Larry Niven) And this doesn't count books on tape, Bible reading, or instructional books (like the two I have on beginning chess or vocabulary building). Next.....?
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 21:51:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ellen C. Lindow" (sfdxb@scfn-thpl-lib-fl-us) Subject: Re: Space1999: OT-What is everyone reading these days? As a librarian by profession, I always have something I'm reading. usually more than one something. Right now I'm reading: Moonrise by Ben Bova-- a must for all moonbase fans! Timeline Wars by Barnes Vulcan Forge by Swartz and somebody or other Letters from the Inside by Marsden Lasso the Moon--a Newberry Honor book, can't remember the author Lucky You by Hiaasen-- If you've never read a Hiaasen book you're in for a real treat. They're all laugh-out-loud hilarious. Recently finished, the latest Newberry winner: Out of the Dust by Hesse, and incredible look at Oklahoma in the 1930's though the eyes of a teenage girl; written in free verse poetry, no less! I'm in complete awe. While reading it I kept finding people to read passages out loud to.
From: "Brian Dowling" (brian@hell40ion.prestel.co.uk) Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 07:58:43 +0000 Subject: Re: Space1999: OT-What is everyone reading these days? Hi folks, As a geek by profession, I often have my head stuck in some kind of software or hardware manuals. Isn't that sad? Here's my reading list of the last few weeks or so: '48 - James Herbert's Nazi future/Doomwatch story Iceberg - David Banks - a Doctor Who New Adventure with Cybermen The Annals of Imperial Rome - Tacitus Frankenstein According to Spike Milligan Mosciano & Kennedy - HTML - The Definitive Guide Panasonic DBS Telephone System operations manual Microsoft - Networking Essentials
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 19:58:36 -0400 From: Patricia Embury (Patriemb@sprint87mail.com) Subject: Space1999: What am I reading Here's what I've been perusing on and off: Creating Web Pages for Dummies by Bud Smith & Arthur Beback Babylon 5 Book #3 Blood Oath by John Vornholt X-wing Wraith Squadron by Aaron Allston upcoming: An Exchange of Hostages by Susan R. Matthews
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 22:02:03 From: "Phillip C. Merkel" (captphil@unix.asb4tag.com) Subject: Re: Space1999: What am I reading Nice suggestion from Mateo for a list of what we're all reading lately. I hope you won't find it too off topic from Space 1999 as I've always had an interest in what my friends were reading even if its only email. It gives these email messages some more...background...and reality to them. Sort of like when one of us mails the list for support. Anyway, if I am off topic please excuse me, here is whats on my reading list for the last month or two. Currently reading Space 1999: Phoenix of Megaron Only because of Mateos suggestion to read the year one originals. Phoenix was the first one I grabbed off the shelf that I remembered wasn't a novelization. Not bad work but the I feel the writers heart isn't in it. These media tie ins are usually written on a tight schedule though. It does seem to capture the characters better and the even though the situation is a very contrived one I am interested which is a good sign. I'm around page 50 or so. JUST Finished: 1. Contact by Carl Sagan (Real good and I loved the movie. IMHO the best SF film of the '90s) 2 &3. Babylon 5 Season by season guides #3 and #4 by Jane Killick (English guides that are wonderful companion books to watching the series. Go to UK Bookpages.com to buy them or wait for Del Rey books to republish them.) 4. Babylon 5 Book #7 The Shadow Within by Jeanne Cavelos (Good if your a fan, if your not don't bother) 5. Babylon 5 Book #9 To Dream in the City of Sorrow by Kathryn Drennan (Also good and fills in a lot of blanks but slightly slow) 6. The Babylon file by Andy Lane Terrific! my second or third time through. Everytime I see an episode rerun of B5 I want to recheck Andy's comments on it. A wonderful book and I would recommend it to anyone not just the B5 fans. 7. Galaxy: The Dark and Light Years by (I forgot + I can't find my copy right now!) A history of Galaxy Magazine. Only if you really like SF history. Phil's Hall of Shame! 1. Sphere by Michael Crighton (Terrible, oh the pain!) 2. Babylon 5 #8 (50 pages in and set it down. I can't even remember the title right now but it was too much work to read. Terrible job.) 3. Earthfall by EC Tubb (I didn't have that high a hope for this work but since I ran operation Earthfall II I thought I should at least read it. I got all the way to where the Alphan children are grown up. Then I had to stop or take mind altering drugs to stop my brain from imploding. Very painfull and too preachy) 4. The 1st book of the Dumerest series by EC Tubb. (I wanted to read some non 1999 Tubb since he was/is the author of most of the 1999 novels. Since this wasn't work for hire (Converting scripts into books aka slightly creative typing) I thought it would be good. I was wrong. I did get to the end though but couldn't care less what happened to Dumarest in the future) Phils best books ever!!!! Just the short list no comments here. If you see anything that interests you here mail me off list as I am in really off topic territory here. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester This Is The Way the World Ends by James Morrow Repent! Harliquin! Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison (Read it over and over when my son was born. I don't know why) The Green Mile by Stephan King Infinity Hold by Barry Longyear Mefisto In Onyx by Harlan Ellison A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge Thanks for reading! Sorry if I rambled but the topic was really really interesting to me! Hope I didn't overkill it. : - ) Phil M captphil@unix.asb.com Currently reading: Contact by Carl Sagan
From: "Mark Meskin" (plastic.gravity@new89rock.com) Subject: Space1999: What am I reading Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 19:27:25 -0500 What I'm reading? E-mail, duh!! Actually I don't get much time to read much beyond my E-mail lately....and that kinda sucks. Mark
From: djlerda@ju44no.com Subject: Space1999: What is everyone reading? Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 22:26:39 EDT UniData User's Guide to Recall and Update Strategy and Tactics Magazine # 188 - "Kiev & Rostov: Battles of Army Group South, 1941" That, unfortunately is IT. I haven't had much time for any pleasure reading which is a shame since I love to read. I'm taking a trip to Denver next week and I've thought about picking up 3001 since it's now in paperback. Anyone out there read it? I liked 2010 but I hated 2061. Any advice?
From: "Mark Meskin" (plastic.gravity@new102rock.com) Subject: Re: Space1999: What is everyone reading? Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 22:15:19 -0500 Oddly enough, I read part of it, a chapter actually. It seems much more interesting a premise than 2061, which I thought was OK, and I think I'll have to pick it up as well. It came with the speech recognition software that was installed on my new laptop. You read the passages out loud, the computer analyzes how you speak, thus improving the accuracy of the speech recognition. For those of you who like neww technology and gadgets, this program is for you, it Dragon Systems- Naturally Speaking. I like it, but I feel stupid talking to notebook when other's are around :-(
From: "Petter Ogland" (petter.ogland@dnmi9gat.no) Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 09:17:46 +0000 Subject: Re: Space1999: What am I reading Phillip C. Merkel wrote: > 3. Earthfall by EC Tubb (I didn't have that high a hope for this work but > since I ran operation Earthfall II I thought I should at least read it. I > got all the way to where the Alphan children are grown up. Then I had to > stop or take mind altering drugs to stop my brain from imploding. Very > painfull and too preachy) I was one of the lucky ones to benefit from Operation Earthfall II, and although I haven't read all of EARTHFALL yet, I enjoyed the beginning part about the BREAKAWAY incident very much. All characters were drawn in a very non-heroic mold, almost unsympathetic, which I found suited the scenario very much. Presently I'm reading THE DILBERT FUTURE by Scott Adams, and I am enjoying it very much. Bascially what he is saying fits nicely in with the WIRED magazine type of predictions, but his emphasis on world wide stupidity is quite fascinating and rather thought-provoking. Before that I read THE GREAT GATSBY by John Scott-Fitzgerald, a very charming book, I feel. I also liked the 1974 film very much, although I'm not a great fan of Robert Redford. Bruce Dern had an interesting role, a very good interpretation of his character in the novel, I think. Petter
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 08:50:42 -0400 From: Mike Lynch (Mike-Lynch@big44foot.com) Organization: LSRO To: Online Alpha (space1999@buff19net.net) Subject: Re: Space1999: What is everyone reading? Well, lately I've been so pre-occupied with my web site that I haven't really been doing much reading, but here's a list of everything I've read in the past 6 months (though not necessarily in order): Dune - Frank Herbert Dune: Messiah - Frank Herbert (I will eventually read all of the Dune series) Alien Resurrection (film adaptation) - A.C. Crispen The Making of Alien Resurrection - Andrew Murdock & Rachel Aberly Space: 1999: Breakaway - E.C. Tubb Space: 1999: Collision Course - E.C. Tubb Space: 1999: Alien Seed - E.C. Tubb Exploring Space: 1999 - John Kenneth Muir
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 14:15:33 +0000 From: Ina Litera (ilitera@idt4tag.net) Subject: Re: Space1999: What am I reading Welcome Ariana, My reading is way off topic. Just finished Solo Variations, by Casandra Garbus. Interesting, especially if your into the the oboe,reed making insanity and freelance music. Lurking quietly, Ina
From: "Ariana" (ariana6@usa-net) Subject: Re: Space1999: What am I reading Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 17:21:15 +0100 Hello everyone! I'm a newbie on the list (only subbed yesterday, in fact), so I thought I'd take the opportunity of this thread to bounce in and introduce myself (and answer the topic). My name is Emma and I currently live in ITC's homeland, though I've lived most of my life in France. I first discovered "Space:1999" as "Cosmos:1999" on French television and spent many of my formative years wanted to *be* Maya (I'm sure I can't be the only one :). BBC2 has just started showing "Space" again, and that reminded me (and my offline boyfriend) how much I liked the series -- whence my presence here. But enough personal stuff, now on to the topic: Most of what I've read in the last year has been fanfiction from another SciFi fandom, but I've resolved to read some decent stuff more recently. My current book is "Bonjour Tristesse" by Françoise Sagan (famous book, but I never got around to reading it before). Next in line is Something Completely Different -- Hal Clement's "Mission of Gravity". I read it many years ago, and wanted to refresh my memory. That's all for now. Glad to make everyone's acquaintance. Emma