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Dec. 8th, 2009 11:36 amI kind of want to play a drinking game with Diane Duane's Star Trek novels. Every time she mentions entropy: sip! Every time she references Hortas just because she thinks they're loltastic: sip! Every time she does a hilariously blatant crossover over with the Young Wizards books: drain the glass!
Which is to say, I finally read the two other Star Trek novels that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
genarti lent me this summer, The Wounded Sky and Spock's World.
The Wounded Sky . . . okay, it really is hilarious just HOW MUCH of a Young Wizards crossover it is. The crew teams up with an alien glass spiderwizard physicist who explains that their physics work by defining something, and then changing that definition! ( Spoilers ) I honestly kept expecting Kit and Nita to show up with their manuals.
Also, I kind of shipped Scotty/Alien Glass Spider Physicist, and I don't think I'm wrong to do so.
Spock's World is less of a blatant crossover, but the word entropy still shows up often enough that you could get relatively tipsy if you chose to play my drinking game with the book. Premise: Vulcan is debating whether or not to secede from the Federation. Sarek gets called back to argue for secession, Kirk and McCoy and Spock to argue against, and Diane Duane basically takes the whole premise as an excuse to point out "HEY YOU KNOW PLANETS ARE COMPLEX PLACES AND NOT ALL VULCANS ARE THE SAME," which is a thing very much worth pointing out, and it's kind of adorable. She also intersperses the narrative with short-story snippets from along the course of Vulcan's development, most of which are full of TRAGEDY, except for the Sarek/Amanda one which is basically the book wavig its ship flag high. It's all a lot of fun, except for one thing . . . ( Spoilers for a problematic lady! ) There certainly were several awesome lady characters that popped up over the course of the story, so it's not like it ruined the book for me, but . . . it did make me sort of depressed. Problematic portrayals of ladies: like Kate Beaton's pony, in a way.
Also, something that made me the opposite of depressed: receiving all those lovely snow cookies! Every time I look at my profile now I make a :DDDDDDDDD-face. Thank you guys so much! <3
Which is to say, I finally read the two other Star Trek novels that
genarti lent me this summer, The Wounded Sky and Spock's World.The Wounded Sky . . . okay, it really is hilarious just HOW MUCH of a Young Wizards crossover it is. The crew teams up with an alien glass spider
Also, I kind of shipped Scotty/Alien Glass Spider Physicist, and I don't think I'm wrong to do so.
Spock's World is less of a blatant crossover, but the word entropy still shows up often enough that you could get relatively tipsy if you chose to play my drinking game with the book. Premise: Vulcan is debating whether or not to secede from the Federation. Sarek gets called back to argue for secession, Kirk and McCoy and Spock to argue against, and Diane Duane basically takes the whole premise as an excuse to point out "HEY YOU KNOW PLANETS ARE COMPLEX PLACES AND NOT ALL VULCANS ARE THE SAME," which is a thing very much worth pointing out, and it's kind of adorable. She also intersperses the narrative with short-story snippets from along the course of Vulcan's development, most of which are full of TRAGEDY, except for the Sarek/Amanda one which is basically the book wavig its ship flag high. It's all a lot of fun, except for one thing . . . ( Spoilers for a problematic lady! ) There certainly were several awesome lady characters that popped up over the course of the story, so it's not like it ruined the book for me, but . . . it did make me sort of depressed. Problematic portrayals of ladies: like Kate Beaton's pony, in a way.
Also, something that made me the opposite of depressed: receiving all those lovely snow cookies! Every time I look at my profile now I make a :DDDDDDDDD-face. Thank you guys so much! <3
