Gratuitous Cross-Pimpage
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caitriSo I've been revamping Hal's scifi blog for work, and now present to you Just a Sci-Fi Kid Like Me: Notes from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection at Texas A&M. I'm going to aim to do two posts there a week. I'm planning on showing off items from the collection, discussing the history of the genre, doing some book and movie reviews, and hopefully talking people into aiding and abetting for content. :D
The first post reblogs links to blog posts about a tour I did last Monday. Links to same are here:
Sci-Fi Excursion to College Station.
Space Squid Travels to College Station.
A Three-Hour Tour, A Three-Hour Tour.
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In other news I've had a cold this weekend. I think it's stress just trying to make me shut down and sleep for a while. I have a bunch of work deadlines and things have just been generally stressful, so I've spent most of the past twenty-four hours making tea and cuddling with the animals on the couch. My ADD has been extra-problematic so I've been sitting there with like four books I'm in the midst of reading and thus not getting very far in any of them. (In case you're wondering: Margaret Wander Bonanno's most recent Star Trek novel, Unspoken Truth, Meg Cabot's vampire novel, Insatiable, Cassandra Clare's Clockwork Angel, and Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth.)
Because random thoughts are random, I'm really looking forward to this when it comes out next month:
The only description listed thus far is: A new Starfleet Academy series for teens--filled with romance and adventure! This is both vague and amusing, particularly the teen part, because if it's AOS they *have* to touch on the Spock/Uhura romance, which is a teacher/student relationship, which just--yeah. Wow. Unless they make the Kirk/McCoy even MORE canonical, which unlikely, BUT. :D That is all.
Okay I'm going to go back to the couch now. There's a couple of chick-flicks that I think will be more entertaining if viewed through Tylenol and honey darjeeling.
The first post reblogs links to blog posts about a tour I did last Monday. Links to same are here:
Sci-Fi Excursion to College Station.
Space Squid Travels to College Station.
A Three-Hour Tour, A Three-Hour Tour.
~
In other news I've had a cold this weekend. I think it's stress just trying to make me shut down and sleep for a while. I have a bunch of work deadlines and things have just been generally stressful, so I've spent most of the past twenty-four hours making tea and cuddling with the animals on the couch. My ADD has been extra-problematic so I've been sitting there with like four books I'm in the midst of reading and thus not getting very far in any of them. (In case you're wondering: Margaret Wander Bonanno's most recent Star Trek novel, Unspoken Truth, Meg Cabot's vampire novel, Insatiable, Cassandra Clare's Clockwork Angel, and Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth.)
Because random thoughts are random, I'm really looking forward to this when it comes out next month:
The only description listed thus far is: A new Starfleet Academy series for teens--filled with romance and adventure! This is both vague and amusing, particularly the teen part, because if it's AOS they *have* to touch on the Spock/Uhura romance, which is a teacher/student relationship, which just--yeah. Wow. Unless they make the Kirk/McCoy even MORE canonical, which unlikely, BUT. :D That is all.
Okay I'm going to go back to the couch now. There's a couple of chick-flicks that I think will be more entertaining if viewed through Tylenol and honey darjeeling.
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Date: 2010-10-03 10:22 pm (UTC)I did suspect we were going to get a revolving door of Kirk the campus bicycle with the whole bit about adventure and romance. Makes me want to get my Trixie Belden's out and re-read them.
On Kirk's rack, we decided that a fanfic with Scotty doing a transport of some cadets ends up with one of the boys with a rack... Scotty could be at the Academy and if he stuffs up like that, they might not have actually met. :D Also in the future there it would be so easy to find attractive bras for those who are a larger size. Cue the Gaila giving Kirk advice on which ones to use...
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Date: 2010-10-03 10:25 pm (UTC)And I'm sure where there's Kirk, there's McCoy.
I was looking out of morbid curiosity to see if they still did open ms submissions for Trek novels, cos if they did, I'd be ON THAT. But either they don't or if they do I couldn't find it.
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Date: 2010-10-03 10:34 pm (UTC)They are such co-dependents together aren't they?
What else I would really like answered is why the jumpsuits for the KM test have little hooks on the back of them. Do they hang up the cadets when they are finished with them?
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Date: 2010-10-03 10:37 pm (UTC)