Member: Stevil2001

Library1,232 books — see library

Reviews108 reviews — see reviews

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Tagssf (870), star trek (417), star wars (175), tos (162), literature (152), doctor who (140), nonfic (124), anthology (117), unread (98), tng (92) — see all tags

GroupsCombiners!, Science Fiction Fans

Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, L. Frank Baum, Octavia E. Butler, Italo Calvino, Paul Cornell, Diane Duane, C.S. Forester, Elizabeth George, David Gerrold, Ursula K. Le Guin, Barbara Hambly, Stanislaw Lem, Lawrence Miles, Anne Sexton, E. E. Smith, Mary Stewart, Oscar Wilde (Shared favorites)

About me I'm a recent college graduate, currently working as an administrative assistant/document control clerk for a major international colorants corporation, but hoping to get into a graduate program in literature for next year. (Fingers crossed.) I have a B.A. in literature (useless) and a B.S. in language arts education (also useless because I didn't student teach, didn't get licensed, and no longer have any desire to teach high school).

I'm also a barely published author; with my secret writing partner Michael Schuster, I've published three pieces of Star Trek fiction: the electronic novella S.C.E. #62: What's Past, Book Two: The Future Begins and two short stories in The Next Generation: The Sky's the Limit, titled "Meet with Triumph and Disaster" and "Trust Yourself When All Men Doubt You".

About my library It's a lot of tie-in fiction. Since 1999, I've bought almost every Star Trek book as it's come out, and the vast majority of Star Wars books as well. With Doctor Who, I'm much more picky and choosy because they're so dang expensive over here! Unfortunately, the ones I tend to pick and choose are the expensive ones!

I'm trying to expand my general sf and general literature reading, but it's hard to do when I can scarcely afford what I already do buy. I typically allow myself to visit the used bookstore and splurge at irregular intervals.

TAGS
- Everything in my library is tagged by genre (literature, sf, fantasy, mystery, comics, and nonfic).
- Below this is series. There can be a lot of series tags in the cases of some tie-ins. (For example, Twilight by David R. George III is tagged "sf, star trek, ds9, ds9 relaunch, mission gamma". And I feel like there's worse.)
- Since the point of tagging is to unite things, I typically don't tag the series on a book where I don't intend to get other volumes in that series. (I'm never going to pick up another book of Kevin J. Anderson's The Saga of the Seven Suns, for example.)
- There's a few-- very few-- type tags within "nonfic": episode guide, literary crit, digital narrative, education, technical manual, dictionary, writing. These tend to be tags I have specific needs for.
- "unread" means that I've never read the content in any way shape or form, but I probably will. So Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid isn't tagged "unread" even though I haven't read my copy because I did borrow a copy from the library before I bought it, and An Introduction to the Study of American Literature isn't tagged "unread" because even though I haven't read it, I doubt I ever will.
- "anthology" means that a book contains work by multiple authors. So it could be a straight-up anthology, but it could also be an omnibus of a couple novels or novellas or comic books or something.
- There's a couple other tags for form: "novelization" is for adaptations of a film or television script; "drama" is for plays; "scripts" is for film or television scripts; "poetry" is pretty obvious.
- "prequel" is for Star Wars books that take place in and around the prequel movies. So Path of Destruction, for example, doesn't get tagged with it because it's too far back.
- "asimov" is the only author with a tag because of the number of derivative works by other authors that fit into his universe(s). "galaxia" is the title I have coined for his Robots/Empire/Foundation sequence.
- "nonestica" is the title I have coined for the realm where L. Frank Baum's Oz and Oz-related tales occur. "famous forty" refers to the so-called canonical forty books that run from The Wizard of Oz to Merry-Go-Round in Oz. (I'd have a "quasi-canonical six" tag if I owned any of them.)
- "omnibus" exclusively refers to Dark Horse's Star Wars Omnibus reprints. And "special edition" to the two installments of the Jedi Apprentice series with that subtitle.
- "mirror universe" is for those Star Trek books labeled Star Trek: Mirror Universe, whereas "mirror universe trilogy" is for the three William Shatner books. Similarly, "merlin adaptation" is for the three-part novelization of the NBC Merlin miniseries, while "merlin trilogy" is for Mary Stewart's four-part depiction of the Merlin/Arthur cycle.

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