My month is going wonderful, but sometimes in the midnight power outages occur which sucks like there'll be nothing to suck tomorrow along with my studies I am reading some science fiction novellas... Specifically star Trek: the adventures of Captain Kirk. I love reading science fiction and well audio games I used to play redspot but now my exams are coming and considering that sometimes I used to spend hours on that game I had to abruptly-quite abruptly! Leave that game but I will be back

Hi there. It's now August and still I haven't find something where I can earn money. I started searching job last March but here I am, still hunting. The unemployment is now really haunting me. Lol.

Anyway, since science fiction has been mentioned, I'm not a huge fan of science fiction. What I love is horror and thriller. How I wish there's a game that combines horror and adventure or horror and thriller or thriller and adventure or 3 in one package.

Before I don't care about tomorrows but all these times I'll not quit waiting for tomorrow if tomorrow will be for us. Just a random thing.

Dark, that book you read reminded me of this book which you might like, I did.

Needle
Clement, Hal
The Hunter, a protoplasmic alien creature from the stars, crashes on Earth while pursuing an escaped criminal of his species. In order to survive and continue the search, he must inhabit the body of a human host, which he finds in fifteen-year-old Bob Kinnaird. Alien symbionte and human host form a lasting friendship and together track down the criminal.

The beginning was very interesting because right after the crash the alien is for the most part helpless and know zero about the world it's ended up on.

I will stop there so as not to spoil it should you decide to read it.

well sorry for 2 poests but
ameena fatima, can you sing? i want to know howwwwwww?
i'm trying to get vps, and after 1 month, tlw will be releess i think
for vps,

Wow!!! You can sing bolliwood music too? I love it, which language? If Hindi or Punjabi then I would love to listen to you!!

Hmmm, lots of interesting stuff here.

@Zaraku, there are a few horror related games of various sorts depending upon what your looking for, going from first person shooters like Swamp and shades of doom, the action/side scroller The gate, to to more weird horror like slender lost vision, heck there are even some arcade games with horror elements like  haunted house in esp pinball, and of course lots of gamebooks and interactive fiction, for example the games on the fighting fantasy project or several of the choiceofgames or hosted games titles such as shadow house.

I might be forgetting a couple .

@Orko, yesterday amazon managed to turn up with an order correctly, a new 3.5 to 3.5 jack since my old one vanished off to goodness knows where and I like a long leed to attach my Sanheisa heardphones to my pc so that I can be lazy and lounge on the sofa .

OOn the plus side, the driver did turn up and ring the bell. On the down side they didn't ring me first, though as I made this order before I left the instructions to ring me we'll see what happens, particularly since the next thing we need to order from amazon is a large quilt which I doubt will go through the letterbox.

I have not read anything by Hal Clement, though that does sound an interesting one Orko.

@Ameena interesting. I write myself and have been attending local poetry readings where I've been having some of my poetry read, I also do book reviews over on www.fantasybookreview.co.uk, I'll likely be putting one together for the host, the book I mentioned with the alien parasite.

Having just finished my phd I'll likely be working on something more substantial writing wise soon enough.

As regards Shatner novels, I'm not sure. I enjoy Startrek but am not a huge startrek fan. I loved Next gen and DS9, Voyager disappointed me, and I've never been able to take original 1960's trek seriously (captain Kirk included), though I was rather amused at James Bliche's novelizations of the series since he managed to capture the tone and rather overdone silliness quite well complete with all amusing startrek tropes, such as having two security people die on a mission and kirk respond with "hmmm we have to be careful", then have Spok injured only for Kirk to go into "noooo! not spok! no! a main character is injured! oh woe is me!" .

As far as I understand it a large part of the Shatnerverse novels was basically an excuse for William Shatner to Retcon Captain Kirk's death in Startrek Generations. I'l admit  they haven't been high on my list.

then again I'll freely admit I don't tend to read novels based on tv series much, even Doctor who which I'm a huge fan of, mostly because even when the writing style actually works, the plots often go off the rails with no producer or no person to rain things in.
For example, I recall someone mentioning a starwars novel to me which featured Palpatine's other apprentice, who was a reptile, and prince of a planet, and eviler than darth vader, and used two light sabers and had cybernetic implants and was the most baddist bad guy who ever badded .

So generally I tend to go for original fiction in reading, and leave actual Tv series to tv and/or audio dramas.

Then again, I won't say there aren't! good original novels based on tv series out there, I did once read some trek books by Peter David, and Q squared and Vendetta were both very cool, likewise the novelization of the film Willow was pretty damn awesome and had major amounts of extra background.
So all this is to say if you could give me a better idea about the Shatner stuff I might consider having a go at them, since there is no denying I do love alien aliens, heck I just this morning featured the new first doctor story from Big finish that featured a trip to a planet full of amorphus immortal anthropoid jelly creatures who chucked sharp spears at each other for a game, and the rather tragic thing that happens when they accidentally learn about the concept of death.

Again, very alien, and wonderfully weird!
There was also a pretty cool historical story set in 19th century Japan, actually (if people won't mind a miner tangent), I love the fact that Big finish have bought back the pure historical as a doctor who story. They used to do them back in the 1960's, but they largely fell off, and most stories, even if set in history tended to have something alien in there.

Yet, there are times where the culture, the attitudes and such are just so wonderfully different from the way we do things today, that throwing the Doctor and assistants into the mix feels just as dangerous as if they were on some distant planet, and hay, if you have a time machine, why should! all your stories be science fiction .

I think you should give 'em a try... 'Cause it's not the scifi stuff which attracts me again and again towards them, but it's the making-a-difference in a universe gone crazy. And oh the Shatnerverse novels do contain elements of love and heroism, as well. So I'd just request you to give those novels a try, from trek generations to the end of totality series. I'm sure you'll come to love them. Also regarding the Q and Q Continuum, I have two-three novels which calls me again and again. For one there is Q Continuum trilogy, by Greg Cox, and I, Q, by John de Lancie
and  Peter David. I am not sure about TV shows though because I never watch TV episodes, just love to read novels where I truly feel immersed in that world. Regarding StarWars, I didn't read many novels ... I read Prequel trilogy, then Sequel trilogy... Then left that. Maybe I'll read them one day because bookshare got tons of them. And also those above three trilogies you can find them on bookshare.

I am also a Q fan... I read I, Q once where Q tells his story in his own words, and well the novel was full of comedian stuff... How he meddles in the affairs of so-called "lowly" beings... His exploits are nothing less than legendary themselves
I'd better quote the part of a chapter from I, Q here. Just a little glympse, nothing more than that... So here goes:
I, Q...My instinct is to start with me.

It's a natural instinct, I suppose, since I was there at the beginning. I have been around for as long as I can remember, as long as anyone can remember. And until this day--presuming one could call this a day--I had always assumed I would be here forever. Forever, after all, is a very, very long time. One doesn't tend to dwell on the end, because such an event is naturally unthinkable to one such as me.

And if the end ever did come, if we ever did stand on the brink, on the precipice, on the edge (in short) of oblivion, I had always assumed that I and my equally powerful fellows would be able to mount a defense against it. Each of my fellows, even as a lone individual, can do anything. So when you have an entire Continuum of infinitely powerful fellows, it would seem only logical to assume (there's that word again) that there is nothing in the entirety of reality that could possibly stand against our collective will--except a two-year-old who's teething, but that is a nightmare all its own.

Humans, those ever-annoying creatures, have a saying. Actually, they have many sayings. As a race, they're chockablock with homilies and aphorisms that cover just about every circumstance that mortal minds can conceive (which, granted, is not saying much). One of those jolly sayings happens to be, "Never 'assume' because it makes an 'ass' of 'u' and 'me.'" It's a fairly tortured dissection of a word simply to make a point, but nonetheless the point is well taken. I assumed, and therefore found myself in deep ...

Ah, shame on him! I'm sure you're saying to yourself. He shouldn't be starting with himself. How rude, how vainglorious. He should be starting with Jean-Luc Picard and his pocket calculator, Mr. Data. And so I shall.

You see, they were fishing one day when the End of Everything (that's with a big "E") caught their attention. Of course, they had no idea what was really happening because ...

Oh, to hell with it! They're boring. I'm sorry, but it's true. They have their uses, certainly, and I suppose I have to admit that in our quest to stave off the End (with a big "E") they've been very useful; but the fact is, I'm much more engaging then they are, and if this narrative is going to be even remotely entertaining, I'm going to have to provide that entertainment by talking about myself first.

Me...Myself and I. Three of the best pronouns in the language.

It has come to my attention that there have been numerous studies and tomes published about me. Several of them have been circulating on earth, because humans seem to have a fascination with me bordering on the morbidly obsessive.

And I admit I find them rather intriguing, to the point where I lapse into their perspectives and perceptions, using their idioms and metaphors (such as the comment about the two-year-old earlier). One would have hoped I'd have elevated them. Instead, they have dragged me down. Pitiful. There have been publications on other worlds as well, worlds I've visited and where my endeavors and achievements have also been invariably misunderstood. Of course, I sympathize completely. It is as difficult to comprehend a being like me as it is for a paleontologist to understand a dinosaur by looking at a fossilized footprint.

For example, I remember the residents of Kangus IV, an extremely gloomy race who seemed to have an endless fascination with the prospect of their eventual demise. One of their favorite pastimes was to insert their collective consciousness into a great machine that simulated the destruction of their planet. This machine allowed them to safely experience massive quakes, typhoons, starvation, wars, you name it. The machine was so realistic that while they were in the machine, great, gaping fissures would open beneath their feet, giving them a sense of being swallowed whole. What fun! They would then disconnect from the great machine and stumble out into the daylight, only to be drawn back to the extinction simulation over and over again. And for this experience they paid good money, diminishing their incomes as well as placing themselves in a perpetual state of anxiety.

I stumbled upon their rather macabre pastime and took it upon myself to grant their ultimate wish by destroying their world. I thought they would enjoy it! It took no effort at all but, to my surprise, during the actual event there was so much shrieking and crying and gnashing of teeth that I felt compelled to put their world back together again. Apparently, the real-life experience so completely terrified them that they never again had any dealings with the great machine. Which was good, except it caused the financial ruin of the planet and forced the population to actually talk to one another.

Now, I suppose that small digression seems neither here nor there. But then again, at this particular moment in time, neither am I.

In any event ...

Fascination with me is understandable. I am a fascinating individual, particularly to the sort of lower life-forms to which Jean-Luc Picard belongs. There have been committees formed specifically to figure out why I do what I do. Come to think of it, on the world of Angus IV, I am considered a force of unrelenting evil, while on Terwil IX, I am called the Laughing God. That's not a nickname I readily understand. I can only assume that they believe I'm off somewhere, doubling over in laughter whenever anything in their little lives goes wrong. I haven't even been around the planet in two thousand of their years, and yet they still fancy that I take an active interest in them. That I'm somehow "watching" and "listening" to their every move and utterance. I don't dare tell them the truth lest they paint themselves blue and jump off the nearest cliff.
I think that's more than enough

Gaurav
I can sing in Hindi. I have tried Punjabi but I find it too difficult and I also don't have the time to learn a song or 2 really.
and the darkening dark
I'm so glad you like writing too! I really like when you post news because they always keep us entertained.

@Gaurav the Q stuff does actually sound fun, I'll have to look around and see if there's an audio available, they may well give me a laugh.
I loved the byplay between Q and Picard in Tng powers or not, though it was a shame that the episodic structure meant that Q never really got much by way of character development that wasn't returned to status quo by the end of the episode.

his one appearance in Ds9 was amusing. I particularly liked when Sisco did what everyone had been wanting to do and gave him a sound punch up the hooter and he complained "picard never hit me" only for Sisco to rather grimly say "I'm not Picard!" .

Sad he never appeared again, and the less said about his voyager appearences the better, then again the less said about Voyager in general the better, so much potential, so much disappointment.

Btw, I've never seen Enterprise or the new series discovery. I was encouraged by the fact Discovery apparently ignores all that alternative universe retcon nonsense in the hollywood films and gets back to the right trek universe, though equally since its once again set prior to original series I'm not sure, as I'd personally be far more interested in something that carried on the story post Ds9 and voyager, maybe with a few torch passing appearences by the old cast.

Oh, and I know there are lots of novels that do that, not to mention the Startrek online game, but I'd prefer to see it done on screen with an actual producer to keep a reign on things, just to make sure that the alpha quadrent isn't suddenly invaded by a new time travelling race of cyber space witches who previously absorbed dna from both the Borg and the Romulans and the Jem haddar and follow a super computer controled by the disembodied brain of Cahn Noonien sing which is now searching the Alpha quadrent for Deanna troi who it wants to make its queenn, or something equally off the rails and completely nuts as tends to happen in these situations .

Well today should be nice, mrs. Dark and I, since we've been having a mildly irritating few days are going to trot out to our favourite Italian cafe for lunch. Its ironically run by a Spaniard, but he's an awesome chef, also he's got to know us by now which is always good.

Other than that I've been doing the usual, banging out book reviews, reading and playing games. I'm currently doing a Ray Bradberry short story collection.
Some of the stories are a little dated (I was slightly disturbed in the last one I read how casually a supposedly loving husband repeatedly slapped his wife), but yee gods I love Bradberry's writingg, though I do tend to prefer his short  to his novels.

Actually if people are looking for really weird, and beautifully written speculative fiction that can go from absolute horror to amazingly uplifting, Bradberry is what I recommend, there are few authors I know who can show both the very best, and the very worst of humanity, even in one story, the odd dated assumption aside.