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I know the first time we caught a glimpse of B5 there was a scene with Londo in a bar and with that hair we thought it was some weird parody and clicked away :) Of course that hair is now one of the things I love about that show since so often the focus is on forehead bumps and things, but the Centauri as still so unique.

Well, in my house it's me and my Mom who are watching all the Star Trek stuff, and the only other person who was into Trek as much as me was my cousin who is also a girl. I'd also watch the Star Wars movies with her but I'm not as big a fan of that. And hey, I graduated university as a computer engineer so I see no issue at all with girls and techy stuff XD

Back to books...finished Ender's Game...that was seriously brutal! I'm not sure what I was expecting but all the manipulations and brainwashings of the characters (and the reader too) was pretty impressive. And the shock of the ending. I can see why this is at the top of that NPR 100 list. At first I thought I would read only the 6 books that GR lists as part of the core Ender series, but it's clear that the other Shadow series is closely tied and they share a final book (only published last year) so may need to read those too! Spent some time figuring out the order to read them in based on publishing order. At least the Formic Wars trilogy might be able to wait.

At this point I've got 20+ Dune books, 8 Asimov Robot books (I think Foundation & Empire are separate enough to wait?), and now I thought I would have 3-4 Ender books but I'll probably read about 10. That's really filling up my year quick!

Got a couple days left in the month, time to squeeze in the novella - A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card

(On B5, I heard that Peter Jurasik did his hair like that as a joke, showed it to Strazynski, said it was great, and each thought the other was serious, and now everyone who sees it is like, Dang!)

The Ender's Shadow series is really good -- lots of strategy and plots and action.

Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind are more anthropology-centered -- lots of cultural issues and moral dilemmas. I found it fascinating but the Spaceships-Only crowd saw them as a let-down. I heard there is supposed to be one more, and I really hope so because Children of the Mind left questions unanswered.

Card has been co-writing with Aaron Johnston, whom I knew in college freshman year. Everybody I met that year has shown up later doing something famous.

Andrea wrote: "8 Asimov Robot books (I think Foundation & Empire are separate enough to wait?"

Foundation & Empire/Earth are actually pretty special. It's important to have read both the Foundation and the Robot books up to that point, but definitely don't skip on them!

Audrey wrote: "(On B5, I heard that Peter Jurasik did his hair like that as a joke, showed it to Strazynski, said it was great, and each thought the other was serious, and now everyone who sees it is like, Dang!)..."

The accent was also just him fooling around and mashing together some accents from his grandparents with other things. That also became iconic and only a couple actors went along with it.

Finished reading A War of Gifts (it was short after all), but was also really good. Since one more day left of the month squeezing in another short one - The Star Ghost by Brad Strickland

I think I heard somewhere that Marina Sirtis had a similar experience on Star Trek. She was asked to originate an accent for the Betazoids, which she did. In theory, any other member of that species that turned up on the series should have sounded at least approximately like Deanna Troi. However, no one bothered and the show runners never enforced it, even though Sirtis pointed it out more than once.

The Great Captains by Henry Treece (yes I have eventually gotten around to finishing it) You can see my review here...
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I've read an eclectic batch of books since I last posted. My favorite was hands-down Lords of the North, #3 in the Saxon Tales. I also read books 1-4 in a Brian K. Fuller's fantasy series starting with The Bone Wolf King, and it was a lot of fun! Number 5 comes out the end of February. Now I'm back to ancient Rome and trying out Ben Kane with Eagles at War.

Robin wrote: "I think I heard somewhere that Marina Sirtis had a similar experience on Star Trek. She was asked to originate an accent for the Betazoids, which she did. In theory, any other member of that specie..."

I saw her at our local comic con -- she is a hilarious lady.

I finished The Human Division and am making slow progress with Binti: The Complete Trilogy.

Robin wrote: "I think I heard somewhere that Marina Sirtis had a similar experience on Star Trek. She was asked to originate an accent for the Betazoids, which she did. In theory, any other member of that specie..."

In Star Trek, I'm not sure accents make sense because everyone is speaking their own language and the universal translator does the rest, so I suppose everyone should be accent-less (though would have been cool just the same). In B5 though, they all had to speak a common language, so accents would have played a big role. I decided to go with the fact that Centauri from different regions would likely have different accents in their own language (like Brit English vs American vs Irish vs Scots), that would then translate to different accents in ours, which was why some had it and some didn't :)

Ooh, and I just realized most of Ender's Game takes place on a space station, filled a BINGO slot!

Star Trek TOS had a great episode called "Amok Time" that wouldn't be the same without T'Pau's accent on Vulcan, universal translator or not! And I find it really, really sad that I can remember not only T'Pau's name but the spelling of her name when I can't remember why I walked into a room. Sad, sad.

Hmm wonder how accents work with a Babel Fish?

Michelle, you went into that room to make a hot drink, so you could settle down with a good book.

Auto correct wanted to make me write, 'Bagel Fish.' �

:)