Okay, so that sounds a little Star Trekky, I know. I am a big fan of Star Trek, especially the TV series, The Next Generation. (Most of the others, you know, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and/or Enterprise, I never did get as into.)
Maybe it was Captain Picard that really spoke to me, or how you can watch any episode in any order and understand the story, but I enjoyed Star Trek: The Next Generation. I know the graphics, and technologies, and special effects aren't as grandiose as today's standards (and the films coming out now!), but it was this series that first sparked my fascination with space travel.
Now, I have yet to pen a space travel novel, but I absolutely love novels set in space. There's something equally exciting and perplexing about being trapped in space. Yes, I view space as a place where I'd be trapped. There's no air out there!
Films like Gravity make me glad I'm on earth, watching as someone else endures the brutalities of extreme temperature and lack of oxygen. I've also enjoyed novels like Across the Universe by Beth Revis, These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan, and others.
It seems as though novels set in space are a bit of a trend right now, a "hot thing." I really do think it's one of the final frontiers, where the possibilities of new worlds, new species, new ideas, is endless. Maybe that's what draws authors and readers to write and read novels set in space.
How do you feel about space? Novels set in space? Space travel?
I'm space mad and a life-long Trekkie! I've read numerous books set in space. My favourites are Ender's Game, The Forever War by Joe Hadleman, and Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. I'm slowly making my way through the Science Fiction Masterworks series.
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I'm space mad and a life-long Trekkie! I've read numerous books set in space. My favourites are Ender's Game, The Forever War by Joe Hadleman, and Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. I'm slowly making my way through the Science Fiction Masterworks series.
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