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It’s been nearly a month since there was a new review, so I feel like I owe you an update. In addition to the usual grad school workload, my wife had foot surgery early last week, and I’ve been her primary caretaker since then. She’s doing well and things are starting to slow down into something that more resembles the amount of leisure time I’m used to, so I hope to have Vulcan’s Forge done soon. (I’ve also finished the one after that, the YA Voyager novel Lifeline, so there might be a few coming in comparatively rapid succession.)

Thanks as always for sticking around.

Sometimes I forget to write about these things when they happen, and a window slams shut before I know it. I forgot to do it when Rene Auberjonois died, and I forgot to do it when Aron Eisenberg died, and I still kick myself about both of them. But we’re not gonna let this one pass us by. This one hurts too much.

Nichelle Nichols, the absolute god-tier legend who played Lt. Nyota Uhura on the original series for its whole run, voiced her in the Animated Series, and played her in all six TOS movies, died of natural causes on July 31. She was 89.

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With the move to more sporadic, unstructured posting since entering grad school, some have asked for the RSS feed. Well, I found it way at the bottom of the page, so here it is more conveniently at the top. I’ll leave it stickied here for a while, then maybe move it over to the sidebar.

Happy holidays, and of course, live long and prosper.

I’m going to keep this post stickied for a while. New reviews will appear below it. Also, in case you’ve already read it, I’ve decided on another change to the publishing schedule since originally posting it. Now, going forward, since reviews are unlikely to come out on a weekly basis anyway, I’ll simply post them whenever I happen to finish them. Until I get a notification system set up, just check back frequently. I’ll try to set up a mailing list you can join relatively pain-free, though “R” in the comments suggests a neat way for setting that up yourself if you’re so inclined.

Attention, Bajoran readers:
I don’t talk about my own life much on here because it isn’t relevant to the proceedings. Except when it is. Like now.

One thing I said I would never do was go to grad school. It took my undisciplined ass long enough to get the bachelor’s to begin with, so I dismissed the idea of ever going back for any reason out of hand. Well, of course, in so doing, I teased fate, and it made an object lesson in “never say never” out of me.

Which is to say, I’m back in school getting my master’s in secondary education to become a high school English teacher.

So far, I find that the work is not itself any harder than any I’ve done in college before. What seems to make grad school work tougher is the demands it makes on my time, my focus, and my energy.

You can probably tell where this is going.

But in case you can’t, it means I’m pumping the brakes on Deep Space Spines a little. I’m still going to do it. But reviews might come out at a slower pace for the foreseeable future. School comes first.

Here’s how it’s going to go for now: I’m going to keep reading and writing where my spare time allows me to. I will still aim for a weekly post. But going forward, since reviews are unlikely to come out on a weekly basis anyway, I will just post them whenever I happen to finish them. 

We’ll see what that does to the production rate around here. It’s what’s most manageable for me right now, though.

Thanks so much for your continued support.

—Jess

Attention, Bajoran readers: I hate to do this, but I’m bumping this Friday’s review of John Peel’s Objective: Bajor off to next week. I’ve almost finished reading the book, but not quite, and I’m going out of town for a few days this weekend. I’ll finish the book and probably honestly get the whole review written at work tonight, but I’m going to delay posting it to give myself a chance to breathe easy on my vacation and create some buffer time to get ahead of the game again. Until then, peace.