Today’s TTT is upcoming releases We’re So Excited about. I don’t know if I can manage ten, but I’ll give it the ol’ college try. But first ,teases!

Baghdad is generally considered a good place for solo journalists to get kidnapped and sold to ISIS, whatever they’re there for. I was there for the drugs. (Scarcity Brain, Michael Easter)

“I used to have an overzealous fan of my own,” Gene [Roddenberry] said. “Try as I might, I couldn’t get her to leave me alone.”
“What did you do?” I asked, leaning forward and hoping for wisdom from the Great Bird of the Galaxy.
“I married her!” (Fan Fiction, Brent Spiner.)

‘I blame you. Paris is a . . .’ She paused. ‘Was an immoral fool. But you were a married woman. You should have refused him.’
‘Paris was a married man,’ Helen said. ‘Why does everyone always forget that?’
‘He was married to a nymph,’ Hecabe replied. ‘She was hardly likely to besiege our city for his safe return.’ (A Thousand Ships, Natalie Haynes)

(1) Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age, Rod Dreher. A book on disenchantment and reenchantment.

(2) Sharpe’s Storm, Bernard Cornwell. New Sharpe novel!

(3) Precipe, Robert Harris. A novel set during the prelude to World War 1 in which a romantic liason gets mingled with spy stuff. Robert Harris is generally superb, with an outstanding range of historical fiction.

(4) Star Trek: Lost to Eternity, Greg Cox. Finally, a novel about the cetologist who hitched a ride to the future in Star Trek: The Voyage Home. Very interested in learning how an adult in the 1980s navigates in the world of the Federation.

Those are the books I’m waiting on, but what about interesting upcoming releases?

(5) Star Trek Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek, Nana Visitor. Nana Visitor, who played one of my favorite characters, is apparently publishing a book on how Star Trek has portrayed women through the years, with lots of interviews spanning the decades. Cool! Trek has had some great female characters over the years: my current favorite is La’an.

(7) At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China. A second-generation immigrant tries to come to terms with his father’s escape from Communist China.

(8) Ghost Station, S.A. Barnes. I’m told Barnes is an up-and-comer and combines SF with horror. Not exactly my bag, but the cover looks cool.

(9) Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs, Luis Elizondo

(10) The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982, Chris Nashawaty

When I was searching for upcoming releases, I found this and want to share it for the sheer bizaareness.