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I liked Gods of Night. Mack tells the story of the Borg just randomly appearing all throughout Federation space and the battle across multiple quadrants to fight them very interestingly. He goes through a series of 4 chapters at a time, one with each ship/Captain, Enterprise/Picard, Titan/Riker, Aventine/Dax, and one with a flashback to the early 22nd century and the Columbia (NX-02) captained by Ericka Hernedez.

It starts right in the middle of things, so I'm not 100% sure if this is where the Borg attack starts or if there was some other earlier portion of the "Star Trek Relaunch" I should have read to get the whole story, but all-in-all a well told tale. I really am not convinced the Columbia part was absolutely necessary to the story, and much could have been included in the Dax story about the Aventine finding the Columbia, though based on the ending maybe it will be necessary in book 2, we will have to see.

I was spoiled to part of the Titan storyline having already read Over a Torrent Sea.

I put this one in my queue to learn more about football hooliganism. Bill Gardner was a major hooligan in the 70s-80s in England, supporter West Ham FC.

It wasn't really what I was hoping for. It contained lots of inside jargon and took for advantage that you knew some of the stuff I was looking to learn. Plenty of interesting stories from Bill and his compatriots, and a few of his foes. If you are already familiar with the existence of Bill and the world of hooliganism it would probably be a good read.

It was written by Bill and another football supporter, not literary geniuses. All-and-all, OK.

I liked this book. SG-1 meets a new society called "The Pack" a conglomeration of various races that have escaped the system lords and live a nomadic lifestyle across the galaxy. The Vice President decides it is a great opportunity for him to negotiate an intergalactic trade agreement. An intruder tries to blow up the SGC and calamity ensues.

An interesting perspective if somewhat predictable, for example I figured out who the father of the intruder was about 2 chapters before the characters did. I know this book is about 20 years old now, but I was still surprised at the use of anti-Roma stereotypes, such as describing The Pack as "gypsies."

Had all the highlights that make Stargate fun including deadpan humor fantastical ancient-astronaut theory technology and the like.

LibaryThing recommendation based on If the South had won the Civil War and The Handmaid's Tale.