Kotaku: As Star Wars Stagnates, Star Trek Is Flourishing https://kotaku.com/star-wars-vs-star-trek-musical-ahsoka-shows-movies-1850723080 #gaming #tech #kotaku #entertainmentculture #softsciencefiction #christopherpike #startrekfandom #humaninterest #lukeskywalker #leonardnimoy #ahsokatano #nyotauhura #numberone #lucasfilm #startrek #starwars #vulcans #trekkie #klingon #sabine #picard #disney #obiwan #ahsoka #mando #spock #uhura #kirk

Gizmodo: Strange New Worlds' Memory Hole Mystery Can't Quite Plug All the Gaps https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-recap-season-2-episode-4-1850612385 #startrekstrangenewworlds #softsciencefiction #starshipenterprise #strangenewworld #balanceofterror #christopherpike #primedirective #melissanavia #ericaortegas #enterprise #starfleet #numberone #startrek #rigelvii #thecage #batel #spock #pike #edge #zac

@Neidfyre @Twerpy @StarTrekHour
I wrote somewhere else on this site that the #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds story of #ChristopherPike had a messianic quality to it, and by that I meant he was being depicted as a great influential leader who was going to sacrifice himself (and in a most punishing manner) for the good of the rest of the timeline.

If on Talos 4, Pike somehow "ascends" with the Talosians and Vina, that metaphor would be even more complete.🤔
#StarTrekHour #StarTrek #AQualityOfMercy

224 Days Until #halloween

I have been meaning to read more, and I have a little time! #christopherpike #books #bookstagram #vintagebooks #halloweencountdown

I’m in my nostalgia so I have a late gen x hot take:

Christopher Pike was a better YA Horror writer than RL Stine.

#rlstine #christopherpike #FearStreet #ya #90s #books

Teenage Scream podcast (hosted by authors Kirsty Logan and Heather Parry) got me through lockdown(s) and is still my go-to when I’m having a crap day. If you were a fan of Point Horror/Fear Street/90s teen horror in general, you may well enjoy this too:

🔗 https://m.soundcloud.com/teenagescream

#horror #TeenageScream #podcast #PointHorror #FearStreet #podcasts #spooky #RLStine #ChristopherPike

@YourSecondDraft

I don’t understand why me saying:

‘I don’t think kids should be restricted to certain books that have been deemed ~appropriate~ but like… I think it might have been nice if someone had warned kid me that the “goosebumps” series was NOT sufficient preparation for reading #ChristopherPike’s “The Cold One”.’

Made you jump to book bans or restrictions on what kids can or cannot read!?

It feels like you’re trying to argue with me about something I wasn’t talking about and I don’t know how to respond because I already agree with you about book bans.

Over on twitter there is a tweet going around about a #librarian who suggests a #YA #book for a 10 year old kid who has picked up a #StephenKing book. It is a cool story about a knowledgeable and sensitive librarian who suggests the kid start both books and then decide which one he wants to borrow (he picks the YA book).

“I can’t believe some people put an age limit on #reading!” Someone replied.

But… Junior and YA books exist for a reason and sometimes adult fiction is too much or too hard or too disturbing for younger readers and - like what happens in the original tweet - an alternative may be better!

I don’t think kids should be restricted to certain books that have been deemed ~appropriate~ but like… I think it might have been nice if someone had warned kid me that the “goosebumps” series was NOT sufficient preparation for reading #ChristopherPike’s “The Cold One”.

If I could go back in time I would gently take that book out of my 12 year old hands and say “Leelee, if you read this you will have nightmares and some of the imagery will be seared into your brain for all time. There are a LOT of other books, let’s find something else ok?”

It’s all very well to say “well if the book is too advanced, they’ll just put it down!” But reading part of a very disturbing story can be just as distressing so smol child will keep reading the book about an evil twin conceived when her mother died during sex but dad kept going, who grows up and kills a bunch of people and marries her own dad and fucks her twin brother and then it turns out that the book ends on a cliffhanger and the sequel is never ever published.

And I just… I wish you could un-read a book.

To be fair if I read this book at any point in my life I may wish to have un-read it but I think if I were older it wouldn’t have been baked in to my nightmares for all time, you know?

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Since The Midnight Club came out, a bunch of #ChristopherPike books have been made available on Kindle.

Moved out almost 10 years ago and I'm still taking books back to my house 😅 #Bibliophile #Books #Booktodon #ChristopherPike #LJSmith #IssacMarion #NatsuoKirino #TitusGroan

TOS MINIFIGURES
(Captain Christopher Pike)

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#SNW #StarTrekSNW​
#StarTrekTheOriginalSeries​
#StrangeNewWorlds​
#StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds​
#CaptainPike #ChristopherPike

Who remembers reading lots of Christopher Pike books as a teen? I borrowed them all from the library and thought they were a cut above all the other Point Horror type books. One of my favourites was The Starlight Crystal, which I still re-read every few years. My review of it is one of my most viewed blog posts!

https://nsfordwriter.com/the-starlight-crystal-christopher-pike/

#bookstadon #booktoot #bookfans #yabooks #bookreview #bookblogger #christopherpike #thestarlightcrystal #scifi #horror #90s #blog #blogpost #nostalgia

Who remembers reading lots of Christopher Pike books as a teen? I borrowed them all from the library and thought they were a cut above all the other Point Horror type books. One of my favourites was The Starlight Crystal, which I still re-read every few years. My review of it is one of my most viewed blog posts!

https://nsfordwriter.com/the-starlight-crystal-christopher-pike/

#bookstadon #booktoot #bookfans #yabooks #bookreview #bookblogger #christopherpike #thestarlightcrystal #scifi #horror #90s #blog #blogpost #nostalgia

This Halloween, face the specter of human mortality with The Midnight Club - Enlarge / Eight terminally ill teens in hospice cope with their fate by... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1893942 #streamingtelevision #christopherpike #themidnightclub #gaming&culture #mikeflanagan #tvreviews #netflix #reviews