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READING — AUGUST 2017

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23642. [5] (Walt Whit­man) By Blue Ontar­i­o’s Shore [poem]
23643. (Walt Whit­man) Walt Whit­man’s Diary in Cana­da, with Extracts from Oth­er of His
. . . . . Diaries and Lit­er­ary Note-books [ed. William Sloane Kennedy]
23644. (Steve Muhlberg­er) [in blog Muhlberger’s Ear­ly His­to­ry] Life in the Incomprehensible
. . . . . Future ― A Clas­sic Sce­nario [arti­cle]
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READING — JULY 2017

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23613. (Becky Cham­bers) The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
23614. (Klaus Haa­panie­mi) Monsters
23615. (P. Bueno Ramírez & R. de Bal­bín Behrmann) Arte Mega­líti­co en el Suroeste de la
. . . . . Penín­su­la Ibéri­ca. ¿Gru­pos en el arte Mega­líti­co Ibéri­co? [arti­cle]
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READING — JUNE 2017

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23585. (Willem van Schen­del) A His­to­ry of Bangladesh
23586. (Torbe Bjarke Ballin) Mak­ing an Island World: Neolith­ic Shet­land ― Fel­site Polished
. . . . . Axeheads/Adzes from Shet­land Muse­um [arti­cle]
23587. (David W.J. Gill) Amen­hotep III, Myce­nae and the Lau­ri­on [arti­cle]
23588. (Erwin Schrödinger) What Is Life?
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READING — MAY 2017

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23568. (Jean-Paul Gagnon & Emi­ly Beau­soleil) Resist and Reviv­i­fy ― Demo­c­ra­t­ic The­o­ry in a
. . . . . Time of Defi­ance [arti­cle]
23569. (Gary O. Rollef­son, et al) Inves­ti­ga­tions of a Late Neolith­ic Struc­ture at Mesa 7, Wadi
. . . . . al-Qattgafi, Black Desert, 2015 [arti­cle]
23570. (Kil­lian Driscoll) Coastal Com­mu­ni­ties in Ear­li­er Pre­his­toric Ire­land: Ploughzone
. . . . . Sur­vey and the Tawin/Maree Stone Axes, Gal­way Bay [arti­cle]
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READING — APRIL 2017

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23530. (Chrys­tia Free­land) Plu­to­crats — The Rise of the New Glob­al Super Rich and the Fall 
. . . . . of Every­one Else 
23531. (David M. Ander­son & Neil C.M. Car­ri­er) Khat: Social Harms and Leg­is­la­tion [arti­cle]
23532. (Gunil­la Gren-Eklund) Poe­sis. On Cre­at­ing Art accord­ing to Aris­to­tle and Sanskrit 
. . . . . Poet­ics [arti­cle]
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READING — MARCH 2017

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23505. (Theodore W. Jen­nings, Jr.) Pla­to or Paul? The Ori­gins of West­ern Homophobia
23506. [2] (Gertrude Frieden­berg) The Revolv­ing Boy
23507. (Rana Özbal) The Chal­lenge of Iden­ti­fy­ing House­holds at Tell Kur­du [arti­cle]
23508. (Raimund Karl) The Celts From Every­where and Nowhere ― A Re-eva­l­u­ta­tion of the
. . . . . Ori­gins of the Celts and the Emer­gence of Celtic Cul­tures [arti­cle]
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READING — FEBRUARY 2017

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23486. (Jack Williamson) Intro­duc­tion to E. E. Smith’s Sky­lark Three [pref­ace]
23487. [2] (Edward E. Smith) Sky­lark Three
23488. (John Bintliff) The Ori­gins and Nature of the Greek City-State and its Sig­nif­i­cance for
. . . . . World Set­tle­ment His­to­ry [arti­cle]
23489. (Tim Wyn­ton) An Open Swimmer
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Revolt in 2100

Posted by on February 19, 2017 No comments
Cover art for Revolt in 2100

Cov­er art for Revolt in 2100

In a hur­ry to get out the door, I grabbed a paper­back at ran­dom for sub­way read­ing. It was a bat­tered copy of Robert Heinlein’s Revolt in 2100 which I had last read in 1985. It’s three sto­ries are ear­ly Hein­lein, mate­r­i­al that had first appeared in the pulp mag­a­zines in the 1930s and 1940s. The sto­ries that he wrote at that time were framed with­in a puta­tive “future his­to­ry.” That is to say, that the sto­ries were not direct­ly con­nect­ed, but all exist­ed in the same pro­ject­ed imag­i­nary future, cov­er­ing sev­er­al thou­sand years. Much was made of this “future his­to­ry” at the time, but Hein­lein aban­doned the project to pur­sue oth­er writ­ing paths from the 1950s until his death in 1988. The books that col­lect­ed the “future his­to­ry” sto­ries each repro­duced a chart plac­ing the sto­ries in time, with notes on tech­no­log­i­cal, social and polit­i­cal events. It was, Hein­lein always main­tained, a work of spec­u­la­tive imag­i­na­tion, not of attempt­ed prophe­cy. But some of its spec­u­la­tions weren’t too far of the mark. In sto­ries writ­ten in 1940 an 1949, he had the first land­ing on the moon take place in 1978. In sub­se­quent real­i­ty, it occurred in 1969. But what is espe­cial­ly inter­est­ing is that the “future his­to­ry” has the Unit­ed States suc­cumb to a fun­da­men­tal­ist reli­gious dic­ta­tor­ship some­where close to the year 2017. One of the sto­ries is about the rebel­lion against this dic­ta­tor­ship. At the end of the vol­ume, first pub­lished in 1953, Hein­lein pro­vid­ed a postscipt, Con­cern­ing Sto­ries Nev­er Writ­ten, in which he explained that some of the sto­ries list­ed in the chart, those tak­ing place dur­ing the ear­ly part of the dic­ta­tor­ship, he chose not to write because the sub­ject mat­ter was too depress­ing. Con­cern­ing their main premise, he wrote: Read more »

READING — JANUARY 2017

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23468. (Andrew Tay­lor) The World of Ger­ard Mercator
23469. (Olivi­er P. Nieuwen­huyse et al) The 8.2 Event in Upper Mesopotamia [arti­cle]
23470. (Daniele Con­ver­si) Eth­no­rad­i­cal­ism as a Mir­ror Image of State Cen­tral­i­sa­tion: the 
. . . . . Basque Par­a­digm in Franco’s Spain [arti­cle]
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READING — DECEMBER 2016

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23430. (Bliss Car­man) Far Horizons
23431. (Evan­ge­los Kyr­i­akidis) Some Aspects of the Role of Scribes in Pylian Palace 
. . . . . Admin­is­tra­tion [arti­cle]
23432. (Vong Sot­heara) The Role of Khmer Monks dur­ing 16th-19th Cen­turies [arti­cle]
23433. (Tser­ing Shakya) Mak­ing of the Great Game Play­ers ― Tibetan Stu­dents in Britain 
. . . . . Between 1913 and 1917 [arti­cle]
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