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READING — FEBRUARY 2017

Posted by on February 28, 2017 No comments

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

Posted by on January 31, 2017 No comments

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

Posted by on December 31, 2016 No comments

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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READING — NOVEMBER 2016

Posted by on November 30, 2016 No comments

23399. (Bene­dict de Spin­oza) A The­o­logi­co-Polit­i­cal Trea­tise [tr. R. H. M. Elwes]
23400. (Bene­dict de Spin­oza) A Polit­i­cal Trea­tise [tr. R. H. M. Elwes]
23401. (Mehmet Özdoğan) In Quest of a Miss­ing Era in East­ern Thrace ― Dilem­ma of the 
. . . . . 4th Mil­le­ni­um [arti­cle]
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READING — OCTOBER 2016

Posted by on October 31, 2016 No comments

23346. (Edgar Wal­lace) The Green Mam­ba [sto­ry]
23347. (Alexan­der Vovin, Edward Vaj­da & Éti­enne de la Vais­sière) Who Were the *Kjet and 
. . . . . What Lan­guage Did They Speak? [arti­cle]
23348. (Ruth Ren­dell) From Doon with Death
(Leonid E. Grinin, et al; –ed.) The Ear­ly State, Its Alter­na­tives and Analogues:
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READING — SEPTEMBER 2016

Posted by on September 30, 2016 No comments

23327. (Jack Hicks & Gra­ham White) Made in Nunavut ― An Exper­i­ment in Decentralized 
. . . . . Government
23328. (Kather­ine A. Spiel­mann) Feast­ing, Craft Spe­cial­iza­tion, and the Rit­u­al Mode of 
. . . . . Pro­duc­tion in Small-Scale Soci­eties [arti­cle]
23329. (Ben­jamin Isakhan) Dis­cours­es of Democ­ra­cy [arti­cle]
23330. (Rus­sell Shorto) Ams­ter­dam ― A His­to­ry of the World’s Most Lib­er­al City
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READING — AUGUST 2016

Posted by on August 31, 2016 No comments

23289. (Ste­fan Zweig) The Post-Office Girl [Rausch der Ver­wand­lung, tr. Joel Rotenberg]
23290. (Krzysztof Now­ic­ki) The Final Neolith­ic in Crete: Ter­mi­nol­o­gy and Chronology 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
23291. (Ármann Jakob­s­son) The Specter of Old Age: Nasty Old Men in the Sagas of the 
. . . . . Ice­landers [arti­cle]
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READING — JULY 2016

Posted by on July 31, 2016 No comments

23233. (Poul Ander­son) The Dancer from Atlantis
23234. (Anto­nio Cur­rais, et al) Amy­loid Pro­teotox­i­c­i­ty Ini­ti­ates an Inflam­ma­to­ry Response 
. . . . . Blocked by Cannabi­noids [arti­cle]
23235. (Richard Wilk) Towards an Anthro­pol­o­gy of Bad Busi­ness [arti­cle]
23236. (Jesús Car­rob­les San­tos, et al) Tole­tum. Con­fig­u­ración y evolu­ción urbana de la capital 
. . . . . visigo­da: urbs et ter­ri­to­ri­um [arti­cle]
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READING — JUNE 2016

Posted by on June 30, 2016 No comments

23206. (M. C. Rick­lefs) A His­to­ry of Mod­ern Indone­sia Since C.1200
23207. (Paul McLeary) The Fight for Fallujah’s High­way 11 [arti­cle]
23208. (Ľubomír Novák) Archae­ol­o­gy of Viking Age Færoe Islands [arti­cle]
23209. (Bret Stern) How to Shoot a Fea­ture Film for Under $10,000 and Not Go to Jail
23210. (M. J. Walk­er, et al) Com­bus­tion at the late Ear­ly Pleis­tocene site of Cue­va Negra del
. . . . . Estre­cho del Río Quí­par [arti­cle]
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