21036. The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw [Gísla saga Súrssonar] [tr. G.W. daSent] [see var. 7526]
21037. (Walter Scott) Ivanhoe
21038. (Joshua Keating) Can a Coup Ever Be Democratic? [article]
21039. (Juan Perote-Peña & Ashley Piggins) A Model of Deliberative and Aggregative
. . . . . Democracy [article]
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READING – JULY 2013
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on July 31, 2013
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Image of the month: The Space Willies
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on July 1, 2013
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An Ace Double cover from 1971, a typically impish one by artist Kelly Freas. This is ACE DOUBLE 77785, a reprint with new cover art of D‑315 published in 1958. By this time, ACE Doubles had switched to the “tall” format to conform to standard paperback racks. ACE Doubles had two books bound together, each upside down in relation to the other. In this case, both sides were books by Eric Frank Russell (the other one was a short story collection called Six Worlds Yonder). Russell was British, but his style was convincingly American, and few readers of American SF magazines knew this. In some ways, he was similar to Clifford Simak, but with a more satiric tone. As early as 1941, Russell was crewing his future space ships with multi-racial characters. One of the earliest Science Fiction stories that had an intense emotional affect on me was his Dear Devil, which I read as a small child.
READING – JUNE 2013
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on June 30, 2013
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20973. (Erik R. Kandel) In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
20974. (Steve Muhlberger) [in blog Muhlbergers’ World History] George R. R. Martin, Master
. . . . . Storyteller [article]
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“The Hunters Who Owned Themselves” Translated into Japanese
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on June 30, 2013
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There is now a Japanese edition of The Secret History of Democracy. I am most curious to know, but will probably never know, how my prose in “The Hunters Who Owned Themselves” reads in Japanese translation, or how the mixture of English, French, Michif and Cree terminology was handled. Unfortunately, I do not yet possess the publication data… only that a Japanese edition has existed for several months. Perhaps some Japanese reader who is fluent in English will report to me on this matter. Read more »
READING – MAY 2013
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on May 31, 2013
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(Fritz Leiber) The Best of Fritz Leiber:
. . . . 20919. [2] (Poul Anderson) The Wizard of Nehwon [preface]
. . . . 20920. [5] (Fritz Leiber) Gonna Roll the Bones [story]
. . . . 20921. [2] (Fritz Leiber) Sanity [story]
. . . . 20922. [2] (Fritz Leiber) Wanted – An Enemy [story]
. . . . 20923. [2] (Fritz Leiber) The Man Who Never Grew Young [story]
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READING – APRIL 2013
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on April 30, 2013
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20889. (Jaiya & John Hanauer) Sex Positions You Never Thought Possible
20890. (Eric Christiansen) The Norsemen in the Viking Age
20891. (D. Radice & L. Rezzolla) Universality and Intermittency in Relativistic Turbulent
. . . . . Flows of a Hot Plasma [article]
20892. (Randi Foxx) The Position Sex Bible
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READING – MARCH 2013
Posted by Phil Paine
on March 31, 2013
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(Stephen C. Cunnane & Kathlyn M. Stewart ̶ed.) Human Brain Evolution — The Influence of
. . Freshwater and Marine Food Sources:
. . . . 20827. (Phillip V. Tobias) Foreward: Evolution, Encephalization, Environment [preface]
. . . . 20828. (Kathlyn M. Stewart & Stephen C. Cunnane) Introduction [preface]
. . . . 20829. (Ian Tattersall) Macroevolutionary Patterns, Exaptation, and Emergence in the
. . . . . . . . . Evolution of the Human Brain and Cognition [article]
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READING – FEBRUARY 2013
Posted by Phil Paine
on February 28, 2013
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Cover art by Richard Clifton-Dey for a British edition of
Fritz Leiber’s “A Spectre Is Haunting Texas”
20802. (Robert Sheckley) The Eye of Reality [story]
20803. (Richard Stoneman) Alexander the Great
(Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature) Lugalbanda and Enmerkar [Sumerian texts and
. . English translations]:
. . . . 20804. Lugalbanda
. . . . 20805. Lugalbanda and the Mountain Cave
. . . . 20806. Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta
. . . . 20807. Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana
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Lugalbanda, Beer and Babes
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on February 16, 2013
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From Lugalbanda:
“An will fetch Ninguenaka for me from her mountain home — the expert woman, who redounds to her mother’s credit, Ninkasi the expert, who redounds to her mother’s credit: her fermenting-vat is of green lapis lazuli, her beer cask is of refined silver and of gold; if she stands by the beer, there is joy, if she sits by the beer, there is gladness; as cupbearer she mixes the beer, never wearying as she walks back and forth, Ninkasi, the keg at her side, on her hips; may she make my beer-serving perfect.”
left: A Sumerian beer recipe. right: Receipt for a shipment of “best” beer from a brewer, c. 2050 BC from the Sumerian city of Umma.
text from:
(Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature) Lugalbanda and Enmerkar [Sumerian texts and English translations]:
23657. Lugalbanda
23658. Lugalbanda and the Mountain Cave
23659. Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta
23660. Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana
READING – JANUARY 2013
Posted by Phil Paine
on January 31, 2013
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20690. (William R. Short) Food, Diet, and Nutrition in the Norse Era [article]
20691. (Timothy Snyder) Bloodlands ― Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
20692. (Hildur Gestsdóttir) The Palaeopathological Diagnosis of Nutritional Disease: a Study
. . . . . of the Skeletal Material from Skeljastadir, Iceland [thesis]
20693. (CBS/AP) Ancient Manuscripts Indicate Jewish Community Once Thrived in
. . . . . Afghanistan [article]
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