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No. It looks like it came from a Somethingawful photoshop phriday.Is this real ?
Is this real ?
Are you referring to the Time-Life volume with that title or a different book?
Egan is a great writer, going for extreme concepts you never see explored elsewhere. If you go to his webpage some of his books even involve a little bit of original research.Currently reading Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan, one of the current masters of hard SF. A black hole passes through our solar system. Not that close to Earth...but it doesn't have to be that close to have an impact on Earth's orbit. Not a big impact, but it doesn't take much for extreme consequences. Very interesting so far.
The story "Slaves of the Star Giants" in Next Stop the Stars has a great set-up I may rip off if I get to run a Gamma World campaign. I've put off The Seed of Earth for now in favor of Moon Base by E.C. Tubb, creator of Earl Dumarest, possibly my favorite science fiction hero. This is a non-Dumarest novel.Taking a break from Westerns as I happened to get a hold of this Ace Double paperback with a 1962 novel and a set of 1950s stories by Robert Silverberg. Gotta love those covers.
Speaking of Ivanhoe, check out this beautiful 1950 Heritage Press slipcase hardcover edition with numerous evocative illustrations by Edward Wilson. Got it maybe 20 years ago for ca. $5 at a used book store, before eBay and Amazon Marketplace drove up prices and drove all the good Adams Avenue and 5th Avenue bookshops out of business.While you're at it, dummy up Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, tagline "Adventure Roleplaying in the Chivalrous Age of Robin Hood and Richard the Lionheart." I don't have the tools. It'll be a Pendragon-derived systen with Passions and Traits.
What's with the faces in the ship's exhaust? Interested in the plot now. Looks cool.Now I'm going to read The Ship from Outside, a non-Grimes sci fi novel by A. Bertram Chandler. It's another Ace Double with a flip-side of short stories. Or maybe I'll read the stories first.
I've long made a point of picking up any anthology or magazine issue with their work in it. It's handy to know all the pseudonyms that they worked under too. They were so prolific that they used a lot of names so magazines could get away with using multiple stories from them in the same issue.Checking out the horror and science fantasy of Henry Kuttner, his work with his wife C.L. Moore is some of the best American sf of the 40s.
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E.C. Tubb is known to have written an entire issue of Authentic Science Fiction by himself under various names. (He had 58 (!) pseudonyms.)I've long made a point of picking up any anthology or magazine issue with their work in it. It's handy to know all the pseudonyms that they worked under too. They were so prolific that they used a lot of names so magazines could get away with using multiple stories from them in the same issue.
- Edward J. Bellin
- Paul Edmonds
- Noel Gardner
- Will Garth
- James Hall
- Keith Hammond
- Hudson Hastings
- Peter Horn
- Kelvin Kent (used for work with Arthur K. Barnes)
- Robert O. Kenyon
- C. H. Liddell
- Hugh Maepenn
- Scott Morgan
- Lawrence O'Donnell
- Lewis Padgett
- Woodrow Wilson Smith
- Charles Stoddard
Haven't read the flipside yet. I finished the novelette last night so I'll likely start the short stories today. If the artwork has anything to do with the stories, I'll let you know.What's with the faces in the ship's exhaust? Interested in the plot now. Looks cool.
I have a copy of Iod on my shelf somewhere. It's a good read if you like pulpy tales.Checking out the horror and science fantasy of Henry Kuttner, his work with his wife C.L. Moore is some of the best American sf of the 40s.
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That's a sweet score. I have all the Vance and Knight books from your haul there. Good stuff.Won a lot of Ace Double sci fi paperbacks I forgot I even bid on. They arrived today:
$15.00!That's a sweet score. I have all the Vance and Knight books from your haul there. Good stuff.
The Open Empire has been on my "to buy" list for a while. But for now, my reading is this, and I feel another kung-fu game brewing in my brain...Finished a round of the history of China and Japan. For China I really enjoyed The Cambridge Illustrated History of China by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and The Open Empire: A History of China Through 1600 by Valerie Hansen.
The first is a nice detailed overview of the entire history and is especially good as a resource for sorting out the details of Chinese history
prior to the rise of the First Emperor as many books can be scarce on details for that period. The second covers the same period but concentrates on slightly different topics such as short bits on the lives of artists and poets, so it's a good companion.
Hensen has updated her book to cover up to 1800 in a newer edition I don't have.
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For Japan my favourite was Japan: Its History and Culture by W. Scott Morton and J. Kenneth Olenik. I felt it gives a concise account that nevertheless leaves you with a good overview of each period. In particular it has a good account of how the Japanese settled Japan and what we know of the rise of the Yamato clan who have served as the emperors from before 500AD to today. Also how their rise shaped the Shinto religion.
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Won a lot of Ace Double sci fi paperbacks I forgot I even bid on. They arrived today: