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Author:Adams,Douglas
Title:Deeper Meaning of Liff;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1990
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Humour
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:#Oshkosh:# The noise made by someone who has just been grossly
flattered and is trying to make light of it.
Comment:"A dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet."
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Author:Adams,Douglas
Title:Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy;The
Series:Hitch Hiker's Guide
SeriesOrder:1
Copyright:1979
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*"But the plans were on display..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find
them."
"That's the display department."
"With a torch."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom
of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign
on the door saying #Beware of the Leopard#."*
Comment:
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Author:Adams,Douglas
Title:Restaurant at the End of the Universe;The
Series:Hitch Hiker's Guide
SeriesOrder:2
Copyright:1980
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
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Author:Adams,Douglas
Title:Life, the Universe and Everything
Series:Hitch Hiker's Guide
SeriesOrder:3
Copyright:1982
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Adams,Douglas
Title:So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
Series:Hitch Hiker's Guide
SeriesOrder:4
Copyright:1984
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
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Author:Adams,Richard
Title:Watership Down
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1972
Binding:paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*What Robin Hood is to the English and John Henry to the American
Negroes, Elil-Hrair-Rah, El-ahrairah - The Prince with a Thousand Enemies -
is to rabbits. Uncle Remus might well have heard of him, for some of
El-ahrairah's adventures are those of Brair Rabbit. For that matter,
Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero,
for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to decieve his
enemies.*
Comment:First of what later became its own genre of fantasy;
(realistic) animals as protagonists, with their own culture and myths.
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Author:Alcott,Louisa May
Title:Eight Cousins
Series:Eight Cousins
SeriesOrder:1
Copyright:1955
Binding:hardback
Genre:Kids
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:old-fashioned wholesome story of an orphan and her heaps of aunts
and cousins. Kept for nostalgia purposes.
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Author:Alcott,Louisa May
Title:Rose in Bloom
Series:Eight Cousins
SeriesOrder:2
Copyright:1876
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Kids
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:even more preachy than the first book; kept for completeness
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Author:Andersen,Hans Christian
Title:Complete Illustrated Stories of Hans Christian Andersen;The
Series:
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Copyright:1982
Binding:hardback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*One day he was in very good spirits, for he had made a mirror
which had this peculiarity, that everything good and beautiful that was
reflected in it shrank together into almost nothing, but that whatever was
worthless and looked ugly became prominent and looked worse than ever.
The most lovely landscapes seen in this mirror looked like boiled spinach,
and the best people became hideous, or stood on their heads or had no
bodies; their faces were so distorted as to be unrecognisable, and a single
freckle was shown spread out over nose and mouth.*
("The Snow Queen")
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Author:Andrews,Allen
Title:Pig Plantagenet;The
Series:
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Copyright:1980
Binding:hardback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:unread
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Author:Ashwell,Pauline
Title:Project Farcry
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1995
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:more like a related set of short stories than a novel.
Still, it's got telepathy and interesting aliens; lightly enjoyable.
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Author:Attwood,Tony
Title:Blake's 7 the Program Guide
Series:Blake's 7
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1983
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF/TV
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:useful reference, so long as one ignores the inaccuracies
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Author:Austen,Jane
Title:Persuasion
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:
Binding:paperback
Genre:Historical
GenreCom:
Status:owned
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Author:Austen,Jane
Title:Pride and Prejudice
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:
Binding:short hardback
Genre:Historical
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*It is a truth universally aknowledged, that a single man in
posession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such
a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well
fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as
the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.*
Comment:classic classic witty and observant; her best book
(strictly speaking, not historical, since it was contemporary)
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Author:Austen,Jane
Title:Sense and Sensibility
Series:
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Copyright:
Binding:short hardback
Genre:Historical
GenreCom:
Status:owned
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Author:Babbit,Natalie
Title:Tuck Everlasting
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1975
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Kids Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of
the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses
in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy
spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first
week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with
blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much
color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There
is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days,
the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry
for later.*
(opening paragraph)
Comment:I heard of this on HIGHLA-L and then found it secondhand
a week later. Cool, huh?
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Author:Barker,Cicely Mary
Title:Flower Fairies of the Garden
Series:
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Copyright:
Binding:short hardback
Genre:Kids Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:more flower fairies
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Author:Barker,Cicely Mary
Title:Flower Fairies of the Spring
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:
Binding:short hardback
Genre:Kids Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:cute beautiful pictures with rhymes; a treasured childhood book
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Author:Beagle,Peter S.
Title:A Fine and Private Place
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1960
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:a man, a raven, and a romance between two ghosts
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Author:Beagle,Peter S.
Title:The Last Unicorn
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:
Binding:paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.
She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer
the careless color of sea foam, but rather the color of snow falling
on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied,
and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.*
(opening paragraph)
Comment:
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Author:Belloc,H
Title:Selected Cautionary Verses
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1940
Binding:paperback
Genre:Kids Poetry
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:#The Microbe#
*The Microbe is so very small
You cannot make him out at all
But many sanguine people hope
To see him through a microscope.
His jointed tongue that lies beneath
A hundred curious rows of teeth;
His seven tufted tails with lots
Of lovely pink and purple spots,
On each of which a pattern stands,
Composed of forty separate bands;
His eyebrows of a tender green;
All these have never yet been seen --
But Scientists, who ought to know,
Assure us that they must be so...
Oh! let us never, never doubt
What nobody is sure about!*
Comment:I memorized "Matilda" when I was in primary school...
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Author:Bester,Alfred
Title:The Decievers
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1981
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*He was wearing a jumpsuit of radiation armor, colored white,
signifying executive level. He wore a white helmet with the visor down. He
was armed, as all executives were in this quasi-military installation. He
walked statelily across the floodlit concrete plain toward the giant hangar
looming in the night. His control seemed massive.
As the towering hangar, shaped like a domed observatory, a squad of
black-armored guards lay dozing before an entry hatch. The executive kicked
the sergeant brutally but quite dispassionately. The squad leader exclaimed
and scrambled to his feet, followed by the rest of his men. They opened the
hatch for the man in white who stepped through into pitch black. Then,
almost as an afterthought, he turned back into the light, contemplated the
squad standing fearfully at attention and, quite dispassionately, shot
their sergeant.*
(opening paragraphs)
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Author:Bester,Alfred
Title:The Demolished Man
Series:
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Copyright:1953
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:a man plans the perfect crime, in a future where telepaths make
all crime impossible.
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Author:Bester,Alfred
Title:The Stars My Destination
Series:
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Copyright:1956
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living, and
hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and
theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it.
This was an age of extremes, a fascinationg century of freaks... but nobody
loved it.*
(opening paragraph)
Comment:Also known as "Tiger! Tiger!". This is where the Tomorrow
People series got the word "jaunt" for teleport from.
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Author:Bester,Alfred
Title:Virtual Unrealities
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1997
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:collected short stories
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Author:Blish,James
Title:Case of Conscience;A
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1959
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:classic what-if regarding alien life... and souls
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Author:Bloomfield,Frena
Title:The Dragon Paths
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1973
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Kids Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*Tom sat in the bright sunlight. Gloomily he turned over a handful of
coins which he had laid out on the cobbles before him. The city rang
noisily about him as he regarded the results of his morning's work. Most of
the money he had begged. In a city full of beggars, he usually managed to
persuade some among the passing crowds to toss him the small change from
their money pouches.
He did not pluck at their robes or whine, as the others did. He stood
quietly at their elbows while they considered some purchase in the markets
or in an open shop. Then, when they caught his grave eyes fixed upon them,
they often gave him some small coins while they swatted the other beggars
away from them.*
(opening paragraphs)
Comment:
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Author:Bloomfield,Frena
Title:Sky Fleets of Atlantis
Series:
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Copyright:1979
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Kids Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*She screamed when they told her. They drew back from her and
the priests tried to comfort her, but she refused to let them calm
her.
"We've waited so long for him," she wept, "and now you'll take him
from us."
"No, no," they said soothingly, but in a way she was right and they
knew it. Her husband stood beside her, looking strained and unhappy.
She turned on him too.
"You could stop them!" she cried.
"It is written," he said helplessly. "How can we argue with the
Seers?"*
(opening paragraphs)
Comment:
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Author:Bova,Ben
Title:Moonwar
Series:Moonbase
SeriesOrder:2
Copyright:1997
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:unread
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Author:Bradley,Marion Zimmer
Title:Lythande
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1986
Binding:paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*On a night in Sanctuary, when the streets bore a false glamour in
the silver glow of full moon, so that every ruin seemed an enchanted tower
and every dark street and square an island of mystery, the
mercenary-magician Lythande sallied forth to seek adventure.*
(opening paragraph)
Comment:Collected short stories about Lythande, a character the author
created for the "Thieves World" anthologies.
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Author:Bradshaw,Gillian
Title:Beacon at Alexandria;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1987
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Historical
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:my favourite ever historical novel; it's got a strong heroine;
disguise, medicine, religion, politics, intrigue and romance.
the past is like an alien planet
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Author:Bradshaw,Gillian
Title:Cleopatra's Heir
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:2002
Binding:hardback
Genre:Historical
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:what if Cleopatra's heir hadn't died?
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Author:Bradshaw,Gillian
Title:Dangerous Notes
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:2001
Binding:hardback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:near future, neurobiology, music, obsession, and Greek myth
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Author:Bradshaw,Gillian
Title:Island of Ghosts
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1998
Binding:paperback
Genre:Historical
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*We mutinied when we reached the ocean.
We'd been riding for fifty-one days, three companies of us with half a
legion and two troops of Roman auxiliaries to guard us. We left Aquincum
late in July, and rode through the heat of August: the dust and the flies
were appalling. Most of the army bases where we stopped along the way
didn't have proper supplies laid up for such a large body of men, as nobody
had sent messages telling them to do so; of what they did have, the Roman
troops to the best for themselves, leaving us sour barley soup and coarse
black bread. We weren't used to the diet, and it made us ill. The hooves
of our horses wore down on the paved Roman roads, and the beasts went lame.
The Romans refused to give us leather to make horse-sandals, so we cut up
the leather bindings of our wagon awnings. Then, early in September when
we left the Rhine and turned west into Gaul, it began to rain, and the
water ran through the loose awnings and soaked everything: bedding, food,
clothes. Everything stank of wet wool, wet horses, rotting barley, and
unwashed wet men, and we hated the feel of our own skins. Only our armor
and weapons were safe: they had been wrapped in oilcloths at Aquincum and
packed into twenty wagons of their own, which the Romans took charge of.*
(opening passage)
Comment:
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Author:Bradshaw,Gillian
Title:Render Unto Caesar
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:2003
Binding:hardback
Genre:Historical
GenreCom:
Status:unread
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Bradshaw,Gillian
Title:Sand-Reckoner;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:2000
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Historical
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:a slice from the life of Archemedes
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Author:Bradshaw,Gillian
Title:Wolf Hunt;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:2001
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:historical fantastic
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Author:Bradshaw,Gillian
Title:Hawk of May
Series:Arthurian Trilogy
SeriesOrder:1
Copyright:1980
Binding:paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:an historical Arthur; the story of Gwalchmai, the son of... the
sorceress Morgawse (Morgan le Fay).
I love this book.
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Author:Bradshaw,Gillian
Title:Kingdom of Summer
Series:Arthurian Trilogy
SeriesOrder:2
Copyright:1981
Binding:paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Bradshaw,Gillian
Title:In Winter's Shadow
Series:Arthurian Trilogy
SeriesOrder:3
Copyright:1982
Binding:paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:And here's where the tragic part is; I don't read this one much.
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Author:Brickhill,Paul
Title:Dam Busters;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1951
Binding:paperback
Genre:Historical
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:true story, so should I put under bibliographical?
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Author:Brickhill,Paul
Title:Escape -- Or Die
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1952
Binding:paperback
Genre:Historical
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:anthology of RAF WWII escape stories
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Author:Brickhill,Paul
Title:Reach For The Sky
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1954
Binding:paperback
Genre:Historical
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*Through the slightly open door of the room a woman's disembodied
voice slid into the receding clarity: "Sssh! Don't make so much noise.
There's a boy dying in there."
The words quivered in him like a little electric shock that froze the
drifting dream and sparked a sharp thought: "So that's it. Hell, am I!"*
Comment:yes, the famous book
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Author:Brin,David
Title:Postman;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1985
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*It was as if the seeds of civilization needed more than
goodwill and the dreams of aging high school graduates to water
them. Gordon often wondered if the right symbol might do the
trick -- the right #idea#. But he knew his little dramas,
however well received, weren't the key. They might trigger a
beginning, once in a great while, but local enthusiasm always
failed soon after. He was no travelling messiah. The legends
he offered weren't the kind of sustenance needed in order to
overcome the inertia of a dark age.*
Comment:this is a story with one scintilating, glowing idea
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Author:Brin,David
Title:Practice Effect;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1984
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:this was sheer fun
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Author:Brin,David
Title:Startide Rising
Series:Uplift
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1983
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Broderick and Rory Barnes,Damien
Title:Zones
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1997
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Kids SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:cool to have a solid near-future SF kids novel set in Melbourne
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Author:Bronte,Charlotte
Title:Jane Eyre
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1847
Binding:paperback
Genre:Historical
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:yes, this I studied in school, but kept
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Author:Browning,Robert
Title:Robert Browning's Selected Poems
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1896
Binding:short hardback
Genre:Poetry
GenreCom:
Status:unread
Quote:
Comment:rescued from being winnowed by my father from his collection,
but I haven't gotten around to reading them...
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Author:Brust,Steven
Title:Taltos the Assassin
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1990
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:unread
Quote:
Comment:an omnibus of "Jhereg", "Yendi" and "Teckla"
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Author:Buchheim,Lothar-Gunther
Title:Das Boot
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1975
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Historical
GenreCom:
Status:unread
Quote:
Comment:the classic story of a German U-boat
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Author:Bujold,Lois McMaster
Title:Curse of Chalion;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:2001
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:A man who just wants to get away from it all and have
a quiet life, finds himself in the thick of it - politics, magic and
religion (and all three intertwined as the Curse of Chalion acts...)
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Author:Bujold,Lois McMaster
Title:Falling Free
Series:Vorkosigan
SeriesOrder:0
Copyright:1988
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:set in the same universe, but 200 years before the Vorkosigan
books proper
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Author:Bujold,Lois McMaster
Title:Shards of Honor
Series:Vorkosigan
SeriesOrder:1
Copyright:1986
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*"From spaceman to caveman in three days," she meditated aloud.
"How we imagine our civilization is in ourselves, when it's really in our
things."
Vorkosigan glanced with a twisted smile at the carefully-tended
Dubauer. "You seem to be able to carry your civilization on the
inside."*
Comment:
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Author:Bujold,Lois McMaster
Title:Barrayar
Series:Vorkosigan
SeriesOrder:2
Copyright:1991
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Bujold,Lois McMaster
Title:Warrior's Apprentice;The
Series:Vorkosigan
SeriesOrder:3
Copyright:1986
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:I love this series; SF with character and humour, which also
happens to be rather military. I love Miles, and I love Cordelia.
I'd say either start with this book (this is the first Miles book)
or with "Shards of Honor" (the first Cordelia book)
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Author:Bujold,Lois McMaster
Title:Borders of Infinity
Series:Vorkosigan
SeriesOrder:4
Copyright:1989
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:anthology, so it's rather hard to place this
chronologically. This is the earliest it could reasonably be.
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Author:Bujold,Lois McMaster
Title:Vor Game;The
Series:Vorkosigan
SeriesOrder:5
Copyright:1990
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Bujold,Lois McMaster
Title:Cetaganda
Series:Vorkosigan
SeriesOrder:6
Copyright:1996
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:written later, but set earlier
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Author:Bujold,Lois McMaster
Title:Ethan of Athos
Series:Vorkosigan
SeriesOrder:7
Copyright:1986
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:sort of a spin-off book, using minor characters (no Miles)
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Author:Bujold,Lois McMaster
Title:Brothers in Arms
Series:Vorkosigan
SeriesOrder:8
Copyright:1989
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Bujold,Lois McMaster
Title:Mirror Dance
Series:Vorkosigan
SeriesOrder:9
Copyright:1994
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Bujold,Lois McMaster
Title:Memory
Series:Vorkosigan
SeriesOrder:10
Copyright:1996
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Bujold,Lois McMaster
Title:Komarr
Series:Vorkosigan
SeriesOrder:11
Copyright:1998
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Bujold,Lois McMaster
Title:Civil Campaign;A
Series:Vorkosigan
SeriesOrder:12
Copyright:1999
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:Miles doesn't find himself quite as adept on the field of
romance as on the field of war...
(fun fun fun fun!) (and lunacy)
=
Author:Bujold,Lois McMaster
Title:Diplomatic Immunity
Series:Vorkosigan
SeriesOrder:13
Copyright:2002
Binding:hardback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:this one isn't quite as good; I hope it's just an abberation
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Author:Bull,Emma
Title:Falcon
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1989
Binding:paperback
Genre:
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:Bought this at Worldcon on spec, so I could get the author
to sign it
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Author:Bull,Emma
Title:War for the Oaks
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1987
Binding:paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*On that night, there were voices in Peavey Plaza. One was like
the susurrus of the fountain itself, sometimes hissing, sometimes with
the little-bell sound of a water-drop striking. The other was deep and
rough; if the concrete were an animal, it would have this
voice.*
Comment:This copy I actually bought again at Worldcon so that the
author could sign it. I think I then gave away my original copy.
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Author:Bunyan,John
Title:Pilgrim's Progress;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:
Binding:hardback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:started
Quote:
Comment:yes, I know it's allegory not fantasy, but still...
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Author:Burnett,Frances Hodgson
Title:Little Princess;A
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1905
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Kids
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:The thing I love about this book was that it was the good
aspects of her dream, the noblesse oblige and honour and nobility of
being a princess, that sustained her through the hardship -- it
was being a "true princess" in the way that George MacDonald uses the
term
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Author:Burnett,Frances Hodgson
Title:Secret Garden;The
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Copyright:1911
Binding:paperback
Genre:Kids
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Author:Burroughs,Edgar Rice
Title:Tarzan of the Apes
Series:Tarzan
SeriesOrder:1
Copyright:1912
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:I keep these for nostalgic reasons
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Author:Burroughs,Edgar Rice
Title:Return of Tarzan;The
Series:Tarzan
SeriesOrder:2
Copyright:1913
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
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Comment:
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Author:Burroughs,Edgar Rice
Title:Son of Tarzan;The
Series:Tarzan
SeriesOrder:4
Copyright:1915
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
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Author:Burroughs,Edgar Rice
Title:Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Series:Tarzan
SeriesOrder:5
Copyright:1916
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
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Status:owned
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Author:Burroughs,Edgar Rice
Title:Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Series:Tarzan
SeriesOrder:6
Copyright:1917
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
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Status:owned
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Comment:
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Author:Burroughs,Edgar Rice
Title:Tarzan the Untamed
Series:Tarzan
SeriesOrder:7
Copyright:1919
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
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Author:Burroughs,Edgar Rice
Title:Tarzan the Terrible
Series:Tarzan
SeriesOrder:8
Copyright:1921
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Burroughs,Edgar Rice
Title:Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Series:Tarzan
SeriesOrder:9
Copyright:1922
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
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Author:Burroughs,Edgar Rice
Title:Tarzan and the Ant Men
Series:Tarzan
SeriesOrder:10
Copyright:1924
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Burroughs,Edgar Rice
Title:Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
Series:Tarzan
SeriesOrder:11
Copyright:1927
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
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Comment:
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Author:Burroughs,Edgar Rice
Title:Tarzan and the Lost Empire
Series:Tarzan
SeriesOrder:12
Copyright:1928
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Burroughs,Edgar Rice
Title:Tarzan at the Earth's Core
Series:Tarzan
SeriesOrder:13
Copyright:1929
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Burroughs,Edgar Rice
Title:Tarzan the Invincible
Series:Tarzan
SeriesOrder:14
Copyright:1930
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:there are actually more than twenty in this series, and I did
read them all when I was a teenager
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Author:Butterworth,Oliver
Title:Enormous Egg;The
Series:
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Copyright:1956
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Kids SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:What if... a chicken laid a dinosaur egg? Then what?
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Author:Capek,Karel
Title:R. U. R.
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1923
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:R. U. R. stands for "Rossum's Universal Robots", and
this play is apparently the first place where the word "robot" was
used. Very interesting from a history of SF perspective. Notably
the robots here are more like what later SF would call androids.
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Author:Card,Orson Scott
Title:Songmaster
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1981
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Card,Orson Scott
Title:Worthing Saga;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1990
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:An omnibus of earlier works such as "Capitol"
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Author:Card,Orson Scott
Title:Ender's Game
Series:Ender's Saga
SeriesOrder:1
Copyright:1985
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Card,Orson Scott
Title:Speaker For The Dead
Series:Ender's Saga
SeriesOrder:2
Copyright:1986
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*Plikt tugged at his sleeve. "Why are you here?"
"You know why I came. I Spoke the death of Wutan."
"I know you came here with your sister Valentine. She's a much more
popular teacher than you are -- she answers questions with #answers#; you
just answer with more questions."
"That's because she knows some answers."*
Comment:
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Author:Card,Orson Scott
Title:Xenocide
Series:Ender's Saga
SeriesOrder:3
Copyright:1991
Binding:hardback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:half a book
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Author:Card,Orson Scott
Title:Children of the Mind
Series:Ender's Saga
SeriesOrder:4
Copyright:1996
Binding:hardback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:the half that makes it whole
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Author:Carroll,Lewis
Title:Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1982
Binding:hardback
Genre:Humour
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:or maybe I should have put it under Poetry?
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Author:Casey,Joan Frances
Title:Flock;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1991
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Biography
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:The autobiography of a multiple personality. Fascinating
and uplifting.
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Author:Catran,Ken
Title:Deepwater Black
Series:Deepwater
SeriesOrder:1
Copyright:1992
Binding:paperback
Genre:Kids SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Catran,Ken
Title:Deepwater Landing
Series:Deepwater
SeriesOrder:2
Copyright:1993
Binding:paperback
Genre:Kids SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Catran,Ken
Title:Deepwater Angels
Series:Deepwater
SeriesOrder:3
Copyright:1994
Binding:paperback
Genre:Kids SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Charrette,Robert N.
Title:Prince Among Men;A
Series:Prince Among Men
SeriesOrder:1
Copyright:1994
Binding:paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Chesterton,G. K.
Title:Annotated Thursday;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:unread
Quote:
Comment:an annotated version of "The Man Who Was Thursday"
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Author:Chesterton,G. K.
Title:Ball and the Cross;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1910
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:Half of it clunks along like a bad wheel, the other half is
inspired divine lunacy.
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Author:Chesterton,G. K.
Title:Club of Queer Trades;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1905
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Chesterton,G. K.
Title:Complete Father Brown;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Mystery
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*"Sir Arthur St. Clare, as I have already said, was a man who
read his Bible. That was what was the matter with #him#. When will
people understand that it is useless for a man to read his Bible
unless he also reads everyone else's Bible? A printer reads a Bible
for misprints. A Mormon reads his Bible and finds polygamy; a
Christian Scientist reads his and finds we have no arms and legs."*
(Father Brown, "The Sign of the Broken Sword")
Comment:
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Author:Chesterton,G. K.
Title:Man Who Was Thursday;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:His most famous
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Author:Chesterton,G. K.
Title:Napoleon of Notting Hill;The
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been
playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it
till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And
one of the games to which it is most attached is called "Keep to-morrow
dark," and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no
doubt) "Cheat the Prophet." The players listen very carefully and
respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to
happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the
clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something
else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great
fun.*
(opening paragraph)
Comment:The familiar become strange.
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Author:Christian,Deborah
Title:Mainline
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1996
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
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Author:Clancy,Tom
Title:Patriot Games
Series:Jack Ryan
SeriesOrder:1
Copyright:1987
Binding:paperback
Genre:Thriller
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Clancy,Tom
Title:Hunt For Red October;The
Series:Jack Ryan
SeriesOrder:2
Copyright:1984
Binding:paperback
Genre:Thriller
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:I liked the movie, thought I'd get the book.
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Author:Clancy,Tom
Title:Cardinal of the Kremlin;The
Series:Jack Ryan
SeriesOrder:3
Copyright:1988
Binding:paperback
Genre:Thriller
GenreCom:
Status:unread
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Clancy,Tom
Title:Clear and Present Danger
Series:Jack Ryan
SeriesOrder:4
Copyright:1989
Binding:paperback
Genre:Thriller
GenreCom:
Status:unread
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Clancy,Tom
Title:Sum of All Fears;The
Series:Jack Ryan
SeriesOrder:5
Copyright:1991
Binding:paperback
Genre:Thriller
GenreCom:
Status:unread
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Clancy,Tom
Title:Debt of Honour
Series:Jack Ryan
SeriesOrder:6
Copyright:1994
Binding:paperback
Genre:Thriller
GenreCom:
Status:unread
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Clancy,Tom
Title:Executive Orders
Series:Jack Ryan
SeriesOrder:7
Copyright:1996
Binding:paperback
Genre:Thriller
GenreCom:
Status:unread
Quote:
Comment:
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Author:Clarke,Arthur C.
Title:Fall of Moondust;A
Series:
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1961
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:A classic; a combination of disaster-movie and SF
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Author:Hoyle,Trevor
Title:Project Avalon
Series:Blake's 7
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1979
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF/TV
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:novelization of "Project Avalon" and other nearby episodes
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Author:Hoyle,Trevor
Title:Scorpio Attack
Series:Blake's 7
SeriesOrder:
Copyright:1981
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF/TV
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:novelization of the start of the fourth season
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Author:Hoyle,Trevor
Title:Blake's 7
Series:Blake's 7
SeriesOrder:1
Copyright:1977
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF/TV
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:novelization of the first few episodes
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Author:Reeves-Stevens,Judith and Garfield
Title:Day of Descent;The
Series:Alien Nation
SeriesOrder:1
Copyright:1993
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF/TV
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:It was the Ship.
It had no other name. It had thousands.
From Tencton legends, it was *lesh*, the hell where the flesh of
those who turned their eyes from the three moons was seared in waves
of salt water, only to be restored with each rising of the sun.
It was *am dugas*, the pit that tempted Celine from Andarko, from
which only their love had saved him.
It was the *wask'l reckwi*, the knowing death of ancient times for
those who died yet remained forever awake to the darkness that trapped
them in an eternity of remembering the evil they had done.
And there were other names, their numbers legion, more ancient than
any Tencton legend and not from any Tencton language. Words of hatred
and fear and despair and helplessness that came from the languages of
other races that had been cargo in its hull, now ghosts whose death cries
still echoed from the bulkheads, whose terror still pulsed through the
choking air like the fluttering heartsbeat of a hunted animal run to
ground.
(opening passage)
Comment:fills in background set before the series start
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Author:Spencer,David
Title:Passing Fancy
Series:Alien Nation
SeriesOrder:6
Copyright:1994
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF/TV
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:the best standalone Alien Nation novel I've read
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Author:Vornholt,John
Title:Voices
Series:Babylon 5
SeriesOrder:1
Copyright:1994
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF/TV
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:I'm keeping this because it's set early in the series
and mainly because it's autographed from the "Parliament of Dreams" con.
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