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TITLE: Planet Buyer
AUTHOR: Cordwainer Smith (Paul Linebarger) 1913-66
TYPE: paperback Collection
PUBLISHER: Pyramid R-1084
COVER PRICE: $.50
ISBN:
PAGES: 156
PUB DATE: October 1964
EDITION: 1st edition; 1st publication
COPYRIGHT: 1964 by author
COVER ARTIST: John Schoenherr
ISFDB: Yes,
RATING:
NOTATION: Expansion of short novel "The Boy who Bought Old Earth" which was 1st published in Galaxy magazine in April 1964. Later incorporated into book titled Norstrilia.
INDEX: 0222 - Planet Buyer – 02 – CS - IFB
QUOTE….“ We were drunk with happiness in those early years. Everybody was, especially the young people. These were the first years of the Rediscovery of Man, when the Instrumentality dug deep in the treasury, reconstructing the old cultures, the old languages, and even the old troubles. The nightmare of perfection had taken our forefathers to the edge of suicide. Now under the leadership of the Lord Jestocost and the Lady Alice More, the ancient civilizations were rising like great land masses out of the sea of the past”….from Alpha Ralpha Boulevard by Cordwainer Smith
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RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO ENTRY: indicates specific information not available from book.
The Gas Peedhit Rahat Samiti (who described themselves as ‘a coalition of former workers and gas victims’ was formed in July 1985) and received support from the UK in ‘developing an alternative production/employment strategy for the people who have suffered in the tragedy’.
The idea was to focus on developing an alternative production idea, particularly in terms of structures ie ways of creating a co-operative or series of worker/community controlled initiatives which were responsive to local needs.
Approximately 45Km north east of Bhopal, the Great Stupa is a part of an extremely important complex of Buddhist monuments and is a World Heritage Site.
Sketches from the courtroom of the first trial of the Baltimore police officers accused of being culpable in the death of Freddie Gray. www.washingtonpost.com/news/drawing-dc-together/
The Gas Peedhit Rahat Samiti (who described themselves as ‘a coalition of former workers and gas victims’ was formed in July 1985) and received support from the UK in ‘developing an alternative production/employment strategy for the people who have suffered in the tragedy’.
The idea was to focus on developing an alternative production idea, particularly in terms of structures ie ways of creating a co-operative or series of worker/community controlled initiatives which were responsive to local needs.
Este bicho y toda su familia son los culpables del deterioro de mis antiguos negativos.
Yo los tenía perfectamente guardados en sus archivadores correspondientes.
Y ellos se han comido el papel cebolla de los archivadores, provocando un verdadero desastre.
respirando tu aire , soñando tus sueños ,
hoy quiero que sepas que tu estas en ellos ,
que eres el culpable de todos mis desvelos ,
quiero que comprendas que tu eres mi a n h e l o.
Approximately 45Km north east of Bhopal, the Great Stupa is a part of an extremely important complex of Buddhist monuments and is a World Heritage Site.
Sketches from the courtroom of the first trial of the Baltimore police officers accused of being culpable in the death of Freddie Gray. www.washingtonpost.com/news/drawing-dc-together/
Lo lamento mucho, pero ultimamente estoy muy poco activa en flickr. Estoy tomando muy pocas fotos. El culpable es el cuaderno moleskine. Desde que lo compré me he convertido en una chica analógica. He regresado al lapiz, al papel, al dibujo, al relato, a dedicar un tiempo a dibujar algo, abandonando la inmediatez de la fotografía, el rapido click que captura el momento.
Im sorry a lot, but lately I am not very active in flickr. I am taking very few pictures. The guilty is the notebook moleskine. Since I bought it I have transformed into an analogical girl. I have returned to the pencil, to the paper, to the drawing, to the story, to dedicate a time to draw something, leaving the immediacy of the picture, the quick click that captures the moment.
Oriol Alamany, amb el seu llibre "Fotografiar la Naturaleza" (1997) va ser un dels "culpables" de la meva afició per la fotografia. Fa poc vaig llegir una entrada seva a Facebook on es queixava de què actualment se li dóna massa importància a l'equip, quan en realitat només és una eina.
Jordi Belver, un altre gran fotògraf, m'explicava que feia triar als seus alumnes entre dos reportatges fotogràfics seus, sense dir amb quin equip estaven fets, per descobrir-los més endavant que el que ells havien escollit com a millor, l'havia fet amb una càmera IXUS de butxaca.
A propòsit d'aquestes reflexions (a part de donar-vos una mica de rotllo), avui us mostro una foto feta amb el mòbil, que d'altra manera no hauria pogut fer per la seva immediatesa.
Un dia feiner, surto a esmorzar. Camino tranquil·lament. Estic a punt d'entrar al bar on normalment menjo l'entrapà. De sobte, davant meu veig "la imatge". Cap problema: mà a la butxaca, mòbil i pataplaf, la foto. Aquí la teniu.
Això d'anar "conjuntat" és ben curiós, no trobeu?
Jo havia vist combinacions diverses de vestuari (camises, trajes, faldilles, etc.) amb complements (cinturons, corbates mocadors, etc.). Però la protagonista d'avui, penso que ha anat al límit.
I pensar que només ho podran veure les persones que li van darrere m'ha deixat ben sorprès.
Que tingueu una bona setmana.
I abrigueu-vos que farà molt fred.
Francesc Soldevila.
(mirar, veure, sentir, compartir).
TITLE: Entry to Elsewhen
AUTHOR: John Brunner 1934-94
TYPE: paperback collection
PUBLISHER: DAW UY1154
COVER PRICE: $1.25
ISBN:
PAGES:172
COPYRIGHT: 1972 by author
PUB DATE:
EDITION: 2nd DAW edition; not stated
COVER ARTIST: Josh Kirby
ISFDB: Yes verified
Unknown printing; no number line.
The copyright page states "First Printing 1972".
UY1154 on the cover; 451-UY1154-125 on the spine; there is no DAW Books No.
The copyright page credits Jack Gaughan with the cover and illustrations but the cover is plainly signed by Kirby.
INDEX: 0215 - Entry to Elsewhen - 28 - JB - IFB
CONTENTS:
2 • Entry to Elsewhen • (1972) • interior artwork by Jack Gaughan
7 • Host Age • (1956) • novelette by John Brunner
52 • Entry to Elsewhen [2] • interior artwork by Jack Gaughan
53 • Lungfish • (1957) • novelette by John Brunner
90 • Entry to Elsewhen [3] • interior artwork by Jack Gaughan
91 • No Other Gods But Me • (1956) • novelette by John Brunner
QUOTE “Yew want to know what the reel horror is, hey? Wal, it”s this- it ain’t what thern fish devils haz done, but it’s what they’re a-goin’ to do! They’re a-bringin’ things up aout o’ whar they come from into the taown….ever hear tell of a shoggoth?” p73….. From The Shadow Out of Time by Howard P. Lovecraft
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RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry: indicates specific information not available from book.
TITLE: Planet Buyer
AUTHOR: Cordwainer Smith (Paul Linebarger) 1913-66
TYPE: paperback Collection
PUBLISHER: Pyramid X-2049
COVER PRICE: $.60
ISBN:
PAGES: 156
PUB DATE: October 1964
EDITION: 2nd edition
COPYRIGHT: 1964 by author
COVER ARTIST: Peter Bramley
ISFDB: Yes verified but not as primary
RATING: Not read
NOTATION: Expansion of short novel "The Boy who Bought Old Earth" which was 1st published in Galaxy magazine in April 1964. Later incorporated into book titled Norstrilia.
States "A Pyramid Book--published....October 1964" (the date of the first printing). This is the second printing, and would have been printed in 1969, based on the price and the Pyramid catalog number.
INDEX: 0223 - Planet Buyer - 03 - CS - IFB
QUOTE….“ We were drunk with happiness in those early years. Everybody was, especially the young people. These were the first years of the Rediscovery of Man, when the Instrumentality dug deep in the treasury, reconstructing the old cultures, the old languages, and even the old troubles. The nightmare of perfection had taken our forefathers to the edge of suicide. Now under the leadership of the Lord Jestocost and the Lady Alice More, the ancient civilizations were rising like great land masses out of the sea of the past”….from Alpha Ralpha Boulevard by Cordwainer Smith
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RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO ENTRY: indicates specific information not available from book.
мир
© Andrew Bossi, flic.kr/s/aHsjXUgY4p
-----------------------------------------
2014 May 2
Today one friend (Pro-Ukraine) missed being shot by less than a meter. Another (Pro-Russia) was beaten by opposing protesters. And another (Pro-Ukraine) was lit on fire by a Molotov cocktail. ...And I *saw* that last one as it happened on a livestream. And what happened at Odessa's Trade Union Building today is an absolute travesty. If you aren't paying attention to what has been happening, is happening, and what is still to come: you should be.
What is going on in Ukraine is sickening, and worsened in that at the start of this year these same people were friends. You don't throw rocks or tear up cobblestones, toss Molotovs or fill the bottles, fire bullets or stand beside them & expect none of that is intended to kill. Those of both sides who contribute to the carnage are as culpable as those who perform it.
Behind every front line of thugs is a mindless mob, and behind every mindless mob -- to some glimmer of hope -- are the good people, ignored, who will pickup the fallen and clean the mess of both sides.
The Gas Peedhit Rahat Samiti (who described themselves as ‘a coalition of former workers and gas victims’ was formed in July 1985) and received support from the UK in ‘developing an alternative production/employment strategy for the people who have suffered in the tragedy’.
The idea was to focus on developing an alternative production idea, particularly in terms of structures ie ways of creating a co-operative or series of worker/community controlled initiatives which were responsive to local needs.
Even at this relatively early stage after the disaster extensive protest graffiti is seen on the perimeter wall of the abandoned factory along Union Carbide Rd.
here, children stand on the disaster memorial statue, by artist Ruth Waterman, which is ion the process of being erected across the road from the factory gates.
Following a cease fire in the Korean War and an exchange of prisoners, 23 captured U.S. soldiers and one British soldier elected to remain in communist-led countries (along with 327 South Koreans.
These five are posing in the courtyard of the Beijing People’s University in 1956. From left to right: Andrew Fortuna of Detroit, Mi.; Clarence Adams of Memphis, Tenn.; Andrew Condon of Bathgate, Scotland; Larane Sullivan of Santa Barbara, Ca. and Jack Dunn of Baltimore, Md.
As the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s continued in the United States, the prisoners who refused repatriation were labeled as “brainwashed” and fear of communists’ ability to shape people’s minds was spread across the country.
However a number were African Americans who did not wish to return to face racial discrimination. Others agreed with their hosts that communism represented a better hope for mankind than the capitalism of the United States.
Most ultimately had difficulty adapting to the culture and language of the host country and eventually returned to the United States.
Prisoner repatriation was one of the greatest stumbling blocks in the long cease-fire negotiations between the forces of the United Nations and those of China and North Korea.
In June 1953, the two sides agreed that no prisoner who did not wish to be repatriated would be forced to do so (this had long been a sticking point in negotiations, with the Chinese and North Koreans wanting all prisoners returned to their home countries).
Prisoners who did not wish to go back to their home countries would be given 90 days in a neutral compound near Panmunjom to reconsider before being allowed to stay in enemy territory. Following the armistice that was signed on 27 July 1953, effectively ending the Korean War (South Korea never signed), the main prisoner exchange was free to proceed.
Two of the refusals, Corporal Claude Batchelor and Corporal Edward Dickenson, changed their minds before the 90-day window expired. Both were court-martialed and sentenced to prison terms, with Batchelor serving 4½ years and Dickenson 3½ years.
This left 22 United Nations soldiers who voluntarily stayed with the Communists after the final exchange of prisoners. The 21 Americans were given dishonorable discharges.
This had the unintended consequence of rendering them immune to court-martial when they finally returned to the United States (which the majority eventually did), because they were no longer active-duty military. However, they were still criminally culpable for any acts of collaboration or offenses against fellow prisoners committed while they were POWs.
About 4 a.m. on February 24, 1954, a train carrying the 21 American defectors rumbled across the Yalu River into China. The Chinese soon shipped some of the men off to study language and politics. Others went to mills, factories, and farms across Eastern China.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsmaXdZck
Photo by Lois Mitchjeon. The image was distributed by Associated Press.
One of the most controversial, inflammatory and highly publicized incidents in 20th century Georgia history ended here at the site of a nondescript building in Marietta in the shadow of Interstate 75. After the Civil War, Northerners began arriving opening factories in the region to take advantage of the cheap labor pool. Atlanta soon became a center of industrial activity and attracted a large Jewish Community, among them Leo Frank, a New Yorker who ran the local B'nai B'rith Chapter. On April 26, 1913, 13-year old Mary Phagan, the child of tenant farmers, went to the pencil factory of Leo Frank where she was working in Atlanta to collect her paycheck. Her battered and sexually assaulted body was found in the cellar that night. Leo Frank was soon arrested after acting nervous and suspicious activity. The star witness was Jim Conley, an African-American janitor working in the factory. Though Conley lied and gave often contradictory descriptions of the events, his claim that Frank was a sexual predator who had Conley help him dispose of the body quickly resonated throughout the South. Sensationalized newspapers accounts attacking Frank as a Northern carpetbagger and a Jewish monster by Thomas Watson inflamed the public, resulting in mobs gathering outside the courthouse to demand Frank's death. The defense was denied a mistrial due to jury intimidation, but the judge made sure the defense members were not present when the verdict was announced: guilty, sentence death.
However, departing Georgia Governor John Slaton, after reviewing all the documentation, decided to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. A popular governor until then, the move effectively ended his political career, and mobs threatened his family. The gesture was futile. In Milledgeville prison, Frank had his throat slashed by a fellow prisoner, but survived. Thundering against the commutation, Watson wrote:
"This country has nothing to fear from its rural communities. Lynch law is a good sign; it shows that a sense of justice lives among the people."
On August 16, 1915 a crowd of some of the area's leading men gathered in Marietta, where Mary Phagan was buried. Led by a former governor, Joseph M Brown, they drove to Milledgeville, broke into the prison, made off with Frank, and drove to Frey's Gin at this spot, where a sheriff hanged Leo Frank (warning: NSFW upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/Lynching_of_Leo_Fr...). A crowd gathered and took photographs, though no one was ever indicted for the lynching. Leo Frank denied he had killed Mary Phagan, even with a noose around his neck.
Thousands of Jews fled the South in the aftermath of the Leo Frank case, and in direct response, B'nai B'rith formed the Anti-Defamation League, which "fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all". Also in response, the "Knights of Mary Phagan" gathered on Stone Mountain later that year, burning a cross and signaling the second revival of the KKK.
In 1982, Leo Frank's former office boy, Alonzo Mann, told authorities that he saw Jim Conley, alone, carrying the body of Phagan in 1913, and that Conley had threatened to kill him if he ever revealed that information. Frank was pardoned in 1986 after the state recognized culpability for his death, but not Frank's innocence or guilt.
Marietta, Georgia
The Gas Peedhit Rahat Samiti (who described themselves as ‘a coalition of former workers and gas victims’ was formed in July 1985) and received support from the UK in ‘developing an alternative production/employment strategy for the people who have suffered in the tragedy’.
The idea was to focus on developing an alternative production idea, particularly in terms of structures ie ways of creating a co-operative or series of worker/community controlled initiatives which were responsive to local needs.
Approximately 45Km north east of Bhopal, the Great Stupa is a part of an extremely important complex of Buddhist monuments and is a World Heritage Site.
TITLE: Man in the Maze
AUTHOR: Robert Silverberg 1935-
REVIEW BY CR: Notes from July 8, 1975 "Why would an alien race build a 100 sq. mile maze around their only "city", fill it with deadly hazards and illusions and leave no key to the reason for it or how it continues to maintain itself eons after the race [of aliens] has perished. We get no answer from RS [author Robert Silverberg], and I suppose none are necessary. In a way it's a cop out because Silverberg doesn't have to make up an explanation to a paradoxical or better yet hard to believe idea - the city [itself]. I dislike intensely stereotype characters in fiction. In science fiction they are easy to spot, and when carried to extremes reduce the narrative to comic book level. This book is stacked with them. This, along with some pseudo-science nonsense and the worst set of aliens seen in a long time weakens what otherwise could be a fine book. Plot: man isolated in maze is induced, by trickery, to leave to save mankind from the standard alien menace.
TYPE: novel trade paperback
PUBLISHER: AVON/ Equinox Edition
COVER PRICE: $1.95
ISBN: 0-380-00198-5
PAGES: 192
PUB DATE: Jan 1975
EDITION: Third Printing (Equinox Edition)
COPYRIGHT:
COVER ARTIST: Michael Presley
ISFDB:
RATING: 6
NOTATION:
SF Rediscovery Series #5
No published date. States: "First Avon Printing, February, 1969. / Third Printing (Equinox Edition)" Series evidence indicates a publication in January, 1975.
Front cover catalog #21915
Spine catalog #380-21915-195
Front cover: "IN CANADA/22194/$2.45"
Cover artist credited as "Sketch Pad Studio", artist's signature "MP" indicates Michael Presley. See copyright page of SF Rediscovery #17 (The Humanoids by Jack Williamson) for evidence of Presley's association with Sketch Pad. book sold on Amazon in 2008
INDEX: 0247 - Man in the Maze - 17 - RS - IFB
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RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.
QUOTE….“The study of history was oddly congenial to Joseph. There was a kind of poetry in it for him. He had always loved those flamboyant tales of far-off strife, the carefully preserved legends of the fabled kings and kingdoms of Old Earth. But they were just tales to him, gaudy legends, ingenious dramatic fictions. He did not seriously think that men like Agamemnon and Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan had ever existed”. Robert Silverberg from The Longest Way Home
The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick [528 - 2014-05-13 - novel]
comments by CR
If you need to know anything about Phil Dick (1928-82) before reading this book it's that he was confounded by thoughts theological, consumed vast quantities of drugs and used his fiction to sort his dreams and visions. Ok - here we go with a plot outline: God ("Yah"), was booted off Earth by the Romans, and had taken up residence on a remote methane-snow planet. When squatters from Earth arrive, Yah decides it's time to make a comeback as his own Messiah. So he contacts dome-dweller Herb Asher (who agrees to claim Yah's paternity); impregnates ailing neighbor Rybys Romney; and journeys to Earth in the latter's womb - a necessary subterfuge, since Earth is controlled by the Belial-inspired Christian-Islamic church and the Scientific Legate, with computer Big Noodle keeping tabs on everyone. Thus reborn on Earth as Emmanuel, Yah is helped by Elias Tate (who's Elijah reincarnated) and by girl-of-mystery Zina (who turns out to be the living embodiment of the Torah) to recover his powers and challenge Belial for the supremacy. With profusely, confused plotting in the Dick manner - though without any of the usual Dick playfulness - this is book destined, perhaps, to be muddled over by academics and the dedicated fan-boy; but it's far, far too weird to attract many mainstream readers in my oppinion - but I liked it. A difficult book to get into but hard to put down - must be that PKD magic at work!
There've been science-fiction novels with religious themes before (e.g., Blish's A Case of Conscience, Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, Zelazny's Lord of Light), in fact it is a sub-genre of the field but none, to my knowledge, are as relentlessly theological in tone, texture, and import as this book.
"Divine Invasion"(1981) is book 2 in the VALIS series but it can most certainly be read as a stand-alone book.
TITLE: Divine Invasion
AUTHOR: Philip Kindred Dick 1928-82
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Pocket Books - Timescape
COVER PRICE: $ 2.95
ISBN: 0-671-44343-7
PAGES: 223
COPYRIGHT: 1981 by author
PUB DATE: July 1982
EDITION:
COVER ARTIST: Rowena Morrill
ISFDB: Not verified
RATING: 9
INDEX: 0122 - Divine Invasion - 013a - PKD - FB - Pocket Books
QUOTE “With a sigh Willis Gram pressed a switch on his desk; it opened the circuits to all the major computers throughout the world. He rarely –if ever- used this mechanism.” From Our Friends From Frolix 8 by Philip K. Dick
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NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.
Union Carbide knocked down Bhopal's finest palace to build their R&d facility at the top of the Shamla Hills.
Here is a corporation that really does not care.
The Gas Peedhit Rahat Samiti (who described themselves as ‘a coalition of former workers and gas victims’ was formed in July 1985) and received support from the UK in ‘developing an alternative production/employment strategy for the people who have suffered in the tragedy’.
The idea was to focus on developing an alternative production idea, particularly in terms of structures ie ways of creating a co-operative or series of worker/community controlled initiatives which were responsive to local needs.
мир
© Andrew Bossi, flic.kr/s/aHsjXUgY4p
-----------------------------------------
2014 May 2
Today one friend (Pro-Ukraine) missed being shot by less than a meter. Another (Pro-Russia) was beaten by opposing protesters. And another (Pro-Ukraine) was lit on fire by a Molotov cocktail. ...And I *saw* that last one as it happened on a livestream. And what happened at Odessa's Trade Union Building today is an absolute travesty. If you aren't paying attention to what has been happening, is happening, and what is still to come: you should be.
What is going on in Ukraine is sickening, and worsened in that at the start of this year these same people were friends. You don't throw rocks or tear up cobblestones, toss Molotovs or fill the bottles, fire bullets or stand beside them & expect none of that is intended to kill. Those of both sides who contribute to the carnage are as culpable as those who perform it.
Behind every front line of thugs is a mindless mob, and behind every mindless mob -- to some glimmer of hope -- are the good people, ignored, who will pickup the fallen and clean the mess of both sides.
La culpable soy yo...
Por dejar que el corazón
te amara tanto así
y dejar que aquellos besos me hicieran tan feliz
mira como pagas esta devoción ... (8)
si mirame como te miro
y mi corazon esta de testigo
por que me tratas asi
clavandome una profunda herida
solo por tu decision
destruiste mi vida
y esto que siento
mi corazon no sanara
soii responsable
por amarte tanto
no soii perfecto
tampoco un santo
mientras tu te marchas
yo te sigo amando ... (8)
TITLE: Nights Black Agents
AUTHOR: Fritz Leiber 1910-92
TYPE: paperback collection
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Catalog ID: #508K
COVER PRICE: $.35
ISBN:
PAGES: 143
COPYRIGHT: vairous by author
PUB DATE: 1961-06
EDITION: 1st paperback; two HB edition prior
COVER ARTIST:
ISFDB: Yes,
RATING:
NOTATION:
"For Jonquil My Wife." on page 2.
• "Ballantine Books edition, June 1961"
• No statement of printing, no number line.
• The artist is not credited; the initials GA are on the cover, slightly cut off.
• This is an abridged version of Night's Black Agents, hence the title "Tales From...." as it appears on the title page. Only the title on the spine has the apostrophe in "Nights", yet every even page in the book has it in the header.
• Omits Adept's Gambit [from the 1947 Arkham House edition.
INDEX: 0324 - Nights Black Agents - 17 - FL - IFB
CONTENTS:
·7 • Smoke Ghost • (1941) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
·22 • The Automatic Pistol • (1940) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
·37 • The Inheritance • (1942) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber (aka The Phantom Slayer) [as by Fritz Leiber ]
·52 • The Hill and the Hole • (1942) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
·64 • The Dreams of Albert Moreland • (1945) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
·80 • The Hound • (1942) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
·94 • Diary in the Snow • (1947) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
·119 • The Man Who Never Grew Young • (1947) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
·127 • The Sunken Land • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1942) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
QUOTE: The seven eyes of Ningauble the Wizard floated back to his hood as he reported to Fafhrd: "I have seen much, yet cannot explain all. The Gray Mouser is exactly twenty-five feet below the deepest cellar in the palace of Gilpkerio Kistomerces. Even though twenty-four parts in twenty-five of him are dead, he is alive. "Now about Lankhmar. She's been invaded, her walls breached everywhere and desperate fighting is going on in the streets, by a fierce host which out-numbers Lankhmar's inhabitants by fifty to one and equipped with all modern weapons. Yet you can save the city." "How?" demanded Fafhrd. Ningauble shrugged. "You're a hero. You should know." Fritz Leiber, from "The Swords of Lankhmar"
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RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.
TITLE: Catch a Falling Star
AUTHOR: John Brunner 1934-94
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Ace G761
COVER PRICE: $.50
ISBN:
PAGES: 158
COPYRIGHT: 1968 by author
PUB DATE: 1968
EDITION: 1st publication 1st edition
COVER ARTIST: John Schoenherr
ISFDB: Yes verified
COMMENTS: A much shorter & substantially different version of this novel appears under the title "The Hundredth Millenium" copyright 1959 Ace Books. Apparently that was based on the story "Earth Is But a Star".
INDEX: 0202 - Catch a Falling Star -16 - JB - IFB
QUOTE “Something is wrong,” Ragle said. “I don’t mean with you or me or with any one person. I mean in general.” “The time,” Ragle said, “ is out of joint.” “I thing we should compare notes.” …From Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
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NO entry: indicates specific information not available from book.
TITLE: Nebula Awards Stories Four
EDITOR: Poul Anderson 1926-2001
TYPE: paperback anthology
PUBLISHER: Pocket 75646
COPYRIGHT: 1969 by SFWA
ISBN: 0-812-51919-1
EDITION: 1st Pocket paperback
PUB DATE: January 1971
PAGES: 229
COVER PRICE: $.75
COVER ARTIST:
ISFDB: Yes BIBLIO TO INDEX NAME: 0175 - Nebula Awards Stories Four - 002 - PA – IFB
QUOTE: I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. Poul Anderson
CONTENTS:
·vii • Introduction (Nebula Awards Four) • (1969) • essay by Poul Anderson
·xiii • Foreword (Nebula Awards Four) • (1969) • essay by Poul Anderson
·1 • Mother to the World • (1968) • novelette by Richard Wilson
·38 • The Dance of the Changer and the Three • (1968) • shortstory by Terry Carr
·53 • The Planners • (1968) • shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
·68 • Sword Game • (1968) • shortstory by H. H. Hollis
·77 • The Listeners • [The Listeners] • (1968) • novelette by James E. Gunn
·105 • Dragonrider • (1967) • novella by Anne McCaffrey
·219 • In Memoriam (Nebula Awards Four) • (1969) • essay by Poul Anderson
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TITLE: Continuum3
SERIES: Continuum
EDITOR: Roger Elwood 1943-2007
TYPE: paperback Anthology
PUBLISHER: Berkley
COVER PRICE: $.95 N3022
ISBN: 425-03022-9
PAGES: 154
COPYRIGHT: 1974 by editor/authors r
PUB DATE: Dec 1975
EDITION: 1st paperback printing
COVER ARTIST: Vincent DiFate
ISFDB: Yes INDEX: 0158 - Continuum3 - 003 -RE - IFB
CONTENTS:
·1 • Introduction (Continuum 3) • (1974) • essay by Roger Elwood
·3 • Stations of the Nightmare - Part 3: The Evolution of Paul Eyre • (1974) • novelette by Philip José Farmer
·25 • A Fair Exchange • [History of Rustum] • (1974) • novelette by Poul Anderson
·46 • The Middle Man • (1974) • novelette by Chad Oliver
·72 • The Armageddon Tapes - Tape III • [The Armageddon Tapes] • (1974) • novelette by Thomas N. Scortia
·94 • Milekey Mountain • [Crystal Singer] • (1974) • novelette by Anne McCaffrey
·116 • From the Notebook of Doctor Stein • (1974) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe
·123 • The Witches of Nupal • (1974) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
·146 • Darkness of Day • (1974) • shortstory by Pamela Sargent and George Zebrowski
QUOTE “Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.” Philip K. Dick
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By: Brad Hollister.
On November Twenty ninth, 2010, three Main United States Trucking Associations, representing greater than 3,000 independently owned fleets, registered the motion at the United States Court of Appeals to review the launch of this FMCSA's CSA (CSA) 2010 regulation. The Carrier Lobbying Associations are seeking a permanent stop of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's relieve of the contentious carrier safety scores as laid out inside the FMCSA's controversial safety legislature.
All of these Truck Carrier Associations have been formerly declined a temporary injuction order to stop implementation of CSA 2010 safety scores to the public, while all these three thousand as well as privately owned or operated fleets have submitted the actual injunction on December 10, 2010. The Federal Court had decided to issue an expedited deliberation to listen to oral arguments from each side on the merit to giving this stoppage order from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ( FMCSA) with the release of this CSA information underneath the CSA 2010 regulation.
The 3 Freight Carrier Associations trying to get the injunction happen to be the Expedited Alliance of North America (TEANA), the Air & Expedited Motor Carrier Association (AEMCA), as well as the National Association of Small Trucking Companies (NASTC). Collectively, all these three Trucking Associations are actually opposing the release of CSA (CSA) records arguing that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ( FMCSA) does not fully understand the huge effect the release of this driver safety stats will have on the small carriers.
Under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ( FMCSA) legislature, the actual CSA 2010 (CSA 2010) can make virtually all notes open to the public. These scores does not only report every infraction, warning, safety incident, accident, and out of service orders to anyone for every single Carrier, but also for each truck driver. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will attempt to work along with virtually all governing agencies to supply a complete and comprehensive report surrounding the Behavorial Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (Referred to by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration as BASICs).
The BASICs categories are comprised of the subsequent standards for each freight carrier and truck driver: unsafe driving, driving when fatigued, drivers unfit to operate a commercial vehicle, operation of a vehicle while impaired due to alcohol or drugs, improper maintenance, and accident experience. The three trucking associations have shown arguments how the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ( FMCSA)'s release of this Comprehensive Safety Administration records.
The Truck Rental Business has long been discussing the issue of vicarious liability for several years. When a party is working on your account (known or unknown), vicarious liability is created by either an action or non-action. However the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulates carriers, freight brokers, logistics companies, and shippers as a client from the motor carrier ( either directly or indirectly) is available vicariously liability or negligence whenever employing a freight carrier or truck driver.
Several ground-breaking cases have already been appropriately presented and damages awarded coming from companies which failed to have immediate effect in the selection of the company. The three trucking organizations looking for this injunction against the release of CSA (CSA) data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ( FMCSA): Expedited Alliance of North America (TEANA), the Air & Expedited Motor Carrier Association (AEMCA), as well as the National Association of Small Trucking Companies (NASTC) and many others are nervous that freight brokers, logistics companies freight forwarders, intermodal carriers, warehousing firms, and shippers will certainly feel obligated to pick exclusively freight carriers and truck drivers along with just the best safety scores for concern with extra culpability by an improper freight carrier or owner operator decision.
In 2004, a Maryland court final decision held a third party logistics corporation at fault for the irresponsible choosing of a trucking company which triggered a major accident because the firm didn't take the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ( FMCSA) safety status from the freight carrier under consideration before employing the trucker (Shramm vs. Foster).
This hot button issue of this new legislature will unquestionably continue into 2011. For now these trucking associations failed to demonstrate damages caused by the CSA 2010 initiative. The court has made the decision arguments introduced with respect to the 3,000 freight carriers thus far have already been ruled to be predicted or forecasted, damages, not actual damages. Thus the courts have consistent upheld the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's ( FMCSA) governance on the issue. Time will tell if the trucking industry will be successful in displaying damages as a direct result of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration?s ( FMCSA) latest CSA regulation known as CSA 2010.
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TITLE: Web of Everwhere
AUTHOR: John Brunner 1934-94
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Bantam Q8398
COVER PRICE: $1.25
ISBN:
PAGES: 148
COPYRIGHT: 1974 by author
PUB DATE: June 1974
EDITION: 1st printing 1st edition
COVER ARTIST:
ISFDB: Yes
INDEX: 0191 - Web of Everwhere - 007 - JB - IFB
QUOTE: “In 1932 in April a small boy and his mother and father waited on an Oakland, California pier for the San Francisco ferry. The boy, who was almost four years old, noticed a blind beggar, huge and old with white hair and beard, standing with a tin cup. The boy asked his father for a nickel, which the boy took over to the beggar and gave him. The beggar, in a surprisingly hearty voice, thanked him and gave him back a piece of paper, which the boy took to his father to see what it was. “It tells about God,” his father said. from Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick
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Slogans and graffiti also were also appearing elsewhere in Bhopal.
Here, Bhopal is compared to Hiroshima which as become a popular theme with the disaster survivors and is also expressed on the Ruth Waterman statue plaque.
TITLE: Times Without Numbers
AUTHOR: John Brunner 1934-94
TYPE: paperback collection
PUBLISHER: Ace 81270
COVER PRICE: $.60
ISBN:
PAGES: 156
COPYRIGHT: 1969 by author
PUB DATE: 1969
EDITION: 1st Ace printing – was an Ace double prior
COVER ARTIST: John Schoenherr
ISFDB: Yes verified
RATING: 7
COMMENTS: Some editions list this as a Novel. In practice, the three stories remain very separate in plot and location, although they do share a common protagonist and a few other characters. All three stories start from an alternative 1988, but take place in different towns and times, ending in two different times/realities...ISFDB
INDEX: 0203 - Times Without Numbers - 17 - JB - IFB
CONTENTS:
5 • Spoil of Yesterday (1969 revised/expanded edition) • novelette by John Brunner
51 • The Word Not Written (1969 revised/expanded edition) • novelette by John Brunner
99 • The Fullness of Time (1969 revised/expanded edition) • novelette by John Brunner
QUOTE “Something is wrong,” Ragle said. “I don’t mean with you or me or with any one person. I mean in general.” “The time,” Ragle said, “ is out of joint.” “I thing we should compare notes.” …From Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
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The uniformity of the child grave memorials reminds me of the burial grounds following the World Wars. It is a testimony to the appalling loss of innocent lives following the disaster at the coal mining village of Aberfan in October 1966.
It is well known that the incident was essentially man-made and preventable. So often, the greed of the commercial system trumps the issues of human health and safety and human life.
'At 9.15 am on October 21, 1966, a colliery waste tip from Merthyr Vale Colliery slid down Merthyr Mountain and into the mining village of Aberfan. It engulfed Pantglas Junior School, smothering to death 109 children in their classrooms, and five of their teachers. They had just returned there from school assembly, at which they had sung All Things Bright and Beautiful. The total death toll was 144 humans (116 children and 28 adults) and a small number of farm animals.'
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/politics/aberfan/home2.htm
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Buscapé ha superado una época en la que no crecia desde la última foto (Día 29). Casi se muere, incluso perdió dos de sus hojas principales. La razón no era otra que la falta de Sol, siendo yo el culpable de la misma. Convencido, pues ya le había cambiado la tierra por otra mejor y utilidado abono químico, coloqué ha BuscaPé en otra ventana que disfriutaba de más luz, e inmediatamente, en 24 horas, la planta mosotró una mejoría considerable. Nuevos brotes, mayor altura, el tallo más grueso... etc. Tened en cuanta que la útlima foto era un macro en donde la planta no superaba la altura de la maceta.
Por otra parte, he de comentaros que BuscaPé tiene un nuevo/a compañero/a. Cansado de ver como la planta moría, me dio por plantar otra semilla en la misma maceta. Pronto conocereis a "Zé Pequeño".
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Buscapé has a time that did not grow since the last photo (Day 29). Almost died, even lost two of its main petals. The reason was the lack of sun, I would be guilty of it. Convinced, as he had already changed the land for a better one and used chemical fertilizer, has put in a new window BuscaPé enjoying more light, and immediately, in 24 hours, the plant mosotró a great improvement. New outbreaks, the higher altitude, the thicker stem ... etc. Take into account that the last few macro picture was one where the plant did not exceed the height of the pot.
Moreover, BuscaPé has a new partner. Tired of seeing the plant died, it gave me another seed for planting in the same pot. Soon to know "Zé Pequeño".
BuscaPé Histroy --> www.flickr.com/photos/sordojr/sets/72157613525357310/
TITLE: The Big Time
AUTHOR: Fritz Leiber 1910-92
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Ace - Catalog ID: #D-491
COVER PRICE: $.35
ISBN:
PAGES: 129
COPYRIGHT: 1961 by author
PUB DATE: 1961-00
EDITION: 1st printing Ace double with The Mind Spider by Leiber
COVER ARTIST: Emsh- not credited
ISFDB: Yes
RATING:
NOTATION:
·The printing date and number are not stated, but assumed to be a first printing in 1961 based on the copyright and the “First Book Publication” statement on the front cover of The Big Time. Also listed as such in Currey, page 307
·This is a dos-a-dos with the novel The Big Time on one side and the collection The Mind Spider: And Other Stories on the other side.
·The front cover of The Big Timesays “First Book Publication” and “Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year -17th World S.F. Convention.” It's not clear if this story was revised at all from the magazine version. The copyright page states “Copyright, ©, 1961, by Ace Books / Magazine version copyright, 1958, by Galaxy Publishing Corp.”
·The cover artists are not credited. EMSH is on the cover of The Mind Spider, lower right corner. The ACE Image Library credits Emshwiller with the cover for The Big Time as well.
·To help sort contents for each side in this ISFDB record page number for The Big Time is listed using roman numeral V while the The Mind Spider stories are listed using decimal page numbers. In the publication itself The Big Time starts on page 5 and ends on page 129.
INDEX: 0325 - The Big Time - 18 - FL - IFB
QUOTE: The seven eyes of Ningauble the Wizard floated back to his hood as he reported to Fafhrd: "I have seen much, yet cannot explain all. The Gray Mouser is exactly twenty-five feet below the deepest cellar in the palace of Gilpkerio Kistomerces. Even though twenty-four parts in twenty-five of him are dead, he is alive. "Now about Lankhmar. She's been invaded, her walls breached everywhere and desperate fighting is going on in the streets, by a fierce host which out-numbers Lankhmar's inhabitants by fifty to one and equipped with all modern weapons. Yet you can save the city." "How?" demanded Fafhrd. Ningauble shrugged. "You're a hero. You should know." Fritz Leiber, from "The Swords of Lankhmar"
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In 1992 artist Nick Cave sat in a Chicago park, still reeling from news of the Rodney King beating and ensuing Los Angeles riots. Feeling Vulnerable and that he -- like any African American man -- could be targeted, he gathered Sticks from the ground. At the studio, he turned these sticks into his first Soundsuit, a wearable Sculpture and defensive shell. Often seen as a celebration of movement and material, Cave's Soundsuits mask the body, erasing identity. Now, more than twenty years later, Cave takes us inside the belly of one of his iconic sculptures with this immersive installation Until -- a play on the phrase "innocent until proven guilty" or, in this case, "guilty until proven innocent." Cave's work began as a protective response to violence, and, with Until, he tackles the recent deaths of African Americans in the United States -- Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Oscar Grant... the list goes on -- eulogizing these victims while providing a platform for civil discourse, debate, and, ultimately, hope.
Until began with a question Cave asked himself: Is there racism in heaven? Instead of providing a direct answer, Cave offers us an experience. Across this space, visitors traverse a sculptural forest of metallic lawn ornaments --punctuated by images of guns, bullets, and targets, positioning us all as culpable, vulnerable, and potentially under attack --before arriving at a crystal cloud topped by a garden of found ceramic birds, metal flowers, and black-face lawn jockeys. By removing the lawn jockeys (cast-iron figurines and racist remnants) from circulation, Cave transforms them into agents for change, placing beaded nets in their hands as dream catchers. Our journey through Until continues to a cliff wall constructed of millions of woven plastic beads, an immersive video, and a metaphoric cleansing in a Mylar waterfall.
Until is also a site for performances and community engagement, with the immersive installation becoming a stage for testimonials, music, dance, poetry, and discussion. In the end, Cave takes off the protective mask his Soundsuits. Once provided, offering an environment to discuss important issues in a space that is at Once Seductive, provocative, and -- ultimately -- optimistic.
In 1992 artist Nick Cave sat in a Chicago park, still reeling from news of the Rodney King beating and ensuing Los Angeles riots. Feeling Vulnerable and that he -- like any African American man -- could be targeted, he gathered Sticks from the ground. At the studio, he turned these sticks into his first Soundsuit, a wearable Sculpture and defensive shell. Often seen as a celebration of movement and material, Cave's Soundsuits mask the body, erasing identity. Now, more than twenty years later, Cave takes us inside the belly of one of his iconic sculptures with this immersive installation Until -- a play on the phrase "innocent until proven guilty" or, in this case, "guilty until proven innocent." Cave's work began as a protective response to violence, and, with Until, he tackles the recent deaths of African Americans in the United States -- Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Oscar Grant... the list goes on -- eulogizing these victims while providing a platform for civil discourse, debate, and, ultimately, hope.
Until began with a question Cave asked himself: Is there racism in heaven? Instead of providing a direct answer, Cave offers us an experience. Across this space, visitors traverse a sculptural forest of metallic lawn ornaments --punctuated by images of guns, bullets, and targets, positioning us all as culpable, vulnerable, and potentially under attack --before arriving at a crystal cloud topped by a garden of found ceramic birds, metal flowers, and black-face lawn jockeys. By removing the lawn jockeys (cast-iron figurines and racist remnants) from circulation, Cave transforms them into agents for change, placing beaded nets in their hands as dream catchers. Our journey through Until continues to a cliff wall constructed of millions of woven plastic beads, an immersive video, and a metaphoric cleansing in a Mylar waterfall.
Until is also a site for performances and community engagement, with the immersive installation becoming a stage for testimonials, music, dance, poetry, and discussion. In the end, Cave takes off the protective mask his Soundsuits. Once provided, offering an environment to discuss important issues in a space that is at Once Seductive, provocative, and -- ultimately -- optimistic.