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Everyone's favorite nanny as seen in "Mary Poppins in the Park."
Written by P. L. Travers.
Illustrated by Mary Shepard
Published by Harcourt Brace, 1952. First Edition.
“OPAR. . . the Atlantean colony in the heart of Tarzan’s Africa.
“OPAR. . . in the words of Edgar Rice Burroughs, a hidden city of ‘gold and silver, ivory and apes, and peacocks.’
“OPAR. . . is the starting point of this fabulous novel of twelve thousand years past, when Africa had an inland sea and a high civilization bloomed along its forgotten shores, when lost empires flew their time-vanished banners, and deeds of daring were commonplace.
“Philip José Farmer, chronicler of TARZAN ALIVE, teller of fabulous histories, presents here the first great novel of HADON OF ANCIENT OPAR, whose claim to a throne launched him upon an adventure in the grand style of the great masters of fantasy. Fully illustrated by Roy Krenkel!” [From the back cover]
In this book, Professor Wormbog, who has collected all manner of fantastical creatures from A to Y, keeps looking for the Zipperump-a-Zoo. He looks everywhere and discovers how hard it is to find one — unless the Zipperump-a-Zoo wants to find you!
Professor Wormbog in Search of the Zipperump-a-Zoo.
By Mercer Mayer
Published Golden Press 1976 First Edition
From the back cover:
He Was Big . . . And Strong . . . And All Man . . .
And there wasn't a woman in the county that didn't know it. When Troy Bannock walked down the street, in his tight, faded blue jeans, one thing was damn sure -- the girl that got him would have herself a real man.
He was a farm boy, but he hated the land that took a man's body and heart away from him and gave him only enough to barely stay alive.
And there was more than just a body to Troy. He had brains they said, and a burning desire to get out of the dry, dusty, hot, one-horse town and make something of himself.
But with all of his manliness, Troy was still only a boy -- young, heedless, standing at the crossroads of life, full of the hungering of the flesh that could lead him to disaster . . .
“How often will the Laws of Chance make a wish come true? Suppose you could overcome the Laws of Chance and make every wish happen the way you want it to?
“In a bombed-out U.S.A., overrun by a horde of unseen enemies operating from space ships, a lone scientist finds himself designated as the protector of the few remaining men, women and children. How he saves these people and himself by overcoming the Laws of Chance and through the use of radioactive material, makes one of the most fascinating science fiction novels, written by one of the most popular of pseudo-science writers.” [From the Introduction]
The "Golden History of the World" contains fabulous illustrations by Cornelius DeWitt.
The Golden History of the World
by Jane Werner Watson.
Cornelius DeWitt (Illustrator)
Published by Golden Press; First Edition edition (1955)
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Colorful cover to "Siegfried the Mighty Warrior" by Maria De Vivanco. Illustrated by Lazlo Gal
Published by Golden Press; First Edition (1968)
"Throwing back her light vestment, she stretched forth her long skinny arm, in derision."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
Quoting from the book (page 492-493):
He took a few turns up and down, and sunk upon the sofa. “I get,” he repeated gloomily, “so tired. It is such weary weary work!”
He was leaning on his arm, saying these words in a meditative voice, and looking at the ground, when my darling rose, put off her bonnet, kneeled down beside him with her golden hair falling like sunlight on his head, clasped her two arms round his neck, and turned her face to me. O, what a loving and devoted face I saw!
“Esther, dear,” she said very quietly, “I am not going home again.” A light shone in upon me all at once.
“Never any more. I am going to stay with my dear husband. We have been married above two months. Go home without me, my own Esther; I shall never go home any more!” With those words, my darling drew his head down on her breast, and held it there. And if ever in my life I saw a love that nothing but death could change, I saw it then before me.
The book “Peter and Wendy” was first published in 1911 by Hodder & Stoughton in the U.K. and Charles Scribner’s in the U.S.A. The book contains a frontispiece and 11 half-tone plates by artist F. D. Bedford, the first pictures of Peter Pan, Wendy and their exploits in Neverland.
Although Peter Pan appeared as a character in two earlier books, “The Little White Bird” (1902) and “Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens” (1906), “Peter and Wendy” (1911) remains J. M Barrie’s most famous work. It introduces a new and far more memorable cast of characters including Peter Pan himself who is now a bit older. He is no longer a baby but a mischievous boy who can fly. The book tells of his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the pirate Captain Hook. These characters and their story have been with us now for over a century and were the subject of a classic animated Disney movie in 1953.
“The view from the garden was beautiful – and tempting.”
From the back cover:
REVENGE FOR SINNERS
She performed the lowest act she could think of, just to spite her errant husband. As a result a whole family was dragged to the very depths of depravity by a brutal man who used raw sex as a weapon of revenge. Included in his plans was Nono, the beautiful and tantalizing daughter whose poolside antics left nothing to the imagination.
I hope your Monday is as lovely as this.
"The Zabajaba Jungle."
Written & Illustrated by William Steig, First Edition 1987
"Das arme Jesulein. Gemalt und geschrieben von Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo
Verlag - Josef Müller, München"
Mother's childhood Christmas storybook.
Written and illustrated by Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Bohatta
First edition, 1931
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1931. A szegény Kisjézus.
Írta és illusztrálta: Ida Bohatta Morpurgo de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Bohatta
Mamám gyerekkori karácsonyi mesekönyve
Kiadó: Josef Müller Verlag, München. Első kiadás
“Their arrows flew together, marvellous shots, each finding its prey.”
Illustration by N. C. Wyeth for the 1917 David McKay edition of “Robin Hood” by Paul Creswick.
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
In just 20 cataclysmic months, Adolf Hitler had completed his lightninglike subjugation of virtually all of Europe. Now, he intended to reach his destiny in the east by invading America in the west. . .
What if Hitler had invaded America? This startling novel, written before Pearl Harbor, is the provocative answer.
In 1940, the Nazi war machine was ravaging Europe. Most Americans wanted no part of the foreign conflict, but wondered what might happen if we maintained our neutrality. When would Hitler finally be satisfied? Could the Wehrmacht conceivably attack the United States? Veteran journalist Fred Allhoff interviewed military experts of the day, and his informed scenario, serialized in "Liberty," sold more copies of that magazine than ever before in its publishing history.
"Lightning in the Night" assumes that England has fallen; America stands alone as the last bastion of democracy. By diplomatic coups and sheer bravado, the "Greater German Reich" annexes British, Dutch and French colonies throughout the Americas. Hitler acquires heavily fortified bases within striking distance of our Atlantic Coast . And then. . .
The action-packed plot follows Lt. Douglas Norton of Naval Intelligence and his fiancee Peggy O'Liam as they witness the siege of Seattle, the bombing of New York, and the fall of Baltimore. Tank warfare ranges across Pennsylvania; the Nazi flag is raised over Washington, D.C. The story moves from the pre-dawn Pacific to a concentration camp in Maryland; from a naval battle in the Straits of Magellan to the paratroop invasion of the Panama Canal -- until Adolf Hitler and the President of the United States confront each other across the peace table in Cincinnati. And yet many of Alhoff's prophecies are remarkably accurate, beginning with his forecast that war would actually begin with a Japanese attack on Hawaii! And his surprise conclusion, melodramatic and far-fetched by 1940's standards, today seems almost uncomfortably realistic.
Now collected in book form for the first time, together with the original "Liberty" illustrations, "Lightning in the Night" is a unique glimpse of the world of 1940 -- and a chillingly authentic account of the world that could have existed in 1945!
Jacket Art by Hal Siegel.
From the back cover:
"Coy Quillen," the man said. "Well, I'll be damned. You ain't very smart coming back to Texas. Folks around here heard you got killed at Gettysburg. Most allowed it was a good thing too. Yeah, I heard all about you. Turncoat!"
Quillen kept his voice even. "I fought for the Union because I believed in what they stood for. I'm back in Two Trees because it's my home."
The eyes that faced Quillen were cold and full of hate. "Well, that's real neighborly of you. Here's something for you to think about when you walk down the street and you can't see what's at your back. The South is whipped. And you helped. The only government in Texas is wearing uniforms just like yours. You're going to be real popular -- just like a sitting duck."
Drink: Coffee
Food: Raspberry melting moment biscuits
Book: Brand X by Christianna Brand (my copy is the 1974 first UK edition hardcover with dust jacket, Michael Joseph Ltd; found for $AUD3.00 at a book fair)
This is the third book in Farmer's Riverworld series, a sequel to "The Fabulous Riverboat."
"The Dark Design" continues the adventures of Sir Richard Francis Burton, Mark Twain, Peter Frigate, and millions of others, from various times in the history of Earth, who have all been mysteriously resurrected on a strange planet known as Riverworld. Their problem is to find their way to the headwaters of the fabulous river, and to find the enigmatic beings who have accomplished their resurrection.
A television series loosely based on the Riverworld saga went into production for the Sci-Fi channel in 2001 but only the feature-length pilot episode Riverworld was completed. It was first aired in 2003. It used elements from "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" and "The Fabulous Riverboat." In 2010, a 4-hour TV movie, Riverworld was produced and released by Syfy (formerly The Sci-fi Channel) in the US and by Studio Universal elsewhere, written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe. The protagonist is Matt Ellman, an American war reporter, played by Tahmoh Penikett. The main villain is Richard Francis Burton, although in the books he is the protagonist and is written more as a hero than a villain.
“Rapture Alley” by Whit Harrison (Harry Whittington)
THE SHOCKING STORY OF A GIRL WHO TOOK THE ROAD TO DOPE ADDICTION
From the back cover:
A SMOKE, A SNIFF, A JOLT . . .
Rapture For A Moment, Hell For A Lifetime . . .
Dope is no road to ecstasy, no matter what they say. It’s for defeated people . . . like Lora. Bitter, lonely people . . . like Lora. People who are tortured by forbidden love, who are in other people’s lives, who are at the end of their string, morally and emotionally . . . like Lora.
So Lora Took The Turn Into Rapture Alley . . . And Found It’s A Dead-End Street!
Swept along by a tide she could not buck, a fever of love she could not down, Lora was almost lost forever in the whirlpools of dope and degradation . . . until one little twist of fate showed her what she was in for. . . and why it was worthwhile to fight her way back.
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
"Once there was magic in the world . . . . but hordes of selfish, short-sighted magicians have used the mana that moved the world, and the magic goes away. Even the most powerful spells are fast becoming futile, and so Orolandes, sad Achaean with half a sword, goes on a quest in search of the lost power.
But all of the gods and Fair Atlantis are dead. The creatures of spirit, the unicorns and centaurs, are dying. Soon all the sparkling things will be gone from the world and only clay will remain -- and those damned stupid barbarians with their damned stupid swords will win after all . . ."
Doughty’s short-lived magazine “The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports” is an important imprint in the history of American printing. It contained the first colored sporting prints made in America. Issued in monthly parts and published from the end of 1830 until the spring of 1834, “The Cabinet” featured articles on hunting, detailed descriptions of newly discovered flora and fauna, and some of the finest examples of early American hand-colored lithography. It was originally the work of the Doughty brothers, Thomas and John, with virtually all of the plates being the work of Thomas, who also founded the Hudson River School. But, by the spring of 1832, the partnership had broken up and Thomas had moved to Boston. An abbreviated third volume (not included here) lacked Thomas’ touch.
So I’ve been looking to buy a Rollei 35 camera for some time and my delay was due to my criteria. It had to be black and made in Germany. Recently I came across two cameras that met this and purchased them both for a decent price. This is the second one and it has the original smaller lock for the back (or base), it is uncommon.
Lighting by Marcel.
Please respect copyright. Do no use without written permission.
A casual walk down a farm path in a quiet Wisconsin town leads an archaeologist into the Pleistocene era and he uncovers an interstellar mystery from before recorded time. In short order, the time trails in the quiet town of Willow Bend become the focus of global attention, government scrutiny and the target for an unprecedented solution to overpopulation. Time-traveling turns into big business and big trouble.
From the back cover:
Again, Death Had Snatched Away Vivacious Nina!
The mad mastermind of malevolence had reclaimed the beauteous maiden he had so long held in thrall. . . until Jimmy Holm had wrested her from Death’s cadaverous grasp, lovingly taking her for his own. Now she was once more trapped in the weird web of the insane scientist-mystic, as that would-be destroyer of all civilization set out anew to wreak his wrath on the world. The trail led Jimmy through endless peril – constantly beset by the unimaginable monsters conjured up by Death’s macabre magic. . . by the compelling fury of the madman’s genius at mind control – to a desolate, portentous tomb in Egypt. . . where the lovers and Doctor Death dueled to an unbelievable and unforgettable climax!
"The Secrets of Cheating at Games of Skill and Chance."
When John Nevil Maskelyne first published "Sharps and Flats," in 1894, it became an instant classic. Soon the second edition came out and the book was to become one of the most desirable collectors' items for gambling researchers, scholars and collectors for gambling paraphernalia; especially those with an interest in crooked gambling and cheating with cards.
With the booming popularity of poker, gambling is at an all time high, and so is cheating. Nowadays people are most likely to resort to the internet to research a desired subject. Researchers of crooked gambling will undoubtedly find sites that offer in-depth information on that very subject, such as CARDSHARK Online. However, regardless of the subject that one studies, a serious researcher cannot ignore old sources that have been considered the classics for decades. "Sharps and Flats" was one of the first in-depth revelations of crooked gambling and cheating with cards and dice. This was at a time when such information was not widely available to the general public.
[Source: sharpsandflats.com/]
From the Introduction on the first page:
THE ONLY CERTAINTY WAS CONSTANT CHANGE
"My name is Greta Forzane. Twenty-nine and a party girl would describe me. I was born in Chicago, of Scandinavian parents, but now I operate chiefly outside space and time -- not in Heaven or Hell, if there are such places, but not in the cosmos or universe you know either.
"My job is to nurse back to health and kid back to sanity Soldiers badly roughed up in the biggest war going. This war is the Change War, a war of time travelers -- in fact, our private name for being in this war is being on the Big Time. Our Soldiers fight by going back to change the past, or even ahead to change the future, in ways to help our side win the final victory, a billion or more years from now . . . "
That's a bit of the opening of one of the most unusual, original, and downright entertaining science-fiction novels ever written. The 17th World Science Fiction Convention awarded it a "Hugo" as the best novel of the year -- and when you've read it, you'll find yourself in breathless agreement.
Car: Lotus Emira V6 First Edition.
Engine: 3456cc V6.
Power: 400 BHP.
Fuel: Petrol.
Year of manufacture: 2022.
Date of first registration in the UK: 7th December 2022.
Place of registration: Not kmown.
Date first MOT due: 6th December 2025.
Date of last V5 issued: 30th January 2023.
Date taken: 1st September 2024.
Deadly Welcome
Assignment: Ramona Beach, Florida -- a dangerous place to mix business and pleasure.
-- a high-tension mystery of a tough man on a tough assignment; a woman, impatient for the man who could melt her; a town that knew how to handle strangers and local girls who took up with them . . .
See if you identify all these cars by adding notes on them! OR perhaps which is your favourite...
All these are the FE series, or First Edition cars, which first appeared in HotWheels mainline (every year)
"He hesitated a moment; and then catching the light and senseless form of Alice in his arms, the subtle Indian moved swiftly across the plain towards the woods."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
Misery is a psychological horror novel by US author Stephen King, first published by Viking Press on June 8, 1987. The novel hinges on the relationship between its two main characters – novelist Paul Sheldon and his self-proclaimed number one fan Annie Wilkes. When Sheldon is seriously injured following a car accident, former nurse Annie rescues him and keeps him prisoner in her isolated farmhouse. Misery, which took fourth place in the 1987 bestseller list, was adapted into an Academy Award–winning film directed by Rob Reiner, in 1990, and into a theatrical production starring Laurie Metcalf and Bruce Willis in 2015.
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror novels and has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Though known primarily for his novels, he has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections. His debut, Carrie (1974), established him in horror. Different Seasons (1982), a collection of four novellas, was his first major departure from the genre. Among the films adapted from King's fiction are Carrie (1976), The Shining (1980), The Dead Zone and Christine (both 1983), Stand by Me (1986), Misery (1990), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Green Mile (1999), The Mist (2007), and It (2017). He has published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman and has co-written works with other authors, notably his friend Peter Straub and sons Joe Hill and Owen King. He has also written nonfiction, notably Danse Macabre (1981) and On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000).
Among other awards, King has won the O. Henry Award for "The Man in the Black Suit" (1994) and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller for 11/22/63 (2011). He has also won honors for his overall contributions to literature, including the 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the 2014 National Medal of Arts. Joyce Carol Oates called King "a brilliantly rooted, psychologically 'realistic' writer for whom the American scene has been a continuous source of inspiration, and American popular culture a vast cornucopia of possibilities.
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LINK to video - Rob Reiner & Kathy Bates Discuss Misery (1990) with Dave Karger | TCMFF 2025 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_H0hgJPFD8
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Drink: Coffee
Food: Lamingtons
Books: Recent finds!
Before She Kills by Fredric Brown (a 1984 publication featuring six of Brown's detective pulp stories from the 1940s and 60s).
Found for $3 at an opportunity shop.
The Gloomster by Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson (2011 first UK edition, Faber & Faber).
Found for 50 cents at a used bookstore.
Thunderball by Ian Fleming (1961 first edition, Jonathan Cape).
Rescued from a book pile my father-in-law was getting rid of.
The Narrowing Circle by Julian Symons (1954; my copy is the 1985 reissue by Macmillan).
Found for $7.25 at a used bookstore.
A happy, round sheep as seen in "The Sheep of Lal Bagh" by David Mark, illustrated by Lionel Kalish. Published by Parents' Magazine Press; First edition (1967)
A riot of colorful Brian Wildsmith accompany Robert Louis Stevenson's classic collection "A Child's Garden of Verses" in this 1966 book.
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
Jed Cochrane headed the first space flight beyond the Solar System because a frustrated psychotic on the Moon happened to be the son-in-law of one of Jed’s bosses. Jed was an advertising man, a solidograph producer, director of the “Dikkipatti” Hour (rated among the top ten shows on at least three continents). What little he knew about space travel he had learned while doing research for one of his shows. And Jed was cynical – cynical about space travel in general, and about himself in particular. In short, he was the last man anyone with a logical mind would have selected for Man’s first flight into the depths of interstellar space.
Yet Jed Cochrane, heading for the Moon on orders of one of his bosses’ secretaries, not because he wanted to but because he was afraid he’d lose his job if he didn’t, landed feet first in the midst of the biggest discovery of several centuries. Accompanied by his own secretary, a psychiatrist, a writer, and two “tame” scientists, Jed went to the Moon to do a public relations job – to develop appreciation for an apparently useless scientific discovery made by his boss’s son-in-law. Jed found an angle and set to work – and in short order discovered he had a tiger by the tail – a huge, potentially dangerous, possibly benevolent tiger.
But to Jed everything was simply a “production” – even Operation: Outer Space!
Murray Leinster has written a delightful, slightly zany, somewhat cynical, yet amazingly convincing story of the first interstellar flight. His characters are three dimensional; the situations in which they find themselves are unusual but logical; the resulting tale is one you’ll read and reread with utmost enjoyment.
Thrills, chills and chuckles – all are here in the best science fiction book Murray Leinster has ever written – a book which is bound to win acclaim as one of the best S-F books of the year.
"A flaring torch was burning in the place, and sent its red glare from face to face and figure to figure, as it waved in the currents of air."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
"Das arme Jesulein. Gemalt und geschrieben von Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo
Verlag - Josef Müller, München"
Mother's childhood Christmas storybook.
Written and illustrated by Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Bohatta
First edition, 1931
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1931. A szegény Kisjézus.
Írta és illusztrálta: Ida Bohatta Morpurgo de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Bohatta
Mamám gyerekkori karácsonyi mesekönyve
Kiadó: Josef Müller Verlag, München. Első kiadás
From the back cover:
A VICIOUS GAME
You're Pony Wilcox, a cop on a special mission: find the source of the dope being smuggled into the U.S. by troops returning from the Orient.
So you're sent to Korea, but everybody knows what your mission is and has clammed up -- including the top Army officials.
Your first lead is Sheila Mason, blond and beautiful adventuress, who has the information but demands her kind of payment for the answers.
Then the inscrutable Oriental, Miss Kim, gives you a cryptic clue -- only she dies before you find out its meaning.
And suddenly you're all alone, caught in a vicious game of vice and violence, and you realize the stakes are too high for one man to win.
So I’ve been looking to buy a Rollei 35 camera for some time and my delay was due to my criteria. It had to be black and made in Germany. Recently I came across two cameras that met this and purchased them both for a decent price. This is the second one and it has the original smaller lock for the back (or base), it is uncommon.
Lighting by Marcel.
Please respect copyright. Do no use without written permission.
They Returned to a Cosmic D-Day!
“They had followed orders, reached the stars, and now were bound back for Earth with a visitor – a strange star-born being they thought would make an interesting curiosity back home. They did not suspect that in this creature they were bringing a spark that could set their planet aflame.
“Though they were to find themselves unwelcome strangers when they landed, their weird cargo proved their passport – until he escaped. And then to save their very lives, the star-travelers had to join the desperate search for the unearthly Saris Hronna, knowing that if they did not corner him first, it might mean the end, not only of themselves, but the Earth itself!
“Compounded of suspense and brilliant imaginative power, this new novel is jet-propelled for thrills and chills.” [From the Introduction]
“I, Robot” is a collection of nine science fiction short stories which originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950. The stories are woven together as Dr. Susan Calvin tells them to a reporter (the narrator) in the 21st century. Though the stories can be read separately, they share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots, and morality, and when combined they tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics.
The short story “Runaround” in the “I, Robot” collection is where Asimov first introduced his Three Laws of Robotics:
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
"Working Cats" is a photography book filled with contemporary 1970s photographs of cats at .....(steel yourself) ..... at WORK. That's right, while your little kitty does nothing but lounge on the windowsill, other felines are actually earning their catnip.
Working Cats.
Terry DeRoy Gruber
First Edition 1979