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WISHLIST

RON HALE-EVANS 

rwhe@ludism.org

2005-12-12c

This wishlist is mostly books, magazines, videos, and music.

For my games wishlist (I love games!), see 
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/viewwishlist.php3?username=rwhe

For most other stuff, see
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*BIBLIOMANIA BOOKS*

Fadiman, Anne. EX LIBRIS: CONFESSIONS OF A COMMON READER. 
FS & G. 1st ed, New in dj. $16.00. ("This one went directly 
to the end table by my chair. I read the flap copy and was 
enthralled. This woman once read an old Toyota repair 
manual because it was the only book in the house she hadn't 
read at least twice. She didn't think she was really 
married and wasn't fully trusting of her new husband until 
they actually and physically merged book collections. She 
loves books! She's my kind of gal." -- Ziesing)

Haines, Helen. LIVING WITH BOOKS. Columbia University 
Press, 1950. (Old book on bibliophilia and free access to 
information. Apparently delightful. "Baedeker for a life's 
program of reading."--Foreword.)

Hanff, Helene. 84, CHARING CROSS ROAD. Penguin; New York, 
1990. TPB, $10.95. (Fictional 20-year correspondence 
between US writer and UK bookseller. Beautiful.) Ziesing 
154.

Jackson, Holbrook. THE FEAR OF BOOKS. University of Indiana 
Press, 2001. ("...deals with the power books have had 
throughout history to inspire fear, hatred, and their own 
destruction. Indeed, the Library of Congress' second 
subject heading for this book is 'prohibited books.' 
Jackson deals with superstition, ignorance and the fear of 
learning in early chapters." --Irene Jackson Henry. By the 
author of THE ANATOMY OF BIBLIOMANIA.)

Jackson, Holbrook. THE READING OF BOOKS. University of 
Indiana Press, 2001. ("...more a text and philosophical 
instruction than a work of criticism or history... This 
book examines the art and practice of reading. Jackson 
takes the concept that the reader is participant and part 
of the book by the act of reading it and then adds 
discussion of styles and methods of reading." --Irene 
Jackson Henry. By the author of THE ANATOMY OF BIBLIOMANIA.)

Pearl, Nancy. MORE BOOK LUST: RECOMMENDED READING FOR EVERY MOOD,
MOMENT, AND REASON. 2005.

Prakken, Sarah L. (ed.) THE READER'S ADVISER. $194 3-vol 
set. R. R. Bowker Company. 1980s? EWEC P304.

Wilson, Colin. THE BOOKS IN MY LIFE. Hampton Roads. Trade 
paperback. $15.95. ("Wilson describes the books that have 
had a major impact on his spiritual, literary, and cultural 
development. He successfully conveys the magic of books and 
reading." -- ZIESING)


*CHRONOS BOOKS*

Bickermann, Elias Joseph. CHRONOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. 
(Ancient calendars.; recommended on Arcana by Lester N.)

Parise, Frank (ed.). THE BOOK OF CALENDARS. New York: Facts 
On File, Inc. (Ancient calendars; recommended on Arcana by 
Lester N.)


*COMP BOOKS*

Bentley, Jon L. MORE PROGRAMMING PEARLS (1ST ED.). (Out of 
print.)

Gancarz, Mike. THE UNIX PHILOSOPHY, Digital Press (1995). 
ISBN 1-55558-123-4. (New edition Dec. 1999?)

Good, Nathan A. REGULAR EXPRESSION RECIPES. 2005?

Kernighan, Brian W. & Dennis Plauger. THE ELEMENTS OF 
PROGRAMMING STYLE. McGraw-Hill 1978. 160 pp. (Signals p22)

Knuth, Donald. TEX: THE PROGRAM.

Lions, John. SOURCE CODE AND COMMENTARY ON UNIX LEVEL 6. 
Peer to Peer Communications, 1996. ("not only the entire 
source code for the Unix Version 6 kernel but also a 
detailed and often witty discussion of it written in the 
mid-1970s." -- Salon. Literary criticism of the Unix kernel)

McGilton, Henry. POSTSCRIPT BY EXAMPLE. 1992.


*DREAM BOOKS*

Dahl, Lynda Madden. TEN THOUSAND WHISPERS. (Paperback, 195 
pages.) ("This book (and Lynda's others) will absolutely 
astonish you. She very genuinely, openly and insightfully 
details many consciousness principles and numerous 
synchronicities from her personal experience and undaunted 
self-exploration and offers powerful frameworks for 
exploring, understanding, broadening and making practical 
the magical experiences within life.")

Gackenbach, J. & Stephen LaBerge (eds.). CONSCIOUS MIND, 
SLEEPING BRAIN. Hard cover, 447 pages. ("A collection of 
Western research and experiences about lucid dreaming as a 
science, a philosophical framework, learnable skill and 
unique human experience. Geared more as a text book, there 
are some fascinating accounts by British lucid explorer 
Alan Worsley who details his night after night of conscious 
explorations into the dream world.")

Glass-Frederick, Linda J.. SYNCHRONICITY: BELIEFS AND 
THERAPEUTIC RAMIFICATIONS, LC Microfilm 89/878 (B), 
University Microfilms.

Jones, Hank. PSYCHIC ROOTS. 236 pages, 6 by 9, softbound 
ISBN 0-8063-1388-9. $14.95. ("This book is about the 
influence of coincidence and serendipity on genealogical 
research... [Jones] tells us about his own brushes with 
preternatural experiences, and other genealogists share 
their experiences as well. In these pages are the insights 
of more than a hundred respected ancestor hunters who 
discuss their experiences in light of synchronicity, 
intuition, genetic memory, and serendipity.")

Leslie, John. UNIVERSES. 1989. (Survey of multiverse theories.)

Lewis, David. THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS. 1986.  (Modal logic and the
reality of possible worlds.  A must-have.)

Mavromatis, Andreas. HYPNOGOGIA: THE UNIQUE STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
BETWEEN WAKEFULNESS AND SLEEP. (A classic text.)

North, Carolyn. SYNCHRONICITY: THE ANATOMY OF COINCIDENCE. 
Regent Press, 1994. $5.00. ("...graceful, accessible 
booklet that elegantly weaves together theory and 
anecdotes.")

Parsons, Terence. NONEXISTENT OBJECTS. Yale University 
Press, 1980.

Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER 
THAN NOTHING? Van Gorcum, Amsterdam, 1966.


*FUTOPIA BOOKS*

Broderick, Damien. THE SPIKE. ("the best popular account of 
Nanotechnology since Drexler's "Engines of Creation" in 
1986 and the best book on the practical and philosophical 
implications of it since Hans Moravec's "Mind Children" in 
1988.") Australia, 1997.

Broderick, Damien. THE LAST MORTAL GENERATION. (Sequel to 
THE SPIKE.)

Dyson, George. PROJECT ORION: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ATOMIC 
SPACESHIP. Henry Holt & Company, 2002. ISBN 0805059857. 
("An excellent high-level introduction to the characters, 
engineering, culture, and future of the Orion project, and 
an ideal jumpoff point to other readings about the atomic 
age."--Slashdot)

Ekins, Paul. WEALTH BEYOND MEASURE: AN ATLAS OF NEW 
ECONOMIES. 1992. Gaia Books Limited, ISBN 1 85675 050 7. 
(Abundance; recommended on Mochin.)

Gibson, Tony. BREAKING IN THE FUTURE. Zenith Books, Hodder 
& Stoughton, London, 1965. ("One of the most inspiring 
books I read as a teenager... Cannily, it didn't talk about 
Anarchism. Its front cover posed the question: 'Outer 
space, new nations, automation, population ... How can we 
use a million years' experience in the revolutions just 
ahead?'" -- Ken MacLeod)

Kun, T.. PROJECT MIND: THE CONSCIOUS CONQUEST OF MAN AND 
MATTER THROUGH ACCELERATED THOUGHT. 1994.

Pearson, Ian (ed.). THE MACMILLAN ATLAS OF THE FUTURE 
("This slim volume (128 pages including bibliography and 
index) is, in my opinion, the most balanced assessment of 
"...what lies in store for our world in the 21st century 
and beyond." --6 Billion game designer)

Tipler, Frank & Barrow, John. THE ANTHROPIC COSMOLOGICAL 
PRINCIPLE.

Vaitheeswaran, Vijay V.  POWER TO THE PEOPLE : HOW THE COMING ENERGY
REVOLUTION WILL TRANSFORM AN INDUSTRY, CHANGE OUR LIVES, AND MAYBE
EVEN SAVE THE PLANET. 2003.  (Fuel cells, hydrogen, wind, etc.)

Wertheim, Margaret. THE PEARLY GATES OF CYBERSPACE. 
(Considers the mythologization of cyberspace as a 
technological substitute for the Christian space of Heaven. 
Says graphical perspective : physical space :: cyberspace : 
mental space. Enthusiastically recommended by Rudy Rucker.)


*HAHA BOOKS*

Brilliant, Ashleigh. BRILLIANT THOUGHTS(R) AND POT SHOTS(R) 
Ashleigh Brilliant Post Office Box 209 Santa Barbara, CA 
93102 800/237-6053 

Grudin, Robert. BOOK. Penguin 1992, 251 pp, wraps, $10. ("A 
curious spoof of literary theory, set at the Univ. of 
"Washagon", a state obviously meant to resemble Washington 
and Oregon. Is this the first book with the title BOOK? The 
title refers to a novel with the much more exotic title 
SOVRANA SOSTRATA, which of course is a mythical as the 
state of Washagon - but excellent quotes from it are used 
as chapter headings. Clever and easy to read...")

Haining, Peter (editor). KNIGHTS OF MADNESS. Ace; New York, 
2000. PB, $6.50. (Fantasy/humour from Woody Allen, 
Pratchett, Bradbury, Spike Milligan, Beagle, Bloch, 
Thurber, et al.) Ziesing 155.

Hodgman, John. THE AREAS OF MY EXPERTISE. 2005.


*IF BOOKS*

Cope, David. COMPUTERS AND MUSICAL STYLE. Madison, WI; A-R 
Editions Inc., 1991. ISBN 0-89579-256-7.(AI programs 
composing in the style of Bach, etc.)

Cope, David. EXPERIMENTS IN MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE. (AI 
programs composing in the style of Bach, etc.. Mentioned by 
Derek R. on KENNEX.)

Laurel, Brenda. COMPUTERS AS THEATRE. Addison-Wesley, 1991.

Laurel, Brenda. TOWARDS THE DESIGN OF A COMPUTER-BASED 
INTERACTIVE FANTASY SYSTEM. Ohio State U., 1986

Meehan, James. THE METANOVEL: WRITING STORIES BY COMPUTER. 
Yale, 1976

Nelson, Theodor Holm. LITERARY MACHINES. Mindful Press, 
3020 Bridgeway #295, Sausalito CA 94965, USA. (As of Feb 
1997.)


*JUVENILE BOOKS*

Brinley, Bertrand R. THE MAD SCIENTISTS CLUB. Tab. 1970s? 
(Juvenile "treehouse" novel I enjoyed as a kid. Republished 
in 2001 (?) with new material.)

Juster, Norton. ALBERIC THE WISE. (Short story collection. 
Juvenile?)

Keith, Donald. Boy Scout time machine novels, really old.

McFarlane, Leslie. THE GHOST OF THE HARDY BOYS. Methuen/Two 
Continents. (Autobio of "Franklin W. Dixon". Clever.)

Nix, Garth. SHADE'S CHILDREN. (Weird, Sleatoresque YA SF.  Recommended
by Jay.)

Sleator, William. BOLTZMON!

Sleator, William. DANGEROUS WISHES.

Sleator, William. MARCO'S MILLIONS.

Sleator, William. THE BEASTIES.

Sleator, William. THE BOY WHO COULDN'T DIE.

Sleator, William. THE LAST UNIVERSE. 


*LIT BOOKS*

Alfau, Felipe. LOCOS: A COMEDY OF GESTURES. (Recommended by 
John B; dreamlike & surreal.)

Burton, Richard (translator). THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.

Cabell, James Branch. BEYOND LIFE. 1919. (Essays. 
Recommended by the Lost Club.)

Cabell, James Branch. STRAWS AND PRAYER, 1926. (Essays. 
Recommended by the Lost Club.)

Cech, John. A RUSH OF DREAMERS: BEING THE REMARKABLE STORY 
OF NORTON I, EMPEROR OF THE UNITED STATES AND PROTECTOR OF 
MEXICO. Marlowe. 1st ed, New in dj, $20.00. (Historical 
fiction, not biography.)

De Carvalho, Mario. (sp?) A GOD STROLLING IN THE COOL OF 
THE EVENING. ("I believe that anyone who enjoys either the 
New Sun or Soldier books will dig this one: a dying empire, 
archaic language, strange religions, a compelling first 
person narrative by a man of heartbreaking honour and 
weakness and more lictors than you can shake a bundle of 
fasces at." --an Urther.)

Desani, G.V.. ALL ABOUT H. HATTERR. ("Burgess likened AAHH 
to [Gormenghast] saying they were both coterie pleasures. 
AAHH is delightfully comic, its language is inventive in a 
bizarre yet completely comprehensible fashion, yet it is 
almost completely unknown here and in India.")

Erickson, Steve. THE SEA CAME IN AT MIDNIGHT. Perennial; 
New York, 2000. TPB, $14.00. (Man obsessed with own 
bizarre, all-encompassing calendar system meets woman.) 
Ziesing 155.

Hasek, Jaroslav. THE GOOD SOLDIER SVEJK AND HIS FORTUNES
IN THE WORLD WAR. (Sort of a WWI Catch-22.)

Keeler, Harry Stephen. (Anything.)

Kingsolver, Barbara. POISONWOOD BIBLE. (Recommended by Karl.
Deaf-mute girl plays mental word games.)

Kobo Abe. THE RUINED MAP. (Recommended by John B)

O'Brien, Flann. THE THIRD POLICEMAN. (Richard says compare
R.A. Lafferty and the Wake.)

Portis, Charles. MASTERS OF ATLANTIS. ISBN 1-58567-021-9. 
$14.95 paperback. 272 pp. Overlook Press, October 2000. 
(Hilarious satire of the occult.)

Pushkin, Alexander. Douglas R. Hofstadter (Translator). 
EUGENE ONEGIN: A NOVEL IN VERSE. Basic Books, May 2000. 
ISBN: 0465020941. (Maintains the meter and rhyme scheme of 
the original meticulously, but Hofstadter's translation is 
frequently derided as being flashy and insensitive.)

Renyi, Alfred. A DIARY ON INFORMATION THEORY. 1987 
(Incomplete posthumous work written in the form of a 
fictitious student's diary. Seems somewhat Oulipian.)


*LITCRIT/ARTCRIT BOOKS*

Begnal, Michael. CONCEPTUAL GUIDE TO FINNEGANS WAKE / 
Published 1974. (Hard to Find)

Brewer, E. Cobham BREWER'S DICTIONARY OF PHRASE AND FABLE 
("a necessity for reading books your grandfather 
read"--Signals p47)

Eckley, Grace. THE STEADFAST FINNEGANS WAKE : A TEXTBOOK / 
Hardcover / 1994 (Publisher Out Of Stock)

Eco, Umberto. TRAVELS IN HYPERREALITY. (Eco visits wax 
museums, Disneyland, etc.)

Gordon, John. FINNEGANS WAKE : A PLOT SUMMARY (Irish 
Studies (Syracuse, N.Y.).) / Paperback / Published 1987.

McLuhan, Marshall. THE GUTENBERG GALAXY.

Rucker, Rudy et al.. FOURFIELD. (About art that uses the 
fourth dimension.)

Schwartz, A.. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF MARCEL DUCHAMP. Harry 
Abrams Publishers, Inc.. NY. 1969. (Talks about Duchamp's 
"valise," a compact way of displaying his portfolio.)

Weisenburger, Steve. A GRAVITY'S RAINBOW COMPANION.


*LUDISM BOOKS*

Addison, Stephen. 100 OTHER GAMES TO PLAY ON A CHESSBOARD. 
Peter Owen 1983. ("Lots of Chess variants, but some other 
things, too." -- Mitchell Thomashow.)

Alexander, Christopher. THE NATURE OF ORDER. (In four volumes.
Expensive. Extremely desirable.)

Argyle, Michael. PSYCHOLOGY OF HAPPINESS. Methuen, 1987.

Attali, Jacques. THE LABYRINTH IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY. 
(Looks good. Scholarly.)

Baron, Mike. THE COMPLETE WORDBOOK FOR GAME PLAYERS.
2005. $10.00. (Word lists for people who play Scrabble and other word
games. Such a deal!)

Beasley, John D. THE MATHEMATICS OF GAMES. Oxford 
University Press, 1989.

Berloquin, Pierre. 100 JEUX DE TABLE. Flammarion, 1976. 
("superb collection of abstract games" -- Mitchell 
Thomashow)

Bell, R. C. THE BOARDGAME BOOK. New York: Exeter Books, 
1983. (Oversize, with full-colour game photos that serve as 
playable boards. Includes Rhythmomachia.)

Berlekamp, Elwyn R., John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy. 
WINNING WAYS FOR YOUR MATHEMATICAL PLAYS (SECOND EDITION). 
Volumes 2, 3, and 4. A K Peters, Ltd. 2000-2001. ($50 per 
volume.)

Binmore, Ken. GAME THEORY AND THE SOCIAL CONTRACT. VOL. 1: 
PLAYING FAIR. MIT Press, 1994; ISBN: 0262023636. 424 pp. 
$55.00. VOL. 2: JUST PLAYING. MIT Press, 1998; ISBN: 
0262024446. 600 pp. $60.00. (Game theory as a systematic 
tool for investigating ethical matters.)

Bliss, Charles Kasiel. SEMANTOGRAPHY (BLISSYMBOLICS): A 
SIMPLE SYSTEM OF 100 LOGICAL PICTORIAL SYMBOLS, WHICH CAN 
BE OPERATED AND READ LIKE 1+2=3 IN ALL LANGUAGES. 3rd 
enlarged. ed. Sydney : Australia. Semantography 
(Blissymbolics) Publications. 1978. ISBN: 0959587004.

Bok, Christian. CRYSTALLOGRAPHY. ("poetry with a GBG-like 
slant". Also discusses the supposed historical record of 
Lewis Carroll's experimentation with opiates. Recommended 
by Charles C. on ML.)

Boutin, Michel. LE LIVRE DES JEUX DE PIONS. Bornemann, 
1999. ("excellent short reviews and diagrams of fifty 
contemporary abstract games, including some lesser known 
abstract games." -- Mitchell Thomashow)

Coggins, Mark. THE IMMORTAL GAME. Boltroon; Berkeley, 1999. 
HC, $25.00. (Mystery centering around an electronic chess 
game. Well-reviewed.) Ziesing 153.

Cornelius, Michael and Alan Parr. WHAT'S YOUR GAME? 
Cambridge University Press. ("In the Sid Sackson vein but 
in the small but beautiful category..." -- Mike Taylor 
<mike@taylor53a.freeserve.co.uk>.)

Dickins, Anthony. A GUIDE TO FAIRY CHESS. Dover, 1971. 
("Contains many chess variants. This book has an emphasis 
on fairy chess problems..." -- chessvariants.com)

Dickson, Donald R. THE TESSERA OF ANTILIA. Brill 
(publisher).

Ellington, Henry; Addinall, Eric; and Percival, Fred. A 
HANDBOOK OF GAME DESIGN. Nichols Publishing Co., 1982. ISBN 
0-89397-134-0. ("Geared towards classroom and corporate 
simulations, but has separate chapters on designing card, 
board, "manual", and computer games." -- RGD FAQ) OOP.

Erdrich. THE BINGO PALACE. (Ludic fiction.)

Freudenthal, Hans. LINCOS. 1960. Out of print, probably 
permanently.

Gerne, J.F. and F. Pingaud, ENCYCLOPEDIE DES JEUX DE LA 
FAMILLE. Hatier, 1985. ("another excellent compendium with 
some very good lesser known treasures." -- Mitchell 
Thomashow)

Glonnegger, Erwin. DAS SPIELE BUCH. Hugundubel, 1988. 
("Beautifully illustrated history with many contemporary 
games...I believe it's been updated." -- Mitchell Thomashow)

Gorys, Erhard. DAS BUCH DER SPIELE. Verlag Werner Dausen, 
no listed date but probably 1970s. ("I found this in Prague 
for 3 dollars in the early 1990's! Amazing book with the 
usual descriptions of Chess, Go, and common card games, but 
a good list, with rules of some German proprietary games, 
too." -- Mitchell Thomashow)

Guiasu, S. COALITION AND CONNECTION IN GAMES: PROBLEMS OF 
MODERN THEORY USING METHODS BELONGING TO SYSTEMS THEORY AND 
INFORMATION THEORY. Pergamon Press, New York, 1980.

Hampden-Turner, Charles & Fons Trompenaars. MASTERING THE 
INFINITE GAME. 1997. (Finite & infinite games in 
management. Mentioned in Stewart Brand, THE CLOCK OF THE 
LONG NOW.)

Hesse, Hermann (ed. Theodore Ziolkowski, tr. Denver 
Lindley). MY BELIEF: ESSAYS ON LIFE AND ART. Farrar, Straus 
and Giroux. 1974. (Contains "Joseph Knecht to Carlo 
Ferromonte" (1961), in which Knecht discusses the Ch'an 
text BLUE CLIFF RECORD. Recommended by Charles C. on ML.)

Hodgkinson, Tom. HOW TO BE IDLE. 2004?

Jember, Geoffrey. THE OLD ENGLISH RIDDLES: A NEW 
TRANSLATION. 1976. (Exeter Book)

Kane, Pat. THE PLAY ETHIC. 2004?

Knizia, Reiner. KARTENSPIELE IM WILDEN WESTEN: KARTEN, 
CHIPS, UND BLAUE BOHNEN. Hugendubel Verlag. 167 pages. (12 
original card games set in the Wild West.)

Koch, Karl Heinz. SPIELE FUR ZWEI. Hugendubel, 1986. 
("excellent book with many well known and lesser known 
board, card and paper and pencil games." -- Mitchell 
Thomashow)

Lhote, Jean-Marie. DICTIONNAIRE DES JEUX DE SOCIETE. 
Flammarion, 1996. ("a thorough listing, historically 
oriented, but with many contemporary games, especially good 
for abstract games." -- Mitchell Thomashow.)

Locke, L. Leland. THE ANCIENT QUIPU. (Considered a landmark 
book.)

Martin, Joseph F.  FOOLISH WISDOM: STORIES, ACTIVITIES, AND
REFLECTIONS FROM KEN FEIT, I.F. (ITINERANT FOOL). 1990.

McCloud, Scott. REINVENTING COMICS.

McDonald, J.D. STRATEGY IN POKER, BUSINESS, AND WAR. 
Norton, New York, 1950.

McGlashan, Alan. GRAVITY AND LEVITY. 1976. ('The best book 
to show where the Wizard is "coming from". Short and very 
readable.' -- The Wizard of NZ)

Maier, Michael. ATALANTA FUGIENS. (A Renaissance emblem 
book, including printed music scores. You can buy an 
accompanying tape.)

Michels, Volker, ed.. MATERIALIEN ZU HERMANN HESSES "DAS 
GLASPERLENSPIEL". Suhrkamp Verlag. (A two-volume set of 
explicitly GBG-related texts, at least some by Hesse.)

Moeser, David. NEUE CHESS. ("a compilation of articles 
published in Cincinnati chess periodicals on the subject of 
chess variants. US $5 to addresses in the U.S. only. Orders 
may be sent to David Moeser. erasmus@iglou.com.)

Nelson, Walter. YE MERRIE GAMESTER. 1993. 59 pp., illus. 
$7.50, $1.50 shipping in the U.S., $3.00 outside U.S. 
Available from the author, 7341 Etiwanda Avenue, Reseda, CA 
91335; (818) 342-3482. ("...a discovery of the rules of 
such pleasant & ancient pastimes as Tarot, Primero, Gleek, 
Football, Hazzard, Bowles & Other popular entertainments 
from AD 1000 to AD 1700". Well-reviewed.)

Oldenburg, Ray. THE GREAT GOOD PLACE: CAFES, COFFEE SHOPS, BOOKSTORES,
BARS, HAIR SALONS, AND OTHER HANGOUTS AT THE HEART OF A COMMUNITY.
Paperback, 1999. (I got up to page 154 before I had to return the copy
I was reading. Excellent!)

Pingaud, F. and J.F. Germe. 50 JEUX AVEC DU PAPIER ET DES 
CRAYONS. Du Rocher, 1984. ("superb collection of 
interesting paper and pencil games" -- Mitchell Thomashow)

Powers, William T. BEHAVIOR: THE CONTROL OF PERCEPTION. 
(Describes the principles of "psycho-cybernetics" behind 
his game TRIPPPLES.)

Rhinehart, Luke. THE SEARCH FOR THE DICE MAN. Acacia Press, 
1994. Overlook Press, 2000. (Sequel to THE DICE MAN.) Big 
Game Hunter, May 2003.

Schuessler, Nick, and Jackson, Steve. GAME DESIGN: VOLUME 
ONE: THEORY AND PRACTICE. Steve Jackson Games. ("No longer 
in print, no further volumes were produced. Nevertheless, 
if you can find a copy, this is an excellent resource. It 
mostly focuses on wargames, but there is a chapter on RPGs, 
and some material about printing and distributing games." 
-- RGD FAQ)

Sebeok, Thomas. THE PLAY OF MUSEMENT. (Probably discusses 
CS Peirce's concept of the P of M, which is very similar to 
a GBG. Recommended sight unseen by Charles C. on ML.)

Setteducati, Mark & Anne Benkovitz. THE MAGIC SHOW: THE 
FIRST-EVER SELF-PERFORMING BOOK OF ILLUSION. Workman 
Publishing, 2002? $18.95. (Big Game Hunter, Jan 2002.)

Shelburne, Walter A., Ph.D. and Molly Kiely (Illustrator). 
FOR PLAY: 150 SEX GAMES FOR COUPLES. Waterfall Press, 
California. $19.95. ("...games that a serious couple may 
find useful in becoming more playful, more intimate. They 
are about experimentation, pushing back boundaries...")

Solomon, Eric. BLACK BOX GAME BOOK. Strategy Games, c. 1982.

Thompson, Sir D'Arcy Wentworth. ON GROWTH AND FORM. 1917.

Zocchi, Lou. HOW TO SELL YOUR GAME DESIGN. Gamescience. 
Catalog # GS 10404.


*MADNESS BOOKS*

Hershman. THE KEY TO GENIUS: MANIC-DEPRESSION AND THE 
CREATIVE LIFE. Prometheus, 1988.

Horrobin, David. THE MADNESS OF ADAM & EVE: HOW 
SCHIZOPHRENIA SHAPED HUMANITY. (Thesis: "Tiny mutations in 
our ancestors' brain cells triggered mankind's takeover of 
the world 100,000 years ago. But these changes also cursed 
our species to suffer from schizophrenia and depression.")


*MADSCIENCE BOOKS*

Ascher, Marcia. 1991. ETHNOMATHEMATICS: A MULTICULTURAL 
VIEW OF MATHEMATICAL IDEAS. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole 
Publishing Co. ("Discussions of number, graphs, topology, 
games, probability, geometric symmetry and the algebra of 
groups situated in the context of cultures often omitted 
from discussions of mathematics. Each mathematical practice 
is related to the mathematics of Western culture and it 
similarities and differences are explored.")

Cremo, Michael and Thompson, R.. FORBIDDEN ARCHEOLOGY: THE 
HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE. 1993. AYLI

Cremo, Michael and Thompson, R.. THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE 
HUMAN RACE. 1993. (Popular condensed version of FORBIDDEN 
ARCHEOLOGY.) AYLI

Daston, Lorraine and Katharine Park. WONDERS AND THE ORDER 
OF NATURE. 1998. ("Two historians of science trace... the 
limits between ... the possible and the impossible, using 
texts, documents, and images having to do with monsters, 
gems that shine in the dark, petrifying springs, celestial 
apparitions and other marvels. Their story begins in the 
mid-12th century and ends well into the 18th century, when 
wonder and wonders faded from prominence..." --The 
Anomalist)

Dudley, Underwood. MATHEMATICAL CRANKS.

Hinton, C. H.. THE FOURTH DIMENSION. (Available as 
Kessinger reprint for $20-25. Contains a streamlined 
version of the tesseract cubes.)

Kakalios, James. THE PHYSICS OF SUPERHEROES.  (Heard this guy on
Science Friday; he was pretty interesting.)

Kantor, Frederick W.. INFORMATION MECHANICS. 1995. 
("attempts to build a consistent picture of physics purely 
out of information concepts." --Programmer's Stone)

McFadden, JohnJoe. QUANTUM EVOLUTION. ("The topic is really `quantum
biochemistry', the claim being that QM is crucially involved in
allowing biochem systems, including mind/brains, to `make decisions'
faster than would otherwise be possible." -- Avery Andrews
<andrews@pcug.org.au>. Claim is essentially the same as Egan's
TERANESIA?)

Powell, Arthur & Marilyn Frankenstein (eds.). 
ETHNOMATHEMATICS: CHALLENGING EUROCENTRISM IN MATHEMATICS 
EDUCATION. ("Presents the emerging field of 
ethnomathematics from a critical perspective, challenging 
particular ways in which Eurocentrism permeates mathematics 
education and mathematics in general.")


*MAGICK BOOKS*

Frater U.D.. DANCE OF THE PARADIGMS: A CHAOS MAGICK PRIMER. 
Llewellyn. (To be published soon?)

Fries, Jan. VISUAL MAGICK. Mandrake (of Oxford; there are 
at least two Mandrakes). 1992. ("Although Fries isn't a 
Chaote (he's actually quite critical of the movement in his 
book, dismissing it as a fad), his book and his methods 
have been popular among Chaotes.").

Godfrey, Dave. I CHING KANADA. (Hard to find.)

Huber, Richard. THE AMERICAN IDEA OF SUCCESS. 1970. ("book 
of interest regarding New Thought and Positive Thinking (an 
occult doctrine before Norman Vincent Peale)").

Kirk, Robert. THE SECRET COMMONWEALTH. (Classic book on 
faeries.)

Ophiel (Ed Peach). THE ART AND PRACTICE OF CLAIRVOYANCE. 
1969. (AYLI)

Ophiel (Ed Peach). THE ART AND PRACTICE OF CONTACTING THE 
DEMIURGE.

Van Eenwyk, John R.. ARCHETYPES & STRANGE ATTRACTORS: THE 
CHAOTIC WORLD OF SYMBOLS. Inner City. Trade paperback. 
$18.00 (Jungian psychology as applied to chaos theory.)


*MEMETICS BOOKS*

Aunger, Robert (ed.). DARWINIZING CULTURE: THE STATUS OF 
MEMETICS AS A SCIENCE. (A must-have!)


*MENTAT BOOKS*

Altick, Richard D. THE ART OF LITERARY RESEARCH. New York: 
Norton, 1963. (Basic techniques of humanistic research. 
Recommended by Ronald Gross.)

Altshuller, Genrich. 40 PRINCIPLES EXTENDED EDITION. 2005.
(About TRIZ. Expensive.)

Buzan, Tony and Raymond Keene. BUZAN'S BOOK OF GENIUS AND 
HOW TO UNLEASH YOUR OWN. Random House, 1994.

Good, Carter V. & Scates, Douglas E. METHODS OF RESEARCH: 
EDUCATIONAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL. NY: 
Appelton-Century-Crofts, 1954. ("It's all here -- just 
don't drop it on your foot... almost 1000 pp... grandaddy 
of all research manuals..." -- Ronald Gross.)

Johansson, Franz. THE MEDICI EFFECT. (Collaborative creation.)

Johnson, Kenneth. GENERAL SEMANTICS: AN OUTLINE SURVEY. 
(1972), 44 pp. $7.50. ("Tightly organized yet readable 
summary that can serve as either an introduction or 
review.")

Jones, Morgan D. THE THINKER'S TOOLKIT : 14 POWERFUL TECHNIQUES FOR
PROBLEM SOLVING.  Revised edition, 1998.

Perkins, David N. with Laserna, C.. ODYSSEY: A CURRICULUM 
FOR THINKING. Watertown, MA: Mastery Education. 1986.

Rupp, Rebecca. THE COMPLETE HOME LEARNING SOURCE BOOK. 
Three Rivers Press, 1998. 865 pp, $30. (Trove of 
self-education resources.)

Stebbins, Robert A.. AMATEURS: ON THE MARGIN BETWEEN WORK 
AND LEISURE. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1979. 
(Amateur scholars. Recommended by Ronald Gross.)

Wycoff, Joyce. MINDMAPPING.


*OULIPIANA BOOKS*

Benabou, Marcel. WHY I HAVE NOT WRITTEN ANY OF MY BOOKS. 
1996?

Calvino, Italo. COSMICOMICS. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Calvino, Italo. THE NONEXISTENT KNIGHT AND THE CLOVEN 
VISCOUNT. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Leamon, Warren. HARRY MATHEWS (Twayne's United States 
Authors, No 628) / 1993 (Hard to Find)

Mathews, Harry. THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. (Fiction)

Mathews, Harry. ARMENIAN PAPERS : POEMS, 1954-1984 
(Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets) / Paperback / 
Published 1987.

Mathews, Harry. COUNTRY COOKING AND OTHER STORIES / 
Published 1980 (Hard to Find)

Mathews, Harry. A MID-SEASON SKY: POEMS 1954-1991.

Mathews, Harry. THE ORCHARD : A REMEMBRANCE OF GEORGES 
PEREC / Paperback / 1989.

Mathews, Harry. OUT OF BOUNDS. Burning Deck Poetry 
Chapbooks / Paperback / Published 1989.

Mathews, Harry. THE PLANISPHERE. (Poetry.)

Mathews, Harry. THE RING. (Poetry)

Mathews, Harry. S: A NOVEL / Paperback / Published 1997.

Mathews, Harry. SELECTED DECLARATIONS OF DEPENDENCE / 
Paperback / Published 1996.

Mathews, Harry. SINGULAR PLEASURES / Hardcover / Published 
1993. (A set of essays centering around masturbation.)

Mathews, Harry. TRIAL IMPRESSIONS. 1977. (Poetry. 
"Exhaustively rewrites a short Elizabethan love lyric.")

Mathews, Harry. THE WAY HOME : COLLECTED LONGER PROSE 
(Miscellany; Hard to Find)

Moore, Jeffrey. PRISONER IN A RED-ROSE CHAIN. Putnam; New 
York, 2002. HC, $24.95. (Kid picks a page out of a book in 
a vast library as an act of bibliomancy. Turns out to be an 
encyclopedia page on Shakespeare, Zulus, and the Ukraine. 
This page foretells his life.) Ziesing 171.

Motte, Warren F.. POETICS OF EXPERIMENT : A STUDY OF THE 
WORLD OF GEORGES PEREC / Paperback / 1984.

Perec, Georges. ELLIS ISLAND / Paperback / Published 1995.

Perec, Georges. THINGS : A STORY OF THE SIXTIES/A MAN 
ASLEEP / Hardcover / 1990.

Perec, Georges. W OR THE MEMORY OF CHILDHOOD. David Bellos 
(Translator) / 1988 (Hard to Find)

Perec, Georges. THE WINTER JOURNEY (Syrens Series) John 
Sturrock (Translator) / Paperback / 1996.

Schwartz, Paul. GEORGES PEREC : TRACES OF HIS PASSAGE / 
Hardcover / 1988.

Somoza, Jose Carlos. THE ATHENIAN MURDERS. ISBN: 
0374106770. Translator: Soto, Sonia. Farrar Straus Giroux, 
2002. HC, 262 pp. (Quasi-Oulipian. Reputedly not a cheesy 
historical mystery. "In fact, THE ATHENIAN MURDERS owes 
more to Nabokov's 'Pale Fire' than it does to 'A 
Connecticut Yankee in Criminal Court.'"--Salon.com)


*PLANLINGVOJ BOOKS*

Burgess, Anthony. BUT DO BLONDES PREFER GENTLEMEN? 
('anthology of his essays...has an essay about how he 
developed that language for "Quest For Fire".').

Cabell, James Branch. JURGEN. Translated into Esperanto by William
Auld.  Available from www.esperanto-usa.org.

Comrie, Bernard. LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS AND LINGUISTIC 
TYPOLOGY. 2nd ed., 1989. ("It's rich. It'll make your head 
spin." -- Anton Sherwood on Conlang.)

Delany, Samuel R. (editor). THE JEWEL-HINGED JAW: NOTES OF 
THE LANGUAGE OF SCIENCE FICTION. N.Y. : Berkley Pub. Corp., 
c1977. -- ISBN: 425-093852-1 (Essays on SF with some 
material on languages/linguistics.)

Delany, Samuel R. STARBOARD WINE: MORE NOTES ON THE 
LANGUAGE OF SCIENCE FICTION.

D'Imperio, Mary E.. THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT: AN ELEGANT 
ENIGMA. Aegean Park Press, 1981. ISBN: 0894120387. Amazon 
price: $18.80 (1999-04-13; ships in 4-6 weeks.) (Classic 
work that summarises all previous Voynich research. The 
bible of VMS researchers on the Net.)

Edwards Barns, Myra. LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE IN SCIENCE 
FICTION/FANTASY. N.Y., Arno, 1975. (Collection of essays.)

Lurie, Alison. THE LANGUAGE OF CLOTHES. (Actually talks 
about "grammar" of clothes, etc.. Semiotics?)

Martsch, Nancy. BASIC QUENYA. Order from author at POB 
55372, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413, $12.50 (incl. P/H).

McCawley, Jim. EVERYTHING LINGUISTS ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW 
ABOUT LOGIC. ("the second bible of Lojban" -- And Rosta)

SFEROJ (Esperanto SF magazine; I have issues 3, 8, & 9.)

Sikosek, Ziko Marcus. ESPERANTO SEN MITOJ.  Dua Prilaborita
Eldono. Flanda Esperanto-Ligo, 2003. 367 pagxoj inkluzive de
bibliografio, indekso ktp. ("Esperanto without myths" -- debunks the
more outrageous claims of Esperantists.)

Woodroffe, Patrick. THE SECOND EARTH: THE PENTATEUCH 
RETOLD. Dragon's World Ltd., Limpsfield, Surrey RH8 0DY, 
UK. 1987. ISBN 1 85028 042 8 (hc), 1 85028 043 6 (pb). 
(Graphical SF w/ pictographic conlang. Shorter previous 
version = THE PENTATEUCH OF THE COSMOGONY.)

Young, Brother and the United Congress. ISO: THE NEW WORLD 
LANGUAGE. United Congress Publication, 1996. WRITE: Brother 
Young, KOS ISO MISON, #4 310 22 Ave. S.W., Calgary, 
Alberta, T2S 0H4 CANADA. ("offspring of Speedwords" -- Rick 
Harrison.)


*POLYTICKS BOOKS*

Brams, Steven and Alan Taylor. FAIR DIVISION: FROM 
CAKE-CUTTING TO DISPUTE RESOLUTION. ("Okay, this book is 
way technical, at least compared to the others here. 
However, it contains really important ideas about how to 
settle disputes in ways that are fair and envy-free. It all 
starts with trying to divide a piece of cake..."--Guy who 
liked a lot of books I liked.)

Eichenwald, Kurt. THE INFORMANT. 2000? (True criminal 
conspiracy: corporate price-fixing by Archer Daniels 
Midland. "Page-turner." --THIS AMERICAN LIFE.)

Guerin, Daniel. NO GODS NO MASTERS. AK Press, Oakland. (New 
English translation of "classic anthology of anarchism".)

Kent, Frank: THE GREAT GAME OF POLITICS.

Khab, Ken. (Ed.). WHY WORK? (Includes essays by B. Russell 
and William Morris.)

Kick, Russ (editor). EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: THE 
DISINFORMATION GUIDE TO SECRETS AND LIES. Disinformation; 
New York, 2002. TPB, $24.95. (Includes articles by Howard 
Zinn, Paul Krassner, Thomas Szasz, et al.) Ziesing 171.

Postman, Neil. TECHNOPOLY. ("talks about how technology and 
machinery in general (including unobvious technologies) 
have affected the pace/quality of our lives.")

Sommers, Christina Hoff. WHO STOLE FEMINISM?. 1994. ('The 
recent sensational revelation of the hijacking of the 
feminist movement by sexist "androphobes", written by a 
real feminist...' -- The Wizard of NZ)

Sweeney, H. Michael. THE PROFESSIONAL PARANOID. Feral 
House. Trade pb. $12.95. (Fighting back against govt. 
harassment, spying, etc.)

Vandenbroeck, Goldian (ed.). LESS IS MORE: THE ART OF 
VOLUNTARY POVERTY. ("it's really a collection of 
quotations, ancient and modern...her husband Andre wrote a 
biography of R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz.")


*SF BOOKS*

Auster, Paul. BOOK OF ILLUSIONS. (Recommended by Karl.  Compare LAND
OF LAUGHS.)

Begbie, Harold. THE AMAZING DREAMS OF ANDREW LATTER. 
Ash-Tree Press Occult Detectives line; Ashcroft, 2002. HC, 
$30.95. Limited to 500 copies. (Victorian (?) fantasy about 
a self-consistent dreamland.) Ziesing 171.

Bisson, Terry. IN THE UPPER ROOM AND OTHER STORIES. Tor; 
New York, 2000. HC, $24.95. (Collection. Stories include: 
two icons on a computer desktop fall in love; a man learns 
how to "carbon-date" fire; clones of murderers become their 
victims' families' property.) Ziesing 155. 

Blackwood, Algernon. THE COMPLETE JOHN SILENCE STORIES. 
Dover. Trade paperback. $9.95. ("Edited with an 
introduction by S.T. Joshi. Supernatural fiction featuring 
a psychic doctor." --Ziesing)

Brown, Fredric. MARTIANS AND MADNESS: THE COMPLETE SF 
NOVELS OF FREDRIC BROWN. NESFA; Frmaingham, 2002. HC, 
$29.00. 633 pp. Ziesing 173.

Cadigan, Pat. FOOLS. 1992. (Brain cop working her way into 
a personality bootlegging operation finds one of her 
personality overlays has a mind of its own.)

Carroll, Jonathan. MARRIAGE OF STICKS.

Crowley, John. LOVE AND SLEEP. (2nd book in the Aegypt 
series; lost my copy.)

Davidson, Avram. THE INVESTIGATIONS OF AVRAM DAVIDSON. St. 
Martin's Press, 1999.

Dunsany, Lord. THE COLLECTED JORKENS, VOLUME 3.
(Available at the UW Bookstore. I have Volumes 1 + 2.)

Eddison, E.R.R. (translator). THE MABINOGION. (Little-known 
translation of Welsh myth by the author of the Zimiamvia 
books.)

Egan, Greg. AN UNUSUAL ANGLE. Norstrilia Press; Carlton, 
Victoria, Australia, 1983. ISBN 0-909106-12-6. 200 pages, 
A$14.95. (First novel. Same wealth of ideas; many-worlds 
SF; somewhat disowned by Egan. May still be available from 
Slow Glass Books, GPO Box 2708X, Melbourne, Victoria 3001 
AUSTRALIA.)

Faig, Kenneth W., Jr. TALES OF THE LOVECRAFT COLLECTORS. 
Necronomicon Press. 46pp, wraps, $5.95. ("Four pieces that 
Faig did for the Esoteric Order of Dagon apa. I enjoyed 
them, just the right level of obsessive documentation of 
the non-existent - or is it?" -- IGOTS)

Flammarion, Camille. Robert Silverberg (Introduction). 
OMEGA: THE LAST DAYS OF THE WORLD. Paperback, 287 pages 
(May 1999). Publisher: University of Nebraska Press; ISBN: 
080326898X. ("OMEGA, written by astronomer Camille 
Flammarion (1842-1925), is no less than an epic history of 
our future-a startling and unforgettable vision of the end 
of the world. Reasoned scientific speculation combined with 
probing philosophical inquiry lend credibility and 
magnitude to this tale of how humankind will physically and 
culturally evolve over the next several million years.")

Frayn, Michael. SWEET DREAMS. 1974.

Goldman, William. THE PRINCESS BRIDE 25TH ANNIVERSARY 
EDITION. Ballantine 1st thus, New in dj $24.95. ("Oh boy. 
One of my favorite books repackaged and including the first 
chapter of the long-lost sequel BUTTERCUP'S BABY as well as 
a new introduction. It's brilliant, it's funny, it's 
literary, it's a hell of a cool thing and I can't recommend 
it highly enough."--Ziesing)

Hartwell, David G. & Kathryn Cramer (editors). THE HARD SF 
RENAISSANCE. Tor; New York, 2002. HC, $39.95. (Almost 1000 
pp. of recent hard SF stories by Baxter, Benford, Chiang, 
Clark, McAuley, Pohl, Sawyer, Sheffield, Stableford, Vinge, 
et al.) Ziesing 175.

Hughes, Riley. THE HILLS WERE LIARS. ("Pleasingly 
eccentric" SF novel that "stand[s] out, not above 
everything else, but off to one side.... the last 
half-dozen people still alive in the world (as far as they 
know), all male, one of them a child, get together and hold 
an election to see which of them will be Pope." -- John 
Boston and Mark Owings.)

Isaacs, George. THE BURLESQUE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Graham 
Stone, Sydney 1989, 30pp. ("a facsimile reprint from 1865 
of a play that was meant for production in Adelaide in 1963 
but never actually given... delightfully loony. By p.7 the 
Monster is singing "My ma's not apparent..." (all the puns 
are in italics). In the end Frankenstein casts the Monster 
into Hell to a chorus from the remaining cast - Down, down, 
below, and say I sent you thither. Eliz. Vanish - Alph. 
Skedaddle - Alf. Vamos - Car. Mizzle - Joe Slither." -- 
IGOTS)

Jones, Stephen (ed.) DARK DETECTIVES. Fedogan & Bremer, 
3721 Minnehaha Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55406. ISBN 
1-878252-35-6. $29.00. ("DARK DETECTIVES stands out in both 
the mystery and fantasy horror fields as an exceptional 
collection recommended for any who've enjoyed the writings 
of psychic sleuths such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or 
William Hope Hodgson. The genre is mystery/detective but 
the objects of investigation are all influenced by the 
supernatural and the many stories by Basil Copper, Clive 
Barker, Neil Gaiman and others present detectives who must 
uncover the truth behind these haunting." -- Midwest Book 
Review)

Lafferty, R.A. EAST OF LAUGHTER. Morrigan Publications, 
Avon (England), 1988. 176pp. UK pounds 10.95. (IGOTS 11)

Lafferty, R.A. IRON TEARS. 1992. Edgewood Press, POB 264, 
Cambridge, MA 02238. $10.00. (collection of stories)

Lafferty, R.A. SERPENT'S EGG: A FANTASY. Morrigan 
Publications, Avon (England), 1987. 166pp. UK pounds 10.95. 
("has computers - and a kangaroo that rules the world." -- 
IGOTS 11)

Langford, David and John Grant. EARTHDOOM!. 1987.  (Anomalous physics
collides with conservation laws.)

Lovecraft, H.P. (ed. S.T. Joshi). THE ANNOTATED 
SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE. Hippocampus Press, 2000. 
Paperback, 172 pages, ISBN 0-9673215-0-6, $15.00.

MacLeod, Ken. THE STONE CANAL. (1996?) #2 in THE FALL 
REVOLUTION.

MacLeod, Ken. THE CASSINI DIVISION. 1998. #3 in THE FALL 
REVOLUTION.

MacLeod, Ken. THE SKY ROAD. (1999?) #4 in THE FALL 
REVOLUTION.

MacLeod, Ken. COSMONAUT KEEP. 2001? (Start of a new series.)

Morris, William. NEWS FROM NOWHERE. ("without... William 
Morris's _News From Nowhere_ I couldn't have written _The 
Cassini Division_" -- Ken MacLeod)

Munroe, Jim. AN OPENING ACT OF UNSPEAKABLE EVIL.  (Literal roommate
from hell.)

Roberts, Mark and Jeff Vandermeer (eds.). THE THACKERY T. LAMBSHEAD
POCKET GUIDE TO ECCENTRIC & DISCREDITED DISEASES.  2004, 2005.
(Hilarious sfantasy. Just about what it sounds like.)

Robinson, Kim Stanley. RED MARS.

Robinson, Kim Stanley. GREEN MARS.

Robinson, Kim Stanley. BLUE MARS.

Robinson, Kim Stanley. BLACK AIR, Pulphouse SS #20 (1991).

Robinson, Kim Stanley. A SENSITIVE DEPENDENCE ON INITIAL 
CONDITIONS, 1991, Author's Choice Monthly #20.

Robinson, Kim Stanley. A SHORT, SHARP SHOCK, Tor Double, 
1990. (Reputedly reminiscent of Gene Wolfe.)

Rucker, Rudy. AS ABOVE, SO BELOW. (Historical fiction?)

Rucker, Rudy. SPACETIME DONUTS.

Rucker, Rudy. THE MEANING OF LIFE.

Rucker, Rudy. THE SEX SPHERE.

Shea, Robert. ALL THINGS ARE LIGHTS. (an historical novel 
involving troubadours, Cathars and Templars).

Sladek, John. THE MUELLER-FOKKER EFFECT. (Praised by David Langford. I
used to have it.)

Smith, Clark Ashton. (Just about anything. I have the 
Pocket collection THE CITY OF THE SINGING FLAME.)

Smith, Clark Ashton. EMPEROR OF DREAMS. Millennium; London, 
2002. TPB, $19.95. 580 pp. (46 stories by Clark Ashton 
Smith.) Ziesing 171.

Stableford, Brian. WALKING SHADOW. ("fully live[s] up to 
the heritage of the 'golden age', as they call the period 
of the pulps, and [is] Stapledonesque in scope." -- 
Barrington J. Bayley.)

Sterling, Bruce. ZEITGEIST.

Stewart, Ian. THE ANNOTATED FLATLAND.

Watson, Ian. THE GREAT ESCAPE. Golden Gryphon; Urbana, 
2002. HC, $23.95. 283 pp. (Collection of Watson, mostly 
from ASIMOV'S or INTERZONE.) Ziesing 171.

Wilson, Colin. SHADOWLAND. (Spider World volume 4.)

Wylie, Jonathan. MAGISTER. Orbit, December 1997. (Magick as 
performance art; inspired by the music of Sir Arnold Bax.)

Wylie, Philip. GLADIATOR. (Old SF novel about a super-strong man.
Template for the early Superman comics.)


*SKEPTICISM BOOKS*

Armstrong, Karen. THE BATTLE FOR GOD. ISBN: 0345391691. 
Ballantine Books, January 2001. Paperback, Pages: 480. 
(Historical struggle between secularism and religious 
fundamentalism.)

Clarkson, Frederick. ETERNAL HOSTILITY: THE STRUGGLE 
BETWEEN THEOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY. (Mentioned favorably by 
author of THOUGHT CONTAGION.)

Curran, Douglas. IN ADVANCE OF THE LANDING: FOLK CONCEPTS 
OF OUTER SPACE. (UFO nuts. "...it's an important work on 
many levels, not the least of which [is] Curran's ability 
to get into the heads of his subjects. A must for those who 
really want to understand the human/inexplicable 
interface." -- Obscure Research Labs)

Goodspeed, Edgar J.. MODERN APOCRYPHA. Beacon Press, 1956. 
(Seems to be a critical examination of said topic.)

Grinspoon, David. LONELY PLANET. (Recommended by Jay.  Skeptical book
on SETI and saucers from an aesthetic viewpoint.)

Haught, James A.. HOLY HORRORS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF 
RELIGIOUS MURDER AND MADNESS, Prometheus Books, 1990

Jones, Bascom. KING OF THE COLD READERS. (Recommended.)

Mackie, J.L.. THE MIRACLE OF THEISM, Oxford; arguments 
for/against God.

Nelson, Noelle. COLD READING MADE EASY / VHS Tape / 
Published 1994. Amazon Price: $39.99 (Special Order) (Four 
tapes: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Comedy. All @ $40)

Paul, R. CRITICAL THINKING: WHAT EVERY PERSON NEEDS TO 
SURVIVE IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD. Rohnert Park, CA: 
Center for Critical Thinking and Moral Critique. Sonoma 
State Univ.. 1990.

Ruthchild, Miriam. PSYCHOTECHNICS. (Cold reading.)

Saville, Thomas K., Ph.D., and Herb Dewey. RED HOT COLD 
READING (recommended).

Showalter, Elaine. HYSTORIES : HYSTERICAL EPIDEMICS AND 
MODERN CULTURE. Hardcover, 224 pages. Columbia Univ Press. 
1997. ISBN: 0231104588. (Gulf War Syndrome, recovered 
memories of childhood sexual abuse and alien abductions, 
all modelled as hysteria. Author is a lit prof & medical 
historian at Princeton.)

Vogh, James. ARACHNE RISING: THE 13TH SIGN OF THE ZODIAC. 
Granada / Hart-Davis, MacGillan [1977]. 202 pp. 
(Pseudonymous hoax by John Sladek. Some editions may have 
author as James Vogt. Alternate title: THE THIRTEENTH 
ZODIAC.)

Vogh, James. COSMIC FACTOR: BIOASTROLOGY AND YOU. Dodd, 
Mead & Co.. 1978. (Another hoax by Sladek.)

Walker, Jeff. THE AYN RAND CULT. Open Court. Trade 
paperback $19.95. ("Interesting. An explanation of Rand's 
ideas and how they were shaped into an atheistic religion." 
-- Ziesing)

Webster, Richard. HOW TO BUILD UP A PSYCHIC PRACTICE WITH 
FULL-LENGTH COLD READINGS (recommended)


*SOPHIA BOOKS*

Bonhoeffer, Adolf Friedrich. THE ETHICS OF THE STOIC 
EPICTETUS. Tr. William O. Stephens. Peter Lang, Revisioning 
Philosophy Series, 1996, 2000. ("...the most meticulous and 
comprehensive study of Epictetus' ethics ever written was 
published in 1894 by an obscure German scholar..." 
--Stephens)

Cupitt, Don. TAKING LEAVE OF GOD, (1980). ("A short and 
readable presentation of modern theology by an intelligent 
and sensitive Anglican. Painful for those who want a 
parental god to be in charge of things." -- The Wiz of NZ)

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL
SCIENCES.  (Hegel's last work; summarises his system. In three volumes
from Oxford University Press.)

Loya, Ho and Jih. THE TAO OF JESUS. Paulist, trade pb, 
$14.95. (Christian and Taoist sayings juxtaposed, with 
scholarly commentary.)

Orsi, Robert A.. THANK YOU, ST. JUDE: WOMEN'S DEVOTION TO 
THE PATRON SAINT OF HOPELESS CAUSES. Yale University Press 
1996 0-300-06476-4 Trade Cloth $30.00.

Seddon, Keith.  EPICTETUS' HANDBOOK AND THE TABLET OF CEBES: GUIDES TO
STOIC LIVING. 2005.

Smullyan, Raymond. FOREVER UNDECIDED. (On Goedel's proof.)

Snow, C.P. THE TWO CULTURES AND THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION.

Stockdale, James Bond. COURAGE UNDER FIRE: TESTING 
EPICTETUS'S DOCTRINES IN A LABORATORY OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR. 
Stanford: Hoover Institution/Stanford University. 1993. 
("An account of how the author used the principles of Stoic 
ethics to survive the rigors of a Vietnamese prisoner of 
war camp." -- Keith Seddon.)

Wiegardt, Erik. THE PATH OF THE SAGE. (Keeper of the Stoic 
Registry wrote a book in which he attempts an explication 
of Stoicism for the modern reader.)


*TCB BOOKS*

Adams, Kathleen. JOURNAL TO THE SELF. ('This has quite a 
few techniques in it, from "Captured Moments" to "Lists of 
100". It's a good starting point if you're looking for a 
new way to approach your diary, other than "stealthily".')

Baldwin, Christina. LIFE'S COMPANION: JOURNAL WRITING AS A 
SPIRITUAL QUEST. ("This one is a little too touchy-feely 
for me... If you are "into" investigating the spiritual 
side of yourself, this is a good book to check out.") 

Brewster, E. Thomas & Elizabeth Brewster. LANGUAGE 
ACQUISITION MADE PRACTICAL. Lingua House, 1976. (Becoming 
fluent in another language outside of school, with native 
informants.) Signals p35

Carrington, Patricia. FREEDOM IN MEDITATION.  (A scientific
perspective.)

Charell, Ralph. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Simon & Schuster 
1985. 253 pp. (How not to be had; Essential WEC P.150)

Lancaster, Don. THE INCREDIBLE SECRET MONEY MACHINE.

Mallon, Thomas. A BOOK OF ONE'S OWN: PEOPLE AND THEIR 
DIARIES. ("An overview of the art and history of diary 
writing. He divides up the diarists surveyed...")

Manic Depression Fellowship. INSIDE OUT: A GUIDE TO THE 
SELF MANAGEMENT OF DEPRESSION. 8-10 High Street, 
Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey KT1 1EY (tel 0181 974 6550). 
2-50, include. pandp.

Monks Of New Skete. HOW TO BE YOUR DOG'S BEST FRIEND: THE 
CLASSIC TRAINING MANUAL FOR DOG OWNERS: COMPLETELY REVISED 
AND UPDATED. Little Brown and Company September 2002. 
Hardcover, 336 pages.

Pink, Dan. A WHOLE NEW MIND. (Right-brain emphasis in the new
workplace.)

Price, Daniel. HOW TO MAKE A JOURNAL OF YOUR LIFE.
1999. (In comic-book form.)

Ratey, John J. and Johnson, Catherine. SHADOW SYNDROMES. 
Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1997. 389 pages. (About borderline 
cases of madness in everyday life.)

Reynolds, David K.  EVEN IN SUMMER THE ICE DOESN'T MELT. 1986.  (About
Morita psychotherapy.)

Reynolds, David K.  PLAYING BALL ON RUNNING WATER: THE JAPANESE WAY TO
BUILDING A BETTER LIFE.  1984. (About Morita psychotherapy.)

Rosen, Diana. THE BOOK OF GREEN TEA. Storey Books Trade 
paperback $16.95. ("...the benefits to be had from 
consuming green tea... How to, what kind, where and why... 
A little tea along with the appropriate vitamins and 
supplements and some exercise will enable you to buy books 
for many years to come." --Ziesing)

Schiwy, Marlene. A VOICE OF HER OWN. (An overview of 
journaling, with some interesting looks at excerpts from 
published and unpublished journals.")

Troise, Joe. DRIVE IT TILL IT DROPS. and books (sic), 1980. 
(Essential WEC, p. 268)

Weil, Andrew. SPONTANEOUS HEALING. (Recommended on Drones 
as intelligent 8-week program to better health.)


*(MISC BOOKS)*

Kacirk, Jeffrey. ALTERED ENGLISH: SURPRISING MEANINGS OF 
FAMILIAR WORDS. Pomegranate; San Francisco, 2002. HC, 
$22.95. 240 pp. (Looks pretty cool for a book of its type.) 
Ziesing 172.

Lewis, A.W. BASIC BOOKBINDING. 1957. (Available from Dover.)

Marzluff, John et al. IN THE COMPANY OF CROWS AND RAVENS.  2005?

Millman, Lawrence. AN EVENING AMONG HEADHUNTERS AND OTHER 
REPORTS FROM ROADS LESS TRAVELED. Lumen. Trade paperback. 
$15.95. ("Millman is a travel guy, only he travels to 
places no other travel guys travel to. Weird places, wild 
places, spooky places, and just plain WAY out of the way 
places. This is his report on some of the strangest places 
on the planet. Call it REAL science fiction and fantasy." 
-- Ziesing)

Mooney, Julie. RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF 
THE BIZARRE. Black Dog; New York, 2002. HC, $24.98. 318 pp. 
("Not nearly as dopey or as puffy as a lot of books on the 
subject... 6,000 entries in all..." --Mark Ziesing.) 
Ziesing 172.

Mullin, Eileen and Rubin, Jared T. FREE-COMMERCE: THE 
ULTIMATE GUIDE TO E-BUSINESS ON A BUDGET. (Mullin is the 
editor of XYZZYnews.)

Rubin, Saul. OFFBEAT MUSEUMS: THE COLLECTIONS AND CURATORS 
OF AMERICA'S MOST UNUSUAL MUSEUMS. Santa Monica. Trade 
paperback, $17.95. 236 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 fully illustrated. 
ZIESING

Savage, Dan. THE COMMITMENT. (About gay marriage.)

Schick, Kathy D., and Nicholas Toth. MAKING SILENT STONES 
SPEAK: HUMAN EVOLUTION AND THE DAWN OF TECHNOLOGY. 1993. 
("They're a nutty couple that went out, lived in the bush, 
made stone-aged tools, and used them for wacky stuff like 
butchering an elephant. Is that science or performance art? 
It's the best of both." -- Penn Jilette)

Semiotext(e). SEMIOTEXT(E) CANADAS. $12.00.

Silverberg, Robert. THE REALM OF PRESTER JOHN. Ohio Univ. 
Press, Athens (OH) 1996, maps, contemporary illos, 
bibliography, index. ("...originally published by Doubleday 
in 1972... Silverberg traces the Prester John legend from 
12th to 15th century Europe, with a long section on early 
European contact with Ethiopia, whose emperor was called 
Prester John - much to his confusion..." -- IGOTS)

Sinclair, David. THE LAND THAT NEVER WAS. (About an elaborate
historical hoax involving an imaginary country.)

Taylor, Gary. CASTRATION: AN ABBREVIATED HISTORY OF WESTERN 
MANHOOD. 2000. (Scholarly, yet SALON says it's a hoot.)

Toth, Jennifer. THE MOLE PEOPLE. 1993. (Study of subculture 
of homeless in NY subway tunnels.)

Walker, Jesse. REBELS ON THE AIR: AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF 
RADIO IN AMERICA. 2002. ("Before it became an ATM machine 
for station owners, radio was briefly the province of 
madmen who made it the liveliest medium in America." 
--Salon.)

Weschler, Lawrence. MR. WILSON'S CABINET OF WONDER. 
Vintage, 1996, 168pp, illus b&w, notes, wraps, $12. ("an 
attempt to grasp the nature and motives of David Wilson's 
Los Angeles storefront, the Museum of Jurassic 
Technology... a private museum with very marginal funding, 
open only a few days of the week, in which you can never be 
sure whether the continuously changing exhibits are about 
something real or the product of a rather peculiar 
imagination..." -- IGOTS)

Wood, Denis. SEEING THROUGH MAPS: THE POWER OF IMAGES TO 
CHANGE OUR WORLD VIEW. (Featured on THIS AMERICAN LIFE.) 

Wood, Denis. THE POWER OF MAPS. (Featured on THIS AMERICAN 
LIFE.)

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*GAMES: XXXENOPHILE boosters*

* Alien Abduction Squad - Mike Raabe 
* Babe Magnet - Phil Foglio 
* Big Red Hammer - Kaja Foglio
* Bilitis the Courtesan - Jean E. Martin 
* Blow-Up Luv Panda - Tom Verre
* Buffalo Gals 
* Count Pointercount - Mike Raabe 
* Crown of Oriana - Ernie Chan
* Enchilada Progress - Zak Pasco 
* Evil Dr. Oscillator - Monika Livingstone
* Felga Darkin - Bill Sienkiewicz 
* Green Light District - Phil Foglio
* Heroine of the Revolution - Phil Foglio 
* Hung Jury - Kirk Van Wormer
* Island of Lust Toys - Phil Foglio 
* Jack Tarr - April Lee 
* Klipshack Dragonspawn - Quinton Hoover
* Lab Assistant Laurie - Tomoko Saito 
* Lio of Ion Clan - Dan Smith
* Lost Temple of Hootcheeku - Phil Foglio 
* Marital Artist - Dan Smith
* Marquis de Sade - Drew Tucker 
* Mata Hari - George Barr 
* Meedrax Dragonget - Quinton Hoover
* Nicely Curved Space - Bob Eggleton 
* Odeon Hammersmith - Colleen Doran
* One Night Stan - Tomoko Saito 
* Queen of the Moon - Kaja Foglio
* Queeva Spang - Fastner & Larson 
* Seduction Pump - Rick Hoberg 
* Toby Robinson - Toivo Rovainen 
* Ving Tillamook - Ruth Thompson 
* Xynotreen - Quinton Hoover
* Zonifax the Irradiated - Dan Smith

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*MOVIES*

ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN, THE (Claymation movie recommended 
by Lion)

ANGEL AT MY TABLE, AN. (Story of author who is misdiagnosed 
as schizophrenic. D:Campion.) M? NNF

ANTHEM. (Documentary of two women's search for America.) M+ 
NNF

BENT. (A gay man falls in love in a Nazi concentration 
camp. Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Ian McKellen, Mick 
Jagger.) M- NNF

BILLY ELLIOT (Marty recommends to Ron.) M+

BOX OF MOONLIGHT. (John Turturro & Sam Rockwell buddy 
comedy sci-fi) M+

BRAIN CANDY (Not for all tastes R (Kids in the Hall movie)) 
M? NNF

CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION (Judy Davis has a date with 
Stalin. Her son grows up in Australia.) M- NNF

THE COLOR OF MONEY -- "Paul Newman won an Oscar for this 
sequel to THE HUSTLER. Fast Eddie finds a younger, greener 
version of himself in flashy small-time pool hustler 
Vincent (Tom Cruise) and decides to promote him for another 
shot at the big time." -- The Game Report. M+

CRASH -- Sex and car crashes. NC-17. David Cronenberg. Not 
for the squeamish. Ted Turner: "sick". M-

DELIVERANCE (Voight). M+

DOG DAY AFTERNOON (Ron has seen it; Marty saw it but 
doesn't remember it) M+

EVITA (Madonna & Banderas) M+

FARGO (Ron has seen but Marty hasn't) M+

FEMALE PERVERSIONS- (Woman lawyer, her shoplifting sister, 
and others deal with being women in a small town. Tilda 
Swinton. Amy Madigan R) M+ NNF

FIREFLY. (12-episode SF series recommended by Jay.)

FIVE EASY PIECES (Ron has seen but Marty hasn't) M+

FREAKS AND GEEKS. (Series about growing up c. 1979 recommended by
Jay.)

GENTLEMEN DON'T EAT POETS (Sting, as butler, tries to wreck 
the home of English lord Alan Bates and his American wife, 
Theresa Russell) M? NNF

GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PHILIP K. DICK, THE (2000) - documentary

HAMLET (Branagh) M?

HATE ((Fr.) B/W. A Jew, an Arab, and a Black become allies 
in a Paris housing project) M+ NNF

HUGO POOL (Comedy with weird, one dying characters. Malcolm 
McDowell, Cathy Moriarty, Patrick Dempsey) M? NNF

THE HUSTLER -- "Disenchanted pool hustler 'Fast' Eddie 
Felson (Paul Newman) challenges the legendary Minnesota 
Fats (Jackie Gleason) in this classic film." -- The Game 
Report. M+

I SHOT ANDY WARHOL (the true story of Valerie Solanas, the 
furious, lesbian feminist who shot Warhol. Lili Taylor. 
Stephen Dorff as drag queen) M?

ICE STORM (Affluent family comes apart in 1973 suburban 
Connecticut. Melodrama with great sexual overtones. N: "An 
instant classic" Kevin Kline, Joan Allen and Sigourney 
Weaver. Rick Moody's 1994 best-seller D: Ang Lee) M?

IKIRU - Kurosawa (John B & Lion say it's better than SEVEN 
SAMURAI)

IN THE COMPANY OF MEN (Two men treat a woman badly. The New 
Yorker: "as uncomfortable to watch as the best of Mamet") M-

INFINITY -- Matthew Broderick & P. Arquette about physicist 
Richard Feynman. M?

THE IRON GIANT. (Like GIGANTOR, but better.)

JUDE (drama) - The best story about marriage vs. "following 
your dreams" ever written. M? NNF

JULIAN PO -- Suicidal bookkeeper brings excitement to a 
small town -- Christian Slater,Julian Walters, Rupert 
Graves. M- NNF

KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS. Hilarious early Alec Guinness 
movie. Marty hasn't seen. M+ NNF

LAPUTA - Miyazaki anime

LAST SUPPER, THE (1995) -- Intellectuals invite for dinner, 
then kill, people with conservative views. Diaz. M- NNF

LAVENDER HILL MOB. Alec Guinness comedy vehicle. M+ NNF

LENNY (1974) - Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce

LITTLE MAN TATE (drama) - Jodie Foster's tale of a poor six 
year old genius. M?

LOST HORIZON (1937 version - drama) - This Frank Capra 
classic is the best film ever about "Utopia". M+

MA VIE EN ROSE -- Little boy believes he's a girl in a 
boy's body. M-

MILLER'S CROSSING - Acclaimed Coen Brothers movie; next one 
made after Fargo? M+ NNF

MOTHER NIGHT -- Vonnegut Novel about Nazi propaganda 
minister who is actually an American agent. Nolte. M-

THE MUSIC OF CHANCE -- "Mandy Patinkin gives a lift to a 
fellow (James Spader) stumbling alongside a country road, 
learns he's a high-stakes poker player, and decides to back 
him in an upcoming game against two eccentric millionaires 
in this subtle, existential film." -- The Game Report. M? 
NNF

MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO - Miyazaki anime

NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF WINDS - Miyazaki anime

NETWORK (Ron has seen but Marty hasn't) M+

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (Ron has seen but Marty 
hasn't) M+

OTHELLO -- Branagh and Fishburne (R?) M+

OTHER SIDE OF SUNDAY, THE -- Coming of age of minister's 
daughter in 1950's Norway. M-

THE OUT OF TOWNERS - Lemmon. M+ NNF

PRIMER -- Thinker's time travel movie. Recommended by Karl.

REAR WINDOW - Stewart. M+

REPO MAN (Ron has seen it; Marty hasn't) M+

RETURN TO PARADISE (drama) - Save a life and rot in prison, 
or watch your friend die and live free? (Based on the 
Prisoner's Dilemma.) M-

ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS -- A childhood favourite. M+ NNF

ROUGH MAGIC -- Gifted magician's assistant flees murder 
scene. Bridget Fonda, Rusell Crowe. M- NNF

ROYAL DIVORCE -- The favourite movie of Humphrey Chimpden
Earwicker. Why the fuss?

SABRINA (the old one) - Bogart & Cary Grant & Audrey 
Hepburn. M+

SCHIZOPOLIS -- "Disjointed, impossible-to-synopsize romp 
about cults, alienation, language and movies." M? NNF

SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET -- Brad Pitt as Austrian mountaineer 
Heinrich Harrer meets the Dalai Lama. M-

SHINE -- Geoffrey Rush as disturbed pianist. M+

THE SHINING (Ron has seen but Marty hasn't) M+

SPANKING THE MONKEY.  M- NNF

TEMPTRESS MOON ((Chinese) Brudnoy: "masterpiece" about 
depravity in 1911 and 1920's China) M? NNF

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS ("starring George C. Scott, as a 
classic paranoiac who thinks he's Sherlock Holmes, and 
Joanne Woodward, as his psychiatrist Dr. Watson.")

TIN MEN - De Vito. M-

TRAINSPOTTING -- Punks in England. Sort of a current "A 
Clockwork Orange". M+

TREMORS - Bacon. M-

UNDERGROUND -- (Fr.,German, Hungarian) -- Two pals resist 
the Nazis in Yugoslavia but then one keeps the other 
"underground" for years after. Almost 3 hrs. Palme d'or at 
Cannes. M- NNF

UNSTRUNG HEROES -- Eccentric inventor and family. Mom gets 
cancer. Turturro, Andie MacDowell, Michael Richards, Maury 
Chaykin. By Diane Keaton. M+ NNF

VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS -- 1971 film version of David Lindsay's 
[novel]. This was the work of a B. J. Holloway at Antioch 
College, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, an 
85-minute low-budget feature with a cast drawn from the 
student body. And yet it reached a rental catalog. (IGOTS 
11) M? NNF

WHITE MAN'S BURDEN -- In an alternate universe, blacks 
discriminate against whites. Travolta,Belafonte. (Based on 
a 1950s SF story?) M-

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? -- Edward Albee's play 
about negative life games and the scary but salutary 
effects of losing them. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor. M+

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*MUSIC/AUDIO*

John Adams / NIXON IN CHINA (Elektra Nonesuch) ... (Awesome 
instrumentals; sounds like some of the cooler stuff in 
KOYAANISQATSI. $35.)

Ball, Patrick. (Title? Double CD.) ("a musician/storyteller 
who is a master of the neo-Celtic wire-strung harp... 
performing large excerpts of [Finnegans Wake], and with his 
Irish lilt, and with his storyteller's nuances, and the 
accompaniment of his harps, all those twisty words suddenly 
made a lot of sense." -- on Magister-L)

Becker, Walter. 11 TRACKS OF WHACK. ("Becker's 
extraordinary, little-noticed 1994 album... is an extended 
confession about his dark night of the soul; though uneven, 
several of its songs, in particular the stunning Icarus 
ballad "Surf and/or Die," possess a raw, tortured 
brilliance."--Salon.)

Byrne, David. THE FOREST. (An opera. Fantastic!)

Lisa Germano / EXCERPTS FROM A LOVE CIRCUS. (Contains "A 
Beautiful Schizophrenic" -- the beautiful side of madness. 
Cool.)

Jackson, Joe. SYMPHONY NO. 1. 1999.

Kleenex Girl Wonder. AFTERMATHEMATICS.

Kleenex Girl Wonder. PONYOAK. (Contains "Anne Marie".)

Yusef Lateef / EVERY VILLAGE HAS A SONG (Atlantic) ... 
(Beautiful flute music, jazzy, unusual. This guy is 
apparently somewhat well-known; the album is a best-of 
anthology. I liked "The Plum Blossom.")

Lorenzo Music Philharmonic / AUNT CANADA. (Polyholiday 
Records) ... (Has "Omar the Human Rake" Hilarious! "He was 
the schoolyard bully's birthday present, Omar the Human 
Rake ! / Can't you see the Rake has feelings too?")

Modzilla / WELCOME TO OUR ISLAND (Foliage) (Groovy; man & 
woman: "Mm-hm! Uh-uh!" ("Creative Differences").)

Jean-Jacques Perry & David Chazam / ECLEKTRONICS (Basnotic) 
... (Funky cute. Didn't Perry do a bunch of stuff on the 
Incredibly Strange CDs?)

Polygraph Lounge, The -- 2 studio musicians doing a Spike 
Jones / Firesign thang. Cutting a disc soon. (NPR, 
2002-12-01)

The Secret Museum of Mankind (Pat Conte). THE SECRET MUSEUM 
OF MANKIND. (Ethnomusicology from 1920s-40s; very good. 
Many volumes; I have 1 & 2.)

Shepherd, Jean.

Various Artists / DEEP IN THE HEART OF TUVA ... (Excellent! 
Western music with Tuvan vocals. Just brilliant.)

Various Artists / SKA BONANZA: THE STUDIO ONE SKA YEARS ... 
(Sounds like really old Ska. Beautiful, bluesy, jazzy.)

We Might Be Giants, Too, TMBG tribute album; has its own 
web page: http://www.tmbg.org/~ondrey/

Zevon, Warren. TRANSVERSE CITY. (A favourite of John 
McDaid's; cyberpunkish.)

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*PERIODICALS*

ADBUSTERS

COUNTER MAGAZINE

Daedalus Books catalogs (remainders) Signals p43

GAME REPORT

GAMES MAGAZINE

Jerryco catalog (surplus) EWEC P161

KNUCKLEBONES

VISIBLE LANGUAGE (journal from Wayne State Univ. Press, 
1980s? GBGish. Signals p36)

World Wide Games catalog. Colchester, CT. (wooden games; 
EWEC p364)

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*THINGZ*

Abbeon (useful material; EWEC 149)

THE ELECTRONIC WHOLE EARTH CATALOG. Broderbund Software 
c1989. Signals p163.

NCD thin clients - http://www.ncd.com/

Plyoletin (useful material; EWEC 149)

UNIBIND. (Don Lancaster's preferred desktop binding system 
c.1989; Signals p59)

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