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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 2, 2023 11:49:12 GMT
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Post by ramseycampbell on Feb 2, 2023 13:36:09 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Feb 2, 2023 15:25:19 GMT
Thanks, Ramsey. Gorgeous dust jacket (you have to scroll down to see one that still has the dj)--ironically the cover bore the deathless (!) legend "a bargain for 2-/!"
cheers, Hel.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Feb 2, 2023 15:49:57 GMT
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Post by Knygathin on Feb 3, 2023 9:59:32 GMT
I would recommend buying the $1,000.00 copy, instead of the $314.73 or $375.00 copies as they have stickers on that I fear cannot be removed without damaging the dust jacket. But really, in the old days extra price stickers were quite charming.
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Post by Knygathin on Feb 3, 2023 10:08:01 GMT
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Post by ramseycampbell on Feb 3, 2023 13:10:31 GMT
It does sound as if the book contains similar themes, though, if one of the characters is a multi-sexed alien.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Feb 3, 2023 13:29:14 GMT
It does sound as if the book contains similar themes, though, if one of the characters is a multi-sexed alien. Goodreads description: Shiel's last book published during his lifetime. "A combination of social reform and scientific fantasy concerned with youth-medicine." The Young Men are Coming! (1937) deals partly with contemporary social upheaval participated in by an advanced multiple-sexed Alien from Jupiter, who takes the side of science against superstition. The sf element here is much more sophisticated and imaginative than contemporary Genre SF, but is buried in a welter of eccentric social philosophy, and told in the decorated style of its author's youth.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 3, 2023 15:02:15 GMT
It does sound as if the book contains similar themes, though, if one of the characters is a multi-sexed alien. "It is a challenging novel that explores ideas about social reform and upheaval through the tale of an alien from Jupiter," claims the Delphi Classics ebook.
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Post by Knygathin on Feb 15, 2023 22:52:42 GMT
I am now struggling with David Lindsay's Devil's Tor. A good book, but extremely slow, ... I will finish it. I frequently have to reread his awkward sentences, because he places verbs and pronouns or nouns in reversed order, and so far apart that by the end of the sentence I have forgotten what belongs to what. But I can't even begin to tell you what an exciting tale this is! I am about halfway through. If you have the patience to read this book, it slowly grows on you and gets more and more dramatic, and you will be in for one heluva interesting story! This is clearly a writer who cares nothing about his readers, he is not out to please an audience, but is driven by an extreme passion of personal discovery.
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Post by Knygathin on Aug 15, 2023 7:08:50 GMT
I had a dream last night - an eager editor had accumulated bits and pieces by Stephen King. It was called Stray Writings by Stephen King, a stapled pamphlet of over 3600 pages, printed by Necronomicon Press.
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 15, 2023 21:04:55 GMT
I had a dream last night - an eager editor had accumulated bits and pieces by Stephen King. It was called Stray Writings by Stephen King, a stapled pamphlet of over 3600 pages, printed by Necronomicon Press. Sounds a bit like this one:
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