quote [ Flower of Battle an early 15th Century a guide to fighting. The Preface is golden ]

quote [ From Macondo to Arkham to The Village, a journey through the parallel cities of fiction. ]

quote [ when I came across a story about a serial killer stalking gay men in the early 1990s that I ? and almost everyone I mentioned it to had no knowledge of ? to say I was shocked would be an understatement. The story barely received any media attention nor is mentioned in the canons of queer history. ]

quote [ This is a directory of websites that primarily stick with simple, marked up, hyperlinked text. I appreciate these sites because they load quickly, scroll smoothly, spare my battery, are more compact, and lack the usual nonsense that infects many websites. ]

quote [ This is a video about the manicule ? the little hand symbol ? and it's got a very long history. ]

quote [ - cyberpunk as co-optable movement vs subversive tendency
- misfit matchmaking on the WGB
- Ray Bradbury in sleeveless jean jackets
- the evolution of cyberpunk as literary genre
- techno-shintoism and Buddhist robotic dog burials
- the inside-scoop on Johnny Mnemonic ]

quote [ Not much of a debate, really.Illustrations from 'Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium' by Paul Kidby. ]

quote [ How did Virgil?s words survive into the present? And how were they once read, during his own life and the succeeding centuries? Alex Tadel explores Graeco-Roman reading culture through one of its best-preserved and most lavishly-illustrated artefacts. ]

quote [ "The Conchologist?s First Book" was good enough to elevate the entire field. ]

quote [ ?Your horny warts, your rosy wens, like slimy bogs and fusty fens, thrill me.? ]