Literature

As the finely honed points of the magnificent bull elk's antlers perforated his spleen, lungs and lower colon, Lenny the Grifter wished he had stayed working the street in Times Square, instead of going up to the Rockies where this dumb animal had figured out that three-card monte was a con, and gored him.

Richard Patching of Calgary, Alberta top honors submission in the adventure category to the 12th annual Bulwer-Lytton contest for bad fiction

• Individual Authors
• Thematic Sites
• Bookshops
• Single Texts
• Quotations
• Ideologies
• References
• Reviews
• Etc.
• 'Zines

Extra pages on Comics and DADA.

Individual Authors

And apparently the newest editions of _The Wasp Factory_ reprint sections of *all* the reviews it originally got, so the split is about 60/40 between "best new author of the decade" and "take this scum away and castrate him lest he passes on his genes"..

PiHKAL, a an (unfinished) review of it. Also a page that tells a bit about both.

The "review" is by one "Tyrone Slothrop", and does contain a lot of Pynchon/GR references. The link is to a text version (well, LaTeX, but that doesn't pose as big problems as its sheer size, 36 pages).

(29.04.95) The Pomona Pynchon Page, opened on or around 25.04, offers information about all of Pynchon's published work. Sadly, it is somewhat graphically oriented, and cannot be perused to the fullest advantage with a browser other than NetScape[TM]((c) 1994,95, NetScape corporation (void where prohibited)(California residents add 9.65% sales tax)(unusable on Monochrome displays or other UnAmerican Looser Hardware)).

Send comments and suggestions about the page to joel.birenbaum@att.com

C. S. Lewis is the well-known author of children's literature such as The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy as well as many Christian apologist works such as The Great Divorce and The Screwtape Letters.

This homepage contains both primary and secondary bibliographies, a chronology of his life, and links to other Lewis sites as well as other related links.

Take time to visit and learn about one of the world's reknown authors.

http://www.nada.kth.se/~nv91-asa/Trans/sing_page.html

(02.04.95: still there.)

Thematic Sites

The SF Authors List is an index of pages on authors and/or specific books.

Thomas Colthurst's Somerville Stories (in chronological order). Amongst them, little stories (seldom more than two pages), excerpts from dialogues, and the occasional song text. Personal favourites: Ninth Grade, The Oven of Ultimate Cleanliness, Sex, Drugs, and Mathematics, the first rain, The Telephone Rings, and the quite bizarre dinner for three.

He also maintains a RICHH archive.

Florian Cramer's The Seven by Nine Squares, ``Meanderings in Text''. Has a nice macho-theology quote by Spenser,

The one imperfect, mortall, feminine;
Th'other immortall, perfect, masculine,

And then there are things like the Enochia Type 1 font.

Looking at his Links of Related Interest, one can get at least a hint of what it's all about.

Gareth Rees' and Chaz ("Hazel") Baden's Science fiction resource guide is one humongous file 90k-file that holds hundreds of links.

The The Linköping SF&F Book Review Archive, listed by author.

(22.03.95: still all there)

(02.04.95: still there)

Bookshops

on-line books. You're on the Web, after all.) The usual suspects are

• The ERIS Project. Literary, philosophical and political classics --- thousands of pages available nowhere else on the net. These people are saints.
• The Internet Wiretap
• The Online Book Initiative
• Project Gutenberg
• (Modest cough) My own small but growing library, mostly poets for the moment.
• and the Wiretap's own list of Various E-Text Resources on the Internet
• http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/books.html

Single Texts

Here is my own local copy.

(30.05.95) The concordance now has an Web site. Haven't seen an update posted in weeks.

(10.07.95) The on-line concordance is still there, and called version 3.0 (hey, its now a hyper-concordance ;-)

``Before it's over, we'll need billions of human protectors. It's a Flash Gordon/E.E. Smith war, with superior Tnuctip technology battling tools and weapons worked up on the spot by a billion Dr. Zarkovs.''

Gharlane's LENSMAN FAQ (updated version 2), as of 9 Jan 1993.

A Short History of the Internet, by Bruce Sterling (originally published in The Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction, February 1993).

Amongst the most-often-linked-to hypertexts to-date is Pride and Prejudice (by Jane Austen), marked-up by Henry Churchyard (of htmlchek fame).

Thus, I fully subscribe to Stuart's Dearest Beliefs.

Luckily, you can get a list of all files that comprise the text. Is this a bug or a feature?

Some nifty quotes (I am a sucker for quotes, in case you haven't already noted):

``The sanity of the human race as a whole has been steadily declining since, at the latest, 1914, and there is nothing in the current trends to suggest a recovery - indeed, three of the four post-modernizations are forms of lunacy.''

``Anti-rationalism replaces the question ``Is it true?'' with the question ``Does it feel good?''''

``the medium doesn't care about the message''

``The transition from literature, to academic literature (meant to be taught, not read), to literary criticism, to literary theory, has been swift and painful.''

``Rain dances persist because people want to control the weather so ardently that they are willing to explain away failure, rather than admit their lack of power.''

``Even so humble a substance as nitrous oxide can produce mystical exaltation and insight.''

Trinity College, Dublin houses the famous 3-million-books library that is home to the Book of Kells.

The Bible of Usenet. Some kind of meta-FAQ on newsgroups, mailing lists, etc.pp.

Quotations

(in alt.quotations, mgm worte:) See my quotations page at http://www.xmission.com/~mgm/quotes or skip straight to the search at http://www.xmission.com/~mgm/quotes/search.html

The loQutus page (latticed on-line quotations user service, now that is a strained acronym!) harbours a list of dozens of quote archives (one of them is 762k huge!), fortune files, and 'net resources (such as a quotations listserver, and the related newsgroups). Turn of image loading before following the link, the big name plate doesn't contain anything useful.

Ideologies

Like political correctness, post-modern theory texts are very easy to satirize -- and the imitations are so similar to the originals that some people think they are genuine. Could this be used as a base for a bogosity-meter?

(29.03.95) Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene.

References

Scales of Measurement

Reviews

(29.03.95)

Dani Zweig's Belated Reviews are a good way to get an overview of the ``classics''. (In case you wonder how to define a ``classic'': in one review, Dani writes ``books [that] were written before many of the people reading this were born''. IMHO, a generation should be enough to get some distance to a text.) He reviews some things I never heard about (Did you you know the original title of the book/serial that was to become better known as "Buck Rogers" , let alone the year or the author? ), as well as some ``eternal top 100'' stuff everyone has read.

As to style: Some of Dani's comments are just plain hilarious (``Only one woman ever becomes a Lensman. Sort of like smurfs.''). His tastes seem to be more on the literary side than the average SF reader's (to witness: to me, the Ghormengast books are about as unreadable as they come, but Dani seems to enjoy them), but he knows that.

There are 32 "belated reviews" (overviews of novels, sorted by author), another 32 "postscripts" (things that didn't fit the original format: short stories, one-shot and second-tier authors), and 8 "unnumbered reviews" (which didn't fit for other reasons).

(23.03.95 not there anymore, the whole tree seems to have vanished. lets look whether it will be there again in a few days)

Etc.

(05.03.95)Atomic Books Mayhem -- For people who have seen to much James Bond movies and want to home-build the hardware: How To's on "mines deployed from your moving car, oil slicks laid out to send a pursuer careening off the road, and firearms fired remotely from an internal control panel" to be? Urgh.

Don't know whether this belongs under 'bookshops' or 'thematic sites'

(apropos language: when will the media accept the idea that today's geeks read post-modern literature, essays on semiotics and other such stuff, for fun (and often speak accordingly) and drop that silly old-fashioned "hacker" image that was outdated even before "war games"?)

Announces the new BookWire Web Pages, a free service to bibliophiles:

http://www.bookwire.com

Hundreds of links to book publishers, booksellers, libraries, electronic publishing resources, and other book-related services. If we have missed

'Zines

From: rchamber@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Roy Chambers)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: ANNOUNCING Magnetic Rim Issue # 1 (FREE electronic mag)
Date: 18 Mar 1995 18:50:15 MET
Organization: Macquarie University

==> MAGNETIC RIM <==

The other Australian Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Featuring short fiction from Stephen James, Paul Collins and other writer's of quality Australian Science Fiction.

Magnetic Rim is an ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE in Windows help file format, but for those without Windows it is also available in a text file and in hardcopy form, just send EMAIL to

Roy.Chambers@mq.edu.au.

The easiest way to get a copy is from the home FTP site at ftp.mq.edu.au
the subdirectory is home/rchamber
the file is MR-01.ZIP.
Most importantly Magnetic Rim is FREE so download it, and if you like it give copies to all your friends.

The Underground Review (TUR) is an electronic smorgasbord of publications from the "underground." Each month TUR will unearth provocative and obscure magazines not readily available to the average person. The first issue features the "AntiShyster" which makes a "critical examination of the American legal system."

(02.04.95) While the default format is still a DOS executable, TUR is now also available as an ordinary ZIP archive containing plaint text files. No HTML, though.

(Langford should also be a household-name for being the author of "The Space Eater", which features the most unpleasant form of FTL transportation I have ever encountered, as well as the nice idea of "Anomalous Physics".)

(08.06.95)

cultural debris vol. 2:4 * VENUS AND MARS * june 1995 is out. Marked it up without actually reading it, then read it and was shocked - for the first time in my life, I had received porn in my e-mail! (as usual, cd contains some delightful words like "frumpy" and "unctuous", and sentences like "I don't want you to feel like you have to ovulate in silence." ;-)

(24.08.95)

Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 14:35:45 -0500
To: dahven@usa1.com (Dahven White)
From: dahven@usa1.com (Dahven White)
Subject: Important news from *cultural debris*

Important news from *cultural debris*!!!!

1.  *debris* has a Web site!

It is still under construction but back issues of *debris* are now
available.  Check out http://www.cyberzine.com.  Tell your friends and
family.  Many thanks to Lars Mapstead who has taken *debris* into the next
phase of it's existence.

2.  AOL has cancelled my account!

I warned them that I could not be responsible for the actions of my irate
and dangerously unpredictable readers if they did not reactivate it but
they were unmoved.  Consequently, I have finally shaken myself loose of the
evil clutches of AOL and I have a new address.  It is dahven@usa1.com.  Any
mail sent to me over the past month has disappeared into the great void.
Sorry, please resend.

3.  *cultural debris* needs to be reviewed!

Many of you are probably familiar with John Labovitz's zine listings at
http://www.meer.net/~johnl/e-zine-list/index.html.  Well, Blaise Faint has
created a listing of zine reviews in conjunction with the John's list.
*cultural debris* has not been reviewed by ANYONE yet.  Please send your
provocative reviews to Blaise at faint@calypso-2.oit.unc.edu.  There's room
for several.  The Web site address is
http://sunsite.unc.edu/faint/index.html, if you want to see what other
people have done.



Sorry about the delays in my publishing schedule over the past 6 months.
My life has been, well, turbulent to say the least.  I'm moving again in a
week but hope to send something out soon.


Dahven

"How to Be a Writer: Try something else, anything.  Fail miserably."
- Lori Moore