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Fraser’s 2024 Year in Books
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Fraser A. Sherman
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“An armed society is a polite society” is wrong in multiple ways
About 30 years ago I took a look at L. Neil Smith’s The Probability Broach, about a detective from a dystopian near-future (dystopian because government is tyranny. I got to the point where Smith’s protagonist, having landed in a utopian alt.timeline, learns that in this anarchic no-government world, there’s no slavery because Thomas Jefferson convinced everyone to just stop. And there was no disc
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| I'm fascinated by cartography but not so much by this book on the subject. Schwartz looks at various map errors such as the belief there was an easy northwest passage around the top of the continent, or that California was an island. Unfortunately th ...more | |
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Screwtape used to be a tempter demon, though now he's high enough in the hierarchy to write letters on how to do it to his nephew Wormwood. I reread this after a recent article explaining why it works, and how Lewis' many imitators get it wrong. One r ...more |
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| 3.5. It turns out Poe heard legends of the Usher family and their hereditary illness, crafted a fiction — but the family is real. In the present (i.e., 1984) Rix Usher returns to the family estate to visit his dying father ... but who will inherit th ...more | |
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A book that leaves me with a deep disgust for people. Born out of distorted evolutionary theory, fear of immigration and a WASP population struggling to maintain dominance, eugenics preached that America should breed its human population to become hea ...more |
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Like any review of Silver Age comics, this is YMMV — they're not to everyone's taste but they definitely are to mine. The stories are a mix of space adventure, supervillains (Dr. Polaris, Aerialist, Evil Star), romance (will Carol Ferris finally choos ...more |
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| When Perry Mason spots a string of identical brunettes on neighboring street corners, he can't resist sticking his nose in. It appears someone wants to hire one of them for some sort of impersonation scam, but what's the angle? Mason decides to help ...more | |
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Aging Kumiko moves out of the retirement home her well-meaning kids pushed her into and sets off to live independently. Her daughters are freaking out. She's not in the best of health. And Death is trying to take her down. This didn't grab me as much ...more |
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Norton's first fantasy was a retelling of "Huon of Bordeaux," a medieval romance. This makes it very YMMV — I like this kind of knightly adventure but they're definitely not everyone's cup of tea. Huon is heir to the throne of Bordeaux when he acciden ...more |
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| There were some snippets of interesting information in here but by and large this is not worth wading through. The Freudian analysis has not aged well (Hyde symbolizes Jekyll's shrunken penis!) and I wouldn't have thought it was that popular back whe ...more | |
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