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Around the World in Eighty Days Yeller Brick Road – Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter XXIII IN WHICH PISSEPOTOUT’S NOSE BECOMES OUTRAGEOUSLY LONG The next morning poor, jaded, famished Pissepotout said to himself that he must get something to eat at all hazards, and the s… more →
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Strike two for Ray Bradbury!
wrote 3 hours ago: Hey all. This week’s short fiction post is about Ray Bradbury’s short story The Emissary … more →
Jules Verne and the birth of science fiction proper
wrote 20 hours ago: Stylized illustration of a spaceship and the sun, based on the description of the emblem of the fict … more →
Meaningful Measurement in Twenty Thousand Leagues
wrote 22 hours ago: Jules Verne (1828-1905), the Frenchman most famous for the novels Journey to the Centre of the Earth … more →
1868 Steam Robot
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wrote 1 day ago: Steampunk was just steam technology in the late 1800′s. Many inventions are somewhat lost to … more →
Waiting for Thoreau
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wrote 2 days ago: Pond image courtesy of kconnors, Morguefile. There are times when I read some books and contemplate … more →
Jellyfish
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wrote 2 days ago: This is a picture from my trip to the Adventure Aquarium in March. I did not post this picture earl … more →
Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
wrote 2 days ago: This book by French author Jules Verne, was first published in french in 1873 as La Tour du Monde en … more →
Around the World in Eighty Days Yeller Brick Road - Chapter Twenty-Three
wrote 2 days ago: Chapter XXIII IN WHICH PISSEPOTOUT’S NOSE BECOMES OUTRAGEOUSLY LONG The next morning poor, jad … more →
Edgar Allan Poe and Mesmeric Possibility
wrote 5 days ago: This piece first appeared here at The Literary Table in 2010. Sidney E. Lind, writing in the 1940s, … more →
Word Worth Books - Coolest Ads Ever?
wrote 6 days ago: I was browsing Google images for a new banner for my Facebook page and came across some neat ads fro … more →
Book Review: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
wrote 1 week ago: This was a book that’s been on our shelf for quite some time. I bought it a few years ago as I … more →
Science fiction in its time and place
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wrote 1 week ago: A sience fiction magazine Like any literary genre, science fiction is a product of its time and plac … more →
Blaring Deep Sea Explorations : 'Nautilus' by Anna Meredith
wrote 1 week ago: ‘Nautilus’, the first track on Anna Meredith‘s Black Prince Fury EP, is a looping … more →
Remembering Ray :: Excitement High as the Sky! Mystery Deep as the Sea! (January, 1962)
wrote 1 week ago: “They were considered B pictures because they were made on … more →
Why it's so hard to write literature essays on foreign books...
wrote 1 week ago: Although I do want to be an author, I am shamefully poor at analysing literature. I haven’t d … more →
Life Mimics Fiction
wrote 1 week ago: Today let’s talk a bit of science fiction. When you find a good sci-fi book or short story, i … more →
The Dilemma of an E-Reader
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wrote 1 week ago: We all know things get worse as the years creep by. We don’t become wiser nor do we get any closer t … more →
Prima - Around the World in 80 Days In a Tea Cup
wrote 1 week ago: Why start a blog? To help. To read. To express. To connect… And to make a difference. A blog i … more →
Around the World in 80 Instagrams
wrote 1 week ago: A lot has changed since Jules Verne wrote his Around the World in 80 Days in 1873. For one, it doesn … more →
