Icinori's new limited-edition illustrated book incorporates screen-printing, risography and paper pop-ups to tell a story of entropy, industry and the cyclical nature of creation... https://buff.ly/2n2Wzub
Help transcribe historical theatre playbills https://www.libcrowds.com/collection/playbills
Once in a while, say on a #manuscriptmonday you might even find annotations, like these noting the night’s taking from Dereham Theatre in Norfolk from 1792
This 1491 edition of Pliny’s Natural History is packed with marginal notes from several generations of readers: https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2018/01/19/dont-go-trouble-reading-indexing-note-taking-correction-making-plinys-1491-naturalis-historia/
@Bookworm @Mithrandir @Randal'Thor I think it does mean may/might but the only source I've found is this and it doesn't have a citation (it does mention Jude the Obscure though). All others define it as medicine abbreviated.
Upon its publication, Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles inspired much debate as to whether Tess should be perceived as an innocent young woman thrust too early into the cruel world of men or as a shameless, immoral woman who deserved everything she got. The author claimed to be surpr...
@Randal'Thor "Snow glass apples" and "Murder mysteries"
Meanwhile, at the same meeting, a friend told how after enjoying the Cyberiad he tried to read more of Lem. But he fell into the stupid trap of reading the most popular book, Solaris. He hated it. So I suggested him to read the Pirx Pilot stories instead.
Only problem is that he normally lives in the U.S., although often visits his family here of course, so it's slightly more difficult for him to get that book. He'll manage though.
I recently saw an episode of the Hercule Pariot series where he was portrayed as religious.
I have recently read the book the episode was based on and there is nothing about religion in the book.
In all the other Pariot books I have read (and I've read most of them) I don't remember any specifi...
Lassalle fragt Herbert nach Sonja. Die Szene ein Salon is a three-act play by the German author Christoph Hein. The play was first performed in 1980 in East Germany and criticizes Marxism. In the 1860s, Ferdinand Lasalle founded the first German labour party (one of the first socialist parties in...
It would be nice if the question could get a better answer rather than one which just quotes two less-than-reliable sources and which doesn't really dive into the why or how of the question.
This question is best answered using a technique called close reading. So unfortunately, if you're just looking for an answer about the poem "Naming of Parts", you're going to have to read about close reading first. But since close reading is a useful and important concept that explains so much a...
Easy enough to do some research on the history of the term, and then link to my answer.
I just learned that Ursula K. Le Guin has died. Her words are always with us. Some of them are written on my soul. I miss her as a glorious funny prickly person, & I miss her as the deepest and smartest of the writers, too. Still honoured I got to do this: https://vimeo.com/112654091
Author challenge: Ursula le Guin
To commemorate the long life and recent death of this incredibly imaginative and productive writer, one of the giants of 20th-century speculative fiction, I suggest a topic challenge for questions about her and her works. (We've only had two so far, so although s...
As for who runs it... mostly @Shokhet and me, but anyone can post via this SE chatroom. Shokhet, I, and Zyerah (and technically all people with access to the mod room) have access to the credentials
I feel like she was the last of the great 'classic' SFF authors.
Asimov, Clarke, Dick, Heinlein, Tolkien, Lewis, Vance ... all gone years or decades ago.
Gene Wolfe is still around, I suppose.
Hmm. Should I edit the title of this meta post? It was accurate at the time of posting, but I can see that title now causing a lot of "whoa, WTF" reactions before people click through and see my comment.