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Monthly Archives: July 2008

“…there’s something inside, but whatever it is, it isn’t liquor…”

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Over a month ago, this story surfaced about the reprinting of an early science fiction novella, which previously only existed in two volumes in two different libraries. The Great Romance, written by an anonymous author using the pseudonym “The Inhabitant”, is thought to be the earliest known book to describe space exploration in terms of [...]

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“I know every book of mine by its smell…”

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

There’s an entertaining meme going around that was promulgated by Idoaltor, which has to do with listing your favourite albums for every year you’ve been alive. It seems natural to me to apply this concept to books. So natural in fact that I’m sure it’s already been done somewhere in the postmodern stew that is [...]

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“Summer has set in with its usual severity”

Thursday, July 3, 2008

I’ve started and deleted this post three times now. Summer has finally descended on my hometown of Ottawa in the form of a miasma of heat and humidity that has resulted in what seems like forty days and forty nights of mist, drizzle, rain, hail, thunder and lightning. I feel like I’ve been startled awake [...]

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