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Kevin Wolf posted QotD: The Oldest Book on the Shelf | May 24, 2008
What's the oldest book you own? Submitted by Lies. Of my many quaint and curious volumes, the rarest, most prized, and certainly oldest would probably be my original Arabic version of Al Azif by the "mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred. No, you can't borrow it.
Builder posted Strange Facts About Science Fiction | Apr 10, 2008
Strange Facts About Science Fiction Opinions vary about when the science fiction genre began. Writer Hugo Gernsback founded the first known science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926. But the ancients--remember what you learned in high school about the mythology of the ancient Greeks for...
cjkarr posted Providence trip: Day three | Mar 27, 2008
I spent most of my last full day in Providence at the special collections at the John Hay Library at Brown University: I continued to look through the Lovecraft papers and followed up on some threads in my research, including the Derleth/Greene conflict, George Wetzel's other work, and the...
