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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow (compiled and edited by Ray Bradbury and published in 1952) boasts a wide array of speculative fiction – 26 stories in all – from the late 30s, 40s, and the…
Listened to the audio of Variable Star by Robert A Heinlein and Spider Robinson, read by Robinson himself. Fantastic narration. He wrote this novel based on an 8 page outline (and a bunch of character…
Another Advent hymn, though it also serves as a Christmas hymn, is "Of the Father's Love Begotten." This was written by a Spanish lawyer-turned-poet in about 410, Aurelius Clemens Prudentius. It's a d…
For this Third Sunday of Advent, I want to share the lyrics to the hymn, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. This beautiful piece entered English usage in 1851, translated from the Latin (Veni, veni Emma…
Tarzan Origins: The original Tarzan stories were serialized starting in October, 1912, in The All-Story Magazine. The completed novel was first published 1914. Here's my take...
I read The Children of Húrin by J. R. R. Tolkien (and edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien) back when it first came out in 2007. At that time, I'd posted a short review to my blog and Goodreads acc…
