A Journey Round My Skull: 21 December 2008

December 21, 2008

A look at the history of human-whale conflict

Journey to the Orient by Gérard de Nerval first US edition, book cover, 1972

Journey to the Orient by Gérard de Nerval
First US edition, New York University Press, 1972

I've been spending way too much time rooting around for books online. I can't vouch for all of these, but maybe you can.

This list comes from an Amazon customer review. Each bullet describes a story from an anthology of Australian science-fiction:

VR sex suit rpg game action AI autonomy.
Vegetable methuselah's Kal-Elesque odyssey, and brief Phoenix rising.
Researching anonymous fax.
An enhanced policeman gets entangled in a billionaire's bizarre Dr Moreau creations as art and save the child schemes.
A look at the history of human-whale conflict, interesting background to Greatwinter.
Starship reality tv first contact special episode.
Australia decides it has had enough of how it has been treated, and decides to slough off the rubbish it is coated with.
Blasted corpse is a memory problem.
Microchip's messianic murder complex.
Historical invention history work.
Long space exploration voyages and religion don't mix.
Escort is diversion from ecology horrors.
Time diving topology.
Author's spectral nazi confab.
Bomber's babe diversion causes nuclear truck turnaround.
Schizoid dream delving blind fighter breakthrough.
Buggered robot's Lagrangian manoeuvre.
Kleptochick's Melbourne.
Seduced by stiff with fangs.
Dimorphic dinodancers.
Terminal type's star turn.
AI Space Odyssey gets an extra.
Generation ship group dysfunction.
Suprise revival's stringent society shock.
Numerology nutcase.
Arty androids are revolution cover.
Psycholobot's a bit we
Pilot handling starflight stressful to the subconscious helps hunted mutant's sentient spacecraft.
Crash Jordan belched. First line. That sets the tone. A Flash Gordon spoof. Sixty years after being a 'planet-saving superhero' he has to attend a function with his now equally-aged and no longer super-babe wife, and to cap it off, his arch-enemy Thing the Fiendish is being release.