Livelong at Troynovant:
elixirs of longevity & immortality,
living with & without death;
listed by Title
I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters in three segments, all at once, though they were to be run on three separate days.
In between two of the segments, she asked me how many books I had written, and I told her. She said, "Don't you ever want to do anything but write?"
"No", I said.
"Don't you want to go hunting? Fishing? Dancing? Hiking?"
And I said, "No! No! No! and No!"
She said, "But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?"
I said, "Type faster."
Isaac Asimov
Asimov Laughs Again (1992)
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Big Trouble in Little China |
John Carpenter / Ken Russell |
RW Franson |
Bubba Ho-Tep |
Coscarelli / Campbell |
RW Franson |
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Dead and Buried?
The Horrible History of Bodysnatching |
Norman Adams |
JM Franson |
Demon Breed, The (The Tuvela) |
James H. Schmitz |
RW Franson |
Descent of the Child, The
Human Evolution from a New Perspective |
Elaine Morgan |
RW Franson |
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Encounter Program |
Robert Enstrom |
RW Franson |
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Forbidden City, The |
Keith Laumer |
RW Franson |
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Galadriel and Ayesha |
WH Stoddard |
Gnarly Man, The |
L. Sprague de Camp |
RW Franson |
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Illusionists, The (Space Fear) |
James H. Schmitz |
RW Franson |
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Jack of Shadows |
Roger Zelazny |
RW Franson |
Joyleg |
Avram Davidson
& Ward Moore |
RW Franson |
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Khaled
A Tale of Arabia |
F. Marion Crawford |
RW Franson |
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Last Enemy |
H. Beam Piper |
RW Franson |
Lessons from Mystery Stories
or, the Long-Lived Marplot |
RW Franson |
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Martian Odyssey, A |
Stanley G. Weinbaum |
RW Franson |
Midsummer Century |
James Blish |
RW Franson |
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Null-A series |
A. E. van Vogt |
RW Franson |
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On Blake's 'The Tyger' |
A Karra |
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Changing the Heart of a Nation |
Ray Comfort |
SE Jordan |
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Remake |
Connie Willis |
RW Franson |
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Shadow of the Ship, The [1983 edition] |
Robert Wilfred Franson |
WH Stoddard |
Shadow of the Ship, The [Revised Edition] |
Robert Wilfred Franson |
RJ Ford |
Shadow of the Ship, The [Revised Edition] |
Robert Wilfred Franson |
DM Sandin |
Shadow of the Ship, The [Revised Edition] |
Robert Wilfred Franson |
G Stolyarov II |
Shadow Over Innsmouth, The |
H. P. Lovecraft |
RW Franson |
Simbelmyne
Mortality and Memory in Middle-Earth |
WH Stoddard |
Sphinx Daybreak |
Robert Wilfred Franson |
RJ Ford |
Sphinx Daybreak |
Robert Wilfred Franson |
D Ludwig |
Sphinx Daybreak |
Robert Wilfred Franson |
DM Sandin |
Stolyarov's Wager
An Atheist's Response to Pascal's Wager |
G. Stolyarov II |
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Tale of Two Clocks, A |
James H. Schmitz |
RW Franson |
Thieves' House |
Fritz Leiber |
RW Franson |
Titans' Daughter |
James Blish |
RW Franson |
To Arkham and the Stars |
Fritz Leiber |
RW Franson |
To Die in Italbar |
Roger Zelazny |
RW Franson |
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Walpurgisnacht |
Roger Zelazny |
RW Franson |
Weapon Shop series |
A. E. van Vogt |
RW Franson |
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[A street in Rome.]
Murellus (to the commoners}:
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
... Many a time and oft
Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,
To towers and windows, yea to chimney-tops,
Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
The livelong day with patient expectation ...
William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar, 1.1.34-40
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Interesting & controversial studies,
based solidly on statistical analysis,
of Americans' health & longevity
for certain lifestyle factors:
James E. Enstrom's
Scientific Integrity Institute
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Descent into Hades. — I too have been in the underworld, like Odysseus, and will often be there again; and I have not sacrificed only rams to be able to talk with the dead, but have not spared my own blood as well.
There have been four pairs who did not refuse themselves to me, the sacrificer: Epicurus and Montaigne, Goethe and Spinoza, Plato and Rousseau, Pascal and Schopenhauer. With these I have had to come to terms when I have wandered long alone, from them will I accept judgement, to them will I listen when in doing so they judge one another. Whatever I say, resolve, cogitate for myself and others: upon these eight I fix my eyes and see theirs fixed upon me. —
May the living forgive me if they sometimes appear to me as shades, so pale and ill-humoured, so restless and, alas! so lusting for life; whereas those others then seem to me so alive, as though now, after death, they could never again grow weary of life. Eternal liveliness, however, is what counts: what do "eternal life", or life at all, matter to us!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Assorted Opinions and Maxims, #408 (1879)
in Human, All Too Human
translated by R. J. Hollingdale
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Philosophy at Troynovant
nature of existence; history of ideas
Remembrance at Troynovant
memory, remembering, & fame
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Breathers at Troynovant
lifeforms & biologic processes:
wildlife & pets, evolution & ecology,
health, medicine, & disease
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