Essays at Troynovant;
listed by Title

Essayer's instruments  
About our casual categories — review or essay, and so on — at Troynovant a piece is a review if largely about a particular work; while a counterblast or harumph or chuckle in reaction to an unfortunate article or other published curiosity is a comment; a memoir is a firsthand reminiscence; otherwise generally an essay. Some essays assume that you've read the books discussed therein. Enjoy!
  
    
Amazing Stories, 1926-1995:
  An Obituary, with an Aside on Buck Rogers		 DL Franson
Berlese Pyramid, The:
  Oppression Points Downward		 RW Franson

Bicycles & Guns:
  CDC’s Public Safety Double Standard

 S Farrell
Bill of Intellectual Rights, The W McElroy
Bookstore Questions and Answers DG Wills
Campaigning in the World of Atlas Shrugged WH Stoddard
Confined Choices:
  Door, Corridor, & Maze Stories		 RW Franson
Consent versus Chastity in Sexual Ethics WH Stoddard
Demigoddess of the Mind:
  James H. Schmitz's heroine
  Telzey Amberdon		 RW Franson
Did I Ever Tell You ...? S Farrell
Eclectic Antiques:
  A Commercial Definition, For Fun		 RW Franson
Emergency Reading;
  or, Never Without a Book		 RW Franson
Existence and Consciousness:
  Questions in Cultural History		 WH Stoddard
Fortress Hoover and the Vigilantes RW Franson
Free-Soil Movement, The W McElroy
Freedom of Speech HD Thoreau
Galadriel and Ayesha WH Stoddard
Heinlein Story and Novel Collections RW Franson
Heinlein's Missed Bestsellers RW Franson
Horatius at Khazad-dum WH Stoddard
I'll Grind His Bones to Make My Bread:
  An Unscientific Enquiry into a Failed Experiment
  in Quasi-Cannibalism		 JM Franson
Jane Austen in the South Seas;
  or, Centrifugal v. Centripetal Criticism		 RW Franson
Justice Is an Essay Question S Farrell
Law and Institutions in the Shire WH Stoddard
Life and Value in Ayn Rand's Ethics WH Stoddard
Living in the Current Middle Ages:
  Discover The Society for Creative Anachronism		 S Farrell

Microwaves, Lasers & Glue:
  The Non-Lethal Weapons Update

 S Farrell
Other Minds:
  The Anti-Skeptical Position		 WH Stoddard
Perfect Servants WH Stoddard

Postage-Stamp Countries:
  .cc - .to - .tv - .ws etc

 RW Franson
Sarah Churchill and The Rules for Dating RW Franson

Schmitz's ComWeb:
  Early SF Desktop Computers & Internet

 RW Franson
Seeking Chivalry and Finding Serenity S Farrell
Simbelmyne:
  Mortality and Memory in Middle-Earth		 WH Stoddard
Sons of the Pioneers:
  Music on Your Desktop		 RW Franson
1066: Changing the English Channel S Farrell
There Ought Not to Be a Law W McElroy
Tolkien and Chivalry S Farrell
What Is America? WH Stoddard
What’s With These Apologies?
  Teaching Firearms as Useful Tools		 KA Graham

Where is Tom Swift, Now that We Need Him?

 R Grube
Win At All Costs S Farrell
Zenith and Decline:
  The Hanseatic League and the Teutonic Order
  in the Late 14th and Early 15th Centuries		 JM Franson
  

[King Lear's palace at Troynovant.]

Gloucester:

Give me the letter, sir.

Edmund:

I shall offend, either to detain or give it. The contents, as in part I understand them, are to blame.

Gloucester:

Let's see, let's see.

Edmund:

I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue.

William Shakespeare
King Lear, 1.2.39-44
 
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