Essays at Troynovant:
assorted assertions
& diverse diversions;
listed by Title
About our structure — at Troynovant a piece is a
book review or
story review, a
film review or
reel review,
if largely about a particular title; while a nod or counterblast or harumph or chuckle in reaction to a notable article or other published curiosity is a
comment; a
memoir is a firsthand reminiscence;
a compilation gathers illuminating quotations;
otherwise generally an essay.
Some essays assume that you've read the books discussed therein. Enjoy!
An Obituary, with an Aside on Buck Rogers |
DL Franson |
| Augustus Mandrell series (the Commissions) Frank McAuliffe |
RW Franson |
| Berlese Pyramid, The Oppression Points Downward |
RW Franson |
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Bicycles & Guns CDC's Public Safety Double Standard |
S Farrell |
| Big Public Is Watching You Transparency versus Security |
RW Franson |
| Bill of Intellectual Rights, The | W McElroy |
| Book Packagers' Dos and Don'ts A suggested checklist for Editors, Publishers, & Publicists |
RW Franson |
| Bookstore Questions and Answers | DG Wills |
| Campaigning in the World of Atlas Shrugged | |
| Chivalry on the Wing Medieval Falconry |
S Farrell |
| Confined Choices Door, Corridor, & Maze Stories |
RW Franson |
| Consent versus Chastity in Sexual Ethics | WH Stoddard |
| Constitution of the United States | WH Stoddard |
| Contra Dust-Jackets A Fetish of Protectionism |
RW Franson |
| Court Will Begin at Half-Way Terce Keeping Time in High Medieval Europe |
A Farrell |
| Dance Cards Dating Ahead at a Ball |
RW Franson |
| Dancing Socially at a Formal Ball | RW Franson |
| Demigoddess of the Mind James H. Schmitz's heroine Telzey Amberdon |
RW Franson |
| Did I Ever Tell You ...? | S Farrell |
| Do You Wish to Read My Mind? Mind Encryption is Here! |
C Benninghoff |
| 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 |
| Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series Fritz Leiber |
RW Franson |
| Federation of the Hub, The Self-Maintaining Science Fiction Universe |
JH Schmitz |
| Fortress Hoover and the Vigilantes Who Will Wake the Watched? |
RW Franson |
| Freddy the Pig series Walter R. Brooks |
RW Franson |
| Free-Soil Movement, The | W McElroy |
| Freedom of Speech | HD Thoreau |
| Future History series Robert A. Heinlein |
RW Franson |
| Galadriel and Ayesha | WH Stoddard |
| Heinlein Story and Novel Collections | RW Franson |
| Heinlein's Missed Bestsellers | RW Franson |
| Horatius at Khazad-dum | WH Stoddard |
| If Ever You Wanted One Thing Twice Zarathustra as Blues Singer |
RW Franson |
| I'll Grind His Bones to Make My Bread An Unscientific Enquiry into a Failed Experiment in Quasi-Cannibalism |
JM Franson |
| Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte series Arthur W. Upfield |
RW Franson |
| Is It Time to Establish a British Libertarian Party? | W McElroy |
| It's Elementary Lewis Little's Theory of Elementary Waves: A New Explanation of Fundamental Physics |
DM Sandin |
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 |
Discover The Society for Creative Anachronism |
S Farrell |
| Looking Through a Paradigm Darkly Was Dominque's rape in The Fountainhead actually rape? Why ... or why not? |
W McElroy |
| Microwaves, Lasers & Glue The Non-Lethal Weapons Update |
S Farrell |
| Model T Ford 1908-1927 |
WR Franson |
| Move the Stones of Rome to Rise Hearing Mark Antony |
RW Franson |
| Null-A series A. E. van Vogt |
RW Franson |
| Other Minds The Anti-Skeptical Position |
WH Stoddard |
| Participatory Fiction | WH Stoddard |
| Perfect Servants | WH Stoddard |
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Postage-Stamp Countries |
RW Franson |
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Reviewing versus Bookselling |
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 |
| Self-Published Authors in the Printed-Paper Era |
RW Franson |
| Simbelmyne Mortality and Memory in Middle-Earth |
WH Stoddard |
| Sing, Earthly Muse Music in Ayn Rand's Aesthetics |
WH Stoddard |
| Sons of the Pioneers Music on Your Desktop |
RW Franson |
| Streamlining | WR Franson |
| Structural Aspects of Atlas Shrugged | LH Hunt |
| Telzey Amberdon series James H. Schmitz |
RW Franson |
| Temeraire series Naomi Novik |
WH Stoddard |
| 1066: Changing the English Channel | S Farrell |
| There Ought Not to Be a Law | W McElroy |
| Thus Spoke Howard Roark The Transformation of Nietzschean Ideas in The Fountainhead |
LH Hunt |
| Tolkien and Chivalry | S Farrell |
| Watching Off-Center Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity |
RW Franson |
| Weapon Shop series A. E. van Vogt |
RW Franson |
| 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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