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At Troynovant we are more interested in excellent or distinctive work than the merely timely or fashionable. Quality is always in season, and often more topical and entertaining than currency or fashion admit. Thus, we aim to refer and amuse, rather than to announce and forget. We avoid spoiling surprises in reviews that recommend; other works take their chances.
Some books are reborn posthumously; for instance, Heinlein's Missed Bestsellers.
For an alternate sequence, see Book reviews by Author; below is by Title.
| Advertisement Touching a Holy War (Laurence Lampert edition) |
Francis Bacon | |
| Advice to Sarah Palin From the Know-It-Alls A Satirical Journey |
Nicole O. Coulter | RW Franson |
| Agent of Vega & Other Stories | James H. Schmitz | |
| A. Conan Doyle | RW Franson | |
| Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, The A Complete Catalog |
William Allin Storrer | RW Franson |
| Arizona | RW Franson | |
| Art of Fiction, The | RW Franson | |
| Asimov Laughs Again | Isaac Asimov | RW Franson |
| Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology |
Isaac Asimov | RW Franson |
| Augustus Mandrell series (the Commissions) |
Frank McAuliffe | RW Franson |
| Ayn Rand The Russian Radical |
Chris Matthew Sciabarra | LH Hunt |
| Basic Writings of Nietzsche (edited & translated by Walter Kaufmann) |
Friedrich Nietzsche | RW Franson |
| Best of James H. Schmitz, The | James H. Schmitz | RW Franson |
| Best of Rilke, The (translated by Walter Arndt) |
Rainer Maria Rilke | RW Franson |
| Between Planets | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Black Powder War | Naomi Novik | |
| Black Star Passes, The | John W. Campbell | R Grube |
| Bone Is Pointed, The | Arthur W. Upfield | RW Franson |
| Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution A Political Biography 1888-1938 |
Stephen F. Cohen | RW Franson |
| By Ships Alone Churchill and the Dardanelles |
Jeffrey D. Wallin | RW Franson |
| Call Him Dead (Three to Conquer) | ||
| Cards on the Table | Agatha Christie | RW Franson |
| Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book | Michael Barrier | RW Franson |
| Cat Among the Pigeons | Agatha Christie | RW Franson |
| Champagne for One | Rex Stout | RW Franson |
| Charles Fort Prophet of the Unexplained |
Damon Knight | |
| Civil War Day by Day, The An Almanac, 1861-1865 |
E. B. Long | RW Franson |
| Coming of Age in America | ||
| Commissar Vanishes, The The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia |
David King | RW Franson |
| Compendium of Common Knowledge, A 1558-1603 Elizabethan Commonplaces for Writers, Actors & Re-enactors |
Maggie Secara | JM Franson |
| Complete Far Side, The | Gary Larson | RW Franson |
| Complete Fawlty Towers, The (scripts) |
John Cleese & Connie Booth |
RW Franson |
| Complete Paratime, The | H. Beam Piper | |
| Complete Sherlock Holmes, The | A. Conan Doyle | |
| Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill |
Richard M. Langworth | RW Franson |
| Cook & Peary The Polar Controversy, Resolved |
Robert M. Bryce | RW Franson |
| Cosmic Computer, The (Junkyard Planet) |
H. Beam Piper | RW Franson |
| Crossroads of Time, The | Andre Norton | RW Franson |
| Crypto How Code Rebels Beat the Government — Saving Privacy in the Digital Age |
Steven Levy | RW Franson |
| Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson | WH Stoddard |
| Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up | Dave Barry | RW Franson |
| Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs | Dave Barry | RW Franson |
| Dead and Buried? The Horrible History of Bodysnatching |
Norman Adams | JM Franson |
| Dead Man's Brother, The | Roger Zelazny | RW Franson |
| Death of a Doxy | Rex Stout | RW Franson |
| Death of a Swagman | Arthur W. Upfield | RW Franson |
| Death on the Nile | Agatha Christie | RW Franson |
| Death-Watch | John Dickson Carr | RW Franson |
| Deepness in the Sky, A | Vernor Vinge | WH Stoddard |
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Demon Breed, The (The Tuvela) |
James H. Schmitz | |
| Devil's Steps, The | Arthur W. Upfield | |
| Disappearing Act | Margaret Ball | RW Franson |
| Discovery of a World in the Moone, The or, A Discourse Tending to Prove that 'tis probable there may be another habitable World in that Planet |
John Wilkins | RW Franson |
| Doomed Oasis, The | Hammond Innes | RW Franson |
| Door into Summer, The | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| Dumb Witness (Poirot Loses a Client) |
Agatha Christie | RW Franson |
| Earl of Louisiana, The | A. J. Liebling | RW Franson |
| East Europe Reads Nietzsche | Alice Freifeld, Peter Bergmann |
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| Eats, Shoots & Leaves The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation |
Lynne Truss | A Cox |
| Empire of Isher, The | A. E. van Vogt | RW Franson |
| Encounter Program | Robert Enstrom | RW Franson |
| Entities: Selected Novels | ||
| Escapade | Walter Satterthwait | RW Franson |
| Essential Hal Clement, The - Volume 1 Trio for Slide Rule and Typewriter |
Hal Clement | RW Franson |
| Explorers of the Infinite Shapers of Science Fiction |
Sam Moskowitz | RW Franson |
| Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series | Fritz Leiber | RW Franson |
| Fallen Man, The | Tony Hillerman | RW Franson |
| Famous Druids, The A survey of three centuries of English literature on the Druids |
A. L. Owen | RW Franson |
| Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein, The [combining collections — Waldo & Magic, Inc. The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag] |
Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Far Side, The Complete | Gary Larson | RW Franson |
| Farnham's Freehold | Robert A. Heinlein | WH Stoddard |
| Farthing | Jo Walton | |
| Fawlty Towers, The Complete (scripts) |
John Cleese & Connie Booth |
RW Franson |
| Fawlty Towers: Fully Booked | Morris Bright & Robert Ross |
RW Franson |
| Gordon R. Dickson | ||
| Finding Serenity Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly |
Jane Espenson | RW Franson |
| Fire Came By, The [Tunguska, Siberia 1908] |
John Baxter & Thomas Atkins |
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First Contacts: Short Stories |
Murray Leinster | |
| Five Days in London, May 1940 | John Lukacs | RW Franson |
| For Murder I Charge More (Augustus Mandrell series) |
Frank McAuliffe | RW Franson |
| For Us, the Living | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| For Us, the Living | Robert A. Heinlein | WH Stoddard |
| Forgotten Planet, The | Murray Leinster | |
| Freddy the Pig series | Walter R. Brooks | |
| Freddy and the Bean Home News | Walter R. Brooks | |
| Freddy and the Ignormus | Walter R. Brooks | RW Franson |
| Freddy the Cowboy | Walter R. Brooks | RW Franson |
| Freddy the Politician | Walter R. Brooks | |
| Freddy's Cousin Weedly | Walter R. Brooks | |
| Frontiers and Wars | Winston S. Churchill | |
| Full Circle A Homecoming to Free Poland |
Radek Sikorski | RW Franson |
| Future History series | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
[An inn in Eastcheap, London.]
Falstaff (to Prince Harry and others):
[Calling] Hostess, clap to the doors. — Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be merry, shall we have a play extempore?
William Shakespeare
1 Henry IV, 2.5.254-257
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