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| Model T Ford 1908-1927 [added link] |
WR Franson | |
| Essential Hal Clement, The - Volume 1 Trio for Slide Rule and Typewriter |
Hal Clementl | RW Franson |
| When is a Fish also a Sport? [added link] |
S Farrell | |
| Iceworld | Hal Clement | RW Franson |
| Brown Hawk Down Abilene, Texas |
JK Thorp | |
| Champagne for One | Rex Stout | RW Franson |
| How to Govern a Kingdom [added link] |
Suzie Garfield | RW Franson |
| Driving Past the Pentagon Washington, D.C. 9-11-2001 [added link] |
Jack Kelly | |
| Death of a Doxy | Rex Stout | RW Franson |
| Act Naturally | Beatles | RW Franson |
| Murder by the Book | Rex Stout | RW Franson |
| Do You Wish to Read My Mind? Mind Encryption is Here! |
C Benninghoff | |
An Episode of Frontier War [added links] |
Winston S. Churchill | RW Franson |
| Ayn Rand at Troynovant | ||
| Lincoln and the Tools of War | Robert V. Bruce | RW Franson |
| Freddy the Politician [updated link] |
Walter R. Brooks | RW Franson |
| Freddy's Cousin Weedly [updated link] |
Walter R. Brooks | RW Franson |
| If Ever You Wanted One Thing Twice Zarathustra as Blues Singer [added links] |
RW Franson | |
| Brick Moon, The | Edward Everett Hale | RW Franson |
| Rhetoric or Else persuasive speech, or — ? [added quotation] |
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| Vanishing Private, The (Donald Duck) | Disney / King | RW Franson |
| Donald's Ostrich (Donald Duck) | Disney / King | RW Franson |
| Bubba Ho-Tep | Coscarelli / Campbell | RW Franson |
| Jack of Eagles | James Blish | RW Franson |
| Is It Time to Establish a British Libertarian Party? | W McElroy | |
| Gun with Wings, The | Rex Stout | RW Franson |
| Troywards Troy traveling, To and Again [added quotation] |
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| Objectivist Newsletter, The 1962-1965 |
Ayn Rand & Nathaniel Branden |
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| Objectivist, The 1966-1971 |
Ayn Rand & Nathaniel Branden |
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| To the People of Sangamo County New Salem, Illinois: 9 March 1832 |
Abraham Lincoln | RW Franson |
| Self-Published Authors in the Printed-Paper Era |
RW Franson | |
| J.R.R. Tolkien at Troynovant [added quotation] |
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| Walpurgisnacht | Roger Zelazny | RW Franson |
| Mix Pictures of the Mind the light of evening [added quotation] |
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| Earl of Louisiana, The | A. J. Liebling | RW Franson |
| Speaking through Texts a local habitation and a name [added quotation] |
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| General Contents [added Facebook link (for RWF)] |
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| Fortress Hoover and the Vigilantes Who Will Wake the Watched? [added links] |
RW Franson | |
| Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up | Dave Barry | RW Franson |
| Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs | Dave Barry | RW Franson |
| Death on the Nile | Agatha Christie | RW Franson |
| W.S.C. - A Cartoon Biography | Fred Urquhart | RW Franson |
| Our Famous Guest Mark Twain in Vienna [updated link] |
Carl Dolmetsch | BA Lopez |
| Impending Crisis, The 1848 - 1861 |
David M. Potter | RW Franson |
| Some Buried Caesar | Rex Stout | RW Franson |
| Anti-Recipes for Coffee Germany [added paragraph, illustration] |
RW Franson | |
| Sweet Science, The Boxing and Boxiana — A Ringside View |
A. J. Liebling | RW Franson |
| I Was Ejected from a Spaceship San Diego 1958 [added illustration] |
WR Franson | |
| Explorers of the Infinite Shapers of Science Fiction |
Sam Moskowitz | RW Franson |
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Guise at Troynovant |
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Poetry at Troynovant |
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| Queen's Gambit, The [added link] |
Walter Tevis | RW Franson |
| Robert A. Heinlein at Troynovant [added link; updated link] |
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| Escapade | Walter Satterthwait | RW Franson |
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Reviewing versus Bookselling |
RW Franson | |
| Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The | James Thurber | RW Franson |
| Theory of Elementary Waves, The A New Explanation of Fundamental Physics |
Lewis E. Little | DM Sandin |
| Hercule Poirot's Early Cases | Agatha Christie | JM Franson |
| Last of the Winnebagos, The [added bibliographic note] |
Connie Willis | RW Franson |
| Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, The | Robert A. Heinlein | WH Stoddard |
| Innocents Abroad, The [added link] |
Mark Twain | RW Franson |
| Topless in Ilium | Wolcott Gibbs | RW Franson |
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Gaming at Troynovant |
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| Black Orchids | Rex Stout | JM Franson |
| Cordially Invited to Meet Death | Rex Stout | JM Franson |
| Dead and Buried? The Horrible History of Bodysnatching |
Norman Adams | JM Franson |
| Statistics and Environmentalists The Case of Bjorn Lomborg [added link] |
RW Franson | |
| Quincunx of Time, The | James Blish | RW Franson |
| One City [Edinburgh stories] | OneCity Trust | JM Franson |
| Romance of American Communism, The | Vivian Gornick | RW Franson |
| Confined Choices Door, Corridor, & Maze Stories [added link] |
RW Franson | |
| Civil War Day by Day, The | E. B. Long | RW Franson |
| Nobody Saw the Ship | Murray Leinster | RW Franson |
| Writings and Drawings | James Thurber | RW Franson |
| Disclaimers and Dedications enter as a small Prologue, disarmingly |
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| Orphans of Chaos [added link] |
John C. Wright | WH Stoddard |
| Book Packagers' Dos and Don'ts A suggested checklist for Editors, Publishers, & Publicists |
RW Franson | |
| Writings | George Washington | RW Franson |
| Grey Seas Under, The | Farley Mowat | RW Franson |
| Trapped in the Sea of Stars | Fritz Leiber | RW Franson |
| Is Atlas Shrugging? Boston: 19 April 1964 |
Ayn Rand | RW Franson |
| Zenith and Decline The Hanseatic League and the Teutonic Order in the Late 14th and Early 15th Centuries [updated link] |
JM Franson | |
| Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning | Fleischer / Berlin | RW Franson |
| Tale of Two Clocks, A [added paragraph, link] |
James H. Schmitz | RW Franson |
| Telzey Amberdon (collection) [added paragraph, link] |
James H. Schmitz | RW Franson |
| Postage-Stamp Countries .cc - .to - .tv - .ws etc [updated links, added links] |
RW Franson | |
| Fluttering Hearts | Parrott / Chase | RW Franson |
| Shells and Shooting | Willy Ley | RW Franson |
| Thus Spoke Howard Roark The Transformation of Nietzschean Ideas in The Fountainhead |
LH Hunt | |
| Village School | Miss Reed (Dora Saint) |
JM Franson |
| Lady on a Train | David / Durbin | RW Franson |
| Atlas Shrugged as Science Fiction Two Reviews in Astounding, 1958 |
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| Dodkin's Job | Jack Vance | RW Franson |
| Pleasures of Afternoon Tea, The | Angela Hynes | JM Franson |
| Campaigning in the World of Atlas Shrugged [added illustration] |
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| Maltese Falcon, The (film) | Huston / Bogart | RW Franson |
| Famous Druids, The A survey of three centuries of English literature on the Druids |
A. L. Owen | RW Franson |
| Lovecraft as Astronomer [added observatory link] |
RW Franson | |
| Homer's Contest [added bibliographic note] |
Friedrich Nietzsche | RW Franson |
| Hollow, The (Murder After Hours) |
Agatha Christie | RW Franson |
| Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series | Fritz Leiber | RW Franson |
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LitCrit at Troynovant |
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| Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology |
Isaac Asimov | RW Franson |
| Space-Time for Springers | Fritz Leiber | WH Stoddard |
| Mysterious Affair at Styles, The | Agatha Christie | RW Franson |
| Siege of Vienna, The [updated link] |
John Stoye | RW Franson |
| Off Armageddon Reef | David Weber | WH Stoddard |
| Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog | Whedon / Harris | RW Franson |
| Cat Among the Pigeons | Agatha Christie | RW Franson |
| Between Planets [added reprint note & link] |
Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Bookstore Questions and Answers [added link] |
DG Wills | |
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Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
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Time at Troynovant |
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| Three Sailors' Gambit, The | Lord Dunsany | RW Franson |
| Murder Is Announced, A | Agatha Christie | RW Franson |
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Detection at Troynovant |
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| Five Days in London, May 1940 [added illustration] |
John Lukacs | RW Franson |
| Pan's Labyrinth (El labertino del fauno) |
del Toro / Baquero | WH Stoddard |
| Guns Aren't Psychic Reporters & Guns [added link] |
S Farrell | |
| Gulf [added reference] |
Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Gunpowder — Alchemy, Bombards & Pyrotechnics The History of the Explosive that Changed the World [added illustration] |
Jack Kelly | S Farrell |
| Study in Scarlet, A (Sherlock Holmes) | Marin / Owen | RW Franson, JM Franson |
| Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen [separated review, updated link, added illustration] |
H. Beam Piper | RW Franson |
| Liberty for Women Freedom and Feminism in the Twenty-first Century [updated link] |
Wendy McElroy | RW Franson |
| Door into Summer, The | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| Titles for the Common Words Shakespearean Riches in a Little Room |
RW Franson | |
| Crossroads of Time, The [added illustration] |
Andre Norton | RW Franson |
| Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote | Jorge Luis Borges | RW Franson |
| Big Trouble in Little China | Carpenter / Russell | RW Franson |
| Born in a Lighthouse Escanaba, Michigan 1888 [added photo] |
ER Franson | |
| Email list keep abreast of recent updates [added link] |
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| Gnarly Man, The | L. Sprague de Camp | RW Franson |
| Cards on the Table | Agatha Christie | RW Franson |
| Way Out West [updated link] |
Laurel and Hardy | RW Franson |
| Skeptical Environmentalist, The Measuring the Real State of the World [added link] |
Bjorn Lomborg | WH Stoddard |
| Venus Plus X [added paragraphs] |
Theodore Sturgeon | RW Franson |
| What Dead Men Tell [updated link] |
Theodore Sturgeon | RW Franson |
| Sign of Four, The (Sherlock Holmes) | Cutts / Wontner | JM Franson |
| Winston S. Churchill at Troynovant [added illustration] |
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| On the Slopes of Vesuvius [updated link; added illustration] |
Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Ghost Goes West, The | Clair / Donat | RW Franson |
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WordPoints at Troynovant |
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| Structural Aspects of Atlas Shrugged | LH Hunt | |
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German High Command at War, The |
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| Eugene Post Office, The Eugene, Oregon 1949-1956 [added illustration] |
WR Franson | |
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Gaming at Troynovant |
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| Chessplayers, The | Charles L. Harness | RW Franson |
| Music Box, The [added illustration] |
Laurel and Hardy | RW Franson |
| Ayn Rand The Russian Radical |
Chris Matthew Sciabarra | LH Hunt |
| Hillerman Country A Journey through the Southwest |
Tony Hillerman & Barney Hillerman |
RW Franson |
| Fallen Man, The | Tony Hillerman | RW Franson |
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ComWeb at Troynovant |
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| In Search of Wonder Essays on Modern Science Fiction [added paragraph, various text points] |
Damon Knight | RW Franson |
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Philosophy at Troynovant |
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| Emergency Reading or, Never Without a Book [added illustrations] |
RW Franson | |
| Homo Saps [added illustration] |
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Utopias at Troynovant |
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Aerospace at Troynovant |
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Solar at Troynovant |
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| General, The [added illustration] |
Buster Keaton | RW Franson |
| Motive in Shadow | Lesley Egan | |
| Postcard from Occupied Germany Wiesbaden-Biebrich, September 1945 |
DL Franson | |
| Contra Dust-Jackets A Fetish of Protectionism |
RW Franson | |
| Alcohol Plant Springfield, Oregon 1947 [added paragraph, photo] |
WR Franson | |
| Federation of the Hub, The Self-Maintaining Science Fiction Universe |
JH Schmitz | |
| Big Public Is Watching You Transparency versus Security |
RW Franson | |
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Desert at Troynovant |
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| Where the Red Fern Grows [added subtitles, updated raccoon link] |
Wilson Rawls | RW Franson |
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Livelong at Troynovant |
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| Romeo and Juliet [added note] |
RW Franson | |
| Labors of Hercules, The [added maps link] |
Agatha Christie | RW Franson |
| Johann Strauss, Father and Son A Century of Light Music [added subtitles, minor text points] |
H. E. Jacob | |
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New Solar System, The |
J. Kelly Beatty, Carolyn Collins Petersen & Andrew Chaikin |
RW Franson |
| Lunchtime on Wall Street Love, Death, Food and Questions of Dress |
K Resta | |
| Firefly dvd series [added subtitles, minor text points] |
Joss Whedon | RW Franson, DH Franson |
| Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book [added subtitles, minor text points] |
Michael Barrier | RW Franson |
| Golden Cultivators [added link] |
RW Franson | |
| Fortress Hoover and the Vigilantes Who Will Wake the Watched? [added subtitles, reference] |
RW Franson | |
| Watching Off-Center Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity [added paragraph] |
RW Franson | |
| Secret of the League, The [added subtitles, link] |
Ernest Bramah | RW Franson |
| Stealing Elections How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy [added historical links] |
John Fund | RW Franson |
| Freddy the Cowboy | Walter R. Brooks | RW Franson |
| Court Will Begin at Half-Way Terce Keeping Time in High Medieval Europe |
A Farrell | |
| Frontiers and Wars | Winston S. Churchill | |
| Olympic Champ, The (Goofy) | Disney / Kinney | RW Franson |
| Full Circle A Homecoming to Free Poland [added links] |
Radek Sikorski | RW Franson |
| Mirror of Myth, The Classical Themes & Variations |
Jasper Griffin | RW Franson |
| Dressed to Kill (Sherlock Holmes) | Neill / Rathbone | RW Franson |
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Demon Breed, The (The Tuvela) |
James H. Schmitz | |
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Warfare at Troynovant |
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| Secrets of the Great Pyramid | Peter Tompkins | |
| Strata at Troynovant an alternate Contents via StrataLinking [added Gaming] |
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| Songs of Love and Grief [added link] |
Heinrich Heine | RW Franson |
| Participatory Fiction | ||
| Game of Rat and Dragon, The | Cordwainer Smith | RW Franson |
Looking Through a Paradigm Darkly |
W McElroy | |
| Compendium of Common Knowledge, A 1558-1603 Elizabethan Commonplaces for Writers, Actors & Re-enactors |
Maggie Secara | JM Franson |
| Sadness of the Executioner, The | Fritz Leiber | RW Franson |
| Die Hard [added note] |
McTiernan / Willis | RW Franson |
| Personae at Troynovant an alternate Contents via emanant Olympians [added Shakespeare] |
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| No, No, Not Rogov! | Cordwainer Smith | RW Franson |
| Heinlein's Missed Bestsellers [added section] |
RW Franson | |
| Sing, Earthly Muse Music in Ayn Rand's Aesthetics |
WH Stoddard | |
| Fire Came By, The [Tunguska, Siberia 1908] [added note] |
John Baxter & Thomas Atkins |
RW Franson |
| GURPS Fantasy | ||
| Ninotchka | Lubitsch / Garbo | RW Franson |
| You Can't Say That The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws |
David E. Bernstein | RW Franson |
| Finding Serenity [added links] |
Jane Espenson | RW Franson |
| Agent of Vega & Other Stories [added link] |
James H. Schmitz | |
| Fatal Glass of Beer, The | W. C. Fields | RW Franson |
| Streamlining | WR Franson | |
[Troy.]
Alexander (Cressida's servant):
The noise goes this: there is among the Greeks
A lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector;
They call him Ajax.Cressida:
Good, and what of him? ...
Alexander:
This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant — a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crushed into folly, his folly farced with discretion. There is no man hath a virtue that he hath not a glimpse of, nor any man an attaint but he carries some stain of it. ...
William Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida, 1.2.12-23
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