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I'm trying to recall the title of a science fiction book I read yrs ago. This young man was frozen (while alive or not I can't recall) and he is thawed in the distant future because he is the son of a man who discovered a process that extends life, but the person ages and the people of the future think he may know how they may change it (the procedure) so that they are made young again. It was something his father was working on in the distant past. I read the book way back in the late 70's or early 80's.
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07-28-2018, 03:44 PM | #1024 |
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I'm looking for a mystery series set in New York state during the 1920's or 1930's featuring a brother and sister who inherited the use of a mansion on the condition that they worked to support themselves,. I read these 10-15 years ago in DTB. Probably would be considered cozy mysteries. Thanks for any suggestions.
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Maybe? Anything Goes by Jill Churchill https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/....Anything_Goes |
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Okay, here's my nagging memory. Read it in a library anthology, probably one of the annual bests of...
Short SF story, by Poul Anderson, I think. Might be Farmer. A man walking down a city street meets a woman, both are amazed and delighted to discover they are telepaths. Minds touch, thrilled to know they aren't alone, discovering all the great things about each other, followed by the secret, hidden, not so nice things, the insecurities, petty moves, jealousies, hates... Disgusted, they break away swearing to forever avoid each other. The whole encounter over in an instant. Help? |
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"Having an education does not mean you know everything,it means you know where to look for what you want."
That sentence has been used since at least the 70's, when I was in college. Probably before that, too. I'm not sure you could find an actual attribution, of who said it first. Now, finding a recent book that uses that sentence ... hmmm. |
09-21-2018, 10:52 PM | #1030 |
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When I was in law school back in the mid 1960s I was told that lawyers don't know the law, they know where to find and and how to read it.
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09-21-2018, 11:19 PM | #1031 |
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I suspect its one of those universal axioms.
I recall my one of my teachers, Mr Kneller, telling me something similar ~60 years ago. His version went something like: "Don't expect us to teach you everything, just make sure we tell you how to discover everything." I would have been about 10. He is the only teacher I can recall from primary school. He was deadly with with a blackboard duster. BR |
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I'm trying to recall the name of an espionage novel that I read about forty years ago. I think the author was British. The protagonist was drawn as a Philby-Burgess-Maclean character. Only at the very end of the book is it revealed that he is actually a defector to the west, now facing the dreariness of official entertainment ( a Minister of Fisheries banquet ) in wintertime Ottawa.
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10-24-2018, 07:56 AM | #1034 |
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D.O.N. Bradman
I hope this is the right place to ask,, please forgive me if I've erred:
Decades ago, I read a crime mystery novel set (and almost certainly written in) Australia. Its protagonist was named as above "D.O.N. Bradman". The core conceit was mildly amusing to me at the time - someone who hates cricket, but was given initials that spell out the name of the cricketing legend. I would love to re-read it and see if my initial reaction (an agreeable timepass) is confirmed after the passage of so many years, but it's impossible to Google with only that name, because EVERY result is about The Don, not "D.O.N" (putting that in quotes does not help refine the search results, sadly). I'm stumped - can anyone here bowl me over with an accurate delivery of the answer? |
01-04-2019, 07:34 PM | #1035 |
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A different kind of "name that book"
I'm not trying to remember something I read before, I'm looking for a historical answer. And neither Google nor Quora have been any help. Here goes:
What was the first (science?) fictional story to suppose that a criminal could be identified, captured, and/or convicted using DNA evidence? |
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