04-14-2019, 10:21 AM | #1051 |
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04-14-2019, 05:37 PM | #1052 |
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Well that would be a problem, I have checked my amazon browsing history and its blank.
I don't normally sign into my account except to place an order and I have the privacy settings ect set very high on my browser, so I can only conclude that combination prevented the site linking the things I've looked at with my account. Thanks again for the suggestion though. |
04-16-2019, 08:45 AM | #1053 | |
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04-16-2019, 01:42 PM | #1054 |
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Thank you for the suggestion DrNefario, unfortunately The Children of Time is not the book I was looking.
Hopefully it might give me a starting point to look for similar books. |
05-07-2019, 01:12 AM | #1055 |
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Trying to find title\author
I read a book around 20 years ago, and have not been able to identify it so I can re-read it. Maybe someone here knows it - I have tried other places and no luck.
Third book in a trilogy set on a world with just islands - I believe the setting was referred to as the Archipelago. The part that haunts me is a "prophesy" referred to that goes something like: Circle's center at it's edge, Serpents head upon it's tail. Evil's heir in chains set free, Will chain the sun to break the link. The general plot is about a massive spiral fogbank consuming the islands and killing\sucking the life out of them - male lead is the prince of the islands, who lives in a castle in the eye of the fog, while the female lead is from a tiny island outside the edge of the spiral. I have been trying to identify this book for over 20 years - any ideas would be awesome. |
05-07-2019, 12:01 PM | #1056 |
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This sounds a lot like The Farthest Shore by Ursula LeGuin, book 3 of the Earthsea Cycle.
Over 20 years old, check (1972) Third book in a trilogy, check (books 4 and 5 were added much later than the original 3 books in 1990 and 2001.) World of islands referred to as the Archipelego, check. (Also called Earthsea.) "Something" consuming/sucking the life out of the islands/people from the edges and working toward the center, check. Prince from the center island, check. Female lead from island at the edge of the archipelego, well, that's book 2, The Tombs of Atuan, and book 4, Tehanu. I don't remember that prophecy at all. |
05-08-2019, 01:58 AM | #1057 |
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Thank you for the guess, but nope.
I *think* the author was male - the cover was on a black background. At one point, the female lead manacles(?) the male lead but magic-wise the chains are venemous snakes that bite into his wrists... |
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MG1GNPH/ Spetsnaz Scout Physical Training Manual If you search for "spetsnaz training manual" or similar you can see several options come up. Some have PDFs, etc. |
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05-19-2019, 09:21 AM | #1059 |
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Back between 1965-67, a teenage writer (17 years old?) had a science fiction novel published by Doubleday. The author chose a career in journalism. I remember it was selected in the Science Fiction Bookclub at that time (which is how I obtained a very fat Asimov trilogy).
Obviously, I can't remember the author or the title, but after 50-odd years, I would like to read it. Thanks! |
05-21-2019, 12:13 PM | #1060 |
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The ISFDB has a list of books published by the Science Fiction Bookclub.
http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/...SFBC_1960-1964 You should be able to see it without logging in. |
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I actually found that list after I posted. (Thank you, however.) Unfortunately, I may have been mistaken about that aspect of this book, since none of the titles listed is what I remember. So, I'm back at square one. |
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Answering my own post from this thread over a year ago...
I finally remembered, the short story was "Alien Earth" by Edmond Hamilton, copyright 1949 Quote:
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06-30-2019, 06:13 AM | #1064 |
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Does anybody know the original (or book) title of a serial by Carolyn Wells called "The Honeymoon Murder"?
I am preparing an ebook from the newspaper serial, but it is not listed in any Wells Biblio. It appears to have been written in the early or mid 1930s (there's a passing reference to the crash of 29, though not a specific one, and which appears to have occurred some three years or so ago. The nearest I can come up with is "The Clue of the Eyelash". There are two references to a 'flickering eyelash" in the story. It is a Fleming Stone case. The characters are Perilla Fairfax, who marries Corey Malden, a very wealthy southern gentleman from Richmond Virginia, several years her senior. He dies on their honeymoon, and not from natural causes, although the exact cause is mysterious. Other key characters are Bob Stone, Tony Gaskell, Madame Malden, and Malcolm Lovell. At 52,000 words, it was probably shortened up for serial publication. |
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Finally found it. "The Broken O", 1933
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