Taken word for word from the sworn testimony of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky and arranged like free verse on the page, here is an unexpected collection of found poetry. Filled with the pleasures of language, surprising juxtapositions, and moments of truth, humor, tenderness and insight, Poetry Under Oath reveals the human side behind a history-making affair.

Poetry Under Oath: From the Testimony of William Jefferson Clinton and Monica S. Lewinsky

Humor & Entertainment

Simon, Tom

Humor

Workman Publishing Company

DON QUIXOTE tilts at THE PRINCESS BRIDE in a satirical romp through the fields of epic fantasy. All the man in the black mask wants is to pay back the king who stole his name, his face, and his birthright. Mercenary ogres, enterprising were-dragons, and termagant princesses are all just part of the game. But when a foolish knight-errant and his world-weary squire get in the way, revenge turns out to be a little more complicated than usual.

Lord Talon's Revenge: A comedy of greed, war, hatred, betrayal, and other desirable things

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Bondwine Books

Eleven essays on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, written from the perspective of the working fantasy writer. How did Tolkien produce his effects, and what can we learn from his methods? In this collection, Tom Simon investigates topics from the uses of archaic language to the moral philosophy of Orcs.

Writing Down the Dragon: and Other Essays on the Tolkien Method and the Craft of Fantasy

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

DEATH CARRIES A CAMCORDER is a snarky romp through the minefields of literary art, conducted by a guide who has stepped on most of the mines himself. Thirteen essays on the craft of fantasy writing will help you identify and avoid many of the pitfalls that lie in wait for the unwary writer. Topics include:   • How point-of-view problems can weaken your stories and lose readers. (‘Death carries a camcorder’)  • The deadly trap of ‘aggravated trilogy’ and how to avoid it. (‘Zeno’s mountains’)  • Three methods of inventing fantasy names, and which one you should never use. (‘Gwladys and the Ghraem’lan’)  • Why the first answer to a plotting problem is seldom the best. (‘Creative discomfort and STAR WARS’)   Each topic is explored through abundant examples from the genre, both good and bad, from Jonathan Swift to Robert Jordan.

Death Carries a Camcorder: Essays on fantasy writing

Sci Phi is an online science fiction and philosophy magazine. In each issue you will find stories that explore questions of life, the universe and everything and articles that delve into the deep philosophical waters of science fiction universes. This month we have, The start of a wonderfully Sci Phi Serial from Ben Zwycky, Beyond the Mist that was also the inspiration for our spectacular cover art. It kicks off with our protagonist falling through the mist of the title and just gets stranger from there. We also have original Science Fiction stories from Peter Sean Bradley - Ghosts - A tale of a future wedding gone weird Emmanuel A. Mateo-Morales - The First Step - Witness the end of a mad dream and the end of a future war David Hallquist - The Quantum Process - A bid for immortality that doesn't go quite as planned! Lou Antonelli - On a Spiritual Plain - A Chaplin meets a confused soul on an alien mining colony Steve Sagarra - Terra in Vista - A crew of explorers meet someone unexpected on a new world Original Essays by David Kyle Johnson - On the Moral of Hide and Q - An exploration of the ethics of being Q John C. Wright - Prophetic & Apotropaic Science Fiction - Does Science Fiction predict the future? Patrick S. Baker - On the Ethics of Super Soldiers - Is it right to make Super Soldiers and what do we owe them? Tom Simon - The Making of the Fellowship - A study on the nature of the Good in Middle Earth And we have more book reviews by Peter Sean Bradley

Sci Phi Journal: Issue #2, November 2014: The Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy

Politics & Social Sciences

Wright, John C.

Johnson, David Kyle

Baker, Patrick S.

Rennie, Mr Jason

Bradley, Peter Sean

Mateo-Morales, Emmanuel A

Hallquist, David

Antonelli, Lou

Sagarra, Steve

Philosophy

Sci Phi Productions

Fantasy writer, essayist and critic Tom Simon looks at some elements of successful and memorable fiction. What makes a story stand out and grab a reader’s interest, and how does it happen? What kind of imaginative elements are most likely to have enduring appeal? How important is prose style to a good story? In eleven essays, Simon investigates these and other questions, and his researches lead him to some surprising places.

Style is the Rocket: and Other Essays on Writing

Located in Burlington, thirty-five miles south of the Canadian border, the University of Vermont -- commonly called U.V.M. because of its Latin name, Universitas Viridis Montis -- has neither the geography nor the climate of a typical college baseball powerhouse. In fact, in 2009 it did away with its varsity baseball program altogether. Yet in the early 1890s U.V.M. fielded a 'varsity baseball team as competitive as any in the country. Dr. Frank Sexton, Brown's star pitcher of that era who went on to coach at Michigan, Brown, and Harvard until 1914, said that "without question he regarded the Vermont teams of '90 to '93 as the best college baseball teams that he had ever seen in action." Over those four seasons the U.V.M. nine came to be known as the "Wonder Team," compiling a record of 129-57-4 (.694) against top college and semi-professional teams, and even two National League clubs. It reached its apex when it participated in the Intercollegiate Base Ball Tournament at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This book examines the secrets of the Wonder Team's success: who its players were, how they got to be so good, and what happened to them when they played in what was essentially the first College World Series.

The Wonder Team in the White City: U.V.M. at the Intercollegiate Base Ball Tournament of 1893

Sports & Outdoors

Baseball

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This new volume is the first book establishing a relationship between Brassey’s, Inc. and the premier research organization in all of sports, the Society for American Baseball Research. This initial release allows you to return to one of the most colorful, popular, important, and distinct periods of baseball history. With the Society for American Baseball Research to guide you, you’ll learn about the stars, the regulars, and the people behind the scenes—who were all the leading lights of the senior circuit. Through them, follow the great game’s opening decades as the original eight National League franchises combated the American League, only to strike up a partnership with it and start the World Series in 1903, launching the major leagues as we know them today. Lavishly illustrated, featuring photographs and autographs of every player or person profiled, Deadball Stars of the National League gives fans a unique window into the game of “inside baseball,” a time when the stolen base and the sacrifice were a manager’s key weapons, when pitchers finished what they started, and when the baseball itself was a sodden, misshapen, tobacco-stained menace. Edited by Tom Simon and written and assembled by his fellow members of SABR’s Deadball Era Committee, the unique resource Deadball Stars of the National League reflects a defining era of baseball history.

Deadball Stars of the National League

SABR

Potomac Books Inc.

GOLD MEDAL SPECIAL! 88 full-colour pages devoted to articles on the legendary publisher and its key authors. Pieces on classic noir authors Gil Brewer, John D MacDonald, Dan J Marlowe, Charles Williams. With a stunning visual gallery of the paperback art of Robert McGinnis and rare illustrations from Men's Adventure Magazines for Gil Brewer stories. Plus in-depth reviews of Gold Medal classics such as Black Wings Has My Angel. 125 colour illustrations of rare Gold Medal paperbacks and associated books and magazines.

The Paperback Fanatic issue 43

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Bishop, Paul

Marriott, Justin

Deis, Bob

Matthews, Rob

Compton, Eric

Doyle, Wyatt

Antiques & Collectibles

Independently published

The fanzine of vintage men's adventure paperbacks. 64 pages, full colour. Including the art of Samson Pollen, the author behind the D C Man series, an overview of the Mr Dynamit and The Killers series, plus reviews of The Hunter, John Gail, Pony Soldiers and more!

Men of Violence 10: The fanzine of Men's Adventure paperbacks

Decker, Andreas

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