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The SFFaudio Podcast #309 – NEW RELEASES/RECENT ARRIVALS
The SFFaudio Podcast #309 – Jesse, Jenny, and Tamahome talk about new audiobook releases and recent audiobook arrivals.
Talked about on today's show:
Contemporary Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Magics, An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0 #3) by Scott Meyer, Finn Fancy Necromancy by Randy Henderson, The Mermaid's Sister by Carrie Anne Noble, Monster Hunter Nemesis by Larry Correia, Sad puppy Hugo campaign, Unseen (Unborn #2) by Amber Lynn Natusch, just read the first sentence, Claimed (Servants of Fate #2) by Sarah Fine, Hellbender (Fangborn #3) by Dana Cameron, Kate Rudd and Paul Rudd?, The Syndrome: The Kingdom Keepers Collection by Ridley Pearson
Alternative History, 1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies (Ring of Fire #15) by Eric Flint and Charles E. Gannon
Virtual Reality/Cyberpunk, Mountain Of Black Glass (Otherland, Book 3) and Sea Of Silver Light (Otherland, Book 4) by Tad Williams, these are chunky books
Military Sci-Fi, Gemini Cell (Shadow Ops #4) by Myke Cole, the Jump Universe and the Vicky Peterwald series by Mike Shepherd, not narrated by Matthew McConaughey, Tarnished Knight (The Lost Stars #1) by Jack Campbell, pronunciations, a new #1, Time Patrol (Nightstalkers #4) by Bob Mayer, Heir to the Jedi: Star Wars by Kevin Hearne, King of Thieves (Odyssey One: Star Rogue) by Evan Currie
Epic/Traditional Fantasy, Black God's Kiss by C. L. Moore, she's a woman, The Black Fire Concerto (The Stormlight Symphony #1) by Mike Allen, "ensorcelled" gains popularity, A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction by Terry Pratchett, Hypnogoria (Jim Moon) podcast covered Terry Pratchett, Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen #8) by Steven Erikson, the Circle of Magic and The Circle Opens and (later) the Immortals Quartet series by Tamora Pierce, Full Cast Audio is sort of audio drama, The Light Princess by George MacDonald, The Keeper (Watersmeet #3) by Ellen Jensen Abbott
Space Sci-Fi, Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov, vs I, Robot, short story highlights, The Fortress in Orion (Dead Enders #1) by Mike Resnick, Under Different Stars (The Kricket #1) and Sea of Stars (The Kricket Series #2) by Amy A. Bartol, Old Venus edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, we can pronounce "Dozois", Venus as it should be, S.M. Stirling
Zombies, Apocalypse, Dystopia, Steampunk, Horror (Grab bag!), The Sky-Riders by Paul Dellinger and Mike Allen, Pinkerton (detective agency), Islands of Rage & Hope (Black Tide Rising #3) by John Ringo, Firefight (Reckoners #2) by Brandon Sanderson, The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes, sexy title, The Mechanical: The Alchemy Wars #1 by Ian Tregillis, clockpunk?, The Fire Sermon (Fire Sermon #1) by Francesca Haig, twins, Cheech and Chong, The Intruder and The Hunger, and Other Stories by Charles Beaumont, Untouched by Human Hands by Robert Sheckley, readalong by Sffaudio (no Tama), Fury by Henry Kuttner, old Venus is back
Related Non-fiction, Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges, part of the Guardian Essential Library, apples, The Interstellar Age by Jim Bell, read by the author, Scott will review, slingshot effect, back seat drivers, The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok translated from the Old Norse by Ben Waggoner, Vikings
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The SFFaudio Podcast #289 – NEW RELEASES/RECENT ARRIVALS
The SFFaudio Podcast #289 – Jesse, Jenny, Tamahome, and Paul Weimer talk about NEW RELEASES and RECENT ARRIVALS.
Talked about on today's show:
A $10 bounty on The House by Fredric Brown, a $10 bounty on The Last Druid by Joseph E. Kelleam, Thomas Pynchon's masterpiece Gravity's Rainbow finally in audio, compare Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren, William Gibson's The Peripheral, we bet Fred Kiesche has read it, The Fire Seekers by Richard Farr, Time's Edge by Rysa Walker, reminds Paul of Charles Stross's Merchant Princes books, Tad Williams's Otherland series (a favorite of Paul's), compare to Vernor Vinge's True Names, Second Life, Otherland has some disabled characters — Special Needs In Strange Worlds, Nnedi Okorafor's Goodreads Otherland review, Jesse's not a series guy, The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber, Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow, the spoiler horn, Willful Child by Steven Erikson, not Paul's favorite, The Enemy of an Enemy by Vincent Trigili, the description is missing the "but", Horatio Hornblower type series, The Night Terrace (Audio Drama) Nightterrace.com, Spark by John Twelve Hawks, Cotard's syndrome makes you a good assassin, origin of his pen name, Hawks's nonfiction Against Authority, Chimpanzee by Darin Bradley, possible mashup?, China Miéville's New Crobuzon series, The Slow Regard Of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss, is his prose like dark chocolate like a fan said on The Geek's Guide To The Galaxy podcast?, Heraclix and Pomp by Forrest Aguirre, combining two reviews, Dead But Not Forgotten by Charlaine Harris (Editor), the True Blood tv show, "small town fantasy", Shadow of the Ancients by Pierre Grimbert (translated from French), genre books from other languages are cool, Tam likes French comics (Moebius), Visitors by Orson Scott Card, not a Pathfinder tie-in, Pathfinder vs. Dungeons and Dragons explained by Paul, Of Bone and Thunder by Chris Evans, Shaman, Healer, Heretic by M. Terry Green, Scalped comic was a bit grim, The Snowden Files by Luke Harding, Snowden's politics, Collapse by Jared Diamond, societies ending, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft, The Statement Of Randolph Carter Sffaudio readalong, The Vines by Christopher Rice, Rice's photo gallery, Anne Rice's son, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, Jesse's not that into it, The Island Of Doctor Moreau audiodrama, Robert Sheckley audiobook releases, The Story of English In 100 Words by David Crystal, G. Willow Wilson's Ms. Marvel No Normal is in Jersey City
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The SFFaudio Podcast #267 – NEW RELEASES/RECENT ARRIVALS
The SFFaudio Podcast #267 – Jesse, Jenny, Tamahome, and Seth talk about NEW RELEASES and RECENT ARRIVALS.
Follow this link for a list of our latest arrivals. Note that not all books listed are discussed in the podcast.
Talked about on today's show: Unwrapped Sky by Rjurik Davidson, "minotaurpunk"; the Thirty Years War; 1634 by David Weber and Eric Flint; The New Food by Stephen Leacock; LEGOs!; "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"; we love narrator Jonathan Davis; Runcible spoon and vorpel sword; intentionality of names in Philip K. Dick's work; place names in Sussex and Middle Earth; class structure from Plato to Huxley; Beyond Lies the Wub, Philip K. Dick's first published short story; Screamers film based on Dick's Second Variety; Jenny would like to be a rutabaga; American Gods and rereading books; The Status Civilization and Mindswap by Robert Sheckley; Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy; Metro 2033 became a video game; Aristotelian unity of time, place, and action in post-apocalyptic genre; non-Western tropes take us off the beaten path; The Queen of Air and Darkness by T.H. White; tattoos make urban fantasy; prevalence of science fiction and fantasy in YA; the rule of three in fiction and humor; books about books; Sex Criminals comic by Matt Fraction; the Comics Squee podcast discussed it; the singular strengths of the comics medium; The Prestige; mirroring in fiction; The Prisoner of Zenda; Lovecraft writing Houdini; Pinkerton and Blackwater; Second Hand by Rajan Khanna featured in Lightspeed podcast; Felix Gilman's The Half-Made World; Robert Bloch's Hellbound Train; Joe Abercrombie's Red Country; space operas are repurposed westerns; westerns don't feature enough women; Star Trek; westerns on Mars; The Audiobookaneers blog might drive us out of business; Jenny looks to the future of bleakness and paranoia; Best of all Possible Worlds by Karen Lord; Saturn's Children by Charles Stross, reviewed by Jesse.
Posted by Jesse Willis
The SFFaudio Podcast #226 – READALONG: The Iron Heel by Jack London
The SFFaudio Podcast #226 – Jesse, Jenny, and Bryan Alexander discuss The Iron Heel by Jack London.
Talked about on today's show:
Jenny is not an economist, a Heinlein vibe, God Emperor Of Dune, The first half of this book is talk, a terrible novel but an interesting book, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, the distancing narrators, 700 years into the future, the audience is for seven hundred years in the future (or is that six hundred), prizefighting, grub = food, the purpose of the footnotes, The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells, Avis Everhard, alternate history, Michael Bishop, an underground book, an underground society, that Buck Rogers stuff, Armageddon—2419 AD by Philip Francis Nowlan, exchanging socialism for the Yellow Peril, Asgard, Seoul, set in the year 419 B.O.M. (Brotherhood of Men), A Thousand Deaths by Jack London, The Island Of Doctor Moreau, predictions, war with Germany, a surprise attack on December 4th, William Randolph Hearst, war economy as a solution to national surplus, Trotsky's letter to Jack London, London had good reason to be a socialist, work conditions and natural disasters, a chaotic time, Jackson's arm, race vs. class, Jack London's racism, The Heathen by Jack London, the dog stories, class consciousness, grinding out the middle class between the 1% and the people of the abyss, The Shadow And The Flash by Jack London, manly overachievers, oligarchy doesn't use race to divide people, do you want you fruit to be picked or not?, Japanese segregation in California classrooms, Canadian politics, Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires', the quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln:
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country… corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
Dwight D. Eisenhower, "the military-industrial complex", Eugene Debs, why was The Iron Heel not more popular?, The Black Hundreds, Das Kapital, Marxian fan-fiction, 'social evolution is exasperatingly slow', sooo sad, Marx's essay on Napoleon III, a Darwinian model, do we live under an oligarchy?, government regulation (anti-trust and child labour laws), why socialism didn't take hold in the early 20th century USA, Larry Summers, the Chilean cover of The Iron Heel, Salvador Allende, a novel read by revolutionaries, Science Fiction within the novel, the aesthetic end, the role of religion, the God of the Oligarchs, mostly air with a little bit of vertebra, Chicago, religious revivals and the apocalypse, Azusa Street Revival, the 1906 San Fransisco earthquake, William Randolph Hearst, Patty Hearst, John Waters, Cecil B. Demented, personal charisma and bulletproof arguments, Everhard is a porn star name, Benjamin Franklin, London's didactic reading, Marx's surplus theory of value, economy is not a science, power wins, the French Revolution, the Commonwealth of England, George Orwell's review of The Iron Heel, 1984 is in The Iron Heel, coincidental dates, London's insight into fascism, too much love from the strong and not enough love for the weak, Eric S. Rabkin, unmanning, 'designed to be crucified', father figures are destroyed, the chapter titles, The Call Of The Wild, a powerful beast is unmanned, builds up and builds through interaction with others, a sated king, a dominant primordial beast, The Sea Wolf, reading London is like a shot of adrenalin to the heart, surplus value, colonialism, the machine breakers, the trusts did not advertize, consumerism, Paul Krugman, petty bourgeoisie, the genocide of Chicago, the Paris Commune, gothic wooing, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy, the education of the oligarchy,
"They, as a class, believed that they alone maintained civilization. It was their belief that if ever they weakened, the great beast would ingulf them and everything of beauty and wonder and joy and good in its cavernous and slime-dripping maw. Without them, anarchy would reign and humanity would drop backward into the primitive night out of which it had so painfully emerged."
excusing colonialism, the white man's burden, ignoring the starving masses, the Roman Empire, steampunk, Lloyd Blankfein "doing God's work", Margin Call, oppositional films, "The Social Network deeply hates Zuckerberg and the online world", Nine Inch Nails, Michael Douglas, Wall Street, the cleaning lady, why isn't The Iron Heel more generally appealing to SF readers?, British Space Opera vs. American Space Opera, Commune 2000 A.D. by Mack Reynolds, a broken utopia, job cash vs. job love, the social end of SF, the storytelling technique doesn't attract, the unsuccessful revolution, Winston Smith's diary, looking back when writing doesn't have the same power, the Goldstein Book, brainwashing, the bomb in congress, spy and counterspy, Starship Troopers is a series of lectures punctuated by gunfire, Frank Herbert, "a raving genius", doing Dune (and Dune Messiah), Chilton Books, the boot crushing the human face forever, the leaky suspense, a Norton critical edition, how to record The Iron Heel, the footnotes are problematic, a crazy wild marvelous book, WWI, WWII, Metropolis, armoured cars or tanks, The Last Man by Mary Shelley, a terrifying future found in a cave written on leaves, A Journal Of The Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, The Scarlet Plague by Jack London, Idiocracy, The Marching Morons by C.M. Kornbluth, on Lenin's deathbed he was read Jack London, The Cold Equations, To Build A Fire, The Empire Strikes Back,
"The cold of space smote the unprotected tip of the planet, and he, being on that unprotected tip, received the full force of the blow."
cosmic and Lovecraftian, as snug as a Jedi in a hot tauntaun, Robert Sheckley, Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky.
Posted by Jesse Willis
The Graveyard Shift with Dudley Knight
Beginning it seems in the mid-1970s Dudley Knight, a U.C. Irvine professor of drama, voiced a series called The Graveyard Shift on KPFK, Los Angeles. The purpose was to tell stories of the macabre. His broadcasts aired weekly with shows of variable length (between half and hour and two and a half hours).
Here is a list of broadcast stories, with links to audio when available:
Jan. ??, 1974- The Room In The Tower by E.F. Benson (34 min.)
May. ??, 1977 – Upon The Dull Earth by Philip K. Dick (55 min.)
Jun. 08, 1977 – I See A Man Sitting On A Chair And The Chair Is Biting His Leg by Harlan Ellison and Robert Sheckley (57 min.)
Jun. 22, 1977 – It by Theodore Sturgeon (57 min.)
Jun. ??, 1977 – Count Magnus by M.R. James (35 min.)
Jul. 06, 1977 – Children Of The Corn by Stephen King (71 min.)
Aug. 03, 1977 – Compulsory Games by Robert Aickman (56 min.)
Aug. 17, 1977 – The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (37 min.)
Aug. 31, 1977 – Silent Snow, Secret Snow by Conrad Aiken (46 min.)
Sep. 21, 1977 – The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood (42 min.)
Oct. 19, 1977 – Armaja Das by Joe Haldeman (44 min.)
Nov. 08, 1977 – It Only Comes Out At Night by Dennis Etchison (33 min.)
Dec. 14, 1977 – Couching At The Door by D.K. Broster (59 min.)
Dec. ??, 1977 – The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges (35 min.)
Jan. 18, 1978 – Suspicion by Dorothy L. Sayers (38 min.)
Jan. ??, 1978 – I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison (41 min.)
Feb. 01, 1978 – The Gentleman From America by Michael Arlen (48 min.)
Feb. 08, 1978 – Bulkhead by Theodore Sturgeon (75 min.)
Feb. 22, 1978 – Gonna Roll The Bones by Fritz Leiber (60 min.)
Mar. 22, 1978 – Sometimes They Come Back by Stephen King (58 min.)
Apr. 05, 1978 – Three Miles Up by Elizabeth Jane Howard (42 min.)
Apr. 19, 1978 – Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Fredric Brown (49 min.)
Jun. 07, 1978 – The Ash Tree by M.R. James (36 min.)
Jul. 26, 1978 – The Squaw by Bram Stoker (35 min.)
Aug. 30, 1978 – Batard by Jack London (39 min.)
Sep. 06, 1978 – The Game Of Rat And Dragon by Cordwainer Smith (37 min.)
Oct. 17, 1978 – The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson (49 min.) |MP3|
Nov. 21, 1978 – The Other Celia by Theodore Sturgeon (48 min.)
Dec. 06, 1978 – Benlian by Oliver Onions (44 min.)
Jan. 03, 1979 – Before Eden by Arthur C. Clarke (32 min.)
Jan. 31, 1979 – The Haunters and the haunted by Edward Bulwer Lytton (106 min.)
Feb. 23, 1979 – Space Rats Of The CCC by Harry Harrison (37 min.)
Apr. 03, 1979 – Breakfast At Twilight by Philip K. Dick (41 min.)
Apr. 17, 1979 – Thurnley Abby by Perceval Landon (43 min.)
???. ??, 1985 – Afternoon At Schrafts by Gardner Dozis, Jack Don, and Michael Swanwick Part 1 |MP3| Part 2 |MP3|
???. ??, ???? – The Whisperer In Darkness by H.P. Lovecraft
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The SFFaudio Podcast #213 – READALONG: The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanisław Lem
The SFFaudio Podcast #213 – Scott, Jesse, and Tamahome talk about the Audible.com audiobook The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanisław Lem
Talked about on today's show:
reality shows, Duck Dynasty, about words, puns, rhyming, nothing, negative, was Lem a robot?, modern or timeless?, H.G. Wells, full of great ideas, fables, fairy tales, The Brothers Grimm, royalty,
"Have it compose a poem- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter S!!" …Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short. Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
Silently scheming
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide."
shooting an arrow at a barn, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Robert Sheckley, robots, the Google Doodle tribute to Stanisław Lem, a metaphor for our reality, the Wikipedia entry on Fables, Aesop's Fables, Eric S. Rabkin, Scott is interested in Lem, Karol Wojtyła (aka Pope John Paul II), Poland, a small interesting country, Memoirs Found In A Bathtub, Audible's audiobook, why did Jenny "Lem" this Lem?, Fox is not necessarily always the same fox, distant past? distant future?, "mostly harmless" palefaces, Princess Crystal, everybody's a robot, a suitable suitor,
"Your Highness, my name is Myamlak and I crave nought else but to couple with you
in a manner that is liquid, pulpy, doughy and spongy, in accordance with the customs of
my people. I purposely permitted myself to be captured by the pirate, and requested him
to sell me to this portly trader, as I knew the latter was headed for your kingdom. And I
am exceeding grateful to his laminated person for conveying me hither, for I am as full of
love for you as a swamp is full of scum."
The princess was amazed, for truly, he spoke in paleface fashion, and she said:
"Tell me, you who call yourself Myamlak the paleface, what do your brothers do
during the day?"
"O Princess," said Ferrix, "in the morning they wet themselves in clear water, pouring
it upon their limbs as well as into their interiors, for this affords them pleasure.
they walk to and fro in a fluid and undulating way, and they slush, and they
slurp, and when anything grieves them, they palpitate, and salty water streams from
their eyes, and when anything cheers them, they palpitate and hiccup, but their eyes
remain relatively dry. And we call the wet palpitating weeping, and the dry—laughter."
"If it is as you say," said the princess, "and you share your brothers' enthusiasm for
water, I will have you thrown into my lake, that you may enjoy it to your fill, and also I
will have them weigh your legs with lead, to keep you from bobbing up …"
"Your Majesty," replied Ferrix as the sage had taught him, "if you do this, I must
perish, for though there is water within us, it cannot be immediately outside us for longer
than a minute or two, otherwise we recite the words 'blub, blub, blub,' which signifies our
last farewell to life."
"But tell me, Myamlak," asked the princess, "how do you furnish yourself with the
energy to walk to and fro, to squish and to slurp, to shake and to sway?"
"Princess," replied Ferrix, "there, where I dwell, are other palefaces besides the
hairless variety, palefaces that travel predominantly on all fours. These we perforate until
they expire, and we steam and bake their remains, and chop and slice, after which we
incorporate their corporeality into our own. We know three hundred and seventy-six
distinct methods
of murdering, twenty-eight thousand five hundred and ninety-seven
distinct methods of preparing the corpses, and the stuffing of those bodies into our bodies
(through an aperture, called the mouth) provides us with no end of enjoyment.
the art of the preparation of corpses is more esteemed among us than astronautics and is
termed gastronautics, or gastronomy—which, however, has nothing to do with
"Does this then mean that you play at being cemeteries, making of yourselves the
very coffins that hold your four-legged brethren?"
the poet robot,
Trurl adjusted, modulated, expostulated,
disconnected, ran checks, reconnected, reset, did everything he could think of, and the
machine presented him with a poem that made him thank heaven Klapaucius wasn't
there to laugh—imagine, simulating the whole Universe
from scratch, not to mention
Civilization in every particular, and to end up with such dreadful doggerel! Trurl put in six
cliche filters, but they snapped like matches; he had to make them out of pure corundum
steel. This seemed to work, so he jacked the semanticity up all the way, plugged in an
alternating rhyme generator—which nearly ruined everything, since the machine
resolved to become a missionary among destitute tribes on far-flung planets. But at the
very last minute, just as he was ready to give up and take a hammer to it, Trurl was
struck by an inspiration; tossing out all the logic circuits, he replaced them with
self-regulating egocentripetal narcissistors. The machine simpered a little, whimpered a
little, laughed bitterly, complained of an awful pain on its third floor, said that in general it
was fed up, though, life was beautiful but men were such beasts and how sorry they'd all
be when it was dead and gone. Then it asked for pen and paper. Trurl sighed with relief,
switched it off and went to bed.
Men are such beasts but we'll be sad when they're gone, the paperbook, kudos to narrator Scott Aiello, satire of something, Mandrillion the Greatest, ruler of the Multitudians, the perfect advisor, fantasy with Science Fiction language, lawyer soup, Escape Pod, Peter Swirski, A Stanislaw Lem Reader, reviews, people who review Lem, Lem = genius, sitting in awe, "Imagine a mixture of Borges, Calvino, Saint-Exupéry, Pynchon, Douglas Adams, Samuel Beckett, L. Frank Baum, Dr. Seuss, Lewis Caroll, and perhaps a little Philip K. Dick. That's what this is like, sort of.", complete impatience with reading "another one of these or another one of those", A Perfect Vacuum, a big show-off, the ideas per story quotient, Gene Wolfe, Jorge Luis Borges, meta, overwhelming wordplay, digressions aplenty, format and rules, classic Hard SF, the hyperdrive handwaviumed away, all of language is handwavium, Sodium stars with an N, we think when we've named something we've understood it, make sense out of nonsense, stardust into toilet seats:
Feeling dismay rather
than disappointment at this neglect, I immediately sat down and wrote The Scourge of
Reason, two volumes, in which I showed that each civilization may choose one of two
roads to travel, that is, either fret itself to death, or pet itself to death. And in the course
of doing one or the other, it eats its way into the Universe, turning cinders and flinders of
stars into toilet seats, pegs, gears, cigarette holders and pillowcases, and it does this
because, unable to fathom the Universe, it seeks to change that Fathomlessness into
Something Fathomable, and will not stop until the nebulae and planets have been
processed to cradles, chamber pots and bombs, all in the name of Sublime
Order, for only a Universe with pavement, plumbing, labels and catalogues is, in its sight, acceptable
and wholly respectable.
the are no rules in The Cyberiad, owookiee's 1 star review of The Cyberiad, a Droopy cartoon as directed by Tex Avery, The Perfect Imitation adapted, saggy biologicals, Daniel Mróz' illustrations, Tobias Buckell's blog post about The Fate Of Today's Book Bloggers, the way Luke Burrage reviews books, a constructed object vs. a piece of art, conversations between writers, how books should be talked about, the SFSignal new releases posts, zombie novels, you're reading the books wrong, you should read by author, Donald E. Westlake, Lawrence Block, Telling Lies For Fun And Profit, Philip K. Dick, George R.R. Martin, Fred Himebaugh (@Fredosphere), Twitter fight!, looking for reasons not to read books, Your Movie Sucks by Roger Ebert, if a book sucks you usually stop reading that author entirely, Neal Stephenson, positive that tell you nothing about why it's good, wandering through the woods eating rocks and bark, moods, Star Wars fans, get meta, reviewing novels vs. short stories, in the context, negative reviews tell you a lot more about a book than positive reviews, this book has too much science, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, panspermia and ancient astronauts, the finite and the infinite, iTunes U, characters on Battlestar Galactica are always confronted the question "what is human?", synthesis, the enemy is the ally, the enemy is indistinguishable from one's self, a space fable, Caprica, Sumerian Aramaic Sanskrit and Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, Firefly, a gift of kindness, Porco Rosso, Hayao Miyazaki, what is IT Tam?
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Pages 498-500
Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 7, 1644. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830.
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DIE Jovis, 17 die Julii.
PRAYERS, by Mr. Taylor.
Ds. Grey de Warke, Speaker.
Comes Northumb. Comes Kent. Comes Essex. Comes Manchester. L. Viscount Say & Seale. Comes Stamford. Comes Nottingham. |
Ds. Wharton. Ds. North. Ds. Robertes. Ds. Dacres. |
Mr. Devereux to be Minister of Gateshead.
Ordered, That Dr. Aylett and Dr. Heath, or either of them, give Institution and Induction to Mr. Devereux, to be Minister of Gatshead, in the Bishopric of Durham; and that an Ordinance be drawn up to this Purpose, and sent to the House of Commons, for their Concurrence.
And presently an Ordinance was drawn, and approved of.
Message from the H. C. with Ordinances.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by John Lisle Esquire;
To desire their Lordships Concurrence in these Ordinances:
1. An Ordinance concerning the Custody and Wardship of Sir Wm. Savile Baronet. (Here enter it.)
Read Thrice, and Agreed to.
2. An Ordinance to lend to the Lord Wharton Two Thousand Pounds, out of Haberdashers Hall.
(Here enter it.)
Read Thrice, and Agreed to.
3. An Ordinance to confirm Sir Henry Vane Junior in his Place of Treasurer of the Navy. (Here enter it.)
Read Thrice, and Agreed to.
Deputy Lieutenants for Chester.
Ordered, That this House thinks it fit that Phillip Manwaring and Roger Wilbraham, Esquires, be added to be Deputy Lieutenants for the County of Chester, and shall have Deputations accordingly; and that the Concurrence of the House of Commons be desired herein.
20,000l. to be raised out of Sir W. Portman's Estate.
The Lord Robertes reported from the Committee of the West, "That they, taking into Consideration the great Want of the Western Parts, do think it fit that Twenty Thousand Pounds be raised, out of the Estate of Sir Wm. Portman of Som'setshire:" To which this House Agreed; and Ordered, That the Concurrence of the House of Commons be desired herein.
Message to the H. C. about it; with Deputy Lieutenants Names for Chester; for
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by Dr. Aylett and Dr. Heath:
1. To desire their Concurrence, for Phillip Manwaring and Roger Wilbraham, Esquires, to (fn. 1) be made Deputy Lieutenants for the County of Chester.
Mr. Devereux to be Minister of Gateshead; and for the King's Footmen taken at Naseby to be released.
2. To desire Concurrence in the Ordinance for giving Institution and Induction to Mr. Devereux.
3. To let them know, that, upon the Report from the Committee of the West, this House is of Opinion, That so much of Sir Wm. Porteman's Estate shall be presently sold, as may make up the Sum of Twenty Thousand Pounds, for the Redemption of his Estate and Delinquency; and that it be referred to the Committee of the West, for naming of the Commissioners to put this Vote in present Execution;" wherein this House desires the Concurrence of the House of Commons.
4. To desire their Concurrence, that the King's Six Footmen, taken at the Battle of Naseby Field, and now in Winchester House, Prisoners, may be released and discharged.
Report of the Conference about the Instructions, &c. for the Committees to reside with the Scots Army.
The Speaker reported the Effect of the Conference Yesterday with the House of Commons; which was, "That they had drawn up an Ordinance, by Way of Commission to be given to those Committees that are appointed to reside with the Scottch Army; and also they present to their Lordships, Instructions to be given to the said Committees; but the House of Commons have left a blank Space for the Earl of Stamford's Name, who they desire may not be sent as a Commissioner, in regard he stands impeached before this House by the House of Commons, for Breach of their Privileges; and desire he may be called, to answer the same; and that their Lordships would please to nominate another Lord in his room."
Ludlow released.
Upon reading the Petition of George Ludlow Gentleman; humbly shewing, "That, according to their Lordships Order, he stands committed (fn. 2) to the Usher of the Black Rod, for striking Mr. Temple in the Painted Chamber; for which Offence he is heartily sorrowful, and with all humble Submission craveth their Lordships Pardon for his most rude and unreverend Demeanour in so honourable a Place; humbly praying, that their Lordships will be pleased to order that he may be released from his Commitment."
It is Ordered, That he shall be forthwith released from his present Restraint; and that Major Temple and the said George Ludlow be both brought before this House To-morrow Morning, to receive the Injunction and Command of this House, that they keep the Peace one with another.
Ordinance for Committes to reside with the Scots Army.
Next, the Ordinance for sending Committees to reside in the Scottch Army, was read; and Ordered, That, in respect of the present Urgency of the Dispatch of this Affair in Point of Time, the Lords have thus passed this Ordinance, but do insist upon the Choice of the Earl of Stamford.
The Quorum to be altered to any Two.
Their Instructions.
The Instructions also were read, and Agreed to, with the Alteration of the Quorum to be, any Two.
E. of Stamford's & al. Impeachment, for assaulting Sir A. Haselrigge.
The Earl of Stamford desired to have a Time appointed, for the bringing in of his Answer to the Impeachment of the House of Commons against him and others; and that they might have Mr. Herne, Mr. Chute, Mr. Glover, and Mr. Hayles.
Hereupon this House Ordered, That the Earl of Stamford, &c. should put in their Answers to this House, to the said Impeachment, on Monday Morning next.
Message from the H. C. with Ordinances.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Sam. Browne;
To desire Concurrence in these Particulars:
1. An Ordinance concerning raising of Forces, for keeping in the Garrison sof the King's, at Oxford, Bambury, &c.
Agreed to, with a Proviso for the Peers and Assistants of Parliament.
2. An Ordinance for Payment of the Monies due to the late Lord Keeper, into the Hanaper, from the Cursitors. (Here enter it.)
Agreed to.
3. An Ordinance for Mr. Reynolds to be Deputy Clerk of the Hanaper.
Agreed to, with an Addition.
The Answer returned was:
That their Lordships do agree to that Order concerning the Cursitors; to the rest, their Lordships will send an Answer by Messengers of their own.
Message to the H. C. with the Ordinance and Instructions for the Committees to reside with the Scots Army;
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by Dr. Aylett and Dr. Heath:
To deliver to them the Ordinance for sending Committees to reside in the Scottch Army; and to acquaint them, that, in respect of the present Urgency of the Dispatch of this Affair in Point of Time, the Lords have passed this Ordinance; but do insist upon the Choice of the Earl of Stamford.
2. That their Lordships do agree to the Instructions, with this Alteration, in changing the Quorum from Three to Two.
about the E. of Stamford's & al. Impeachment;
3. To let them know, that their Lordships have appointed the Earl of Stamford and the others to put in their Answers to this House on Monday next, to their Impeachment.
and that the Lords agree to Two Ordinances from thence.
4. That their Lordships do agree to the Ordinance of keeping in the King's Garrisons, with a Proviso, wherein their Concurrence is desired.
5. That their Lordships do agree to the Ordinance concerning Mr. Reynolds to be Deputy Clerk of the Hanaper, with an Addition, wherein their Concurrence is desired.
Addition to the Instructions for the Commissioners going to Scotland.
The Earl of Northumb. reported from the Committee that is appointed to draw up Instructions for to be given the Commissioners that go into Scotland, an Addition to the Instructions; which this House received.
"An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the committing and granting of the Custody and Wardship of the Body and Lands of the Heir of Sir William Savile Baronet, deceased.
Ordinance concerning the Wardship of Sir Wm. Savile's Heir.
"It is Ordered, Ordained, and Declared, by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and the said Lords and Commons do Order, Ordain, and Declare, That the Custody and Wardship of the Lands of the Heir of Sir William Savile Baronet, deceased, be committed and granted, or sequestered, unto Sir William Lister Knight, Brian Stapilton, and Richard Brainthwaite of Ruffendale, in the County of Westmerland, Esquires, without Rent or Fine, to the Intents and Purposes hereafter following; videlicet, That, for the supplying of the pressing Wants of the Lord Wharton, the said Sir William Lister, Bryan Stapilton, and Richard Brainthwaite, shall, from Time to Time, pay unto the said Lord Wharton and his Assigns, all such Sums of Money as they shall receive or make, out of the Rents, Issues, and Profits, of the said Estate (above all necessary Charges and Reprizes), until the said Lord Wharton and his Assigns shall be fully satisfied and paid the Sum of Four Thousand Pounds Sterling, of lawful English Money; and that, after the said Lord Wharton shall be satisfied and paid the said Four Thousand Pounds as aforesaid, then the said Sir William Lister, Bryan Stapilton, and Richard Brainthwaite, shall be answerable and accomptable for the Residue of the said Estate unto the Court of Wards, having such reasonable Allowances for their Pains and Charges concerning the same, as the said Courtshall from Time to Time think fit: And it is further Ordered and Ordained, That the Custody of the Body of the Heir of the said Sir William Savile shall be committed, granted, or sequestered, unto the said Lord Wharton, without Fine, to the Intent only the said Lord Wharton may take Care of the Education of the said Heir, the said Lord Wharton having such Yearly Allowance for the Education of the Heir of the said Sir William Savile, out of the Profits of the said Estate, as the said Lords and Commons shall from Time to Time think fit; and the Profits and Advantage of the Marriage of the Heir of the said Sir William Savile to be disposed of as the said Lords and Commons shall appoint: And the said Lords and Commons do Order, Ordain, and Declare, That the Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries, and all Officers and Ministers there, and in Chancery, or elsewhere, to whom it appertaineth, shall, in due Manner, according to the Course of the said Courts respectively, pass or sequester the said Custody and Wardship as aforesaid: And it is further Ordered and Ordained, and the Commissioners of the Great Seal are by the said Lords and Commons hereby required and authorized, to pass the said Grants under the said Great Seal as aforesaid; for which, this shall be their Warrant, as also to all other Officers and Ministers whom it shall or may concern, for what they shall do in Pursuance hereof."
Order for 2000l. to L. Wharton.
"Ordered, by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That the Committee at Habberdasher's Hall do, upon the Credit of the Ordinance for granting Four Thousand Pounds to the Lord Wharton out of the Estate of the Heir of Sir William Savile, forth with lend and furnish the said Lord Wharton, or his Assigns, the Sum of Two Thousand Pounds, for Supply of his present Necessities; to be re-paid out of the First Monies that shall arise to the said Lord Wharton by virtue of the said Ordinance."
Ordinance to confirm Sit Henry Vane Junior, Treasurer of the Navy.
"Whereas Sir Henry Vane Junior, Knight, was displaced by His Majesty (sitting this Parliament) from the Room or Office of Treasurer of Marine Causes or Naval Affairs, held from His Majesty that now is, by virtue of several Grants by Letters Patents and Privy Seal; and hath since held and enjoyed the said Office of Treasurer of the Navy, by Ordinance of Parliament of 8 Augusti, 1642, continuing in Force by a Proviso in the late Ordinance for discharging the Members of Parliament from their Places; and whereas it is now thought fit and resolved, by the Lords and Commons, that the said Office shall be conferred and settled upon the said Sir Henry Vane: Be it hereby Ordered and Ordained, by the said Lords and Commons, That the said Office, with the Rights and Profits thereof, be conferred and settled upon the said Sir Henry Vane, and passed under the Great Seal of England, to hold Quam diu se bene gesserit; and that he do hold and enjoy the same in as ample Manner as any Treasurer of the Navy held or enjoyed the said Office and Profits thereof by any Letters Patents, or Privy Seal, or otherwise, from His Majesty that now is: Provided always, and it is hereby Declared and Ordained, by the said Lords and Commons, That the said Sir Henry Vane, from and after the 12th Day of May last past, shall, during the Continuance of this War, and no longer, pay to the Receiver General of the Revenue, to the Use of the Public, One Moiety of the clear Profits arising out of the said Office, upon the Balance of his Accompts; the Salaries and Allowances to his Deputies, Clerks, and other Instruments acting under him, in the Execution of the said Office, being first discounted out of the whole Profits; the which said Moiety is to be paid to the said Receiver General Half-yearly: And it is further Ordered and Ordained, That Oliver St. John Esquire, His Majesty's Solicitor General, do prepare a Bill, to be signed by the Clerks of both Houses of Parliament, containing His Majesty's Grant of the said Sir Henry Vane of the said Room and Office of Treasurer of Marine Causes, to hold and exercise the same, by himself or his Deputies, so long as he shall well demean himself therein, together with all Preheminencies, Fees, Wages, Profits, and Allowances, to himself and his Clerks, to the said Office in any Wise belonging, and as amply, to all Intents and Purposes, as he the said Sir Henry Vane, or any other Person or Persons, by virtue of any Letters Patents or Privy Seal from His Majesty that now is, or otherwise, have heretofore held or enjoyed the same; and the Commissioners of the said Great Seal are hereby required, upon the Delivery of the said Bill, so prepared and signed by the said Solicitor General and Clerks of both Houses of Parliament, into the Chancery, to make their Recepimus to, and sign the same, to the End the said Bill may be forthwith ingrossed, and passed under the Great Seal; and this Ordinance, or the Duplicate thereof, shall be a sufficient Warrant, as well to the said Solicitor General, and Clerks of both Houses of Parliament, as to the said Commissioners, and every of them, for the doing thereof, and passing the said Grant under the said Great Seal; and also to all and every other the Officers of the said Great Seal."
Ordinance for Payment of Monies due to the late Lord Keeper, into the Hanaper.
"It is this Day Ordered, by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, That all such Sum and Sums of Money as are in the Hands of any of the Cursitors, which did accrue and grow due unto the late Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, from the Time of his Departure from the Parliament, out of and upon any finable Writs, or otherwise, shall be paid, by the said Cursitors, and every of them respectively, into the Hanaper, for the Use of the Commonwealth; and that the said Cursitors, who have any such Sum or Sums of Money in their Hands, be required and commanded to pay the same accordingly; and, in so doing, they, and every of them that shall so pay the same, shall be hereby discharged, for and touching the same, as well against the said Lord Keeper, as against any other Person and Persons that shall claim or pretend Title thereunto."
House adjourned till 9a cras.


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