SF/Fantasy John M. Ford The Last Hot Time P.C. Hodgell 3) Seeker's Mask Lee Hoffman Telepower (1967) The Caves of Karst (1969) Always the Black Knight (1970) Change Song (1972) The Legend of Blackjack Sam (Western) Valdez Horses (Western) Sharon Lee and Steve Miller Crystal Second Book The Tomorrow Log Low Port (ed.) Joanna Russ (Feminist SF) "My Boat" - from a mid-70s issue of F&SF The Zanzibar Cat Extra(Ordinary) People On Strike Against God How To Suppress Women's Writing Kristine Smith Code of Conduct (Kilian 1) Rules of Conflict (Kilian 2) Law of Survival (Kilian 3) Contact Imminent (Kilian 4) Caroline Stevermer 2) A Scholar of Magics 3) When the King Comes Home Sorcery and Cecelia (with Patricia C. Wrede) Bordertown (ed. Terry Windling) Elsewhere (1984) Borderland (1986) Bordertown (1987) Life on the Border (1991) Elsewhere - Will Shetterly (1992) Never Never - Will Shetterly (1993) Odd 60s Trilogy 1) The Butterfly Kid - Chester Anderson 2) The Unicorn Girl - Michael Kurland 3) The Probability Pad - TA Waters Pat Murphy - Max Merriwell series 1) There and Back Again 2) Wild Angel 3) Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell Beth Hilgartner 1) A Business of Ferrets 2) A Parliament of Owls Charles de Lint - Moonheart, Yarrow Kage Baker - In The Garden of Iden Rebecca Bradley - Lady in Gil Patricia Briggs - 1) Dragonbones 2) Dragonblood Emma Bull . Bone Dance, Liavek books (w/ Will Shetterly) Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities Glen Cook - The Dragon Never Sleeps John Crowley - Engine Summer Candas Dorsey- Black Wine, A Paradigm of Earth Sara Douglas - Threshold Dave Duncan - The Magic Casement Peter F. Hamilton - Mindstar Rising Mark Helprin - Winter's Tale Barry Hughart - Bridge of Birds Margaret Mahy - The Changeover George R. R. Martin - Tuf Voyaging Ian McDonald - "Sciessors Cut Paper Wrap Stone" Robin McKinley - Sunshine Ken McLeod - Cassini Division Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife Elizabeth Pope - The Perilous Gard Tim Powers - Declare Matt Ruff - Set This House In Order Wilanne Schneider Belden - Mind-Call Jan Siegel - Prospero's Children Dan Simmons - Ilium William Sleator - House of Stairs (YA) Sheri S. Tepper - The Song of Marvin Manyshaped, Megan Whalen Turner - The Thief Mystery Donald E. Westlake - JOHN DORTMUNDER Mysteries 3 - Jimmy the Kid (1974) (Paperback) 4 - Nobody's Perfect (1977) (Paperback) 5 - Why Me? (1983) 9 - What's the Worst That Could Happen? (1996) 10 - Bad News (2001) (Might have this?) Tomorrow's Crimes (1989) (ed.) Laurie R. King Califia's Daughters William Marshall - Yellowthread Street mysteries 9) The Far Away Man (1984) (The End is Near) 14) Inches (1994) 15) Nightmare Syndrome (1997) 16) To The End (1998) Elizabeth Peters: Amelia Peabody (Victorian archeologists, humor) 4) Lion in the Valley (1986) Ray Harrison: Sgt. Bragg and Constable Morton (Victorian cops) 1) Why Kill Arthur Potter? (French Ordinary Murder) (1983) Michael Pearce: Mamur Zapt (Victorian, Cairo, humor) 1) The Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet (1988) 2) The Mamur Zapt and the Night of the Dog (1989) "If you want a fantasy version of Rex Stout, it's hard to do better than Randall Garrett's TOO MANY MAGICIANS. And does anyone else here love Marion Mainwaring's MURDER IN PASTICHE?" Kate Ross - Julian Kestrel series (1820s England) 1) Cut to the Quick 2) A Broken Vessel 3) Whom the Gods Love 4) The Devil in Music Non-Fiction Ernie Pyle - Here Is Your War A. J. Liebling - The Sweet Science Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction - Hazel K. Bell Jean d'Ormesson - The Glory of the Empire (Faux historical novel) Richard Stark (Westlake pseudonym) - Parker 01- Point Blank (1962) (aka The Hunter) 02 - The Mourner (1963) 03 - The Outfit (1963) 04 - The Steel Hit (1963) (aka The Man with the Getaway Face) 05 - The Score (1964) (aka Killtown) 06 - The Black Ice Score (1965) 07 - The Jugger (1965) 08 - The Handle (1966) (aka Run Lethal) 09 - The Seventh (1966) (aka The Split) 10 - The Green Eagle Score (1967) 11 - The Rare Coin Score (1967) 12 - The Sour Lemon Score (1969) 13 - Deadly Edge (1971) 14 - Slayground (1971) 15 - Plunder Squad (1972) 16 - Butcher's Moon (1974) 17 - Child Heist (1974) 18 - Comeback (1997) 19 - Backflash (1998) 20 - Payback (1999) 21 - Flashfire (2000) 22 - Firebreak (2001) 23 - Breakout (2002) 24 - No One Runs Forever (2004) George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman! Thomas Hughes . Tom Brown.s School Days (Flashman.s first appearance; the rest are Fraser books.) 07 - Flashman and the Redskins 09 - Flashman and the Mountain of Light: Flashman Papers 1845-1846 10 - Flashman and the Angel of the Lord 11 - Flashman and the Tiger Diana Gabaldon 01 - Outlander 02 - Dragonfly 03 - Voyager 04 - Drums of Autumn 04.5 - The Outlandish Companion 05 - The Fiery Cross 06 - A Breath of Snow and Ashes Film - Backstory 4: Interviews With Screenwriters of the '70s and '80s (ed: Patrick McGilligan; includes a Westlake essay) - Movies and Methods Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Bill Nichols; contemporary analysis of film, including structuralism. - An Unspeakable Betrayal - Selected writings by Luis Bunuel - Tunes for 'Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon by Daniel Goldmark - Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible" by Linda Williams Music - Tribal Rites by David Diebold - SF gay scene late 70s/early 80s, Patrick Cowley/Sylvester material - The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, The Music, The 70s in San Francisco by Joshua Gamson - Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco by Peter Shapiro *** Endgame: Strategies of Postmodernist Performance - Robert Morris, Laurie Anderson, Robert Longo, with an essay by Maurice Berger: Hunter College Art Gallery, May 16-June 20, 1984 *** As my friends know, I am an indifferent cook. But if you like books about food, cooks, cooking, kitchens: I recommend The Kitchen by Nicholas Freeling. He is best known in this country as a mystery writer and to some as a practitioner of Zen, but he was at one time a professional cook, and The Kitchen is an incisive, funny account of what it's like to work in the kitchen of a provincial hotel in France. The book was published by Harper in 1970 and I have no idea if it's in print in any version (yes, I know I can Google it, thank you.) The hardcover also has great woodcut illustrations. *** Regarding: Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite Love this series! Patrick, have a look at The Value of X. It's prequel to Liquor, less to do with food, more to do with their early relationship, and contains the alluded-to Monkey Hill incident and Rickey's CIA fiasco. It's excellent. Prime refers to the CIA experience quite a bit, but it also fills you in as you go, so you could read them in any order. There are a handful of short stories about Rickey and G-man, too, and something forthcoming called D*U*C*K. *** Ross Macdonald - Lew Archer series The order of the Lew Archer books is as follows: 1.. The Moving Target (1949) 2. The Drowning Pool (1950) 3. The Way Some People Die (1951) 4. The Ivory Grin (1952) 5. Find a Victim (1954) 6. The Barbarous Coast (1956) 7. The Doomsters (1958) 8. The Galton Case (1959) 9. The Wycherly Woman (1961) 10. The Zebra-Striped Hearse (1962) 11. The Chill (1964) 12. The Far Side of the Dollar (1965) 13. Black Money (1966) 14. The Instant Enemy (1968) 15. The Goodbye Look (1969) 16. The Underground Man (1971) 17. Sleeping Beauty (1973) 18. The Blue Hammer (1976) In addition, there were two collections of short stories: 1. The Name Is Archer (1955, Bantam Paperback Original) 2. Lew Archer, Private Investigator (1977, Mysterious Press HC) *** Madeline Robins - "Fallen Woman Regency noir novels" --------------- Point of Honour Petty Treason *** Llloyd Biggle Jr. - Jan Darken books (1960s) 1) All the Colors of Darkness 2) Watchers of the Dark 3) This Darkening Universe James H. Schmitz ---------------- The Witches of Karres - Light, cozy space opera circa The Best of James Schmitz - NESFA Press 1991 short story collection A Pride of Monsters - story collection Lion Loose - Yojimbo riff A Nice Day For Screaming - Very rare collection Note: Baen editions edited somewhat by Eric Flint. Alexi Panshin - Rite of Passage (1968) - Coming of age SF Peter Gurney - Braver Men Walk Away - A chronicle of the life of Peter Gurney, MBE, GM and Bar, who has been at the forefront of the fight against crime and international terrorism since he began his career defusing bombs in post-Nazi Berlin. His autobiography gives a first-hand account of the battle he has waged to combat terrorism and prevent further tragedies occurring, from the back streets of Belfast to Lockerbie, where he was an expert witness at the hearing, from the bombing of the Grand Hotel, Brighton to the Middle East and to the IRA's mortar attack on the British Cabinet. *** The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey