Title: The J.R.R. Tolkien Handbook
Author(s): Colin Duriez
Cover Artist: Jack Brouwer
Language: English
Original Title: The Tolkien and Middle-earth Handbook: An A-Z Guide to the Life, Thought and Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien
Original Publisher: Monarch Books
Originally Published: 1992
Publisher: Baker Book House
Published: September 2002
ISBN-10: 0801030145
ISBN-13: 9780801030147
Notes: Has markings in text (underlining)
Category Archives: commentary
Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers – edited by Larry McCaffery
Title: Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writer
Editor(s): Larry McCaffery
Language: English
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: July 1990
ISBN-10: 0252016920
ISBN-13: 9780252016929
Contents:
“An Interview with Gregory Benford”
“An Interview with William S. Burroughs”
“An Interview with Octavia E. Butler”
“An Interview with Samuel R. Delany”
“An Interview with Thomas M. Disch”
“An Interview with William Gibson”
“An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin”
“An Interview with Joanna Russ”
“An Interview with Bruce Sterling”
“An Interview with Gene Wolf”
Crazy English by Richard Lederer
Title: Crazy English
Author(s): Richard Lederer
Language: English
Original Publisher: Pocket Books
Originally Published: 1989
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1990
ISBN-10: 067168907X
ISBN-13: 9780671689070
A Portfolio of Classic Photographs – Life in the ’50s
Title: A Portfolio of Classic Photographs – Life in the ’50s
Author(s): unknown
Language: English
Publisher: Time
Published: 1987
Notes: More of a pamphlet
The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy 12 – edited by Karl F. Batdorff and Chris Halladay
Title: The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy 12
Series: Leading Edge
Number in Series: 12 (twelve)
Author(s): April Allgaier, Glenn L. Anderson, Karl F. Batdorff, M. Shayne Bell, Charlene Carlisle, Sharon Deem, Dave Doering, Colleen Drippé, Mel L. Gifford, B. Kent Harrison, Howard V. Hendrix, Robert Kirby, Jonathan D. Langford, Per A. Malm, Julia L. Taylor, Sharon Wilson
Editor(s): Karl F. Batdorff, Chris Halladay
Cover Artist: Dave Bastian
Interior Artist(s): Alicia Brimhall, Elaine Grey, Shareen Halliday, Edward Liebing, Eddy Mueller, David A. Murry, Valerie Reese, John Utykanski, Sharon Wilson
Language: English
Publisher: Quark: The Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Published: 1986
Notes:
Staff List:
Executive Editor: Karl F. Batdorff
Managing Editor: Chris Halladay
Assistant Editor: James Wilson
Executive Secretary: Joseph Wager
Editing Director: Jonathan D. Langford
Fiction Director: Edward Liebing
Nonfiction Director: April Allgaier
Art Director: Shareen D. Halliday
Marketing Director: Jennilyn Babcock
Associate Editors: Charlene Carlisle, David Doering, Mel L. Gifford
Staff: Ole Anderson, Colleen Aston, Cathy Errickson, Tom Grover, Douglas Jole, Keith Kennedy, John Landbeck, Per Malm, Kristy Merrill, Dale Stephenson, Julia Taylor, Tovia Tracy, Rick Utykanski, Deborah Wager, Keri Webb, David Wolverton
Special Thanks to: Linda Hunter Adams, Elizabeth Pope, Susan Ream, Marion K. Smith, Marjorie Wight
Contents:
“Driven to the Edge: Editor’s Page” by Karl F. Batdorff
“Chipping at the Edge: Letters to the Editor” by Sharon Deem, Dave Doering, and Per A. Malm
“Run Fast, Rat Mother” by Glenn L. Anderson
“Approaching the Edge: From the Big Bang to Superstrings to Nuclear Fusion” by B. Kent Harrison
“Rasta Man” by Howard V. Hendrix
“Saguaro” by Robert Kirby
“The Dawntower” poem by Charlene Carlisle
“And the Stars Are Old (Part 1 of 2)” by M. Shayne Bell
“A View from the Edge: Report from Confederation” by Jonathan D. Langford
“Tabby” by Colleen Drippé
“Over the Edge: Reflection on Twenty Years of Star Trek” by Julia L. Taylor
“Mandy” by April Allgaier
“Magician’s Retreat” by Sharon Wilson
“Take Out the Trash” by Mel L. Gifford
A Sense of History – The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage – edited by Byron Dobell
Title: A Sense of History – The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage
Editor(s): Byron Dobell
Language: English
Publisher: American Heritage, Houghton Mifflin
Published: September 1985
ISBN-10: 0828111758
ISBN-13: 9780828111751
Contents:
“I Wish I’d Been There” by various
“How to Write History” by Dixon Wecter
“‘And the Mound Builders Vanished from the Earth'” by Robert Silverberg
“The Hunt for the Regicides” by Alexander Winston
“‘Then and There the Child Independence Was Born” by Richard B. Morris
“‘In the Name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!'” by Kenneth S. Davis
“Our Two Greatest Presidents” by Clinton Rossiter
“The Garden of Eden and the Deacon’s Meadow” by Perry Miller
“The Battle of Lake Erie” by Richard F. Snow
“The Peace of Christmas Eve” by Fred L. Engelman
“Primer from a Green World” by Walter Havinghurst
“Children of Darkness” by Stephen B. Oates
“Jackson’s Fight with the ‘Monster'” by Bray Hammond
“Johnny Appleseed” by Edward Hoagland
“The Minister and the Mill Girl” by George Howe
“The Hawthornes in Paradise” by Malcolm Cowley
“The Tammany Pioneers” by Richard Reinhardt
“The Farther Continent of James Clyman” by Richard Rhodes
“Prairie Schooner” by George R. Stewart
“A Barbarian at the Shogun’s Court” by Emily Hahn
“A Family Divided” by Janet Stevenson
“Hayfoot, Strawfoot!” by Bruce Catton
“The First Modern Man of War” by B.H. Liddell Hart
“The Unexpected Mrs. Stowe” by David McCollough
“Fear of the City” by Alfred Kazin
“The Great Vanderbilt Will Battle” by Frank Kintrea
“The Historian as Celebrity” by John Lukas
“The Machine That Kept Them Honest” by Gerald Carson
“Carnegie & Rockefeller” by Robert L. Heilbroner
“Should the Historian Make Moral Judgments?” by Henry Steele Commager
“Henry Adams in the South Seas” by Louis Auchincloss
“‘You’ll Have to See Morgan'” by Andy Logan
“The Father of Oz” by Daniel P. Mannix
“The Winds of Ruin” by C.W. Gusewelle
“The Old Fall River Line” by Oliver Jensen
“‘You Press the Button, We Do the Rest'” by Bernard A. Weisberger
“The Woods Were Tossing with Jewels” by Marie St. John
“‘Perdicaris Alive or Raisuli Dead'” by Barbara W. Tuchman
“The American Game” by Bruce Catton
“Big Bill Taft” by Stephen Hess
“An Iowa Christmas” by Paul Engle
“The World’s Tallest Building” by Spencer Klaw
“Still Quiet on the Western Front” by Gene Smith
“Were Sacco and Vanzetti Innocent?” by Francis Russell
“Quiet Earth, Big Sky” by Wallace Stegner
“The Conundrum of Corn” by Joseph Kastner
“Henry Ford’s Village” by Walter Karp
“Why the Money Stopped” by John Kenneth Galbraith
“‘I Am the Law'” by Thomas J. Fleming
“St. Lô” by Charles Cawthon
“The Man Who Could Speak Japanese” by William Manchester
“When I Landed, the War Was Over” by Hughes Rudd
“The Place of Franklin D. Roosevelt in History” by Allan Nevins
“How We Found the Missiles” by Don Moser
“LBJ and Vietnam” by Larry L. King
“‘The First Rough Draft of History’ – An interview with Benjamin C. Bradlee” by Michael Gartner
The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy 11 – edited by Jonathan D. Langford and Edward Liebing
Title: The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy 11
Series: Leading Edge
Number in Series: 1 (one)
Author(s): April Allgaier, Cathleen Barney, Karl F. Batdorff, M. Shayne Bell, Todd Bennett, Charlene Carlisle, Dennis E. Clayson, Craig L. Dalley, Brian Keith Evenson, Clark Farmer, Teresa Keenan, Jonathan D. Langford, Edward Liebing , Frank Maxwell, Neil J. McMichaels, Chad R. Milliner, John B. Rosenman, Julia L. Taylor, Dave Wolverton
Editor(s): Jonathan D. Langford, Edward Liebing
Cover Artist: Steve Keele
Interior Artist(s): Cory Bartholemew, David Bastian, David Michael Bastian, Darin Bell, Blake Crary, Shareen D. Halliday, Keith Kennedy, Edward Liebing, Eddy Mueller, Beverly Nokes, Valerie Rees, Clint Sessions, Michael Woodbury
Language: English
Publisher: Quark – The Science and Fiction Club
Published: 1985
Notes:
Staff List:
Executive Editor: Jonathan D. Langford
Managing Editor: Edward Liebing
Assistant Editor: Karl F. Batdorff
Executive Secretary: Valerie Rees
Editing Director: David Wolverton
Fiction Director: Chris Halladay
Nonfiction Director: April Allgaier
Art Director: Shareen D. Halliday
Marketing Director: Jennilyn Babcock
Associate Editors: Charlene Carlisle, Mel L. Gifford, James Wilson
Staff: David Bastian, Eric Blood, David Doering, Mike Eging, Beverly Farland, Laurel Fearnley, Tom Grover, Polly Harris, Steve Houston, Keith Kennedy, John Landbeck, Per Malm, Eddy Mueller, Beverly Nokes, Eric Nyer, John Pennock, Suzanne Slingerland, Connie Smith, Lareena Smith, Dale Stephenson, Keri Webb, David Wilson, Anne Woddard, Michael Woodbury
Special Thanks to: Linda Hunter Adams, Elizabeth Pope, Susan Ream, Marion K. Smith, Marjorie Wright
Contents:
“Driven to the Edge: Editor’s Page” by Jonathan D. Langford
“Free Air” by John B. Rosenman
“Approaching the Edge: Playing the Game: An Interview with Gregory Benford” by Frank Maxwell
“Fire and Brimstone” by Chad R. Milliner
“Bob” by Brian Keith Evenson
“Moon” poem by Clark Farmer
“A View from the Edge: The Great Shift from Science Fiction to Fantasy” by Jonathan D. Langford
“It Happened Like This…” by Craig L. Dalley
“Elegy for a Childhood Friendship” poem by Neil J. McMichaels
“Road to Candarei” by M. Shayne Bell
“Over the Edge: Life, the Universe and Everything IV” by April Allgaier
“The Library” by Teresa Keenan
“Laundromat: Night” poem by M. Shayne Bell
“Derahn” by Cathleen Barney
“The Postman” by David Brin – review by Karl F. Batdorff
“Always Coming Home” by Ursula K. Le Guin – review by Dave Wolverton
“Sentenced to Prism” by Alan Dean Foster – review by Julia L. Taylor
“Myth-ing Persons” by Robert Asprin – review by Charlene Carlisle
“Speaker for the Dead” by Orson Scott Card – review by Todd Bennett
“In the Room of the Third Reflection” by Dennis E. Clayson
“Evanescence” by Charlene Carlisle
“A Word in Edgewise: Manic Maunderings of a Managing Editor” by Edward Liebing
The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy 8 – edited by David Doering and Jonathan D. Langford
Title: The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy 8
Series: Leading Edge
Number in Series: 8 (eight)
Author(s): Steven K. Barton, Michael Shayne Bell, Dan Burk, David Doering, Jim B. Ellis, Karen Ellis, Mel L. Gifford, Nancy Lynn Hayes, Barbara R. Hume, Jonathan Langford, Connie Ruth Rush
Editor(s): David Doering, Jonathan D. Langford
Cover Artist: James Watson
Interior Artist(s): Sharon Barwick, David Bastian, Steve Keele, Ron Shirtz, James Watson
Language: English
Publisher: Quark – The Science and Fiction Club
Published: 1984
Notes:
Staff List:
Executive Editor: David Doering
Managing Editor: Jonathan D. Langford
Executive Secretary: David Wolverton
Editing Director: Virginia E. Baker
Fiction Editor: Mel L. Gifford
Nonfiction Editor: Amelia L. McClure
Art Director: James Watson
Associate Editors: M. Shayne Bell, Lareena Smith
Staff: Delayna Anderson, Russell Asplund, Jenni Babcock, Sharon Barwick, Karl Batdorff, Dave Bastian, Ron Blankenship, Vicki Brinkmeier, Karen Ellis, Beverly Farland, Tom Grover, Nancy Hayes, Mariann Howarth, Terry Jeffress, Steve Keele, Pet Malm, Ed Phippen, Connie Rush, Jim Sather, Bill Schuler, Cindy Skinner, Keri Webb, Jamie Whalen, David Wilson
Special Thanks to: Linda Hunter Adams, Elizabeth Pope, Susan Ream, Marion K. Smith, Marjorie Wright
Contents:
“Driven to the Edge: Editor’s Page” by David Doering
“Wall Street Wizardry” by Dan Burk
“Approaching the Edge: The Sheer Joy of Storytelling: An Interview with C. J. Cherryh” by Michael Shayne Bell
“Split Personality” by Nancy Lynn Hayes
“View from the Edge: Always Working on a Book: An Interview with Frederik Pohl” by Connie R. Rush
“First Contact: A Play in One Act” by Michael Shayne Bell
“Young Rissa” by F. M. Busby – review by Karen Ellis
“Raphael” by R. A. MacAvoy – review by Nancy Lynn Hayes
“The River of Dancing Gods” by Jack L. Chalker – review by Nancy Lynn Hayes
“Oh Vile Dragon” by Steven K. Barton
“Dragon” by Jim B. Ellis
“The Only Sure Escape” by Connie Ruth Rush
“Star Weaver” poem by Mel L. Gifford
“L. A. Con II: A World Con for All Fans…” by Barbara R. Hume
“A Word in Edgewise: Report from the Managing Editor” by Jonathan Langford
The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy 7 – edited by David Doering and Robert A. Steimle
Title: The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy 7
Series: Leading Edge
Number in Series: 7 (seven)
Author(s): M. Shayne Bell, Ron Blankenship, Doug Campbell, David Doering, Mel. L. Gifford, Nancy Lynn Hayes, Barbara R. Hume, Jonathan Langford, Alan D. Manning, Kristy Merrill, Mandy Nakommen, David Orr, Rayda Reed, Lareena Smith, Marion K. Smith, P. Karen Todd, Stephen C. Walker, James Watson
Editor(s): David Doering, Robert A. Steimle
Cover Artist: David Bastian
Interior Artist(s): David Michael Bastian, Brian Bird, Steve Keele, Don Maitz, Jeff Poffenberger, Ron Shirtz, Nancy Tanner, James Watson
Language: English
Publisher: Quark – The Science and Fiction Club
Published: 1984
Notes: No publication date given in issue, year obtained from dated art and theme of issue (“1984”).
Staff List:
Executive Editor: David Doering
Managing Editor: Robert A. Steimle
Assistant Editor: Jonathan D. Langford
Fiction Editor: Mel. L. Gifford
Nonfiction Editor: Amelia L. McClure
Art Director: James Watson
Marketing Director: Jerry Loomis
Associate Editor: Nancy Lynn Hayes
Technical Advisor: M. Shayne Bell
Art Staff: David Bastian, Brian Bird, Steven Keele, Jeff Poffenberger, Ron Shirtz, Nancy A. Tanner
Staff: Ronald W. Blankenship, Tom Grover, Vicki Brinkmeier, Peter Haymond, Mariann Howarth, Barbara Hume, Carolyn Larsen, Christian Larsen, LuAnn Mason, Jerrie Morrow, Connie Rush, Jim L. Sather, Cindy Skinner, Lareena Smith, Kathryn Summers, Nancy A. Tanner, Keri Webb, David Wilson
Special Thanks to: Elizabeth Pope, Susan Ream, Marion Smith, Marjorie Wright, Linda Hunter Adams
Contents:
“Driven to the Edge: Editor’s Page” by David Doering
“Rocksong” by Rayda Reed
“Approaching the Edge: Significance of Sound in Names Found in Fantasy Literature” by Alan D. Manning
“Hard Knocks” by Lareena Smith and Ron Blankenship
“To Prove the Warrior” by Mel. L. Gifford
“The White Flash” by Kristy Merrill
“Visions of the Edge: An Interview with Don Maitz” by David Doering
“Chef’s Choice” by Barbara R. Hume
“The Token” by Mandy Nakommen
“Standard Procedure” by James Watson
“View from the Edge I: The I. R. S. as Big Brother: ‘1984’ in 1984” by Stephen C. Walker
“The Test” by P. Karen Todd
“View from the Edge II: ‘1984’ as Preventative Prophecy” by Marion K. Smith
“Dark Between the Stars” by M. Shayne Bell
“Home 2180 a.d.” by Jonathan Langford
“Shadow Walker” by M. Shayne Bell, Nancy Lynn Hayes, Jonathan Langford, and Lareena Smith
“Over the Edge: Science and Sorcerers: A Casual Look at Role- (Roll-) Playing” by David Orr
“The Book of God” by Doug Campbell
The Leading Edge: The Magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy 6 – edited by David Doering
Title: The Leading Edge: The Magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy 6
Series: Leading Edge
Number in Series: 6 (six)
Author(s): Virginia E. Baker, David M. Bastian, M. Shayne Bell, Dan L. Burke, David Doering, Mel. L. Gifford, Nancy Lynn Hayes, Barbara R. Hume, Carolyn Nicita, Amy Parker, Bill Schuler, Lareena Smith, Diann Thornley, Burdean R. Wirtz
Editor(s): David Doering
Cover Artist: James Christensen
Interior Artist(s): David Bastian, James Christensen, Joe Flores, Steven Keele, Laurelle, Leslie Perdew, James Watson
Language: English
Publisher: The Leading Edge
Published: 1984
Notes:
Staff List:
Publisher: Lareena Smith
Executive Editor: David Doering
Executive Secretary: Jonathan Langford
Fiction Editor: Mel L. Gifford
Nonfiction Editor: Helen Orr
Poetry Editor: Robert A. Steimle
Art Director: James Watson
Production Editor: M. Shayne Bell
Associate Editors: Virginia E. Baker, M. Shayne Bell, Nancy Lynn Hayes, Barbara Hume, Jonathan Langford, Lareena Smith
Art Staff: David Bastian, Joe Flores, Steven Keele, Leslie Perdew
Staff: Vicki Brinkmeier, Karen Ellis, Peter Haymond, Carolyn Larsen, Christian Larsen, LuAnn Mason, Jerrie Morrow, David Orr, Amy Parker, Cindy Skinner, Bill Schuler, Nancy Tanner
Editors Emeritus: Cara Bullinger, Sonja Porter, Michael W. Reed, Rayda Reed
Special Thanks to: Elizabeth Pope, Susan Ream, Marion Smith, Marjorie Wright
Contents:
“Driven to the Edge: Editor’s Page” by David Doering
“Midnight Mandate” poem by Burdean R. Wirtz
“Truth or Consequences” by Barbara R. Hume
“Approaching the Edge: Kindly in the Mirror: An Interview with Dean Ing” by Amy Parker
“Eye Hath Not Seen” by Carolyn Nicita
“A Witch’s Christmas” by Michael Shayne Bell
“Changeling Soul” poem by Virginia E. Baker
“Loyalty” by Nancy Lynn Hayes
“Visions of the Edge: Painting That Crazy Stuff: An Interview with James Christensen” by David Doering
“Arrow’s Song” by Mel. L. Gifford
“Sunfinder” by Lareena Smith
“Wizard’s Wine” by Dan L. Burke
“View from the Edge: A Strange New Speech: Two Gorillas and Language” by M. Shayne Bell
“The Screw-up Letters or Snodgrass, Why Weepest Thou?” by David Michael Bastian
“The Distant Legacy” by Diann Thornley
“Over the Edge: Point / Counterpoint: Two Reviews of ‘The Alliance’ by Gerald N. Lund” by Bill Schuler and Barbara R. Hume