FireBlade Fiction

New Appearances

• George Gissing’s New Grub Street
• Alexandre Dumas’ A Masked Ball
• J.M. Barrie’s Margaret Ogilvy

On the Shelf

• James Matthew Barrie
• Erewhon, Samuel Butler
• Lewis Carroll
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Alexandre Dumas
• The Ballad of Iskander, James Elroy Flecker
• New Grub Street, George Gissing
• Red and Sloppy Meat is Delicious, godsgiftmaggot
• Oscar Wilde

Off the Shelf

• Elliot S! Maggin! (): Fan info on Elliot S! Maggin, including descriptions of his contributions to the Superman mythos. Also including samples from “Last Son of Krypton” and “Miracle Monday”, two brilliant novels. This is a must stop site, folks. Find out why he uses the exclamation!!!!!!
  

• On-Line Books Volunteers (John Mark Ockerbloom): Interested in putting something on-line yourself? Go to this page and find out if somebody else is already doing it. And if they aren’t, volunteer! Don’t forget to read their How to Put Books On-Line.
  
• Jitterbug Press (Kristen Brennan): Godzilla vs. Tamagotchi, Buffalo Girls, Things We Hate. These are the folks who do “Coven of Angels”. Read the text works as well. “The Garden of Earthly Delights” is quite good. It appears that it is mostly a news and interview site now.
• Douglas Adams (Douglas Adams): Lots of hype about Douglas Adams, but includes a number of good articles and such about and by Adams on the “DNA” link.
• In Prudence is the Better Part of Valerie (Steve Gerber): Sometimes you bicycle across something lying at the side of the road that leaves you screaming hysterically for mother. Steve Gerber’s fiction is almost entirely similar.
• Madwoman with a VCR (Kathy Li): Actually, she’s a madwoman with a library card, a theatre ticket, and a bus pass. And a very good opening illustration by Donna Barr--see the site just for that! Uh... somewhere... if you can find it. Diligence has its rewards.
• Ab Irato (Ab Irato): Subversive art and literature. Isn’t all art subversive? Some of it is in English, all of it is interesting.
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• Cheap Ironies (Michael Berry): Look in the prose section (The Moving Finger) for Merv’s Night Out. And wander around his new novel as well. (Glad to see I’m not the only one slowly putting their ignored fiction on-line.)
• Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse (James Rawles): Harking back to the days when fiction could be used as a teaching tool, Triple Ought can be read both as fascinating apocalyptic fiction or as a manual on surviving said apocalypse. The book is gone--it has been published and he no longer has the publishing rights. But now you can read the possible movie script!
• Where the Hell Do You Want to Go Today? (Night Stalker): You can go to hell with Dante, Milton, and Wilde. “All culture is subversive and useless.”
• Matt Neuman (Matt Neuman): Look for “In the Bubble” among other odd things he’s written. “The Time God Appeared On ‘To Tell the Truth’”? God apparently has been quite busy on this page.
• Bartleby On-line Books (Aaron Lukas): A bunch of on-line books and advertising. A bit over-heavy use of italics in some of the works.
• Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Geoffrey Marx): Includes some of Geoffrey’s writings, including “Mad Dogs and Englishmen”, with chapter titles such as “Working with Rats”, “Baba Yaga”, and “Milton’s Bathrobe”. (Disable that annoying Geocities pop-up by turning Javascript off in your “Preferences”, usually under your “Edit” menu.)
• The Shopping Cart Graveyard (Jerry Stratton): Arthur teams up with a paraplegic named Voniece to save the Earth from marauding llamas and politicians.
• It Isn’t Murder If They’re Yankees (Jerry Stratton): Carolyn Purcell hunts down “The Quiet Man”, a Washington, DC serial killer in Virginia.

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Jerry

	“	Give a man a fish, and you’ve fed him for a day. Teach him to fish, and you’ve depleted the lake.	”
		It Isn’t Murder If They’re Yankees