For a project I'm currently working on as part of my graduation in Graphic Design, I wanted to compile something like an atlas of fictional cities. These may be from books, legends, stories, video games, advertisements, comics, really whatever... Even "real" cities but alternate versions, imagined or in some way deviate from their real counterpart are valid.
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posted by ahtlast93
on May 18, 2013 -
27 answers
Why do horror stories often feature mysterious relics that often have information encoded in them, such as accursed old books, runes, etc.? What kinds of anxieties is this trope meant to express?
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posted by Ambrosia Voyeur
on Apr 4, 2013 -
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I was linked a book some time ago via twitter, but that account is now gone and with it went the link.
Things I remember:
Pretty sure it was called "Daylight" (maybe not that, but definitely a time word. daytime? morning?)
Content: the text was just the entirety of a single day's New York Times transcribed
The link went to the publisher, I recall seeing it on Amazon also.
I believe published in the early 90s. 93ish? But still purchasable
Currently going crazy trying to find it with such not-so-limiting search terms. My browser history doesn't go back far enough to find it there. Hoping someone familiar with it happens upon this, I guess.
posted by arsey
on Mar 8, 2013 -
1 answer
Recommendations for fiction about the rich and all their trappings, imposters within that world, or stories where the mighty fell and then rose again?
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posted by dean winchester
on Dec 12, 2012 -
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Has anyone ever written an Arthurian novel with the Round Table as the bad guys? I am specifically *not* talking about books from the perspective of Mordred or Morgaine (or any of their cognates.) There are lots and lots of those.
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posted by restless_nomad
on Oct 13, 2012 -
7 answers
Looking for lists of memes, themes and repeated elements in children's stories that I can use in entirely new stories I'm making up for actual children.
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posted by booksherpa
on Sep 13, 2012 -
8 answers
South African novel? A Boer seduces a black girl, they have sex in his Mercedes Benz. The book deals with the seduction that comes before, and the problems afterwards. The white guy is NOT cast as a villain. My friend read this book in the 70s and is looking for it. Thanks!
posted by Tom-B
on Jul 17, 2012 -
10 answers
I am looking for any information about a triangle-shaped literary magazine that was published in Northampton, MA in the 1980s.
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posted by mattbucher
on May 1, 2012 -
7 answers
Excellent Action Scenes In Books? I'm looking for examples of tense, fast paced action sequences in novels and short stories. The written equivalent to the cinematic on-the-edge-of-your-seat-oh-crap-the-person-may-die-how-will-they-escape thing. Bonus if the situation is complex yet reads like a clear, clockwork machine.
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posted by The Whelk
on Feb 8, 2012 -
42 answers
Please help me find a story i read about 10 years ago.
In a dystopian world, criminals are not locked up, but instead are marked and ordinary people are not allowed to interact with them.
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posted by revikim
on Nov 10, 2011 -
7 answers
More non-fiction please! As a strange antidote to having to read a lot of dry academic articles, I enjoy pleasurable non-fiction writing about jobs and work. Books I've liked in the past include May Roach (
Stiff); Atul Gawande (
Complications, Better); Barbara Ehrenreich (
Nickeled and Dimed); and Tracy Kidder (
House, Among Schoolchildren). I'd like recommendations for more non-fiction along those lines.
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posted by jeanmari
on Sep 23, 2011 -
36 answers
I am looking for a chapter book I read as a kid in the 1970s/1980s in which a princess and her family have to move out of their ancestral home and instead rent all the houses on a street to hold all their things that used to be in the castle. It was kind of an adventure/mystery story after that, I think involving something with the family possessions. Anyone know the title of this book please?
posted by cmp4Meta
on Aug 12, 2011 -
2 answers
Please help us find a book my friend saw mention of somewhere. Or recommend other books.
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posted by KChasm
on Aug 5, 2011 -
10 answers
What-was-that-book-filter: 70's or 80's (?) heist (?) novel that involved shutting down L.A. by closing a couple of freeways and the central telephone switching system.
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posted by dersins
on Jul 15, 2011 -
10 answers
Book identification: 19th century (?) American (??) novel with a scene that compares telepathy to rape
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posted by Ideal Impulse
on Jul 8, 2011 -
8 answers
Summer Reading-Filter: intelligent true crime? Essentially, I want all the gruesome pleasure of the content, without having to cringe through a sensationalistic treatment thereof.
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posted by Beardman
on Jun 9, 2010 -
49 answers
Help me find a picture book about which I can remember almost nothing, and what I remember may or may not be true.
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posted by geneva uswazi
on Jun 5, 2010 -
5 answers
Should I try to move from the newspaper industry to the book publishing industry? Or is this just jumping from one sinking ship to another? Canada-specific advice appreciated.
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posted by anonymous
on Mar 24, 2010 -
5 answers
What sci-fi novels feature small community habitats which are the petri dishes of social/political experimentation? By "habitat" I mean a structure or ship that's totally isolated and self-sufficient. Dystopia in miniature!
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posted by cowbellemoo
on Feb 13, 2010 -
45 answers
[Obscure book filter] Anyone remember a book about a grandfather hired to make a notebook to teach someone's daughter about the world, but he secretly makes two copies?
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posted by BusyBusyBusy
on Nov 23, 2009 -
11 answers
Which books help me get into the psyche of war criminals, suicide bombers, etc?
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posted by hasna
on Nov 3, 2009 -
21 answers
I need a book recommendation for my girlfriend; her favourite book is Yann Martel's "Life of Pi". Any ideas?
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posted by mizike
on Oct 7, 2009 -
28 answers
Another forgotten book from childhood. Time travel/survival. Dinosaurs. And yes, it vibrates. Help?
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posted by rokusan
on Aug 26, 2009 -
9 answers
I crave a great novel that's as addictive as a popcorn movie. Please recommend me some
literary page-turners.
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posted by Beardman
on Jun 5, 2009 -
105 answers
Looking for literary magazines that are well-known for their reviews of newly-published poetry, both chapbooks and full-length books.
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posted by exlotuseater
on Jan 16, 2009 -
5 answers
The phenomenology / ontology of text: has anyone examined this issue directly in philosophical, literary and/or critical terms?
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posted by 0bvious
on Sep 18, 2008 -
26 answers
What book is this? I remember an intro that describes Paris, focuses on gold, and has some analogy about the city's inhabitants being like wheat or grain.
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posted by conch soup
on May 9, 2008 -
4 answers
What one book will allow others to gain the truest insight into the soul of each city or region
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posted by reenum
on May 6, 2008 -
16 answers
BookFilter: Help me remember this book about 3 children who go on an "incredible journey" of sorts after their parents fail to pick them up from the hotel's daycare.
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posted by acoutu
on Apr 10, 2008 -
6 answers
Looking for the name of a sci-fi book. Man is injected with a serum that causes him to shrink forever, eventually discovering there are universes smaller than atoms.
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posted by Gudlyf
on Feb 7, 2008 -
9 answers
I'm trying to find the name of a book I read several years ago. The book told the life story of a young gay man who might have been British. Further, possibly only half-correct, details inside.
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posted by MadamM
on Jan 10, 2008 -
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