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Under the Dragon’s Tail, by Maureen Jennings, 1998, McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-9597-9

Dead Lies Dreaming, © 2020 by Charles Stross, ISBN 978-1-250-26702-1, A Tordotcom Book. Published by Tom Doherty Associates.

I read JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit for the first time since at least Junior High, or maybe even before.

I finally read the copy of The Mueller Report Illustrated that someone gave me a while back. I think this is just the obstruction of justice investigation. I was dreading the bad memories it would inevitably dredge up.

A long time ago a friend of mine had the double-LP progressive rock album Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. I dredged up a bootleg on youtube and listened to it again.

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Across the Space Frontier, Joseph Kaplan, Wernher von Braun, Heinz Haber, Willey Ley, Oscar Schatchter, Fred Whipple, edited by Cornelius Ryan, Viking Press, 1952.

I have a copy from the second printing, June 1953

Binary Star #3, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1979. ISBN: 0-440-10526-9

Featuring two great novellas in a single volume:

• Dr. Scofflaw, by Ron Goulart
• Outerworld, by Isidore Haiblum

I only read Dr. Scofflaw, apparently in 1979, and again 45 years later, in 2024.

How Steam Locomotives Work Paperback, March 1, 2022 by Brian Solomon, ISBN 9781627008808

Not to be confused with How Steam Locomotives Really Work

Ammonites, Neal Monks and Philip Palmer, 2002, Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN 1-58834-024-4