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(1976) Thirteenth in Kenneth Bulmer's sword-and-planet series featuring Dray Prescot, an eighteenth-century adventurer transported to the planet Kregen. In this one, Prescot is disgraced and far from home, disguised as an officer of the enemy's army. The series is prone to episodic, Mary-Sue-ish narratives, so this volume is one of my favorites: its plot is more coherent than usual, and Prescot faces significant loss.

dabbe Love the price and the cover! 🤩🤩🤩 1y

swynn @dabbe Right? Oh, for the days of buck-and-a-quarter paperbacks ! (Cover artist is Michael Whelan, one of my favorites) 1y

Bookwomble @swynn I like Whelan's cover art, too, though my personal fave is Bruce Pennington. ... I've never heard of this series or writer. Perhaps one that didn't make it over to Britain, of just my personal blindspot. I do enjoy a good sword and planet yarn 😊 1y

swynn @Bookwomble I definitely love Pennington too. If you like sword-and-planet stories then the Dray Prescot series is worth a try. If you can find them ... 1y

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xicanti

Atlas of Imagined Places: from Lilliput to Gotham City | Matt Brown, Rhys Davies

This book is a lot of fun! I‘m trying to go through the maps in order, but I couldn‘t resist peeking to see if some of my favourite fictional places made it in. Weatherfield (of CORONATION STREET fame) was a given, since the atlas‘s creators are British and they state up front that they focused on English-language works for accessibility‘s sake, but I was super delighted to find Nuevo Toledo (from CLUB DE CUERVOS) in Fictional Mexico.

xicanti Other surprises: Gotham City is in New Jersey! Metropolis is in Maryland! (I always kind of forget Maryland even exists.) Star City is in California, not the Washington/Oregon mashup that lives in my head! 2y

xicanti A not-so-good surprise: the unquestioned colonial slant to a lot of the Central American fictional places. Grrr. 2y

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xicanti

Atlas of Imagined Places: from Lilliput to Gotham City | Matt Brown, Rhys Davies

This week‘s library haul features three books from my Litsy stack, a memoir, and an X-Men trade I borrowed a couple months back and had to return unread because I hadn‘t read X OF SWORDS yet. Now nothing stands between me and it!

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Mitch

Atlas of Imagined Places: from Lilliput to Gotham City | Matt Brown, Rhys Davies

Oh @Soubhiville this is all so very very beautiful ♥️♥️♥️♥️. Thank you so very much. Mel was so happy to see Gotham and Cabot Cove on the cover map! 🤣

LeahBergen Happy Birthday!! ❤️📚❤️📚 2y

AmyG Georgeous! Why, I see “New Jersey”. 2y

Soubhiville This looks like such a fun book! I hope you‘re having a wonderful birthday! (hopefully the back-ordered second package won‘t take too long to arrive. Extending your celebration a bit longer!) 💜🧁💜 2y

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Mitch @AmyG 🤣🤣🤣 2y

Mitch @Soubhiville it‘s a wonderful book. I‘m going to spend many winter evenings with this one xxx 2y

Mitch @LeahBergen thank you honey 2y

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swynn

Armada of Antares: Dray Prescot #11 | Alan Burt Akers

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(1976) Eleventh in Kenneth Bulmer's John-Carter-ish "Dray Prescot" series, chronicling the adventures of an 18th-century seaman on the distant planet Kregen. This one wraps a subseries, in which Prescot defends his adopted homeland against an aggressor commanding a fleet of airships. (I will not tell you whether he wins, but there are about forty more volumes, so ....) My affection for this series is largely nostalgic, but it is strong.

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LibrarianRyan

Endling #3: The Only | Katherine Applegate

Good After Noon Everyone.

It's the last working day of the month so you know what that means? #COVERLOVE

This month is the #MGedition and there is a lot.

Lets start off with the third book in the Endling Series.

Out March 2
#CoverLove #MGedition

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Chrissyreadit

Bloodline (Star Wars) | Claudia Gray

#imaginaryplaces for #wanderingjune and the link to many more imaginary places including some rooted in historical fiction. https://www.buzzfeed.com/simoncrerar/incredible-maps-of-imaginary-places

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BarbaraBB Really cool 💕 5y

Cinfhen Need to check out article later 5y

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Leftcoastzen

Atlantis: the Antediluvian World | Ignatius Donnelly

#wanderingJune #imaginaryplaces or real ? Insert twilight zone music here.Donnelly was quite a character if you Wikipedia him.

Cinfhen, BarbaraBB

Cinfhen I love the idea of an entire universe under the sea 🥰 5y

Leftcoastzen @Cinfhen Aquaman!😁🔱 5y

Cinfhen Little Mermaid 🧜🏽‍♀️ 5y

BarbaraBB Remember that tv series from long ago 😉?! Starring Bobby Ewing from Dallas 😂? (edited) 5y

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Megabooks

Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Gene Roddenberry

All these Enterprises are #ImaginaryPlaces but, at times, have seemed quite real to me! #WanderingPlaces @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB 😁🖖🏻

Cinfhen 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 5y

tournevis 🖖🖖🖖 5y

Poet422 They are imaginary only in the fact that in our current time-line they haven‘t been realized. If we conclude, as current string theory suggests, that time only exists as linear because of our perception limitations then we can safely conclude that at somewhen an Enterprise-like craft is exploring strange new worlds and seeking out new life and new civilizations... #iamandalwayswillbeyourfriend #livelongandprosper 🖖🏻 5y

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BarbaraBB Star Trek, of course 👍🏼 5y

Megabooks @Cinfhen 😊😊😊😊😊 5y

Megabooks @tournevis #llap fellow Trekkie 🖖🏻 5y

Megabooks @Poet422 agreed! Possibly not exactly the Enterprise, though. Patrick Stewart has a show to film! 😉 jk jk! I‘m glad to meet you here!! 🖖🏻🖖🏻 #llap 5y

Megabooks @BarbaraBB but of course, my dear! 😘🤗 (edited) 5y

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Billypar

Dune | Frank Herbert

#ImaginaryPlaces #WanderingJune #currentread #DuneInJune
Just started this behemoth and have arrived at the desert planet Arrakis. Not even 100 pages in, and there is already much political intrigue and religious lore to interpret in the Dune universe. Off to a promising start overall 🏜️ 🐛
@BarbaraBB @Cinfhen

Cinfhen Ooohhh, I‘ve wanted to read this book but #pagecountphobia 5y

Billypar @Cinfhen It was a birthday gift from my boss- a favorite of hers. I usually don't read 800 page chunksters or sci-fi, but I'm a sucker for just about anything I hear is on someone's all-time favorites list. 5y

Cinfhen That‘s a really thoughtful gift!! I‘ll watch for your final thoughts 5y

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rretzler A great book and a good series - that is until I bailed on book 4. I do plan to go back and reread and finish it off one day. 5y

Billypar @rretzler I didn't even realize it was a series until I started reading it. Such an impressive achievement to imagine a world in this level of depth- seems like much more than the plot developments. 5y

rretzler That‘s the beauty of it, I think. The entire society and political intrigues that Herbert created is mind-blowing and wonderful. And his son has continued the series. I‘ve read several of those and they are good too (better than book 4 of the series.) I believe Herbert was influenced by Edgar Rice Burroughs‘ Mars series and Isaac Asimov‘s Foundation series, which are also very good, if perhaps a little dated. 5y

Suet624 Such a good book. I read it soon after it came out - hundreds of years ago! - and I still have scenes popping up in my mind from it. It‘s on my list to read again. 5y

Billypar @rretzler A woman on the subway today saw me reading Dune, and she was telling me how it was a favorite and changed her life. She also really liked Children of Dune, but said God Emperor was tough to get through, but the end was good. Interesting about the influences- thanks for those! 5y

Billypar @Suet624 That's pretty neat to be an original fan of something that would become a classic. I'm a little disappointed that I'm about 5 years too old to have had Harry Potter in my childhood when the first book came out. With this one, I'm still early, but enjoying it so far! 5y

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