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Avram’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Avram’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Avram Davidson
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The Phoenix and the Mirror
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1969
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The Avram Davidson Treasury: A Tribute Collection
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1998
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Adventures in Unhistory: Conjectures on the Factual Foundations of Several Ancient Legends
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1993
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Or All the Seas with Oysters
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1962
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The Other Nineteenth Century
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2001
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The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy
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1991
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The Boss in the Wall
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Magic for Sale
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1983
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Peregrine Primus
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1971
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Masters of the Maze
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1965
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"In a fictionalised New York the twin pains of the Depression and Prohibition are making life dreary and difficult. Someone, however, is pumping beer to the mouths of the thirsty, which is all very well until one of the pipes is discovered. A rich, vi"
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"The late author Avram Davidson was born in 1923 and died in 1993 shortly after his seventieth birthday. There is a new-ish publishing company named "Or All the Seas with Oysters Publishing," named after Davidson's Hugo Award-winning short story "Or A"
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“(Let us reflect, too, upon the possibility, amounting almost to probability, that Stevenson wrote that very book under the influence of medically prescribed cocaine, which was said in those days of its early discovery to cure tuberculosis. And there is yet a paradox in this: first, cocaine does not cure tuberculosis, it does not in fact “cureâ€� anything, it just makes you feel so good that addicts often die of diseases they didn’t know they even had, because they felt so good; and, second, Stevenson, we now know, did not actually have tuberculosis.)”
― Adventures in Unhistory: Conjectures on the Factual Foundations of Several Ancient Legends
― Adventures in Unhistory: Conjectures on the Factual Foundations of Several Ancient Legends
“Well, well, sooner or later we shall come to that landmark in almost every Adventure, Pliny the Elder; and so here he is again, bitching as usual; but, as usual, telling us things of great interest.”
― Adventures in Unhistory: Conjectures on the Factual Foundations of Several Ancient Legends
― Adventures in Unhistory: Conjectures on the Factual Foundations of Several Ancient Legends
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