Invisible Library

Michael Andre-Driussi · 18 Oct 2001, 09:04 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Invisible Library
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:04:07
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Title: The Book of the New Sun, The Urth of the New Sun
Pseudo-Author: Canog
Pseudo-Title: The Book of the New Sun
Comments: Stories told by the Conciliator to his followers: the scripture
of a religion.  Green binding.

>> Title: The Book of the New Sun
>> Pseudo-Author: unknown
>> Pseudo-Title: The Wonders of Urth and Sky
>> Comments: A compilation of ancient stories

Add to comments: "brown binding"

Title: "Useful Phrases" (short story in Strange Travelers)
Pseudo-Author: unknown
Pseudo-Title: Tohish Ablar Sens-Orriyya Ert ("Useful Phrases for Piteous
Visitors to Earth")
Comments: A phrase book for travelers, written in the alien language Tcove'.

Title: Kirk Patterson Arthurs, Ph.D. (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: Kirk Patterson Arthurs
Pseudo-Title: Mask and Coin: Grub Street in the 30s (1986)
Comments: Author's first book, a critical reevaluation of depression-era
writers in London.

Title: Kirk Patterson Arthurs, Ph.D. (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: Kirk Patterson Arthurs
Pseudo-Title: Maze of Gray: John Glaskin Revisited (1988)
Comments: Lit-crit championing of an obscure British novelist.

Title: Kirk Patterson Arthurs, Ph.D. (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: Kirk Patterson Arthurs
Pseudo-Title: Sweet Sword, High Heart: Love and War in the Fiction of John
Glaskin (1990)
Comments: Lit-crit championing of an obscure British novelist.

Title: John Glaskin (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: John Glaskin
Pseudo-Title: Sixpence for Buns
Comments:

Title: John Glaskin (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: John Glaskin
Pseudo-Title: Brideshead
Comments:

Title: John Glaskin (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: John Glaskin
Pseudo-Title: You Can't Go Home at All
Comments:

Title: Kirk Patterson Arthurs, Ph.D. (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: Kirk Patterson Arthurs
Pseudo-Title: Fiction in Fancy Dress: John Glaskin et al Exposed (1996)
Comments: Glaskin a fiction.

Title: John J. Jons, Jr. (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: John J. Jons, Jr.
Pseudo-Title: A Guide to the Public Toilets of America (aka "Jon's Guide")
Comments:

Title: John J. Jons, Jr. (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: John J. Jons, Jr.
Pseudo-Title: Meditation on the Utilitarian Theory of Literary Merit
Comments:

Title: Bernard A. French, Kopman Goldfleas, and Lieutenant James Ryan
O'Murphy, NYPD (three in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: Bernard French (ed.)
Pseudo-Title: Great Lost Art of Western Europe
Comments: Dinosaur folio (page 6 by 9 feet)

Title: Xavier McRidy (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: Xavier McRidy
Pseudo-Title: The Paper Nautilus (1969)
Comments: A controversial and unfinished novel concerning P. Derek
Brewster-Higgenbothem, a reviewer for the overseas edition of the London
Times, who is simultaneously reading and reviewing Mr. Milton in Medoc.

Title: Xavier McRidy (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: S. Peety
Pseudo-Title: Mr. Milton in Medoc
Comments: A novel in which a man who falsely believes himself descended
from the author of Paradise Lost retires to the South of France to write a
critical dissertation on Allegiance to La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San
Francisco

Title: Xavier McRidy (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: Juan Gabriel Sabastian de Solo y Varios
Pseudo-Title: Allegiance to La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco
Comments: A novel in which an Argentine author attempts to persuade a
reluctant publisher in Buenos Aires to produce a Spanish translation of The
Paper Nautilus.

Title: Adam (?) Poor (?) (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: Adam Poor
Pseudo-Title: Voices Vocable (1975)
Comments: A novel of seven characters in the darkness of a tunnel between
Sark and Bournemouth.

Title: Adam (?) Poor (?) (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: Adam Poor
Pseudo-Title: A Salted Mine (1976)
Comments: A detective novel.

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