Invisible Library

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From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Re: Invisible Library
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:38:09
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Okay, at the risk of cluttering up the list with material that's already
been posted, here's what I've got.  Any other names for Blaine, the forger
of _The Lusty Lawyer_, and Kinglake, the author of _The Death of Love_?=20
Is that really an apostrophe in Tcove', or an accent?  And is there
anything relevant in "Parkroads: a Review"?

You'll notice I've added Scleroderma's ms.  I've also made obvious guesses
at which pieces in _Bibliomen_ some of the fictitious books are mentioned
in, with help from the ISFDB.

Any comments, additions, or corrections?

Contributors: Michael Andre-Driussi, Roy Lackey, Adam Stephanides, Michael
Straight, and your servant.  I hope I didn't miss anyone!

Author: Gene Wolfe
Title: Peace
Pseudo-Author: Louis Gold
Pseudo-Title: THE BOOK THAT BINDS THE DEAD (or THE BOOK OF THE NAMES OF
THE DEAD, or THE BOOK OF THE NAMES OF DEATH or THE NECRONOMICON)
Comments: A spurious Lovecraftian NECRONOMICON by a character in PEACE

Title: Peace
Pseudo-Author: Blaine?
Psuedo-Title: The Lusty Lawyer
Comments: Another forgery, this time of a book announced but never
published by the real-life author Amanda Ros (fl. c. 1900), notorious for
her painfully purple prose

Title: Seven American Nights (short story in The Island of Doctor Death
and Other Stories and Other Stories)
Pseudo-Author: Osman Aga
Pseudo-Title: MYSTERY BEYOND THE SUN'S SETTING
Comments: some sort of popular account of travels within the ruined
interior of America

Title: The Doctor of Death Island (in The Island of Doctor Death and Other
Stories and Other Stories)
Pseudo-Author: Kinglake
Psuedo-Title: THE DEATH OF LOVE
Comments: Apparently about psychology

Title: From the Desk of Gilmer C. Merton (in STOREYS FROM THE OLD HOTEL).
Pseudo-Author: Gilray Gunn (Gilmer C. Merton)
Pseudo-Title: STAR SHUTTLE

Title: From the Desk of Gilmer C. Merton
Pseudo-Author: Wolf Moon
Pseudo-Title: COME, DARK LUST!

Title: From the Desk of Gilmer C. Merton
Pseudo-Author: Wolf Moon
Pseudo-Title: THE SHRIEKING IN THE NURSERY

Title: "Useful Phrases" (in Strange Travelers)
Pseudo-Author: unknown
Pseudo-Title: Tohish Ablar Sens-Orriyya Ert ("Useful Phrases for=20
Piteous Visitors to Earth")
Comments: A phrase book for travelers, written in the alien language
Tcove'.

Author: Gene Wolfe
Title: The Book of the New Sun
Pseudo-Author: unknown
Pseudo-Title: The Book of the Wonders of Urth and Sky; Being a Collection
from Printed Sources of Universal Secrets of Such Age That Their Meaning
Has Become Obscured of Time
Comments: has a brown leather binding

Title: The Book of the New Sun
Pseudo-Author: Blaithmaic
Pseudo-Title: Lives of the Seventeen Megatherians
Comments: a folio in green cloth

Title: The Book of the New Sun
Pseudo-Author: unknown
Pseudo-Title: The Book of Gold
Comments: That beautiful book that captivates children destined to join
the librarians' guild--a different book for each child [I'll let you
decide whether to include this book]

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=20
scripture of a religion.  Green binding.

Title: The Book of the Long Sun
Pseudo-Author: unknown
Pseudo-Title: The Chrasmological Writings
Comments: The scriptures of a religion

Title: The Book of the Long Sun
Pseudo-Author: Scleroderma
Pseudo-Title: unknown
Comments: a manuscript on history that the author witnessed

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

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

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=20
John Glaskin
Comments: Lit-crit championing of an obscure British novelist (1990).

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=20
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=20
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=20
Francisco
Comments: A novel in which an Argentine author attempts to persuade a
reluctant publisher in Buenos Aires to produce a Spanish translation of=20
The Paper Nautilus.

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

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

Title: Gertrude S. "Spinning Jenny" Deplatta (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: Brooks, Robert T.
Pseudo-Title: Unknown
Comments: Spinning Jenny transcription, Doubleday (1982)

Title: Bernard A. French (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: French, Bernard A.
Pseudo-Title: PERFECTION UNTO DEATH

Title: Paul Rico (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: Rico, Paul
Pseudo-Title: TRAINING THE MIND
Comments: 1981

Title: Captain Roy C. Mirk, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: Mirk, Roy C.
Pseudo-Title: POULTRY AS SYMBOLISM IN NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN
LITERATURE

Title: Captain Roy C. Mirk, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: Mirk, Roy C.
Pseudo-Title: TEA-TIME TALK IN THE NOVELS OF LOUISE MAY ALCOTT

Title: Captain Roy C. Mirk, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: Mirk, Roy C.
Pseudo-Title: WASHING AS A EUPHEMISM IN THE WORKS OF JACK LONDON

Title: Captain Roy C. Mirk, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (in Bibliomen)
Pseudo-Author: Mirk, Roy C.
Pseudo-Title: A POST-MODERNIST CRITIC VIEWS THE ANTEBELLUM MIDDLE WEST

--=20
Jerry Friedman

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