Desert Island Authors Draft
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For my next selection, I will take advantage of the Co-Authorship rule (they are not a compilation as there is no way to determine which author writes which stories, and they always work as a group) and select: The Bathroom Reader's Institute This is the collection of authors in Ashland, Oregon who write the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series of books. I try to read from these books at least once a day 
hah! in time (although the coverage has begun and my roommate did just bring me the first beer). since novelists continue to befuddle me, back to picture books.
Neil Gaiman
wiki
"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing." (The Kindly Ones)
Notables:
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (co-written with Terry Pratchett)
Stardust
American Gods
Coraline
The Sandman
Favourites:
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
The Sandman
originally lead to Gaiman through his work with Terry Pratchett on the incredible Good Omens, I quickly discovered that he had a vast bibliography himself and is very much beloved in the graphic novel community. intrigued, I embarked on a mission to get on my hands on as many Sandman books as possible. oh so worth it! you can find so much in these things, so many myths, so many stories, even a dream that's based on an author that might yet be picked later on (one might say a bit like Eliot in that regard).
ran across this on a friend's blog:
[video=vimeo;42372767]http://vimeo.com/42372767#[/video]
Neil Gaiman
wiki
"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing." (The Kindly Ones)
Notables:
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (co-written with Terry Pratchett)
Stardust
American Gods
Coraline
The Sandman
Favourites:
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
The Sandman
originally lead to Gaiman through his work with Terry Pratchett on the incredible Good Omens, I quickly discovered that he had a vast bibliography himself and is very much beloved in the graphic novel community. intrigued, I embarked on a mission to get on my hands on as many Sandman books as possible. oh so worth it! you can find so much in these things, so many myths, so many stories, even a dream that's based on an author that might yet be picked later on (one might say a bit like Eliot in that regard).
ran across this on a friend's blog:
[video=vimeo;42372767]http://vimeo.com/42372767#[/video]
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For my next selection, I will take advantage of the Co-Authorship rule (they are not a compilation as there is no way to determine which author writes which stories, and they always work as a group) and select: The Bathroom Reader's Institute This is the collection of authors in Ashland, Oregon who write the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series of books. I try to read from these books at least once a day
So it looks like they take freelance contributions and hire authors at least occasionally.
What does everybody else feel about this? I'm inclined to say no but I don't want to be the only one objecting.
John Milton
Milton is my third blind author (Homer, Borges). Top that! Of course, I didn't pick him for his visual impairment, but rather for his great poetry, first and foremost Paradise Lost. Milton is credited with a major upheaval in English poetry. Before Milton, poetry had become fairly predictable - ubiquitous rhyme scheme, line breaks always corresponding to conceptual breaks, a very limited and formulaic vocabulary where nouns had their own typical adjectives and verbs associated with them...English poets were in a rut. Milton dared to say, "Look, you don't have to do it like that" and broke them out, so we owe a lot to him. Still, Paradise Lost. Plus, there's a lot of other nice stuff out there, a tiny bit included below. He also wrote quite a bit of prose (at least enough to fill a two-volume work survives) that I've never seen, but hey, I'll have the time!
Lived: 1608-1674
Major Works: Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes; several collections of shorter poetry; extensive political/philosphical/religious prose including Areopagitica and The History of Britain.
Quote: (From Samson Agonistes)
Milton is my third blind author (Homer, Borges). Top that! Of course, I didn't pick him for his visual impairment, but rather for his great poetry, first and foremost Paradise Lost. Milton is credited with a major upheaval in English poetry. Before Milton, poetry had become fairly predictable - ubiquitous rhyme scheme, line breaks always corresponding to conceptual breaks, a very limited and formulaic vocabulary where nouns had their own typical adjectives and verbs associated with them...English poets were in a rut. Milton dared to say, "Look, you don't have to do it like that" and broke them out, so we owe a lot to him. Still, Paradise Lost. Plus, there's a lot of other nice stuff out there, a tiny bit included below. He also wrote quite a bit of prose (at least enough to fill a two-volume work survives) that I've never seen, but hey, I'll have the time!
Lived: 1608-1674
Major Works: Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes; several collections of shorter poetry; extensive political/philosphical/religious prose including Areopagitica and The History of Britain.
Quote: (From Samson Agonistes)
Suzanne Collins
Yes, she's relatively new to the literature scene but since about a year ago when I first discovered them - I have absolutely loved the Hunger Games series. Of course, along with Catching Fire and Mocking Jay, the series is made up of three books and well, I doubt I have to explain the plot to any of you.
She also has written a series called The Underland Chronicles which I have yet to read but I'm primarily drafting her for The Hunger Games books. Anything else is just a bonus.
More..
I posted my two cents, wanted to change the verbage a little and ended up deleting it. So, I'll repeat the essence of my comment.
I've been following this draft pretty closely, and I don't think the "co-authorship" rule applies in this situation. The Bathroom Readers Institute is a corporate entity, not an individual. Authors are, by definition, individuals. Since as NoBonus stated, the actual people who wrote the various stories, etc. depends on who is employed by BRI, then it doesn't seem as though it would qualify for a draft of individual and specific authors.
I've been following this draft pretty closely, and I don't think the "co-authorship" rule applies in this situation. The Bathroom Readers Institute is a corporate entity, not an individual. Authors are, by definition, individuals. Since as NoBonus stated, the actual people who wrote the various stories, etc. depends on who is employed by BRI, then it doesn't seem as though it would qualify for a draft of individual and specific authors.
Mary Stewart
This isn’t likely to be a popular pick, especially with the guys, but for sheer enjoyment, this was one of my favorite authors to turn to for much of my young adulthood. She is considered the creator of the romance/suspense genre and to my mind, nobody has ever done them better than her. Certainly not the great quantity of writers for Harlequin Romance novels or the plethora of books called bodice rippers.Altho I admit, I've never felt tempted to try any of those books so I'm judging them without reading any of them.
My favorites of her books, though, are the books of the Merlin series, that started with The Crystal Cave. Fabulous story-telling that brings the legend of Merlin, King Arthur and Camelot to life.
I’ve read almost everything she has written, but it’s been a long time. I could certainly enjoy sprinkling some Mary Stewart story-telling into my reading on the Island.
More information:
http://www.fantasyliterature.com/images/m/MaryStewart.jpg
http://www.marystewartnovels.com/
Some reviews of her work:
Bibliography:
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This isn’t likely to be a popular pick, especially with the guys, but for sheer enjoyment, this was one of my favorite authors to turn to for much of my young adulthood. She is considered the creator of the romance/suspense genre and to my mind, nobody has ever done them better than her. Certainly not the great quantity of writers for Harlequin Romance novels or the plethora of books called bodice rippers.Altho I admit, I've never felt tempted to try any of those books so I'm judging them without reading any of them.
My favorites of her books, though, are the books of the Merlin series, that started with The Crystal Cave. Fabulous story-telling that brings the legend of Merlin, King Arthur and Camelot to life.
I’ve read almost everything she has written, but it’s been a long time. I could certainly enjoy sprinkling some Mary Stewart story-telling into my reading on the Island.
More information:
http://www.fantasyliterature.com/images/m/MaryStewart.jpg
http://www.marystewartnovels.com/
Some reviews of her work:
"Mary Stewart's writing is magical, with every word and phrase carefully chosen for beauty and sound and shape. If this were not enough, Mrs. Stewart also writes a story of breathless excitement whose characters are ... of blood and bone, heart and mind ... one marvels at the exquisite evocation of scene."
—Los Angeles Times
"Here is magical writing ... A story of breathless excitement ... seasoned with spirit and humor."
—Los Angeles Times (on The Moon-Spinners)
"Mary Stewart has instilled new life into the romantic suspense story and become the top-ranking novelist in this field."
—Book Week
"Most exciting...written with a pace which carries you on non-stop. The descriptions of the beautiful countryside are so cleverly interwoven with the story that they enrich without hindering it. ... It's hard to think of anyone more insistently readable than Mary Stewart; The Ivy Tree ... is as unput-downable as any of her previous novels ... No one writes the damsel-in-distress tale with greater charm or urgency."
—The New York Times Book Review
—Los Angeles Times
"Here is magical writing ... A story of breathless excitement ... seasoned with spirit and humor."
—Los Angeles Times (on The Moon-Spinners)
"Mary Stewart has instilled new life into the romantic suspense story and become the top-ranking novelist in this field."
—Book Week
"Most exciting...written with a pace which carries you on non-stop. The descriptions of the beautiful countryside are so cleverly interwoven with the story that they enrich without hindering it. ... It's hard to think of anyone more insistently readable than Mary Stewart; The Ivy Tree ... is as unput-downable as any of her previous novels ... No one writes the damsel-in-distress tale with greater charm or urgency."
—The New York Times Book Review
Bibliography:
Romantic Suspense
Madam, Will You Talk
Wildfire at Midnight
Thunder on the Right
Nine Coaches Waiting
My Brother Michael
The Ivy Tree
The Moon Spinners (made into a movie)
This Rough Magic
Airs Above the Ground
The Gabriel Hounds
Wind off the Small Isles
Touch Not the Cat
Thornyhold
The Stormy Petrel
Rose Cottage
Historical
The Crystal Cave
The Hollow Hills
The Last Enchantment
The Wicked Day
The Prince and the Pilgrim
Young Adult
The Little Broomstick
Ludo and the Star Horse
Walk in Wolf Wood
Poetry
Frost on the Window
Madam, Will You Talk
Wildfire at Midnight
Thunder on the Right
Nine Coaches Waiting
My Brother Michael
The Ivy Tree
The Moon Spinners (made into a movie)
This Rough Magic
Airs Above the Ground
The Gabriel Hounds
Wind off the Small Isles
Touch Not the Cat
Thornyhold
The Stormy Petrel
Rose Cottage
Historical
The Crystal Cave
The Hollow Hills
The Last Enchantment
The Wicked Day
The Prince and the Pilgrim
Young Adult
The Little Broomstick
Ludo and the Star Horse
Walk in Wolf Wood
Poetry
Frost on the Window
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Good solution!
I don't think we should stop the draft for a re-pick, but at this point it seems that we've got pretty much one opinion on this, and since I did declare myself the ultimate arbiter in the rules, I'll PM NoBonus and let him know that he'll need to re-pick. In the meantime I think the draft should probably go forward.
I don't think we should stop the draft for a re-pick, but at this point it seems that we've got pretty much one opinion on this, and since I did declare myself the ultimate arbiter in the rules, I'll PM NoBonus and let him know that he'll need to re-pick. In the meantime I think the draft should probably go forward.
My next pick is off the beaten path (for my list so far) and I am surprised she hasn't been taken yet.
Anne Frank
I am sure we all know the story of her diary written during WWII. It was a story that left quite an impression on me. When my family took a vacation to Europe a couple decades ago, I made sure the house she lived in was one of the places I visited.
From wiki:
So, although it is only one book (a diary), I choose it for my island.
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Anne Frank
I am sure we all know the story of her diary written during WWII. It was a story that left quite an impression on me. When my family took a vacation to Europe a couple decades ago, I made sure the house she lived in was one of the places I visited.
From wiki:
So, although it is only one book (a diary), I choose it for my island.
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From one Anne to another...I need some fright and horror on my island, along with another female voice. I was engrossed by her 1st two novels in the vampire chronicles series, and the subsequent texts fell a bit into antiquated redundancy for me. I would like to revisit them on my island, however, to spice up my reading catalog. With my 13th pick , I select:
Anne Rice
1941-Present
Bibliography:
Notable Quotes:
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Rice
http://www.wattpad.com/3992843-the-vampire-lestat-part-1-chapter-1p
Anne Rice
1941-Present
Bibliography:
The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire (1976)
The Vampire Lestat (1985)
The Queen of the Damned (1988)
The Tale of the Body Thief (1992)
Memnoch the Devil (1995)
The Vampire Armand (1998)
Merrick (2000)
Blood and Gold (2001)
Blackwood Farm (2002)
Blood Canticle (2003)
New Tales of the Vampires
Pandora (1998)
Vittorio the Vampire (1999)
The Lives of the Mayfair Witches
The Witching Hour (1990)
Lasher (1993)
Taltos (1994)
Christ the Lord
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (2005)
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana (2008)
Songs of the Seraphim
Angel Time (October 2009)
Of Love and Evil (November 30, 2010)
Miscellaneous novels
The Feast of All Saints (1979)
Cry to Heaven (1982)
The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned (1989)
Servant of the Bones (1996)
Violin (1997)
The Wolf Gift (2012)
Under the pseudonym Anne Rampling
Exit to Eden (1985)
Belinda (1986)
Under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (1983)
Beauty's Punishment (1984)
Beauty's Release (1985)
Non-fiction
Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession (2008) (Autobiography)
Short fiction
October 4, 1948 (1965)
Nicholas and Jean (first ch. 1966)
Armand's Lesson, or, The Art of The Vampire At Its Peak In The Year 1876 (Playboy magazine, January 1979)
The Master of Rampling Gate (Redbook magazine, February 1984)
Interview with the Vampire (1976)
The Vampire Lestat (1985)
The Queen of the Damned (1988)
The Tale of the Body Thief (1992)
Memnoch the Devil (1995)
The Vampire Armand (1998)
Merrick (2000)
Blood and Gold (2001)
Blackwood Farm (2002)
Blood Canticle (2003)
New Tales of the Vampires
Pandora (1998)
Vittorio the Vampire (1999)
The Lives of the Mayfair Witches
The Witching Hour (1990)
Lasher (1993)
Taltos (1994)
Christ the Lord
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (2005)
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana (2008)
Songs of the Seraphim
Angel Time (October 2009)
Of Love and Evil (November 30, 2010)
Miscellaneous novels
The Feast of All Saints (1979)
Cry to Heaven (1982)
The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned (1989)
Servant of the Bones (1996)
Violin (1997)
The Wolf Gift (2012)
Under the pseudonym Anne Rampling
Exit to Eden (1985)
Belinda (1986)
Under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (1983)
Beauty's Punishment (1984)
Beauty's Release (1985)
Non-fiction
Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession (2008) (Autobiography)
Short fiction
October 4, 1948 (1965)
Nicholas and Jean (first ch. 1966)
Armand's Lesson, or, The Art of The Vampire At Its Peak In The Year 1876 (Playboy magazine, January 1979)
The Master of Rampling Gate (Redbook magazine, February 1984)
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
“Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.”
“There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.”
“The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.”
“Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.”
“Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.”
“There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.”
“The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.”
“Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.”
http://www.wattpad.com/3992843-the-vampire-lestat-part-1-chapter-1p
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L. Frank Baum
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts,[1] and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works predicted such century-later commonplaces as television, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).
HOLY COW! I did not know how much this man had written. I simply chose him because the OZ books were among the first I read as a child, the stories enthralled me. It'll be intersting on the island to find out what his poetry is like.
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737 [1] (NS February 9, 1737) – June 8, 1809) was an English-American author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.[2] He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination."[3]
Born in Thetford, England, in the county of Norfolk, Paine immigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contributions were the powerful, widely read pamphlet Common Sense (1776), the all-time best-selling American book that advocated colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and The American Crisis (1776–83), a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series. Common Sense was so influential that John Adams said, "Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.”[4
I figured I should probably have some intellectual material on my island so my brain doesn't rot and what better then Common Sense?
L. Frank Baum
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts,[1] and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works predicted such century-later commonplaces as television, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz (1905, comic strip depicting 27 stories)
The Woggle-Bug Book (1905)
Ozma of Oz (1907)
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908)
The Road to Oz (1909)
The Emerald City of Oz (1910)
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913)
Little Wizard Stories of Oz (1913, collection of 6 short stories)
Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)
The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)
Rinkitink in Oz (1916)
The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)
The Magic of Oz (1919, posthumously published)
Glinda of Oz (1920, posthumously published)
The Royal Book of Oz (1921, posthumous attribution—entirely the work of Ruth Plumly Thompson)
Princess Truella, a character from The Magical Monarch of Mo, illustrated by Frank Ver Beck
[edit] Non-Oz works
Mother Goose in Prose (prose retellings of Mother Goose rhymes, (1897)
By the Candelabra's Glare (poetry, 1898)[42]
Father Goose: His Book (nonsense poetry, 1899)
The Magical Monarch of Mo (Originally published in 1900 as A New Wonderland) (fantasy, 1903)
The Army Alphabet (poetry, 1900)
The Navy Alphabet (poetry, 1900)
Dot and Tot of Merryland (fantasy, 1901)
American Fairy Tales (fantasy, 1901)
The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale (fantasy, 1901)
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1902)
The Enchanted Island of Yew (fantasy, 1903)
Queen Zixi of Ix (fantasy, 1905)
John Dough and the Cherub (fantasy, 1906)
Father Goose's Year Book: Quaint Quacks and Feathered Shafts for Mature Children (nonsense poetry for adults, 1907)
The Daring Twins: A Story for Young Folk (novel, 1911; reprinted in 2006 as The Secret of the Lost Fortune)
The Sea Fairies (fantasy, 1911)
Sky Island (fantasy, 1912)
Phoebe Daring: A Story for Young Folk (novel, 1912; announced for reprint by Hungry Tiger Press as Unjustly Accused!)
Our Married Life (novel, 1912) [lost]
Johnson (novel, 1912) [lost]
The Mystery of Bonita (novel, 1914) [lost][43]
Molly Oodle (novel, 1915) [lost]
[edit] Short stories
This list omits those stories that appeared in Our Landlady, American Fairy Tales, Animal Fairy Tales, Little Wizard Stories of Oz, and Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz.
"They Played a New Hamlet" (28 April 1895)
"A Cold Day on the Railroad" (26 May 1895)
"Who Called 'Perry?'" (19 January 1896)
"Yesterday at the Exhibition" (2 February 1896)
"My Ruby Wedding Ring" (12 October 1896)
"The Man with the Red Shirt" (c.1897, told to Matilda Jewell Gage, who wrote it down in 1905)
"How Scroggs Won the Reward" (5 May 1897)
"The Extravagance of Dan" (18 May 1897)
"The Return of Dick Weemins" (July 1897)
"The Suicide of Kiaros" (September 1897)
"A Shadow Cast Before" (December 1897)
"John" (24 June 1898)
"The Mating Day" (September 1898)
"Aunt Hulda's Good Time" (26 October 1899)
"The Loveridge Burglary" (January 1900)
"The Bad Man" (February 1901)
"The King Who Changed His Mind" (1901)
"The Runaway Shadows or A Trick of Jack Frost" (5 June 1901)
"(The Strange Adventures of) An Easter Egg" (29 March 1902)
"The Ryl of the Lilies" (12 April 1903)
the first chapter of The Whatnexters, an unfinished novel with Isidore Witmark[44] (1903, Unpublished and possibly lost)
"Chrome Yellow" (1904, Unpublished; held in The Baum Papers at Syracuse University)
"Mr. Rumple's Chill" (1904, Lost)
"Bess of the Movies" (1904, Lost)
"The Diamondback" (1904, First page missing)
"A Kidnapped Santa Claus" (December 1904)
"The Woggle-Bug Book: The Unique Adventures of the Woggle-Bug" (12 January 1905)[45]
"Nelebel's Fairyland" (June 1905)
"Jack Burgitt's Honor" (1 August 1905)
"The Tiger's Eye: A Jungle Fairy Tale" (1905)
"The Yellow Ryl" (1906)
"The Witchcraft of Mary-Marie" (1908)
"The Man-Fairy" (December 1910)
"Juggerjook" (December 1910)
"The Tramp and the Baby" (October 1911)
"Bessie's Fairy Tale" (December 1911)
"Aunt 'Phroney's Boy" (December 1912)
"The Littlest Giant--An Oz Story" (1918)
"An Oz Book" (1919)
[edit] Under pseudonyms
As Edith Van Dyne: Aunt Jane's Nieces (1906)
Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad (1907)
Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville (1908)
Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work (1909)
Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society (1910)
Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John (1911)
The Flying Girl (1911)
Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation (1912)
The Flying Girl and Her Chum (1912)
Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch (1913)
Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West (1914)
Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross (1915, revised and republished in 1918)
Mary Louise (1916)
Mary Louise in the Country (1916)
Mary Louise Solves a Mystery (1917)
Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls (1918)
Mary Louise Adopts a Soldier (1919; largely ghostwritten based on a fragment by Baum; subsequent books in the series are by Emma Speed Sampson)
As Floyd Akers: The Boy Fortune Hunters in Alaska (1906; originally published as Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea by "Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald")
The Boy Fortune Hunters in Panama (1907; originally published as Sam Steele's Adventures in Panama by "Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald"; reprinted in 2008 as The Amazing Bubble Car)
The Boy Fortune Hunters in Egypt (1908; reprinted in 2008 as The Treasure of Karnak)
The Boy Fortune Hunters in China (1909; reprinted in 2006 as The Scream of the Sacred Ape)
The Boy Fortune Hunters in Yucatan (1910)
The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South Seas (1911)
As Schuyler Staunton: The Fate of a Crown (1905)
Daughters of Destiny (1906)
As John Estes Cooke: Tamawaca Folks: A Summer Comedy (1907)
As Suzanne Metcalf: Annabel, A Novel for Young Folk (1906)
As Laura Bancroft: The Twinkle Tales (1906; collected as Twinkle and Chubbins, though Chubbins is not in all the stories)
Policeman Bluejay (1907; also known as Babes in Birdland, it was published under Baum's name shortly before his death)
Anonymous: The Last Egyptian: A Romance of the Nile (1908)
[edit] Miscellanea
Baum's Complete Stamp Dealer's Directory (1873)
The Book of the Hamburgs (poultry guide, 1886)
Our Landlady (newspaper stories, 1890–1891)
The Art of Decorating Dry Goods Windows and Interiors (trade publication, 1900)
L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker (or Baum's Own Book for Children), a collection of revised work (1910), later republished as The Snuggle Tales (1916–17) and Oz-Man Tales (1920)
Baum has been credited as the editor of In Other Lands Than Ours (1907), a collection of letters written by his wife Maud Gage Baum.[46]
[edit] Plays and adaptations
Main article: Plays of L. Frank Baum
Including those listed here and on the Oz books page, Michael Patrick Hearn has identified forty-two titles of stage plays associated with Baum, some probably redundant or reflective of alternate drafts, many for works that Baum may never have actually started. Listed below are those either known to have been performed (such as the lost plays of his youth) or that exist in at least fragmentary or treatment form.
The Mackrummins (lost play, 1882)
The Maid of Arran (play, 1882)
Matches (lost play, 1882)
Kilmourne, or O'Connor's Dream (lost? play, opened 4 April 1883)
The Queen of Killarney (lost? play, 1883)
The Songs of Father Goose (Father Goose set to music by Alberta N. Hall Burton, 1900)
"The Maid of Athens: A College Fantasy" (play treatment, 1903; with Emerson Hough)
"The King of Gee-Whiz" (play treatment, February 1905, with Emerson Hough)
Mortal for an Hour or The Fairy Prince or Prince Marvel (play, 1909)
The Pipes O' Pan (play, 1909, with George Scarborough; only the first act was ever completed)
King Bud of Noland, or The Magic Cloak (musical play, 1913; music by Louis F. Gottschalk, revised as the scenario to the film, The Magic Cloak of Oz)
Stagecraft, or, The Adventures of a Strictly Moral Man (musical play, 1914; music by Louis F. Gottschalk)
Prince Silverwings (long term project collaborating with Edith Ogden Harrison, based on her book; worked on as late as 1915; published in 1982)
The Uplift of Lucifer, or Raising Hell: An Allegorical Squazosh (musical play, music by Louis F. Gottschalk, 1915)
Blackbird Cottages: The Uplifters' Minstrels (musical play, 1916; music by Byron Gay)[47]
The Orpheus Road Show: A Paraphrastic Compendium of Mirth (musical play, 1917; music by Louis F. Gottschalk
The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz (1905, comic strip depicting 27 stories)
The Woggle-Bug Book (1905)
Ozma of Oz (1907)
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908)
The Road to Oz (1909)
The Emerald City of Oz (1910)
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913)
Little Wizard Stories of Oz (1913, collection of 6 short stories)
Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)
The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)
Rinkitink in Oz (1916)
The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)
The Magic of Oz (1919, posthumously published)
Glinda of Oz (1920, posthumously published)
The Royal Book of Oz (1921, posthumous attribution—entirely the work of Ruth Plumly Thompson)
Princess Truella, a character from The Magical Monarch of Mo, illustrated by Frank Ver Beck
[edit] Non-Oz works
Mother Goose in Prose (prose retellings of Mother Goose rhymes, (1897)
By the Candelabra's Glare (poetry, 1898)[42]
Father Goose: His Book (nonsense poetry, 1899)
The Magical Monarch of Mo (Originally published in 1900 as A New Wonderland) (fantasy, 1903)
The Army Alphabet (poetry, 1900)
The Navy Alphabet (poetry, 1900)
Dot and Tot of Merryland (fantasy, 1901)
American Fairy Tales (fantasy, 1901)
The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale (fantasy, 1901)
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1902)
The Enchanted Island of Yew (fantasy, 1903)
Queen Zixi of Ix (fantasy, 1905)
John Dough and the Cherub (fantasy, 1906)
Father Goose's Year Book: Quaint Quacks and Feathered Shafts for Mature Children (nonsense poetry for adults, 1907)
The Daring Twins: A Story for Young Folk (novel, 1911; reprinted in 2006 as The Secret of the Lost Fortune)
The Sea Fairies (fantasy, 1911)
Sky Island (fantasy, 1912)
Phoebe Daring: A Story for Young Folk (novel, 1912; announced for reprint by Hungry Tiger Press as Unjustly Accused!)
Our Married Life (novel, 1912) [lost]
Johnson (novel, 1912) [lost]
The Mystery of Bonita (novel, 1914) [lost][43]
Molly Oodle (novel, 1915) [lost]
[edit] Short stories
This list omits those stories that appeared in Our Landlady, American Fairy Tales, Animal Fairy Tales, Little Wizard Stories of Oz, and Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz.
"They Played a New Hamlet" (28 April 1895)
"A Cold Day on the Railroad" (26 May 1895)
"Who Called 'Perry?'" (19 January 1896)
"Yesterday at the Exhibition" (2 February 1896)
"My Ruby Wedding Ring" (12 October 1896)
"The Man with the Red Shirt" (c.1897, told to Matilda Jewell Gage, who wrote it down in 1905)
"How Scroggs Won the Reward" (5 May 1897)
"The Extravagance of Dan" (18 May 1897)
"The Return of Dick Weemins" (July 1897)
"The Suicide of Kiaros" (September 1897)
"A Shadow Cast Before" (December 1897)
"John" (24 June 1898)
"The Mating Day" (September 1898)
"Aunt Hulda's Good Time" (26 October 1899)
"The Loveridge Burglary" (January 1900)
"The Bad Man" (February 1901)
"The King Who Changed His Mind" (1901)
"The Runaway Shadows or A Trick of Jack Frost" (5 June 1901)
"(The Strange Adventures of) An Easter Egg" (29 March 1902)
"The Ryl of the Lilies" (12 April 1903)
the first chapter of The Whatnexters, an unfinished novel with Isidore Witmark[44] (1903, Unpublished and possibly lost)
"Chrome Yellow" (1904, Unpublished; held in The Baum Papers at Syracuse University)
"Mr. Rumple's Chill" (1904, Lost)
"Bess of the Movies" (1904, Lost)
"The Diamondback" (1904, First page missing)
"A Kidnapped Santa Claus" (December 1904)
"The Woggle-Bug Book: The Unique Adventures of the Woggle-Bug" (12 January 1905)[45]
"Nelebel's Fairyland" (June 1905)
"Jack Burgitt's Honor" (1 August 1905)
"The Tiger's Eye: A Jungle Fairy Tale" (1905)
"The Yellow Ryl" (1906)
"The Witchcraft of Mary-Marie" (1908)
"The Man-Fairy" (December 1910)
"Juggerjook" (December 1910)
"The Tramp and the Baby" (October 1911)
"Bessie's Fairy Tale" (December 1911)
"Aunt 'Phroney's Boy" (December 1912)
"The Littlest Giant--An Oz Story" (1918)
"An Oz Book" (1919)
[edit] Under pseudonyms
As Edith Van Dyne: Aunt Jane's Nieces (1906)
Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad (1907)
Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville (1908)
Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work (1909)
Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society (1910)
Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John (1911)
The Flying Girl (1911)
Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation (1912)
The Flying Girl and Her Chum (1912)
Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch (1913)
Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West (1914)
Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross (1915, revised and republished in 1918)
Mary Louise (1916)
Mary Louise in the Country (1916)
Mary Louise Solves a Mystery (1917)
Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls (1918)
Mary Louise Adopts a Soldier (1919; largely ghostwritten based on a fragment by Baum; subsequent books in the series are by Emma Speed Sampson)
As Floyd Akers: The Boy Fortune Hunters in Alaska (1906; originally published as Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea by "Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald")
The Boy Fortune Hunters in Panama (1907; originally published as Sam Steele's Adventures in Panama by "Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald"; reprinted in 2008 as The Amazing Bubble Car)
The Boy Fortune Hunters in Egypt (1908; reprinted in 2008 as The Treasure of Karnak)
The Boy Fortune Hunters in China (1909; reprinted in 2006 as The Scream of the Sacred Ape)
The Boy Fortune Hunters in Yucatan (1910)
The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South Seas (1911)
As Schuyler Staunton: The Fate of a Crown (1905)
Daughters of Destiny (1906)
As John Estes Cooke: Tamawaca Folks: A Summer Comedy (1907)
As Suzanne Metcalf: Annabel, A Novel for Young Folk (1906)
As Laura Bancroft: The Twinkle Tales (1906; collected as Twinkle and Chubbins, though Chubbins is not in all the stories)
Policeman Bluejay (1907; also known as Babes in Birdland, it was published under Baum's name shortly before his death)
Anonymous: The Last Egyptian: A Romance of the Nile (1908)
[edit] Miscellanea
Baum's Complete Stamp Dealer's Directory (1873)
The Book of the Hamburgs (poultry guide, 1886)
Our Landlady (newspaper stories, 1890–1891)
The Art of Decorating Dry Goods Windows and Interiors (trade publication, 1900)
L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker (or Baum's Own Book for Children), a collection of revised work (1910), later republished as The Snuggle Tales (1916–17) and Oz-Man Tales (1920)
Baum has been credited as the editor of In Other Lands Than Ours (1907), a collection of letters written by his wife Maud Gage Baum.[46]
[edit] Plays and adaptations
Main article: Plays of L. Frank Baum
Including those listed here and on the Oz books page, Michael Patrick Hearn has identified forty-two titles of stage plays associated with Baum, some probably redundant or reflective of alternate drafts, many for works that Baum may never have actually started. Listed below are those either known to have been performed (such as the lost plays of his youth) or that exist in at least fragmentary or treatment form.
The Mackrummins (lost play, 1882)
The Maid of Arran (play, 1882)
Matches (lost play, 1882)
Kilmourne, or O'Connor's Dream (lost? play, opened 4 April 1883)
The Queen of Killarney (lost? play, 1883)
The Songs of Father Goose (Father Goose set to music by Alberta N. Hall Burton, 1900)
"The Maid of Athens: A College Fantasy" (play treatment, 1903; with Emerson Hough)
"The King of Gee-Whiz" (play treatment, February 1905, with Emerson Hough)
Mortal for an Hour or The Fairy Prince or Prince Marvel (play, 1909)
The Pipes O' Pan (play, 1909, with George Scarborough; only the first act was ever completed)
King Bud of Noland, or The Magic Cloak (musical play, 1913; music by Louis F. Gottschalk, revised as the scenario to the film, The Magic Cloak of Oz)
Stagecraft, or, The Adventures of a Strictly Moral Man (musical play, 1914; music by Louis F. Gottschalk)
Prince Silverwings (long term project collaborating with Edith Ogden Harrison, based on her book; worked on as late as 1915; published in 1982)
The Uplift of Lucifer, or Raising Hell: An Allegorical Squazosh (musical play, music by Louis F. Gottschalk, 1915)
Blackbird Cottages: The Uplifters' Minstrels (musical play, 1916; music by Byron Gay)[47]
The Orpheus Road Show: A Paraphrastic Compendium of Mirth (musical play, 1917; music by Louis F. Gottschalk
HOLY COW! I did not know how much this man had written. I simply chose him because the OZ books were among the first I read as a child, the stories enthralled me. It'll be intersting on the island to find out what his poetry is like.
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737 [1] (NS February 9, 1737) – June 8, 1809) was an English-American author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.[2] He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination."[3]
Born in Thetford, England, in the county of Norfolk, Paine immigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contributions were the powerful, widely read pamphlet Common Sense (1776), the all-time best-selling American book that advocated colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and The American Crisis (1776–83), a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series. Common Sense was so influential that John Adams said, "Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.”[4
I figured I should probably have some intellectual material on my island so my brain doesn't rot and what better then Common Sense?
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Good solution!
I don't think we should stop the draft for a re-pick, but at this point it seems that we've got pretty much one opinion on this, and since I did declare myself the ultimate arbiter in the rules, I'll PM NoBonus and let him know that he'll need to re-pick. In the meantime I think the draft should probably go forward.
I don't think we should stop the draft for a re-pick, but at this point it seems that we've got pretty much one opinion on this, and since I did declare myself the ultimate arbiter in the rules, I'll PM NoBonus and let him know that he'll need to re-pick. In the meantime I think the draft should probably go forward.
Looking back on it, jalfa's Alan Moore pick was brilliant and perfectly timed. Time to snatch up a bit more comic book pulp. This next selection will add the graphic novel component to my island with visually appealing content and dark story lines. Sure, it's a bit violent, but one may be wanting of some of that cast alone on a desert island for antiquity. With my 14th pick, I select:
Frank Miller
1957-Present
Bibliography:
Notable Quotes:
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Miller_(comics)
Frank Miller
1957-Present
Bibliography:
Titles published by DC Comics include:
Weird War Tales (a):
"Deliver Me from D-Day" (with Wyatt Gwyon, in #64, 1978)
"The Greatest Story Never Told" (with Paul Kupperberg, in #68, 1978)
"The Day After Doomsday" (with Roger McKenzie, in #68, 1978)
Unknown Soldier #219: "The Edge of History" (a, with Elliot S. Maggin, 1978)
Batman:
Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told Volume 1 (tpb, 192 pages, 2005) includes:
DC Special Series #21: "Wanted: Santa Claus—Dead or Alive!" (a, with Dennis O'Neil, 1979)
Absolute Dark Knight (hc, 512 pages, 2006) collects:
Batman: The Dark Knight #1-4 (w/a, 1986)
Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again #1-3 (w/a, 2001)
Batman: Year One (hc, 144 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-4012-0690-5; tpb, 2007) collects:
Batman #404-407 (w, with David Mazzucchelli, 1987)
All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder #1-10 (w, with Jim Lee, 2005–2008)
Issues #1-9 collected as Volume 1 (hc, 240 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1681-1; tpb, 2009)
Dark Knight: Boy Wonder #1-6 (w, with Jim Lee, on hiatus)[50]
Ronin #1-6 (w/a, 1983) collected as Ronin (tpb, 302 pages, 1987, ISBN 0-446-38674-X; hc, 328 pages, 2008)
Superman #400: "The Living Legends of Superman" (a, with Elliot S. Maggin, among other artists, 1984)
Fanboy #5 (a, with Mark Evanier, among other artists, 1999) collected in Fanboy (tpb, 144 pages, 2001)
Superman and Batman: World's Funnest: "Last Imp Standing!" (a, with Evan Dorkin, among other artists, one-shot, 2000)
Orion #3: "Tales of the New Gods: Nativity" (a, with Walt Simonson, 2000) collected in O: The Gates of Apokolips (tpb, 144 pages, 2001)
Marvel Comics
Titles published by Marvel include:
John Carter, Warlord of Mars #18: "Meanwhile, Back in Helium!" (a, with Chris Claremont, 1978) collected in Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter, Warlord of Mars (tpb, 632 pages, Dark Horse, 2011) and John Carter, Warlord of Mars Omnibus (hc, 624 pages, 2012)
The Complete Frank Miller Spider-Man (hc, 208 pages, 2002) collects:
The Spectacular Spider-Man #27-28 (a, with Bill Mantlo, 1979)
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #14-15 (a, with Dennis O'Neil, 1980–1981)
Marvel Team-Up:
"Introducing: Karma!" (w/a, with Chris Claremont, in #100, 1980)
"Power Play!" (w, with Herb Trimpe, in Annual #4, 1981)
Marvel Two-in-One #51: "Full House--Dragons High!" (a, with Peter Gillis, 1979) collected in Essential Marvel Two-in-One Volume 2 (tpb, 568 pages, 2007)
Daredevil:
Daredevil by Frank Miller & Klaus Janson Omnibus (hc, 840 pages, 2007) collects:
"A Grave Mistake" (a, with Roger McKenzie, in #158, 1979)
"Marked for Death" (a, with Roger McKenzie, in #159-161, 1979–1980)
"Blind Alley" (a, with Roger McKenzie, in #163, 1980)
"Exposé" (a, with Roger McKenzie, in #164, 1980)
"Arms of the Octopus" (w/a, with Roger McKenzie, in #165, 1980)
"Till Death Do Us Part!" (w/a, with Roger McKenzie, in #166, 1980)
"...The Mauler!" (a, with David Michelinie, in #167, 1980)
"Elektra" (w/a, in #168, 1981)
"Devils" (w/a, in #169, 1980)
"Gangwars" (w/a, in #170-172, 1981)
"The Assassination of Matt Murdock" (w/a, in #173-175, 1981)
"Hunters" (w/a, in #176-177, 1981)
"Paper Chase" (w/a, in #178-180, 1982)
"Last Hand" (w/a, in #181-182, 1982)
"Child's Play" (w/a, with Roger McKenzie, in #183-184, 1982)
"Guts & Stilts" (w, with Klaus Janson, in #185-186, 1982)
"Widow's Bite" (w, with Klaus Janson, in #187-190, 1982–1983)
"Roulette" (w/a, in #191, 1983)
Daredevil by Frank Miller & Klaus Janson Omnibus Companion (hc, 608 pages, 2008) includes:
"Badlands" (w, with John Buscema, in #219, 1985)
"Warriors" (w, with Dennis O'Neil and David Mazzucchelli, in #226, 1986)
"Born Again" (w, with David Mazzucchelli, in #227-233, 1986)
Daredevil: Love and War (w, with Bill Sienkiewicz, graphic novel, tpb, 64 pages, 1986)
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear #1-5 (w, with John Romita, Jr., 1993)
Elektra by Frank Miller & Bill Sienkiewicz Omnibus (hc, 384 pages, 2008) collects:
"Untitled" (w/a, in Bizarre Adventures #28, 1981)
"What If Bullseye Had Not Killed Elektra?" (w/a, in What If? #35, 1982)
Elektra: Assassin #1-8 (w, with Bill Sienkiewicz, 1986–1987)
Elektra Lives Again (w/a, graphic novel, hc, 80 pages, 1991)
Marvel Spotlight #8: "Planet Where Time Stood Still!" (a, with Mike W. Barr and Dick Riley, 1980)
Marvel Preview #23: "Final Warning" (a, with Lynn Graeme, 1980)
Power Man and Iron Fist #76: "Death Scream of the Warhawk!" (a, with Chris Claremont and Mike W. Barr, 1981)
Bizarre Adventures #31: "The Philistine" (a, with Dennis O'Neil, 1982)
Fantastic Four Roast (a, with Fred Hembeck, among other artists, one-shot, 1982)
What If? #34: "What If Daredevil Were Deaf Instead of Blind?" (w/a, 1982)
Wolverine #1-4 (a, with Chris Claremont, 1982) collected as Wolverine (hc, 144 pages, 2007; tpb, 2009)
Incredible Hulk Annual #11: "Unus Unchained" (a, with Mary Jo Duffy, 1981)
Marvel Fanfare #18: "Home Fires!" (a, with Roger Stern, 1984)
Sensational She-Hulk #50: "He's Dead?!" (a, with John Byrne, among other artists, 1993)
Dark Horse Comics
Titles published by Dark Horse include:
The Life and Times of Martha Washington in the Twenty-First Century (hc, 600 pages, 2009) collects:
Give Me Liberty #1-4 (w, with Dave Gibbons, 1990–1991) also collected as Give Me Liberty (tpb, 216 pages, 1992)
Martha Washington Goes to War #1-5 (w, with Dave Gibbons, 1994) also collected as MWGTW (tpb, 144 pages, 1996)
Happy Birthday, Martha Washington (w, with Dave Gibbons, one-shot, 1995)
Martha Washington Stranded in Space (w, with Dave Gibbons, one-shot, 1995)
Martha Washington Saves the World #1-3 (w, with Dave Gibbons, 1997–1998) also collected as MWSTW (tpb, 112 pages, 1999)
Martha Washington Dies: "2095" (w, with Dave Gibbons, one-shot, 2007)
Hard Boiled #1-3 (w, with Geof Darrow, 1990–1992) collected as Hard Boiled (tpb, 128 pages, 1993)
Sin City (w/a):
Sin City (tpb, 208 pages, 1993) collects:
"Episode 1" (in Dark Horse Presents 5th Anniversary Special, 1991)
"Episodes 2-13" (in Dark Horse Presents #51-62, 1991–1992)
A Dame to Kill for (tpb, 208 pages, 1994) collects:
A Dame to Kill for #1-6 (1993–1994)
The Big Fat Kill (tpb, 184 pages, 1996) collects:
The Big Fat Kill #1-5 (1994–1995)
That Yellow Bastard (tpb, 240 pages, 1997) collects:
That Yellow Bastard #1-6 (1996)
Family Values (graphic novel, tpb, 128 pages, 1997)
Booze, Broads, & Bullets (tpb, 160 pages, 1998) collects:
"Just Another Saturday Night" (in Sin City #1/2, 1997)
"Fat Man and Little Boy" (in San Diego Comic Con Comics #4, 1995)
"The Customer is Always Right" (in San Diego Comic Con Comics #2, 1992)
Silent Night (one-shot, 1995)
"And Behind Door Number Three?" (in The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories one-shot, 1994)
"Blue Eyes" (in Lost, Lonely, & Lethal one-shot, 1996)
"Rats" (in Lost, Lonely, & Lethal one-shot, 1996)
"Daddy's Little Girl" (in A Decade of Dark Horse #1, 1996)
Sex & Violence (one-shot, 1997)
"The Babe Wore Red" (in The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories one-shot, 1994)
Hell and Back #1-9 (tpb, 312 pages, 2001) collects:
Hell and Back, a Sin City Love Story #1-9 (1999–2000)
RoboCop vs. The Terminator #1-4 (w, with Walt Simonson, 1992)
Madman Comics #6-7 (w, with Mike Allred, 1995) collected in Madman Volume 2 (tpb, 456 pages, 2007)
The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot #1-2 (w, with Geof Darrow, 1995) collected as TBG and RtBR (tpb, 80 pages, 1996)
Dark Horse Presents (w/a):
"Lance Blastoff!" (in #100-1, 1995)
"Lance Blastoff, America's Favourite Hero!" (in #114, 1996)
300 #1-5 (w/a, 1998) collected as 300 (hc, 88 pages, 2000; tpb, 2002)
Dark Horse Maverick 2000: "Mercy!" (w/a, anthology one-shot, 2000)
9-11 Volume 1: "Untitled" (w/a, graphic novel, tpb, 196 pages, 2002)
Dark Horse Maverick: Happy Endings: "The End" (w/a, anthology graphic novel, tpb, 96 pages, 2002)
Autobiografix: "Man with Pen in Head" (w/a, anthalogy graphic novel, tpb, 104 pages, 2003)
Usagi Yojimbo #100 (w/a, among others, 2009) collected in UY: Bridge of Tears (hc, 248 pages, 2009; tpb, 2009)
Other publishers
Titles published by various American and British publishers include:
Twilight Zone (a, Gold Key Comics):
"Mike Royal Feast" (with writer uncredited, in #84, 1978)
"Endless Cloud" (with writer uncredited, in #85, 1978)
Ms. Tree #1-4: "Frank Miller's Famous Detective Pin-Up" (w/a, Eclipse, 1983)
Strip AIDS U.S.A.: "Robohomophobe!" (w/a, anthology graphic novel, tpb, 140 pages, Last Gasp, 1988)
AARGH! #1: "The Future of Law Enforcement" (w/a, Mad Love, 1988)
Spawn (w, Image):
"Home Story" (with Todd McFarlane, in #11, 1993) collected in Spawn: Dark Discoveries (tpb, 120 pages, 1997)
Spawn/Batman (with Todd McFarlane, one-shot, 1994)
Bad Boy (w, with Simon Bisley, Oni Press, one-shot, 1997)
Holy Terror (w/a, graphic novel, hc, 120 pages, Legendary Comics, 2011,
Weird War Tales (a):
"Deliver Me from D-Day" (with Wyatt Gwyon, in #64, 1978)
"The Greatest Story Never Told" (with Paul Kupperberg, in #68, 1978)
"The Day After Doomsday" (with Roger McKenzie, in #68, 1978)
Unknown Soldier #219: "The Edge of History" (a, with Elliot S. Maggin, 1978)
Batman:
Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told Volume 1 (tpb, 192 pages, 2005) includes:
DC Special Series #21: "Wanted: Santa Claus—Dead or Alive!" (a, with Dennis O'Neil, 1979)
Absolute Dark Knight (hc, 512 pages, 2006) collects:
Batman: The Dark Knight #1-4 (w/a, 1986)
Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again #1-3 (w/a, 2001)
Batman: Year One (hc, 144 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-4012-0690-5; tpb, 2007) collects:
Batman #404-407 (w, with David Mazzucchelli, 1987)
All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder #1-10 (w, with Jim Lee, 2005–2008)
Issues #1-9 collected as Volume 1 (hc, 240 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1681-1; tpb, 2009)
Dark Knight: Boy Wonder #1-6 (w, with Jim Lee, on hiatus)[50]
Ronin #1-6 (w/a, 1983) collected as Ronin (tpb, 302 pages, 1987, ISBN 0-446-38674-X; hc, 328 pages, 2008)
Superman #400: "The Living Legends of Superman" (a, with Elliot S. Maggin, among other artists, 1984)
Fanboy #5 (a, with Mark Evanier, among other artists, 1999) collected in Fanboy (tpb, 144 pages, 2001)
Superman and Batman: World's Funnest: "Last Imp Standing!" (a, with Evan Dorkin, among other artists, one-shot, 2000)
Orion #3: "Tales of the New Gods: Nativity" (a, with Walt Simonson, 2000) collected in O: The Gates of Apokolips (tpb, 144 pages, 2001)
Marvel Comics
Titles published by Marvel include:
John Carter, Warlord of Mars #18: "Meanwhile, Back in Helium!" (a, with Chris Claremont, 1978) collected in Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter, Warlord of Mars (tpb, 632 pages, Dark Horse, 2011) and John Carter, Warlord of Mars Omnibus (hc, 624 pages, 2012)
The Complete Frank Miller Spider-Man (hc, 208 pages, 2002) collects:
The Spectacular Spider-Man #27-28 (a, with Bill Mantlo, 1979)
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #14-15 (a, with Dennis O'Neil, 1980–1981)
Marvel Team-Up:
"Introducing: Karma!" (w/a, with Chris Claremont, in #100, 1980)
"Power Play!" (w, with Herb Trimpe, in Annual #4, 1981)
Marvel Two-in-One #51: "Full House--Dragons High!" (a, with Peter Gillis, 1979) collected in Essential Marvel Two-in-One Volume 2 (tpb, 568 pages, 2007)
Daredevil:
Daredevil by Frank Miller & Klaus Janson Omnibus (hc, 840 pages, 2007) collects:
"A Grave Mistake" (a, with Roger McKenzie, in #158, 1979)
"Marked for Death" (a, with Roger McKenzie, in #159-161, 1979–1980)
"Blind Alley" (a, with Roger McKenzie, in #163, 1980)
"Exposé" (a, with Roger McKenzie, in #164, 1980)
"Arms of the Octopus" (w/a, with Roger McKenzie, in #165, 1980)
"Till Death Do Us Part!" (w/a, with Roger McKenzie, in #166, 1980)
"...The Mauler!" (a, with David Michelinie, in #167, 1980)
"Elektra" (w/a, in #168, 1981)
"Devils" (w/a, in #169, 1980)
"Gangwars" (w/a, in #170-172, 1981)
"The Assassination of Matt Murdock" (w/a, in #173-175, 1981)
"Hunters" (w/a, in #176-177, 1981)
"Paper Chase" (w/a, in #178-180, 1982)
"Last Hand" (w/a, in #181-182, 1982)
"Child's Play" (w/a, with Roger McKenzie, in #183-184, 1982)
"Guts & Stilts" (w, with Klaus Janson, in #185-186, 1982)
"Widow's Bite" (w, with Klaus Janson, in #187-190, 1982–1983)
"Roulette" (w/a, in #191, 1983)
Daredevil by Frank Miller & Klaus Janson Omnibus Companion (hc, 608 pages, 2008) includes:
"Badlands" (w, with John Buscema, in #219, 1985)
"Warriors" (w, with Dennis O'Neil and David Mazzucchelli, in #226, 1986)
"Born Again" (w, with David Mazzucchelli, in #227-233, 1986)
Daredevil: Love and War (w, with Bill Sienkiewicz, graphic novel, tpb, 64 pages, 1986)
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear #1-5 (w, with John Romita, Jr., 1993)
Elektra by Frank Miller & Bill Sienkiewicz Omnibus (hc, 384 pages, 2008) collects:
"Untitled" (w/a, in Bizarre Adventures #28, 1981)
"What If Bullseye Had Not Killed Elektra?" (w/a, in What If? #35, 1982)
Elektra: Assassin #1-8 (w, with Bill Sienkiewicz, 1986–1987)
Elektra Lives Again (w/a, graphic novel, hc, 80 pages, 1991)
Marvel Spotlight #8: "Planet Where Time Stood Still!" (a, with Mike W. Barr and Dick Riley, 1980)
Marvel Preview #23: "Final Warning" (a, with Lynn Graeme, 1980)
Power Man and Iron Fist #76: "Death Scream of the Warhawk!" (a, with Chris Claremont and Mike W. Barr, 1981)
Bizarre Adventures #31: "The Philistine" (a, with Dennis O'Neil, 1982)
Fantastic Four Roast (a, with Fred Hembeck, among other artists, one-shot, 1982)
What If? #34: "What If Daredevil Were Deaf Instead of Blind?" (w/a, 1982)
Wolverine #1-4 (a, with Chris Claremont, 1982) collected as Wolverine (hc, 144 pages, 2007; tpb, 2009)
Incredible Hulk Annual #11: "Unus Unchained" (a, with Mary Jo Duffy, 1981)
Marvel Fanfare #18: "Home Fires!" (a, with Roger Stern, 1984)
Sensational She-Hulk #50: "He's Dead?!" (a, with John Byrne, among other artists, 1993)
Dark Horse Comics
Titles published by Dark Horse include:
The Life and Times of Martha Washington in the Twenty-First Century (hc, 600 pages, 2009) collects:
Give Me Liberty #1-4 (w, with Dave Gibbons, 1990–1991) also collected as Give Me Liberty (tpb, 216 pages, 1992)
Martha Washington Goes to War #1-5 (w, with Dave Gibbons, 1994) also collected as MWGTW (tpb, 144 pages, 1996)
Happy Birthday, Martha Washington (w, with Dave Gibbons, one-shot, 1995)
Martha Washington Stranded in Space (w, with Dave Gibbons, one-shot, 1995)
Martha Washington Saves the World #1-3 (w, with Dave Gibbons, 1997–1998) also collected as MWSTW (tpb, 112 pages, 1999)
Martha Washington Dies: "2095" (w, with Dave Gibbons, one-shot, 2007)
Hard Boiled #1-3 (w, with Geof Darrow, 1990–1992) collected as Hard Boiled (tpb, 128 pages, 1993)
Sin City (w/a):
Sin City (tpb, 208 pages, 1993) collects:
"Episode 1" (in Dark Horse Presents 5th Anniversary Special, 1991)
"Episodes 2-13" (in Dark Horse Presents #51-62, 1991–1992)
A Dame to Kill for (tpb, 208 pages, 1994) collects:
A Dame to Kill for #1-6 (1993–1994)
The Big Fat Kill (tpb, 184 pages, 1996) collects:
The Big Fat Kill #1-5 (1994–1995)
That Yellow Bastard (tpb, 240 pages, 1997) collects:
That Yellow Bastard #1-6 (1996)
Family Values (graphic novel, tpb, 128 pages, 1997)
Booze, Broads, & Bullets (tpb, 160 pages, 1998) collects:
"Just Another Saturday Night" (in Sin City #1/2, 1997)
"Fat Man and Little Boy" (in San Diego Comic Con Comics #4, 1995)
"The Customer is Always Right" (in San Diego Comic Con Comics #2, 1992)
Silent Night (one-shot, 1995)
"And Behind Door Number Three?" (in The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories one-shot, 1994)
"Blue Eyes" (in Lost, Lonely, & Lethal one-shot, 1996)
"Rats" (in Lost, Lonely, & Lethal one-shot, 1996)
"Daddy's Little Girl" (in A Decade of Dark Horse #1, 1996)
Sex & Violence (one-shot, 1997)
"The Babe Wore Red" (in The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories one-shot, 1994)
Hell and Back #1-9 (tpb, 312 pages, 2001) collects:
Hell and Back, a Sin City Love Story #1-9 (1999–2000)
RoboCop vs. The Terminator #1-4 (w, with Walt Simonson, 1992)
Madman Comics #6-7 (w, with Mike Allred, 1995) collected in Madman Volume 2 (tpb, 456 pages, 2007)
The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot #1-2 (w, with Geof Darrow, 1995) collected as TBG and RtBR (tpb, 80 pages, 1996)
Dark Horse Presents (w/a):
"Lance Blastoff!" (in #100-1, 1995)
"Lance Blastoff, America's Favourite Hero!" (in #114, 1996)
300 #1-5 (w/a, 1998) collected as 300 (hc, 88 pages, 2000; tpb, 2002)
Dark Horse Maverick 2000: "Mercy!" (w/a, anthology one-shot, 2000)
9-11 Volume 1: "Untitled" (w/a, graphic novel, tpb, 196 pages, 2002)
Dark Horse Maverick: Happy Endings: "The End" (w/a, anthology graphic novel, tpb, 96 pages, 2002)
Autobiografix: "Man with Pen in Head" (w/a, anthalogy graphic novel, tpb, 104 pages, 2003)
Usagi Yojimbo #100 (w/a, among others, 2009) collected in UY: Bridge of Tears (hc, 248 pages, 2009; tpb, 2009)
Other publishers
Titles published by various American and British publishers include:
Twilight Zone (a, Gold Key Comics):
"Mike Royal Feast" (with writer uncredited, in #84, 1978)
"Endless Cloud" (with writer uncredited, in #85, 1978)
Ms. Tree #1-4: "Frank Miller's Famous Detective Pin-Up" (w/a, Eclipse, 1983)
Strip AIDS U.S.A.: "Robohomophobe!" (w/a, anthology graphic novel, tpb, 140 pages, Last Gasp, 1988)
AARGH! #1: "The Future of Law Enforcement" (w/a, Mad Love, 1988)
Spawn (w, Image):
"Home Story" (with Todd McFarlane, in #11, 1993) collected in Spawn: Dark Discoveries (tpb, 120 pages, 1997)
Spawn/Batman (with Todd McFarlane, one-shot, 1994)
Bad Boy (w, with Simon Bisley, Oni Press, one-shot, 1997)
Holy Terror (w/a, graphic novel, hc, 120 pages, Legendary Comics, 2011,
Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn.
Sometimes that means dying.
Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.”
“Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on...none of you are safe.”
“An old man dies, a little girl lives. Fair trade.”
Sometimes that means dying.
Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.”
“Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on...none of you are safe.”
“An old man dies, a little girl lives. Fair trade.”
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Miller_(comics)
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Stephen Hawking
From wiki:
I read "A Brief History of Time" not long ago and want to dig into more Hawking stuff - this would give me the opportunity. I will have nothing but time on my island to try to stretch my brain around the mysteries of the universe. And I believe this effort will require rereadings.
Popular
A Brief History of Time, (1988)
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, (1994)
The Universe in a Nutshell, (2001)
On The Shoulders of Giants. The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy, (2002)
A Briefer History of Time, (2005)
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History, (2005)
The Grand Design, (2010)
Children's fiction
These are co-written with his daughter Lucy.
George's Secret Key to the Universe, (2007)
George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt, (2009)
George and the Big Bang, (2011)
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From wiki:
I read "A Brief History of Time" not long ago and want to dig into more Hawking stuff - this would give me the opportunity. I will have nothing but time on my island to try to stretch my brain around the mysteries of the universe. And I believe this effort will require rereadings.
Popular
A Brief History of Time, (1988)
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, (1994)
The Universe in a Nutshell, (2001)
On The Shoulders of Giants. The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy, (2002)
A Briefer History of Time, (2005)
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History, (2005)
The Grand Design, (2010)
Children's fiction
These are co-written with his daughter Lucy.
George's Secret Key to the Universe, (2007)
George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt, (2009)
George and the Big Bang, (2011)
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Okay, I don't know what this author's other works are like. He wrote very few novels. He also wrote plays, short stories and essays.
All I know is I'm picking him on the basis of the two of his novels I did read, both of which were great. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Once a Great Notion. Both were actually made into movies and I saw both of those as well. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest became more famous, but many critics consider Sometimes a Great Notion his best work, and a great novel in general.
He was a pretty wild guy and hung out with some other quite famous writers (to go unnamed). He was really got into psychedelics (boy did he) after he volunteered for a CIA study of LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, cocaine, AMT, and DMT. He was a night aid at the Menlo Park Veteran's Facility when he volunteered for this study being done at the facility.
Ken Kesey
He apparently was upset that the movie made of One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest did had the Randle McMurphy character as the narrator. In the book Chief Bromdon is the narrator. He also wanted Gene Hackman, instead of Nicholson, to play the McMurphy part.
Of Sometimes a Great Notion - Initial reviews of the book ran to both extremes, but its reputation has aged well. Charles Bowden calls it "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." It is widely considered among the masterpieces of Western American literature. In 1997, a panel of Northwest writers voted it number one in a list of "12 Essential Northwest Works". One book critic has described it as "what may well be the quintessential Northwest novel".
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey
Partial Bibliography:
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All I know is I'm picking him on the basis of the two of his novels I did read, both of which were great. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Once a Great Notion. Both were actually made into movies and I saw both of those as well. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest became more famous, but many critics consider Sometimes a Great Notion his best work, and a great novel in general.
He was a pretty wild guy and hung out with some other quite famous writers (to go unnamed). He was really got into psychedelics (boy did he
) after he volunteered for a CIA study of LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, cocaine, AMT, and DMT. He was a night aid at the Menlo Park Veteran's Facility when he volunteered for this study being done at the facility.Ken Kesey
He apparently was upset that the movie made of One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest did had the Randle McMurphy character as the narrator. In the book Chief Bromdon is the narrator. He also wanted Gene Hackman, instead of Nicholson, to play the McMurphy part.
Of Sometimes a Great Notion - Initial reviews of the book ran to both extremes, but its reputation has aged well. Charles Bowden calls it "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." It is widely considered among the masterpieces of Western American literature. In 1997, a panel of Northwest writers voted it number one in a list of "12 Essential Northwest Works". One book critic has described it as "what may well be the quintessential Northwest novel".
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey
Partial Bibliography:
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962, novel)
• Genesis West: Volume Five (1963, magazine article)
• Sometimes a Great Notion (1964, novel)
• Kesey's Garage Sale (1973, collection of essays)
• Demon Box (1986, collection of essays and short stories)
• Caverns (1989, novel)
• The Further Inquiry (1990, play)
• Sailor Song (1992, novel)
• Last Go Round (1994, novel, written with Ken Babbs)
• Twister (1994, play)
• Kesey's Jail Journal (2003, collection of essays)
• Genesis West: Volume Five (1963, magazine article)
• Sometimes a Great Notion (1964, novel)
• Kesey's Garage Sale (1973, collection of essays)
• Demon Box (1986, collection of essays and short stories)
• Caverns (1989, novel)
• The Further Inquiry (1990, play)
• Sailor Song (1992, novel)
• Last Go Round (1994, novel, written with Ken Babbs)
• Twister (1994, play)
• Kesey's Jail Journal (2003, collection of essays)
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