Distant

For a historical perspective look at the section about Mexican unions in Distant Neighbors.

peso? 1919

And while you're at it, you can take all of Asimov's classic Foundation novels, which I'm sure were groundbreaking at the time (and whose importance to the genre's evolution is very obvious and fully acknowledged), but which now read like the clunkily-transcribed opium dreams of a rocket scientist who was forced to work on a mundane factory floor thanks to a Cruel Caprice Of Fate arranged by Cunning Long-sighted Psychohistorians in Distant Aeons Past, and which still cast such a massive and persistent penumbra of influence over people who've not actually bought any other science fiction novels since 1970, that one could easily argue that all science fiction novels written and published since are, in effect, and attempt to redress the balance in the eyes of anyone who'll give you a chance to try ... or even just the time of day.

MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010

(As cited in Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara Tuchman)

Veniceblog: 2004

(As cited in Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara Tuchman)

Earthquakes in Venice 2004

Last night, sarah_dimento lent me Bomhard and Kerns’ The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship, which she was kind enough to borrow from the McKimmie Library for that purpose.

The Westmarch Conundrum superversive 2006

I've been reading this book called A Distant Mirror, about the 14th century--this has been going on forever.

Mike Ragogna: Chatting with Rickie Lee Jones and NRBQ's Terry Adams, Plus Miss Derringer's New Video and Hot Water Music's New Single Mike Ragogna 2011

I've been reading this book called A Distant Mirror, about the 14th century--this has been going on forever.

Mike Ragogna: Chatting with Rickie Lee Jones and NRBQ's Terry Adams, Plus Miss Derringer's New Video and Hot Water Music's New Single Mike Ragogna 2011

Its a 20-minute fragment from an opera he started writing in 1948, called Distant Seas.

Unearthing Prokofiev: Rare Works Get NYC Debut 2010

I read a book called A Distant Crossing that tells this story precisely, even though it was published 15 years ago.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Entitled Distant Shores, and scheduled to be published in trade paperback in November of this year, editor Marco Palmieri has just announced the table of contents for same: "Da Capo al Fine" by Heather Jarman

cool stuff! thyla 2005