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Rhys’s 2020 Year in Books
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Rhys Hughes
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A New Universal History of Infamy
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2004
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Nowhere Near Milkwood
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2002
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The Smell of Telescopes
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2000
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Link Arms with Toads!
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2011
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The Postmodern Mariner
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2008
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Worming the Harpy and Other Bitter Pills
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1995
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Stories from a Lost Anthology
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2002
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Cloud Farming in Wales
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2017
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The Percolated Stars
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2003
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Bone Idle in the Charnel House A Collection of Weird Stories
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2014
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3 editions
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The Mirror in the Looking Glass
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updated Mar 29, 2010 04:34PM
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A short story of the same type as the stories in my book *The Less Lonely Planet* and featuring a character named Frabjal Troose, one of my 'mad inventors'.
Enviando libertad a tierras lejanas
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updated Oct 25, 2009 04:18AM
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Cuando el Presidente Arbusto llegó al poder, los almacenes llenos de material bélico fueron abiertos...
Wood for the Trees
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updated May 19, 2009 02:51AM
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A short fable set in a little village in India...
The Unsubtle Cages
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updated Apr 06, 2009 02:49AM
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A brief strange story about cages.
Fanny is Famished
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updated Jan 21, 2009 03:38AM
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A fairy tale -- with a difference!
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I have now read 72 'Maigret' novels and this was the 72nd. Only three more to go! I love Maigret but I am slightly bored with one particular scenario found in the series, namely the old upper-middle-class family with secrets who are uncooperative. How ...more |
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Another great 'Maigret' novel. It was my 70th 'Maigret' novel. There are 75 in total, so only 5 more to go and then I am done! I have been reading the novels for six years and I doubt I will ever again read such a large series. When I began reading the ...more |
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“During the siege of Panama, he trailed behind his comrades, picking up shreds of purple wool which had once been blue. The fighting was incredibly vicious, but there was a deeper quality to the havoc, an ineffable wiping of belief. Though he wore his name like a sealed pocket, it was picked when he passed into the Cup of Gold, city of burnished lips.”
― The Smell of Telescopes
― The Smell of Telescopes
“The next stop is mine. You’d better follow.” “The stop belongs to the railway, but I know what you mean.”
― The Smell of Telescopes
― The Smell of Telescopes
“All that now separated retirement from rest was a single box. The previous owner had been eager to protect its contents, using a lock carved from garlic. He picked it with a sprig of parsley and groped inside, pulling out an exact likeness of himself, a puppet double. Even his cork leg sealed the same dry white panic, judging from the way it jerked.”
― The Smell of Telescopes
― The Smell of Telescopes
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