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Loompanics' Golden Records: Articles and Features from the Best Book Catalog in the World
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199 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1993
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November 9, 2020
From the pages of one of the most infamous catalogs of the 80's and 90's chock full of assorted weird fun from an era where fun was still okay.
August 8, 2024
THE SECOND OF FOUR COLLECTIONS OF ARTICLES FROM LOOMPANICS
Loompanics Unlimited was a publishing company started in 1975 by Michael Hoy; billing its catalog as "The Best Book Catalog in the World," they sold books on everything from drug use to lock-picking. They also published a number of interesting, informative, controversial, and sometimes infuriating and downright objectionable books. (The name, by the way, was invented by Michael Hoy because he was going to advertise in the magazine National Lampoon, so he thought "something that sounded like 'National Lampoon' ... would help the sales of the Index. Loompanics closed its doors in 2006, but other publishers such as Delta Press and Paladin Press have acquired some of their back catalog, and even reprinted some of its books.
Their annual printed catalog (and its quarterly updates) always contained some interesting articles by a variety of writers, and this 1993 book was the second of four collections of these articles: the other collections are 'Loompanics Greatest Hits: Articles and Features from the Best Book Catalog in the World,' 'Loompanics Unlimited Live! in Las Vegas: Articles and Features from the Best Book Catalog in the World,' and 'Loompanics Unlimited Conquers the Universe.'
This collection contains articles such as, "Fake I.D.: The Closing Door and the Creeping Cracks," "Lucifer's Lexicon," "Scientific Ecology and Deep Ecology: A Clash of True Believers," "The War Against Comic Books Revisited," "Energy Farming in America," "My Kids Don't Go to School," "Twelve Steps to Hell," "Censorship in Cyberspace," etc.
These collections, like the Loompanics catalog itself, are interesting, thought-provoking, and bold challenges to "conventional" thinking.
Loompanics Unlimited was a publishing company started in 1975 by Michael Hoy; billing its catalog as "The Best Book Catalog in the World," they sold books on everything from drug use to lock-picking. They also published a number of interesting, informative, controversial, and sometimes infuriating and downright objectionable books. (The name, by the way, was invented by Michael Hoy because he was going to advertise in the magazine National Lampoon, so he thought "something that sounded like 'National Lampoon' ... would help the sales of the Index. Loompanics closed its doors in 2006, but other publishers such as Delta Press and Paladin Press have acquired some of their back catalog, and even reprinted some of its books.
Their annual printed catalog (and its quarterly updates) always contained some interesting articles by a variety of writers, and this 1993 book was the second of four collections of these articles: the other collections are 'Loompanics Greatest Hits: Articles and Features from the Best Book Catalog in the World,' 'Loompanics Unlimited Live! in Las Vegas: Articles and Features from the Best Book Catalog in the World,' and 'Loompanics Unlimited Conquers the Universe.'
This collection contains articles such as, "Fake I.D.: The Closing Door and the Creeping Cracks," "Lucifer's Lexicon," "Scientific Ecology and Deep Ecology: A Clash of True Believers," "The War Against Comic Books Revisited," "Energy Farming in America," "My Kids Don't Go to School," "Twelve Steps to Hell," "Censorship in Cyberspace," etc.
These collections, like the Loompanics catalog itself, are interesting, thought-provoking, and bold challenges to "conventional" thinking.
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