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[Pat's Pointer Finger]

Title - In The Fat - Tales of a corpulent sci-fi author
Author - Owen A. Forrems
Year of original publication - 2021
Source - onaforums.net
2023-01-07
"IN THE FAT is a collection of fan-written short stories, loosely inspired by great, contemporary sci-fi novels like Starship Repo by William Tate, as well as classic milspec techno-thrillers like Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October." - 204 pages of Pat inspired tales and fat art

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

The Complete Works of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke, 1798, compiled by Delphi press in 2016
Retrieved from Internet Archive 4/21/2024

Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, political theorist, and philosopher from the 18th century. Burke was a proponent of underpinning virtues with manners, and a firm believer in the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and the collective good of the state. He is best known for his anti-revolutionary screeds, particularly against the American and French revolutions. Burke's viewpoints formed the philosophical foundation of modern conservatism in America.

 

[Pat's Pointer Finger]

Title - A Christmas Carnage
Author - Owen A. Forrems
Year of original publication - 2023
Source - onaforums.net
2024-04-21
A gruesome follow-up to the story of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, centered on Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit.

 

[Digital Snow]

Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Published in 3 volumes in 1973, English translation published in 1974
All 3 PDFs obtained from the Internet Archive
PDFs obtained on 4/21/2024

An extensive look into the Gulag, the Soviet Union's system of labor camps. This series covers everything from the political landscape that established these camps, the arrests, interrogations, show trials, every aspect of life inside a variety of different camps, and the many different kinds of people whom found themselves imprisoned in the "archipelago". The series draws from a number of interviews, diaries, legal documents, and the author's own near-decade as a prisoner in the Gulag.

 

[AntiSchwuletteAktion]

Commentaries on the Gallic War / Commentarii de Bello Gallico

Gaius Julius Caesar, Aulus Hirtius
58-49 B.C.
2012 digital English translation by W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn, provided by classics.mit.edu
Retrieved 12 September, 2018

Written mostly by Caesar in the third person, the Commentaries were constructed to document the rising Roman general's conquests of the Gallic tribes (descendants of whom would go on to form the French nation). Caesar's wars in Gaul were usually fought on exaggerated provocations, without formal approval or declaration of war from the Roman Senate. Since Caesar was continually successful, he remained greatly popular, but his reputation was put at risk by the campaigns of political opponents at home who de-legitimized his victories and portrayed him as self-serving and immoral. Part of Caesar's political response was the publication of the Commentarii, allowing the educated public to read a full account of his activities in Gaul, in his own words. Due to the inherently political nature of the work, possible authorial distortions have been hotly debated by historians in the intervening centuries, yet it remains one of the most important primary sources on the late Roman Republic, the Gallic Wars, and on Caesar himself.

 

['Ole Dente]

Title: 1984.

Author: George Orwell.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of people and behaviors within society. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which they can be manipulated, so as to turn everybody into nigger cattle.

 

[RX-78]

The Lost World​

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1912 first edition
Obtained from Internet Archive
4/21/2024

The definitive adventure story. Down-on-his-luck reported Ed Malone attempts to impress his terrible girlfriend by accompanying ostracized scientist Professor Challenger on his expedition to Maple White Land, a forbidden plateau hidden in the depths of South America said to be home to all manner of prehistoric life. The expedition turns into a fight to survive when the party of four is betrayed by a dirty spic and left stranded on the plateau, fending off vicious megafauna and murderous sub-humans.

 

['Ole Dente]

Title: Animal Farm

Author: George Orwell

Animal Farm is a satirical allegory of Communism. It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphical farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, the rebellion is betrayed and, under the dictatorship of a pig called Napoleon, the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before and everyone literally becomes negro cattle.

 

[AntiSchwuletteAktion]

Commentaries on the Civil War / Commentarii de Bello Civili

Gaius Julius Caesar
46 B.C.
1888 English edition by Charles E. Moberly, scanned and provided by archive.org
Retrieved 12 September, 2018

Published in the aftermath of the devastating Roman Civil War by the victorious Caesar, these Commentarii are intended to document his perspective of the conflict, and to justify his actions to Roman readers. A primarily political text, more-so than his previous commentaries on the Gallic Wars, it is nonetheless an essential primary source on the end of the Roman Republic and the life of Julius Caesar.

 

[Tom Bombodildo]

Confessions or The Confessions of St. Augustine

Augustine of Hippo AKA St. Augustine
Published c. 400 AD
Downloaded from the Internet Archive
April 21st, 2024

One of the most influential autobiographies ever written, early Christian writer and theologian Augustine of Hippo tells the story of his sinful youth and conversion to Christianity. A foundational text to Western scholarship, it remains one of the most commonly read and well-regarded spiritual books to this day. Frank Sheed provides one of the best translations of Augustine, both for accuracy and poetic strength. (The first edition here was copyrighted in 1943 and not renewed; the copyright is no longer in effect. The second edition, with introduction by Peter Brown is copyrighted and still in publication)

 

[GenociderSyo]

Hiroshima
John Hersey
1946
Location the file was obtained at is internet archive.
Downloaded on 4/21/2024

Hersey writes about the bombing of hiroshima with a no holds barred approach which explains in detail what the bombing caused and 6 survivors life after it. It was originally published in the New Yorker in its entirity and took the place of the entire editorial section for one issue.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling, published in 1920
Downloaded from the Internet Archive 4/21/2024

Rudyard Kipling spent his formative years in India before travelling to America and England, where he would write his stories based on his childhood. These works would include The Jungle Book, and Just So Stories. He also wrote numerous poems, essays, and letters, including the controversial poem The White Man's Burden. His work is critical to understanding the experience of the British Empire.

 

[Digital Snow]

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov
Original short stories and novelettes published between 1940 and 1950, compiled into one book in 1950.
PDF obtained from the Internet Archive
PDF obtained on 4/21/2024

A collection of 9 short stories that introduced the world to Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics. Framed as a Robopsychologist giving an interview to a reporter, each of these stories place robots working under the 3 Laws in a scenario that test the laws to discover how the robots would react in edge cases or when the laws conflict. While campy by modern sci-fi standards, These stories revolutionized science fiction as a genre and has had an effect on modern AI development. This is, arguably, Asimov's most impactful work.

Not to be confused with the short story of the same name by Eando Binder, a pen name of Earl Andrew Binder.

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz​

L. Frank Baum

First published in 1900.
Digitally published in Freeditorial.
Downloaded in the SEDU of Coahuila, Mexico.
4/22/2024

Dorothy’s house falls on and kills the Wicked Witch of the East, freeing the Munchkins from her tyranny. The good Witch of the North gives Dorothy the dead Witch’s magic silver shoes. Dorothy wants to return to Kansas, but to do so, she must travel to the Emerald City to ask the help of the powerful and mysterious Wizard of Oz.

 

[użytkownik]

Industrial Society and Its Future

Theodore John Kaczynski

Publication date: September 19, 1995

From: https://archive.org/details/kaczynski2 (Also available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm)

Date of download: 22.04.2024

Industrial society and its future to 231 paragraphs manifesto, in which the author describes the problems caused by the industrial revolution and its prevention. Published by the Washington Post as part of the cessation of the terrorist campaign.

 

[trash cat]

OCCULT THEOCRACY

Written by Lady Queenborough
Aka Edith Starr Miller

First published posthumously in 1933
Downloaded from Internet Archive 04/22/2024

A wealthy married woman writes a comprehensive history of occult religious orders, ostensibly from a view up close and personal. She claims some of these orders have inherited political power and now engage in a project of world domination.

"Today, most of the good people are afraid to be good. They strive to be broadminded and tolerant! It is fashionable to be tolerant — but mostly tolerant of evil — and this new code has reached the proportions of demanding intolerance of good. The wall of resistance to evil has thus been broken down and no longer affords protection to those who, persecuted by evil doers, stand in need of it.

In offering this book to the public, I have endeavoured to expose some of the means and methods used by a secret world, one might almost say an underworld, to penetrate, dominate and destroy not only the so-called upper classes, but also the better portion of all classes."

 

[millais]

BELEGERINGSMATIRIEEL van 155 mM., Lang. Systeem SCHNEIDER​

Schneider et Cie
1897
scanned myself some years ago from a photocopy originally sourced from the State Archives in Pretoria, South Africa

19-page instruction manual for the 155mm "Long Tom" siege guns famously employed by the Boer ZAR Staatsartillerie in the 2nd Anglo-Boer War.

The manual was produced by the Schneider company of Le Creusot, France, which manufactured the guns and was translated from French to High Dutch for the officers and artillerymen of the ZAR Staatsartillerie. The manual describes in some detail the method of operation (installation procedure, disassembly, transportation, etc) and the gun drill (verbal commands and gun crew actions for the loading, aiming, and firing of the gun).

There are also some very good technical diagrams for the gun, the breech, the gun carriage, the gun platform, the hydraulic recoil system, the elevation system, the accessories kit, the shell types/powder charge/primer tube, the fuze types, and the sighting systems.

 

[The Rats in the Walls]

THE CASTLE

Franz Kafka

1935 original; 1946 translation
Obtained from Internet Archive
4/22/2024

The last (and unfinished) novel of Franz Kafka tells a story of a land surveyor K. arriving in a village located under a mysterious castle. Prevailing themes include alienation, hostility and bureucratic bullying as well as a host of surreal elements. The novel was published posthumously by Max Brod (against author's wishes) and can be considered an ideological sequel or expansion of 'The Trial', focusing on the concept of redemption (in contrast to The Trial's punishment).


@mindlessobserver What a lovely idea. I have a question - what's The Library's stance on works with unclear copyright status, namely a book that was public domain for years but then copyrighted again retroactively by a new law (which shouldn't be possible, given the general law rules).

 

[Snuckening2]

The Overcoat
Nickolai Gogol, 1842

Gogol’s story of government clerk Akaky Akakiyevich Bashmachkin combines a careful eye for detail with biting social satire on the banal evil of bureacracy. Unattractive, unnoticed, and underpaid, Akaky Akakiyevich decides that he must replace his ancient, worn overcoat. After scrimping for months, he finds a tailor who fashions a fine new coat just in time for winter. On his way home from a party, wearing his new coat for the first time, Akaky Akakiyevich is assaulted by two thugs who steal the garment. The police are indifferent. His coworkers refer him to a Certain Important Personage who becomes outraged by Akaky Akakiyevich’s temerity and refuses to help.

 

[Chromeo]

Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
Written by Edgar Allan Poe, republished by Maplewood Books in 2013
Downloaded from Lowe's Grove Navigators April 22, 2024

Edgar Allan Poe was an American author best known for his poetry and short stories, and is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism, Gothic fiction, and American literature. This book compiles all of his short stories, poems, essays, and one novel, including famous pieces such as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Telltale Heart, The Raven, and The Cask of Amontillado.

note: there is another compilation of EAP's work on The Internet Archive, but I found this one easier to read. Let me know if I messed up.