Wrapping Up 2012
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i_llbedammned and ievil_spock_47i, and happy early birthday to pambachorz, cyloran, and mamomo! May all of you enjoy many happy returns of the day!
'Tis time for my end-of-the-year wrap-up post, more for my benefit than anything else. Please excuse the navel-gazing!
Works I Read in 2012
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (1997)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (1998)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (1999)
Time for Sherlock Holmes by David Dvorkin (1983)
The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, The Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases by E.J. Wagner (2006)
Article 5 by Kristen Simmons (2011)
The Thames Horror and Other Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Barbara Roden (2011)
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Innsmouth Whaler by Christian Klaver (2010)
Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula: The Adventure of the Solitary Grave by Christian Klaver (2009)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (2005)
Antislavery Political Writings, 1833-1860: A Reader by C. Bradley Thompson (2003)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008)
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (1968)
The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman (2011)
Sherlock Holmes: The Way Of All Flesh by Daniel Ward (2004)
Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac (2001)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (2007)
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (2009)
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (2010)
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1855)
The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon (2004)
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan (2011)
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle (1963)
"A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman (short story, 2003)
"The Rust Islands" by Storm Constantine (short story, 1997)
The Bird Cage by Kate Wilhelm (novella, 2011)
1.4 by Mike A. Lancaster (2012)
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr (2010)
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien (1974)
"The Case of Death and Honey" by Neil Gaiman (2011)
A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny (1993)
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm (1976)
Stories of King Arthur's Knights Told to the Children by Mary MacGregor (1906)
Sherlock Holmes in Orbit edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg (1995)
The Yard by Alex Grecian (2012)
Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter (1986)
Science Fiction: The Literature Of The Technological Imagination by Eric S. Rabkin (1999)
From Here To Infinity: An Exploration of Science Fiction Literature by Michael C. Drout (2006)
In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery by Annette Kolodny (2012)
"The Witch of Dedham" by D.B. Jackson (2012)
Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders by Barry Day (2000)
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (1897)
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895)
"Mellonta Tauta" by Edgar Allan Poe (1859)
The Complete History of Jack the Ripper by Philip Sugden (1995)
The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes (1913)
The Marvellous Land of Snergs by E.A. Wyke-Smith (1927)
"The Diamond Lens" by Fitz-James O'Brien (1858)
A History of Native America by Ned Blackhawk (2010)
The Gate to Women's Country by Sherri S. Tepper (1993)
Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1844)
Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Globe Murders by Barry Day (1997)
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold (2012)
Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell (1938)
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle (1912)
The Frozen Sky by Jeff Carlson (2012)
Vintage Season by C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner (1946)
Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Lustrous Pearl by Christian Klaver (2012)
"Fondly Fahrenheit" by Alfred Bester (1954)
"Usher II" (originally "Carnival of Madness") by Ray Bradbury (1950)
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek (1944)
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg (1824)
Jack the Ripper and the Case for Scotland Yard's Prime Suspect by Robert House (2010)
Jack the Ripper: Crime Scene Investigation by Paul Begg and John Bennett (2012)
The Modern Scholar: Tolkien and the West: Recovering the Lost Tradition of Europe
by Michael D.C. Drout (2012)
The Italian Secretary by Caleb Carr (2005)
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon (1953)
The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett (1955)
Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez (2012)
The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Douglas A. Anderson (1937/1990)
What I'm Currently Reading
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)
Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes, edited by J.R. Campbell (2010)
Articles Published in 2012
* “Deadly Colonialist Fables: What Dueling Origin Myths from the 19th Century Tell Us about Ourselves,” Reason (December 2012)
* Stranger in a Familiar Land,” Cato Unbound (July 9, 2012)
Essays Written in 2012 and Accepted for 2013 Publication
* “Sherlock Holmes and Science Fiction,” Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Issue 10 (Spring 2013)
* “If This Is The (Final) Frontier, Where Are The Natives?” in Star Trek and History, Nancy Reagin, ed., Wiley Blackwell, 2013
* “From Both Sides Now: Lois McMaster Bujold and the Fan Fiction Phenomenon,” in Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Janet B. Croft, ed., McFarland, 2013
Voice Work Produced in 2012
* Complete novel narration of The Frozen Sky by Jeff Carlson
* Unabridged dramatic reading of "Topsider" by Jeff Carlson
for StarShipSofa: Aural Delights Number 268 (December)
* Unabridged dramatic reading of “After the Ape” by Stephen Volk
for Tales To Terrify, Episode 26 (July)
* Unabridged dramatic reading of The Bird Cage, Part 2 by Kate Wilhelm
for StarShipSofa: Aural Delights Number 243 (June)
* Unabridged dramatic reading of The Bird Cage, Part 1 by Kate Wilhelm
for StarShipSofa: Aural Delights Number 242 (June)
* Unabridged dramatic reading of “Jewels in the Dust” by Peter Crowther
for Tales To Terrify, Episode 15 (April)
* Unabridged dramatic reading of “The Rust Islands” by Storm Constantine
for StarShipSofa: Aural Delights Number 239 (May)
* Unabridged dramatic reading of “Payback” by P.D. Cacek
for Tales To Terrify, Episode 7 (February)
YouTube Videos Released in 2012
* The Trail of Tears: They Knew It Was Wrong
* Protest Against the Trail of Tears
* Forgotten Rebellion: Black Seminoles and the Largest Slave Revolt in U.S. History
* The Expulsion of the Acadians
* Andrew Jackson: The First Imperial President
Virginia hopes everyone is enjoying a wonderful holiday season! WITH TREATS!
i_llbedammned and ievil_spock_47i, and happy early birthday to pambachorz, cyloran, and mamomo! May all of you enjoy many happy returns of the day!'Tis time for my end-of-the-year wrap-up post, more for my benefit than anything else. Please excuse the navel-gazing!
Works I Read in 2012
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (1997)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (1998)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (1999)
Time for Sherlock Holmes by David Dvorkin (1983)
The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, The Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases by E.J. Wagner (2006)
Article 5 by Kristen Simmons (2011)
The Thames Horror and Other Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Barbara Roden (2011)
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Innsmouth Whaler by Christian Klaver (2010)
Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula: The Adventure of the Solitary Grave by Christian Klaver (2009)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (2005)
Antislavery Political Writings, 1833-1860: A Reader by C. Bradley Thompson (2003)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008)
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (1968)
The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman (2011)
Sherlock Holmes: The Way Of All Flesh by Daniel Ward (2004)
Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac (2001)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (2007)
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (2009)
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (2010)
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1855)
The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon (2004)
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan (2011)
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle (1963)
"A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman (short story, 2003)
"The Rust Islands" by Storm Constantine (short story, 1997)
The Bird Cage by Kate Wilhelm (novella, 2011)
1.4 by Mike A. Lancaster (2012)
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr (2010)
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien (1974)
"The Case of Death and Honey" by Neil Gaiman (2011)
A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny (1993)
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm (1976)
Stories of King Arthur's Knights Told to the Children by Mary MacGregor (1906)
Sherlock Holmes in Orbit edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg (1995)
The Yard by Alex Grecian (2012)
Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter (1986)
Science Fiction: The Literature Of The Technological Imagination by Eric S. Rabkin (1999)
From Here To Infinity: An Exploration of Science Fiction Literature by Michael C. Drout (2006)
In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery by Annette Kolodny (2012)
"The Witch of Dedham" by D.B. Jackson (2012)
Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders by Barry Day (2000)
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (1897)
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895)
"Mellonta Tauta" by Edgar Allan Poe (1859)
The Complete History of Jack the Ripper by Philip Sugden (1995)
The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes (1913)
The Marvellous Land of Snergs by E.A. Wyke-Smith (1927)
"The Diamond Lens" by Fitz-James O'Brien (1858)
A History of Native America by Ned Blackhawk (2010)
The Gate to Women's Country by Sherri S. Tepper (1993)
Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1844)
Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Globe Murders by Barry Day (1997)
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold (2012)
Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell (1938)
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle (1912)
The Frozen Sky by Jeff Carlson (2012)
Vintage Season by C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner (1946)
Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Lustrous Pearl by Christian Klaver (2012)
"Fondly Fahrenheit" by Alfred Bester (1954)
"Usher II" (originally "Carnival of Madness") by Ray Bradbury (1950)
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek (1944)
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg (1824)
Jack the Ripper and the Case for Scotland Yard's Prime Suspect by Robert House (2010)
Jack the Ripper: Crime Scene Investigation by Paul Begg and John Bennett (2012)
The Modern Scholar: Tolkien and the West: Recovering the Lost Tradition of Europe
by Michael D.C. Drout (2012)
The Italian Secretary by Caleb Carr (2005)
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon (1953)
The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett (1955)
Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez (2012)
The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Douglas A. Anderson (1937/1990)
What I'm Currently Reading
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)
Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes, edited by J.R. Campbell (2010)
Articles Published in 2012
* “Deadly Colonialist Fables: What Dueling Origin Myths from the 19th Century Tell Us about Ourselves,” Reason (December 2012)
* Stranger in a Familiar Land,” Cato Unbound (July 9, 2012)
Essays Written in 2012 and Accepted for 2013 Publication
* “Sherlock Holmes and Science Fiction,” Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Issue 10 (Spring 2013)
* “If This Is The (Final) Frontier, Where Are The Natives?” in Star Trek and History, Nancy Reagin, ed., Wiley Blackwell, 2013
* “From Both Sides Now: Lois McMaster Bujold and the Fan Fiction Phenomenon,” in Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Janet B. Croft, ed., McFarland, 2013
Voice Work Produced in 2012
* Complete novel narration of The Frozen Sky by Jeff Carlson
* Unabridged dramatic reading of "Topsider" by Jeff Carlson
for StarShipSofa: Aural Delights Number 268 (December)
* Unabridged dramatic reading of “After the Ape” by Stephen Volk
for Tales To Terrify, Episode 26 (July)
* Unabridged dramatic reading of The Bird Cage, Part 2 by Kate Wilhelm
for StarShipSofa: Aural Delights Number 243 (June)
* Unabridged dramatic reading of The Bird Cage, Part 1 by Kate Wilhelm
for StarShipSofa: Aural Delights Number 242 (June)
* Unabridged dramatic reading of “Jewels in the Dust” by Peter Crowther
for Tales To Terrify, Episode 15 (April)
* Unabridged dramatic reading of “The Rust Islands” by Storm Constantine
for StarShipSofa: Aural Delights Number 239 (May)
* Unabridged dramatic reading of “Payback” by P.D. Cacek
for Tales To Terrify, Episode 7 (February)
YouTube Videos Released in 2012
* The Trail of Tears: They Knew It Was Wrong
* Protest Against the Trail of Tears
* Forgotten Rebellion: Black Seminoles and the Largest Slave Revolt in U.S. History
* The Expulsion of the Acadians
* Andrew Jackson: The First Imperial President
Virginia hopes everyone is enjoying a wonderful holiday season! WITH TREATS!