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The Dragon Masters, Jack Vance, cover Josh Kirby, Ace Double #16640, 1972

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Weird Tales, cover C.C. Senf, July 1929

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"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book…or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken."

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

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Gentleman Junkie, Harlan Ellison, cover Barclay Shaw, Ace, 1983

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The Humanoids, Jack Willamson, cover Emsh, Lancer Books, New York, 1963

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Elric: Song of the Black Sword, Michael Moorcock, cover Kent Williams, White Wolf Publishing, 1995

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Burning Chrome, William Gibson, cover James Warhola, uncorrected proofs, Arbor House, 1986

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Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft & Others, illustration Lee Brown Coye, Arkham House, 1969

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The Deathworld Trilogy, Harry Harrison, cover illustration Richard Corben, Nelson Doubleday book club edition, New York, 1968

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Weird Tales, November 1929, back cover illus. Robert A. Graef

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Weird Tales, November 1929, illustration for "Skull-Face," Robert E. Howard

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Weird Tales, August 1929, cover Hugh Rankin

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Thomas Hood, London 1872, Gustave Doré illus. for “The Haunted House”

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Return from the Stars, Stanislaw Lem, cover Alan Henderson, Harcourt, New York, 1980

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The Songs of Distant Earth, Arthur C. Clarke, cover Michael Whelan, Random House, 1986

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Weird Tales, November 1929, cover C. C. Senf

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The Undying Fire, Fletcher Pratt, cover Richard Powers, Ballantine Books, New York, 1953