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Here's the link, dirty birds.
FYI there's more than one volume.
DAMN YOU FOR ALREADY HAVING IT!
Hurry up amazon!
I suppose Ill be back when I get it
Also to anyone who wants to buy it but is unsure of it cause of pricing, its nine bucks on amazon
Edit I got it!
You can get a physical hardcover copy on Amazon too if your interested. Most of the stuff posted here is fan art from these books.
Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle, which is an encyclopedia of people, places, and terms used in BotNS, has a summary of all the Severians. It also has a lot of commentary and analysis that might not be obvious upon one's first read, so it's a book I recommend all Wolfe fans get, alongside others like Solar Labyrinth.
I also recommend getting Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle, which is an encyclopedia of people, places, and terms used in BotNS. It includes a lot of commentary and analysis that might not be obvious upon one's first read. The same author also wrote an excellent chapter guide that provides a lot of insight, such as allusions to other works that may have escaped the reader. Turns out Wolfe makes a lot of them.
If youre wanting the physical books, then here they are on Amazon. Next time you may have better luck trying the MGQ subreddit or somewhere more appropriate. LINK
Non-mobile: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1465435506/ref=pd_aw_sim_b_1?refRID=1TNPEX3V2DZ9804XB6RX
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depends on setting actually but yes and the awnser is this wonderfull thing https://www.amazon.de/Monster-Girl-Encyclopedia-Kenkou-Cross/dp/1626923612/ref=asc_df_1626923612/?tag=googshopde-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310668511389&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8343380436781526363&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&...
Although the title says what every American needs to know, I think this book is good for non-Americans who work or interact with Americans: The New Dictionary Of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
There is this really comprehensive encyclopedia of cultural knowledge that you might find helpful: The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know https://www.amazon.com/dp/0618226478/
Really? Ok sure...
https://www.amazon.com/Monster-Girl-Encyclopedia-Vol-1/dp/1626923612
I dont think it will be as fun as you might expect though.
u/Seriously86, u/SiriusFiction quite literally wrote the book on Gene Wolfe not making up any words for BotNS...
Here is a link to the new one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345477634/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_QMN9GSDX8Z1NC2MGH96V
And here is the older one: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/star-wars-encyclopedia_stephen-j-sansweet/320725/item/4229259/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwiNSLBhCPARIsAKNS4_ddwLlp-ycdVFQBYiau6KpnRKtoQ8rr3kNaQKB0eGdlJlFcimfGlB0aAkpKEALw_wcB#idiq=4229259&edition=2364282
The older version doesn't contain anything from the prequels and newer.
The new version doesn't contain the sequels or anything Canon. Both are only Legends
For the sake of writing poetry, introducing yourself to its various forms (classical and more contemporary), and finding excellent examples of those forms, I highly encourage this particular Norton text edited Mark Strand.
I was absolutely NOT a poetry person until my creative writing professor who taught poetry writing introduced our class to this book. I have since begun incorporating it into my own creative writing curriculum as a high school teacher. It works wonders with my young writers, and I’ve seen many of them flourish with it.
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393321789/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_D0CW5F5X9A4R07YRS72C
I would also recommend The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
There are short paragraphs about major events and cultural touchstones that you can read about. Then you can further read about anything that interests you.
You need this book immediately! When I was earning my BfA in CW, poetry was a significant weakness for me, too. I had a professor teach us forms. We read analyzed and discussed even more contemporary examples of the forms covered by this book. That was super helpful to me.
Now, I’m a HS teacher of English and Creative Writing, and I use this book when I teach poetry units. I even once used it to help this young hip hop artist in one of my classes discover some new structures for lyrical expression that he later applied in his music writing, and he remains of the few kids I’ve ever seen pull off a successful sestina.
And if you are taking a college poetry workshop class, I’d be less concerned about the writing and more concerned about the workshop portion. Any good workshop teacher is grading you not on your initial draft. They are grading you on the progress you make incorporating feedback into your revisions, and on the quality of the feedback you are giving your peers on their manuscripts and in the workshop.
Keep pushing, and read more examples of you need to.
Oh! And the second link is to Poetry Foundation in case you haven’t been to it before. You can used the advanced search to search for specific themes or forms in poetry.
The Making of a Poem: Norton Anthology of Poetic FormThe Making of A Poem: Norton’s Anthology of A Poem
Poetry Foundation poetry foundation
One book that might be good to keep around: The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.
E.D. Hirsch wrote Cultural Literacy: What Every American Ought to Know in 1987 and had an appendix of 5,000 terms in the back that Americans should know. It made quite a splash then, and he had a good point. This dictionary is an outgrowth of that and provides not only the keywords but enough about each idea to give you the basics. Even if you read it an hour a week for the next two years, it will really help.
Kenkou Cross is the author of Monster Girl Encyclopedia (Volumes One and Two), which is beloved by filthy degenerates worldwide. The books present an unexpectedly detailed example of world building, mostly in the form of entries for various “monster girls”. These books are widely available, both in the original Japanese and translated into English:
His examples of “mushroom girls” are not explicitly based on real-world mushrooms, but the “Matango” monster girl is clearly based on the iconic Amanita Muscaria toadstool.
Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle and Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun: A Chapter Guide by Michael Andre-Druissi are both excellent and highly recommended. The first one is an encyclopedia (not just a dictionary) of terms, characters, and places. The second is a chapter-by-chapter guide that makes a lot more explicit.
For example, Wolfe references a lot of groups of people (cacogens, hierodules, etc.) who are in fact aliens, but aside from one or two throwaways akin to "they traveled to Urth from the stars", Wolfe never explains what they are.
He also connects a lot of dots, like who Hethor and Jonas really are.
Why an article? It's a published oxford book and peer reviewed: According to the Encyclopedia of Wars, out of all 1,763 known/recorded historical conflicts, 123, or 6.98%, had religion as their primary cause.
You can buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Wars-Facts-Library-History/dp/0816028516
You're pretty stupid attempting to turn back on me something I have proof about. Also error on my part, meant to say 93% of wars were caused by people like you. I correct my error.
I’m not entering I just wanted to share this awesome dinosaur pop up book because I bought it for my nephew for Xmas and it’s amazing!
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“According to the Encyclopedia of Wars, out of all 1,763 known/recorded historical conflicts, 123, or 6.98%, had religion as their primary cause.[1]”
The book is called “The Encyclopedia of Wars Volume 3” by Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod.
That particular edition of Sansweet's encyclopedia is from 1997 and has been supplanted by this: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Star-Wars-Encyclopedia/dp/0345477634 -- published in 2008.