Eddas and Sagas
The Bible
Shakespeare
Mary Shelley
HG Wells
Robert Heinlein
other sf writers and future historians, including my favourite, James Blish
I am concurrently reading Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse novels. In The Jewel That was Ours (London, 1922), a character visits Holywell Cemetry, Oxford. Buried there are "eminent Oxford men," (Chapter Nine, p. 51) including:
James Blish (1921-1975)
Well...
Meanwhile, in Lancaster, sunny weather summons us for a walk.
2 comments:
If I ever visit Oxford I will ask to be shown where the oxen forded the river.
Kaor, Paul!
I knew Blish spent his last years in the UK but not that his remains were buried in Oxford.
Plus, Anderson was a big fan of Kipling.
Ad astra! Sean
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