These sources are about stories and how they get told. Some are landing pages or wiki entries, not the works themselves. This page lists 22 sources, oldest first where dated.
Commentaries to Liber AL vel Legis
This is a long compilation, not an essay. It sets several layers of commentary under each of the book's verses. The commentary is doctrinal and devotional, and later notes disagree with it in places.
The Complete Magician's Tables
The book is a compilation of tables, mostly of traditional correspondences, with a long commentary. The introduction explains why Skinner rearranged Crowley's Liber 777. Its method is historical comparison of older sources.
Kishotenketsu - a plot structure without conflict
The post explains kishotenketsu as a four-act structure with no conflict act. It works through a short poem and the film Your Name. The evidence is the author's own reading of two examples.
43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language
This is an editor's list of 43 stories, from Washington Irving to Kristen Roupenian. Each entry gets a blurb about adaptations, anecdotes or influence. The evidence is the editor's judgment, with no data on readership.
Toni Morrison's Lost Play
The feature traces Dreaming Emmett from idea to its 1986 Albany run. It draws on archives, a budget memo, reviews and interviews with the makers. It suggests the play helped Morrison with the ghost in Beloved.
Post on science fiction courses and ancient texts
This is a very short post with one self-reply. It names four works the author thinks belong in a science fiction course. It gives no argument or examples.
Bluesky post on Lovecraft's Dreamlands stories
The post is one opinion about Lovecraft's reputation. The replies add an adaptation link and comments on anthologies. It offers taste and no evidence.
Women of Afrofuturism: Pioneering Visions of the Future
The article describes a gallery show at San Francisco International Airport. It names women in space, writing and music, then lists featured artists. It reports on the show and cites no outside sources.
All I want in SF is aliens, giant robots and themes that plug into a ontological view
The post is a personal wish list, not an argument. A second post ranks stories by how well they meet it. Two replies suggest anime titles, and the author answers one. The source is short and offers only opinion.
hard SF transmissions from A.N. Alex
The static page shows only a loading screen. The site's RSS feed lists three posts with short summaries. Those summaries cover attention markets, a forecasting system and spin transformers. The individual posts were not opened.
Linda Nagata's Nanotech succession
The post is a few lines long. It gives an opinion of the series and a list of screen-worthy images. It quotes another user's post about funding a very long television show. It offers no argument beyond the author's taste.
Post on Calvino's "Cybernetics and Ghosts"
This is a brief social post, not an essay. It links to Calvino's essay and attaches an image of one passage. It quotes an earlier post by Ethan Mollick about science fiction authors and language models. Replies add short comments.
The Thunder, Perfect Mind
The article summarises the poem and its dating, style and possible parallels. It then lists albums, a novel and a film that use the title. Its support is citations to scholars and books, which were not checked here.
Olaf Stapledon
The article covers the life, politics and works of Stapledon. It lists writers Stapledon influenced and notes ideas such as the Dyson sphere. It includes a full bibliography and notes on film adaptations. The source is a reference summary built from cited sources.
The Reality Dysfunction
The article describes the setting, gives a long plot summary and quotes one review. It lists nine further reviews by name without describing them. A notice on the page says the plot summary may be too long. The source is a reference summary, not criticism.
Schismatrix
The article is a reference summary of the novel. It gives a long plot synopsis, character and place lists, and four quoted reviews. It also covers the companion stories collected in Schismatrix Plus.
The Decameron
The article is a broad reference summary of the Decameron. It covers the frame story, the title, sources, banning, English translations and later adaptations. It rests on cited scholarship, though several sections are tagged as lacking citations.
In the Hills, the Cities
This is a community wiki page about a Clive Barker novelette. It gives a plot summary of two paragraphs, plus a note on a song. It offers no analysis or sources. The page is short, so it works only as a plot reminder.
Pro Writers Swear by these 9 Character Building Techniques
Only the title and the description with its chapter list were available. The page lists nine chapters on character technique. The channel also sells courses and a book.
There Is No Antimemetics Division
This is a short landing page for the novel, plus a comment thread. The thread holds reader reactions and replies from qntm about editions, covers and ebooks. The novel itself is not on the page.
Seasons of Glass and Iron - The Nebula Awards
This is a short reference page, so it is thin. It names one winning story and six other nominees. It has no text of the story and no commentary.
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons
This is the blog front page, not a single post. It shows excerpts of recent posts, category counts and a monthly archive. A long sidebar lists short, sardonic climate and ecology news items.
Connections to other subjects
These links are this wiki's own reading, not claims the sources make.
- Kishotenketsu - a plot structure without conflict and Network Wars and the Mystery of the Disappearing AI, from Games and game design. Lantz says game bots are rules, like gravity, and not opponents. The kishotenketsu post says that structure does without conflict. Both loosen the assumption that drama needs an adversary. What would a game built on a twist be?
Glossary
- Adamists
- In the novel, humans who rely on machines and implants.
- Afrofuturism
- A cultural movement imagining Black futures through science fiction, music, art and technology.
- Aiwass
- The being Crowley said dictated the book.
- AMOC
- The Atlantic ocean current system that carries heat north.
- Anthologized
- Included in a collected volume of stories, often used in schools.
- Aretalogy
- A text in which a deity lists the deity's own powers.
- Bitek
- The novel's term for biological technology, such as living starships.
- Black Death
- The plague epidemic that killed many people in 14th-century Europe.
- Books of Blood
- A set of horror story collections by Clive Barker, first published in the 1980s.
- Canon
- The set of works widely treated as the standard ones.
- Class A, B, C
- Crowley's grades of authority, with A the highest.
- Combinatorial machine
- A device that builds texts by recombining fixed elements by rule.
- Computers (NASA)
- Human workers who did calculations by hand before electronic computers.
- Conscientious objector
- Someone who refuses military service on moral grounds.
- Coptic
- The late stage of the Egyptian language, written in a Greek-based script.
- Correspondence
- A traditional link between things, such as a planet, a colour and a metal.
- Cybernetics
- The study of control and communication in machines and living things.
- Cyberpunk
- A science fiction style about technology, power and the body.
- Dramaturg
- A specialist who advises a playwright on a script.
- Dreamlands
- The dream-world setting of several Lovecraft stories.
- DRM
- Copy protection that limits how a purchased ebook can be used.
- Dyson sphere
- A hypothetical shell built around a star to capture its energy.
- Econophysics
- Applying methods from physics to economic questions.
- Edenists
- In the novel, humans with a gene that allows telepathy and living technology.
- Fandom
- A site that hosts community-edited wikis about films, games and books.
- Fiblet
- The blog's own label for a short piece of fiction.
- Foil
- A character who contrasts with another to bring out the other's traits.
- Frame story
- A story that holds other stories inside it.
- Gematria
- Finding meaning in words by adding the number values of their letters.
- Gnostic
- Linked to ancient movements that stressed secret knowledge of the divine.
- Golden Dawn
- A late nineteenth-century British magical order.
- Grimoire
- A book of instructions for ceremonial magic.
- Inciting incident
- The event in a Western plot that sets the main conflict moving.
- Index Librorum Prohibitorum
- A list of books the Catholic Church banned.
- Kishotenketsu
- A four-part story structure from East Asian poetry and storytelling.
- Liber 777
- Crowley's 1909 book of correspondence tables, based on Golden Dawn material.
- Liber AL vel Legis
- The Book of the Law, which Crowley said was dictated to Crowley in 1904.
- LLM
- A large language model, a program trained to produce text.
- Macross Frontier
- An entry in the Macross anime series, named in a reply.
- Mandaeism
- A small religion whose scriptures include the Ginza.
- Mythos
- The shared fictional universe built around Lovecraft's work.
- Nag Hammadi library
- A set of ancient texts found in Egypt in 1945.
- Nanotech succession
- The post's name for Linda Nagata's run of science fiction novels.
- Nebula Award
- An annual award for science fiction and fantasy given by the SFWA.
- Nihongi
- An early Japanese chronicle that mixes myth and history.
- Novelette
- A work of fiction longer than a short story and shorter than a novel.
- Novella
- A work of fiction longer than a short story and shorter than a novel.
- Nuit and Hadit
- Egyptian-named deities in the book, standing for infinite space and the point within it.
- Occult
- Concerned with hidden or magical practices.
- Ontological view
- A set of beliefs about what exists and what matters.
- Oulipo
- A group of writers who use formal constraints to make literature.
- Posthuman
- Describing beings changed so much by technology that they are no longer ordinary humans.
- Qabalah
- A system of letter and number symbolism used in Western occultism.
- Ramayana
- An ancient Sanskrit epic about the prince Rama.
- Reconstruction era
- The period after the US Civil War, during which Beloved is set.
- Regional theater
- A professional theater company outside the main commercial centers.
- Rigveda
- The oldest collection of Hindu sacred hymns.
- RSS feed
- A machine-readable list of a site's latest posts.
- Sephiroth
- The ten spheres of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
- SFWA
- The professional association of science fiction and fantasy writers in the United States.
- Speculative fiction
- Fiction that departs from realism, including science fiction and fantasy.
- Spin transformer
- A model type named in the feed summaries, linked to the work of Matthias Bal.
- Star Driver
- An anime title that a replier suggests.
- Strophe
- A group of lines forming a unit in a poem.
- Terraforming
- Changing another planet to make it livable.
- Thelema
- A religion founded by Aleister Crowley, built on the Book of the Law.
- Transhumanism
- A movement that favors using technology to extend human abilities.
- Transhumanist fiction
- Stories about people changing their bodies and minds with technology.
- Twist
- The third act, where the story changes direction.
- Vera Historia
- A Greek-era satire, also called A True Story, with voyages to the Moon.
- Vernacular
- The everyday spoken language of a place, as opposed to Latin.
- Voidhawk
- An Edenist living starship in the novel.
- Web serial
- A story published online in installments.