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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting colder, and the turkeys are a' tremblin', which can only mean one thing... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">It's William Hope Hodgson's birthday! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Today we pay tribute to the weird fiction extraordinaire and Scorpio king, whose
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papers we're lucky enough to hold here at UCR</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">It's been another busy month in SCUA, and I'm excited to share the following new acquisitions for the Eaton Collection (more on the archival side, this time): </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">a box of materials related to
<b>Harlan Ellison</b>, legendary SF editor, author, and anthologist, which includes four
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">early paperback editions and three hardbound editions with personal notes
from Ellison, a bound collection of 'Sundial', a student journal he worked on, correspondence, and photographs.</span>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">three boxes of
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:
a seminal periodical that rounds out our already-impressive collection.</span>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">digital copies of the first two issues of
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Accretion</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:
a fanzine that discusses happenings, personal news, new releases, poetry, and other speculative readings at
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Space Cowboy Books</a> - an incredible bookstore in Joshua Tree, run by the poet and anthologist Jean-Paul Garnier. Definitely worth a trip if you haven't been already - and be sure to check their website, as they host a lot of online and in-person events with
contemporary authors.</span>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the complete '</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Justice
Cycle' trilogy</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> by celebrated (and much-missed) author
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Virginia Hamilton</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.
The trilogy is ground-breaking YA science fiction from the African American author, and follows a group of Black children in Ohio who learn they have psychic powers. This item comes with a scarce, and intellectually rich, publisher's guide, with study questions.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Finally: look out for an exciting new exhibit opening January 2024 in SCUA, curated by yours truly, on SF film and television... more soon!<br>
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House on the Borderland, </b>William Hope Hodgson</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white;"> (1908) </span></div>
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water, and air: the Cahuilla, Tongva, LuisenŽo, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. Today this meeting place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including UCR faculty, students,
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