[Sfts-students] Klein Librarian update March (?!) 2024

[Phoenix Alexander]

Dear all,

April Fool's! It's April, and it's me, I'm the fool, for missing March by a day! So it goes, regardless: another month, and another update.

It's been a relatively quiet month - and I hope everyone had a great Spring Break! - but I do have some exciting things to share. As always, I'll start with some notable acquisitions:


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Walton, Nathan. Utopia Right Around the Corner. Non-factual. A story of fiction told as if it were Factual. Long Beach, California: H.J. Kemp Co., 1941. A rare, Utopian, alternative history text, in which "Henry Wallace (Roosevelt's vice president from 1941-1945) would succeed FDR as president, presumably after the latter's death. The result of their New Deal economic programs would motivate a small group of social scientists to create an 'Age of Plenty' in the form of a socialist utopia. Under Wallace this was rapidly realized by a 'Scientific Governing Machine,' massive expenditures of the state, and lucrative alliances with big business" (John Clute).

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Kavan, Anna. Asylum Piece and Other Stories. London: Jonathan Cape, (1940). Born Helen Emily Woods, British novelist Anna Kavan is "one of the most mysterious of modern writers" (J.G. Ballard). "Kavan's contemporary Lawrence Durrell saw her as a writer in the lineage of Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes; others have placed Ice in the canon of drug novels, along with De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Huxley's Brave New World." This is another scare volume that collects some of Kavan's uncanny short stories.

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Jean-Paul Garnier, ed., Accretion: the month at Space Cowboy Books, issues 3-6: Accretion : the month at Space Cowboy Books. - University of California Riverside (ucr.edu)<https://search.library.ucr.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01CDL_RIV_INST:UCR&search_scope=Everything&tab=Everything&docid=alma991033821182204706>. The latest issues of the e-zine from Space Cowboy Books!

In upcoming events, look out for two performances of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, performed by UCR Orchestra<https://music.ucr.edu/orchestra>, on April 20th (8pm) and April 21st (3pm).

That's all for now! More in a few weeks.

Warmth and light,

Phoenix

Recommended book of the month:  To Paradise, Hanya Yanagihara (2022)


Dr. Phoenix Alexander

Jay Kay and Doris Klein Librarian for Science Fiction and Fantasy

UCR Library | University of California, Riverside

P.O. Box 5900 | Rivera Library, Room 406c

Riverside, CA 92517-5900

Office: 951.827.2840 | phoenix.alexander at ucr.edu

Department Website: https://scua.ucr.edu/



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