Jerry Abbott's Fantasy Library: L-O
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450 books
Here are the books in my library as of 20 May 2013.

All books are mass market paperbacks, unless otherwise indicated: TPB=trade paperback, HC=hardcover, SHC=small hardcover. Books that have been read are shown in italics.

Keith Laumer
* Judson's Eden
Series: Retief.
1. Envoy to New Worlds
2. Galactic Diplomat
3. Retief's War
4. Retief and the Warlords
5. Ambassador to Space
6. Retief's Ransom
7. Retief of the CDT
8. Retief at Large
9. Emissary to the Stars
10. Diplomat at Arms
11. Retief to the Rescue
12. The Return of Retief
13. Retief in the Ruins
14. Reward for Retief
15. Retief and the Rascals
16. Retief Unbound

Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Series: The Liaden Universe.
1. Crystal Soldier
2. Crystal Dragon
3. Balance of Trade
4. Local Custom
5. Scout's Progress
6. Mouse & Dragon
7. Conflict of Honors
8. Agent of Change
9. Carpe Diem
10. Plan B
11. I Dare
12. Fledgling
13. Saltation
14. Ghost Ship

Tanith Lee
* Cyrion
* Day By Night
* Days of Grass
* Electric Forest
* Volkhavaar
Series: Don't Bite the Sun.
1. Don't Bite the Sun
2. Drinking Sapphire Wine
Series: Silver Metal Lover.
1. The Silver Metal Lover
2. Metallic Love
Series: Tales from the Flat Earth.
1. Night's Master
2. Death's Master
3. Delusion's Master
4. Delirium's Mistress
5. Night's Sorceries
Series: Sabella, or the Blood Stone.
1. Sabella
2. Kill the Dead
Series: Dark Castle, White Horse.
1. The Castle of Dark
2. Prince on a White Horse
Series: The Novels of Vis.
1. The Storm Lord
2. Anackire
3. The White Serpent

Madeleine L'Engle
Series: A Wrinkle in Time.
1. A Wrinkle in Time
2. A Wind at the Door
3. A Swiftly Tilting Planet
4. Many Waters

Ursula K. LeGuin
* City of Illusions
* The Compass Rose
* The Dispossessed
* The Lathe of Heaven
* The Left Hand of Darkness
Series: Earthsea. (Anti-white race political content.)
1. A Wizard of Earthsea
2. The Tombs of Atuan
3. The Farthest Shore
4. Tehanu
5. The Other Wind

Fritz Leiber
* Gather Darkness!
Series: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.
1. Swords and Deviltry
2. Swords against Death
3. Swords in the Mist
4. Swords against Wizardry
5. The Swords of Lankhmar
6. Swords and Ice Magic
7. The Knight and Knave of Swords
8. Farewell to Lankhmar

Murray Leinster
* The Mutant Weapon
* The Pirates of Zan

C.S. Lewis
Series: Space Trilogy.
1. Out of the Silent Planet
2. Perelandra
3. That Hideous Strength
Series: Chronicles of Narnia.
1. The Magician's Nephew (TSPB)
2. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (TSPB)
3. The Horse and His Boy (TSPB)
4. Prince Caspian (TSPB)
5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (TSPB)
6. The Silver Chair (TSPB)
7. The Last Battle (TSPB)

David Lindsay
* A Voyage to Arcturus

Megan Lindholm
Series: Windsinger.
1. Harpy's Flight
2. The Windsingers
3. The Limbreth Gate
4. Luck of the Wheels

Holly Lisle
* Sympathy for the Devil
Series: Secret Texts.
* Vincalis the Agitator
1. Diplomacy of Wolves
2. Vengeance of Dragons
3. Courage of Falcons
Series: Faia.
1. Fire in the Mist
2. Bones of the Past
3. Mind of the Magic
Series: World Gates.
1. Memory of Fire
2. The Wreck of Heaven
3. Gods Old and Dark

Morgan Llywelyn
* Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish
* Brian Boru
* The Elementals
* Finn Mac Cool
* Grania
* The Horse Goddess
* The Last Prince of Ireland
* Lion of Ireland
* Pride of Lions
* The Wind from Hastings

Barry B. Longyear
* Sea of Glass
Series: Circus World.
1. Circus World
2. City of Baraboo
3. Elephant Song
Series: Dracon.
1. Enemy Mine
2. The Tomorrow Testament

Eric van Lustbader
Series: The Sunset Warrior.
1. The Sunset Warrior
2. Shallows of Night
3. Dai San
4. Beneath an Opal Moon
Series: Pearl Saga.
1. The Ring of Five Dragons
2. The Veil of a Thousand Years
3. Mistress of the Pearl

Scott Lynch
Series: Locke Lemora.
1. The Lies of Locke Lemora
2. Red Seas Under Red Skies

Juliet Marillier
* Wildwood Dancing
Series: Sevenwaters.
1. Daughter of the Forest
2. Son of the Shadows
3. Child of the Prophecy
4. Heir to Sevenwaters
5. Seer of Sevenwaters
Series: The Bridei Chronicles.
1. The Dark Mirror
2. Blade of Fortriu
3. The Well of Shades
Series: Children of the Light Isles.
1. Wolfskin
2. Foxmask

George R.R. Martin
* Fevre Dream (TSPB)
* Tuf Voyaging
* A Song for Lya
Series: A Song of Ice and Fire.
1. A Game of Thrones
2. A Clash of Kings
3. A Storm of Swords
4. A Feast for Crows
5. A Dance with Dragons

Julian May
Series: Saga of Pliocene Exile.
1. The Many-Colored Land
2. The Golden Torc
3. The Non-Born King
4. The Adversary
Series: Intervention.
1. Surveillance
2. Metaconcert
Series: Millieu.
1. Jack the Bodiless
2. Diamond Mask
3. Magnificat
Series: Boreal Moon.
1. Conqueror's Moon
2. Ironcrown Moon
3. Sorcerer's Moon
Series: Rampart Worlds.
1. Perseus Spur
2. The Orion Arm
3. The Sagittarius Whorl

Anne McCaffrey
* Damia
Series: The Dragonriders of Pern (HC omnibus 1-3).
1. Dragonflight
2. Dragonquest
3. White Dragon
Series: Crystal Singer.
1. Crystal Singer
2. Killashandra
3. Crystal Line
Series: Petaybee (caw Elizabeth Ann Scarborough).
1. Powers That Be
2. Power Lines
3. Power Play

Wil McCarthy
Series: The Queendom of Sol.
1. The Collapsium
2. The Wellstone
3. Lost in Transmission
4. To Crush the Moon

David McDaniel
* The Arsenal Out of Time

Jack McDevitt
Series: Academy.
1. The Engines of God
2. Deepsix
3. Chindi
4. Omega
5. Odyssey
6. Cauldron

Vonda N. McIntyre
* Barbary
* Dreamsnake
* Metaphase
* Starfarers

Juliet E. McKenna
Series: Tales of Einarinn.
1. The Thief's Gamble
2. The Swordsman's Oath
3. The Gambler's Fortune
4. The Warrior's Bond
5. The Assassin's Edge

Dennis L. McKiernan
* Dragon Doom
* The Dragonstone
* Once Upon A Summer Day
Series: The Iron Tower.
1. The Dark Tide
2. Shadows of Doom
3. The Darkest Day

Patricia A. McKillip
* Od Magic (sHC)
* The Tower at Stony Wood (TSPB)
* Ombria in Shadow (TSPB)
* In the Forests of Serre (TSPB)
* Winter Rose (TSPB)
* Alphabet of Thorn (TSPB)
* The Book of Atrix Wolfe
* The Changling Sea
* The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
* The Moon and the Face
* Moon Flash
Series: The Riddle-Master of Hed.
1. The Riddle-Master of Hed
2. Heir of Sea and Fire
3. Harpist in the Wind

Jack McKinney
Series: The Black Hole Travel Agency.
1. Event Horizon
2. Artifact of the System

Stephanie Meyer
Series: Twilight.
1. Twilight (TSPB)
2. New Moon (TSPB)

China Mieville
Series: New Crobuzon.
1. Perdido Street Station
2. The Scar
3. The Iron Council

Walter M. Miller Jr.
* A Canticle for Leibowitz

Hope Mirrlees
* Lud-in-the-Mist

John Milton
* Paradise Lost (sHC, trilogy omnibus)

L.E. Modesitt Jr.
* Adiamante
* The Parafaith War
* The Ecolitan Enigma
* The Ecologic Envoy
Series: Imager Portfolio.
1. Imager
2. Imager's Challenge
Series: Spellsong Cycle.
1. The Soprano Sorceress
2. The Spellsong War
3. Darksong Rising
4. The Shadow Sorceress
5. Shadowsinger
Series: The Saga of Recluce.
1. Magi'i of Cyador
2. Scion of Cyador
3. Fall of Angels
4. The Chaos Balance
5. Arms-Commander
6. The Towers of the Sunset
7. The White Order
8. Colors of Chaos
9. The Magic Engineer
10. Natural Ordermage
11. Mage-Guard of Hamor
12. The Order War
13. Wellspring of Chaos
14. Ordermaster
15. The Magic of Recluce
16. The Death of Chaos

Elizabeth Moon
* Remnant Population
Series: The Deed of Paksenarrion.
* Surrender None: The Legacy of Gird
* Liar's Oath
1. Sheepfarmer's Daughter
2. Divided Allegiance
3. Oath of Gold
4. Oath of Fealty
5. Kings of the North
6. Echoes of Betrayal
Series: Familias Regnant.
1. Hunting Party
2. Sporting Chance
3. Winning Colors
4. Once a Hero
5. Rules of Engagement
Series: Kylara Vatta.
1. Trading in Danger
2. Marque and Reprisal
3. Command Decision
4. Engaging the Enemy

Michael Moorcock
* The Shores of Death
* The Eternal Champion
Series: Elric.
1. Elric of Melnibone
2. The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
3. The Weird of the White Wolf
4. The Vanishing Tower
5. The Bane of the Black Sword
6. Stormbringer
7. Elric at the End of Time
8. The Fortress of the Pearl
9. The Revenge of the Rose
10. The Dreamthief's Daughter
11. The Skrayling Tree
12. The White Wolf's Son
Series: History of the Rune Staff.
1. The Jewel in the Skull
2. The Mad God's Amulet
3. The Sword of the Dawn
4. The Runestaff

Catherine L. Moore
* Judgment Night

John Moore
* The Unhandsome Prince
* A Fate Worse Than Dragons
* Bad Prince Charlie
* Heroics For Beginners

Moira J. Moore
Series: Hero.
1. Resenting the Hero
2. The Hero Strikes Back
3. Heroes Adrift
4. Heroes at Risk
5. Heroes Return

William Morris
* The Wood Beyond the World

Peter Moorwood
Series: The Book of Years.
1. The Horse Lord
2. The Demon Lord
3. The Dragon Lord
4. The Warlord's Domain

Patricia Mullen
* The Stone Movers

Audrey Niffenegger
* The Time Traveler's Wife

Douglas Niles
Universe: Dragonlance.
* The Kinslayer Wars [Elven Nations, book 2]
* The Kagonesti [Lost Histories, book 1]
Series: Icewall.
1. The Messenger
2. The Golden Orb
3. Winterheim

Larry Niven
* Crashlander
* Destiny's Road
* The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton
* The Patchwork Girl
* Protector
* Achilles Choice (caw Barnes)
* Beowulf's Children (caw Pournelle, Barnes)
* Fallen Angels (caw Pournelle, Flynn)
* Lucifer's Hammer (caw Jerry Pournelle)
Series: Integral Trees.
1. Integral Trees
2. The Smoke Ring
Series: The Mote in God's Eye.
* The Mote in God's Eye (caw Jerry Pournelle)
* The Gripping Hand (caw Jerry Pournelle)
Series: Ringworld.
1. Ringworld
2. Ringworld Engineers
3. The Ringworld Throne
4. Ringworld's Children

Garth Nix
Series: Abhorsen.
1. Sabriel
2. Lyrael
3. Abhorsen
Series: The Seventh Tower.
1. The Fall (TSPB)
2. Castle (TSPB)
3. Aenir (TSPB)
4. Above the Veil (TSPB)
5. Into Battle (TSPB)
6. The Violet Keystone (TSPB)

John Norman
Series: Gorean Saga.
1. Tarnsman of Gor
2. Outlaw of Gor
3. Priest-Kings of Gor
4. Nomads of Gor
5. Assassin of Gor

Andre Norton
* Android at Arms
* The Book of Andre Norton
* Breed to Come
* Darkness & Dawn
* Dragon Magic
* Eye of the Monster
* Garan the Eternal
* The Hands of Lyr
* Here Abide Monsters
* High Sorcery
* Huon of the Horn
* Ice Crown
* Imperial Lady
* Iron Cage
* Knave of Dreams
* Lavender Green Magic
* The Magic Books (trilogy omnibus)
* Mark of the Cat
* Merlin's Mirror
* Mirror of Destiny
* Moon Called
* Moon Mirror
* Night of Masks
* The Opal-Eyed Fan
* Operation Time Search
* Perilous Dreams
* The Prince Commands
* Quag Keep
* Ralestone Luck
* Red Hart Magic (sHC)
* Scent of Magic
* Sea Siege
* Secret of the Lost Race
* Shadow Hawk
* The Sioux Spaceman
* Star Gate
* Voorloper
* Wheel of Stars
* The White Jade Fox
* Wind in the Stone
* Wizard Worlds
* Wraiths of Time
* The X Factor
* Yurth Burden
Series: Astra.
1. The Stars Are Ours
2. Star Born
Series: Blake Walker.
1. Quest Crosstime
2. The Crossroads of Time
Series: Central Control.
1. The Last Planet (a.k.a. Star Rangers)
2. Star Guard
Series: Dark Companion.
1. Dark Piper
2. Dread Companion
Series: Forerunner - Shan Lantree.
1. Storm Over Warlock
2. Ordeal in Otherwhere
3. Forerunner Foray
4. Forerunner
5. Forerunner: the Second Venture
Series: Free Traders - Moonsinger.
1. Moon of Three Rings
2. Exiles of the Stars
3. Flight in Yiktor
4. Dare to Go A-Hunting
5. Brother to Shadows
Series: Hosteen Storm.
1. The Beast Master
2. Lord of Thunder
Series: Janus.
1. Catseye
2. Judgment on Janus
3. Victory on Janus
Series: Zero Stone - Murdoc Jern.
1. The Zero Stone
2. Uncharted Stars
Series: Solar Queen.
1. Sargasso of Space
2. Plague Ship
3. Voodoo Planet
4. Postmarked the Stars
Series: Star Ka'at.
1. Star Ka'at
2. Star Ka'at World
3. Star Ka'ats and the Plant People
Series: Time Traders - Ross Murdock.
1. The Time Traders
2. Galactic Derelict
3. The Defiant Agents
4. Key Out of Time
5. Firehand
Universe: Witch World.
Series: Estcarp.
1. Witch World
2. Web of the Witch World
3. Three Against the Witch World
4. Warlock of the Witch World
5. Sorceress of the Witch World
6. Trey of Swords
7. Were Hawk
8. The Gate of the Cat
Series: High Hallack.
9. Horn Crown
10. Year of the Unicorn
11. Spell of the Witch World
12. The Jargoon Pard
13. Zarsthor's Bane
14. The Crystal Gryphon
15. Gryphon in Glory
16. Gryphon's Eyrie
17. Songsmith
Series: The Turning.
18. Storms of Victory
19. Flight of Vengeance
20. On Wings of Magic
21. The Key of the Keplian
22. Ciara's Song
23. The Magestone
24. The Warding of Witch World
25. The Duke's Ballad (with Lyn McConchie, sHC)
* Lore of the Witch World

Jody Lynn Nye
Series: Mythology.
1. Mythology 101
2. Mythology Abroad
3. Higher Mythology
4. Advanced Mythology

George Orwell
* 1984

Jerry Abbott's Fantasy Library: E-K
Jenab6
jenab6
455 books
Here are the books in my library as of 18 May 2013.

All books are mass market paperbacks, unless otherwise indicated: TPB=trade paperback, HC=hardcover, SHC=small hardcover. Books that have been read are shown in italics.

David Eddings
* Belgarath the Sorcerer
* Polgara the Sorceress
Series: The Belgariad.
1. Pawn of Prophecy
2. Queen of Sorcery
3. Magician's Gambit
4. Castle of Wizardry
5. Enchanter's Endgame
Series: The Malloreon.
1. Guardians of the West
2. King of the Murgos
3. Demon Lord of Karanda
4. The Sorceress of Darshiva
5. The Seeress of Kell
Series: The Elenium.
1. The Diamond Throne
2. The Ruby Knight
3. The Sapphire Rose
Series: The Tamuli.
1. Domes of Fire
2. The Shining Ones
3. The Hidden City

E.R. Eddison
* The Worm Ouroboros
Series: Zimiamvia.
1. Mistress of Mistresses
2. A Fish Dinner in Memison
3. The Mezentian Gate

Doris Egan
Series: Ivory (trilogy omnibus).
1. The Gate of Ivory
2. Two-Bit Heroes
3. Gilt-Edged Ivory

Greg Egan
* Permutation City

Kate Elliott
* Jaran
Series: The Sword of Heaven.
1. An Earthly Crown
2. His Conquering Sword
Series: Crown of Stars.
1. King's Dragon
2. Prince of Dogs
3. The Burning Stone
4. Child of Flame
5. The Gathering Storm
6. In the Ruins
7. Crown of Stars

Harlan Ellison
* Approaching Oblivion

Clayton Emery
Universe: Magic the Gathering.
* Whispering Woods

Steven Erikson
Series: The Malazan Book of the Fallen.
1. Gardens of the Moon
2. Deadhouse Gates
3. Memories of Ice
4. House of Chains
5. Midnight Tides
6. The Bonehunters
7. Reaper's Gale
8. Toll of the Hounds
9. Dust of Dreams
10. The Crippled God

Jennifer Fallon
Series: Second Sons.
1. Lion of Senet
2. Eye of the Labyrinth
3. Lord of the Shadows
Series: Tide Lords.
1. The Immortal Prince
2. The Gods of Amyrantha
3. The Palace of Impossible Dreams
Series: Hythrun Chronicles.
Subseries: Demon Child.
1. Medalon
2. Treason Keep
3. Harshini
Subseries: Wolfblade.
1. Wolfblade
2. Warrior
3. Warlord

David Farland
Series: Runelords.
1. The Sum of All Men
2. Brotherhood of the Wolf
3. Wizardborn
4. The Lair of Bones
5. Sons of the Oak
6. Worldbinder
7. The Wyrmling Horde

Raymond E. Feist
* Faerie Tale
Universe: Midkemia.
Series: Riftwar Saga.
1. Magician: Apprentice
2. Magician: Master
3. Silverthorn
4. A Darkness At Sethanon
Series: Empire (caw: Janny Wurts).
1. Daughter of the Empire
2. Servant of the Empire
3. Mistress of the Empire
Series: Legends of the Riftwar.
1. Honored Enemy (caw: William R. Forstchen)
2. Murder in LaMut (caw: Joel Rosenberg)
Series: Riftwar Legacy.
1. Krondor: The Betrayal
2. Krondor: The Assassins
3. Krondor: Tear of the Gods
Series: Krondor's Sons.
1. Prince of the Blood
2. The King's Buccaneer
Series: Serpentwar Saga.
1. Shadow of a Dark Queen
2. Rise of a Merchant Prince
3. Rage of a Demon King
4. Shards of a Broken Crown
Series: Conclave of Shadows.
1. Talon of the Silver Hawk
2. King of Foxes
3. Exile's Return
Series: Dark War.
1. Flight of the Night Hawks
2. Into a Dark Realm
3. Wrath of a Mad God
Series: Demonwar Saga.
1. Rides a Dread Legion

Lynn Flewelling
Series: Nightrunner.
1. Luck in the Shadows
2. Stalking Darkness
3. Traitor's Moon
4. Shadows Return
5. The White Road
Series: Tamir.
1. The Bone Doll's Twin
2. Hidden Warrior
3. Oracle's Queen

Ken Follett
Series: Kingsbridge.
1. The Pillars of the Earth
2. World Without End

William R. Forstchen
* Into The Sea Of Stars

Kate Forsyth
Series: The Witches of Eileanan.
1. The Witches of Eileanan
2. The Pool of Two Moons
3. The Cursed Shores
4. The Forbidden Land
5. The Skull of the World
6. The Fathomless Caves

Robert L. Forward
* Flight of the Dragonfly
Series: Neutron Star.
1. Dragon's Egg
2. Starquake

Alan Dean Foster
* For Love of Mother-Not
* The Last Starfighter
* Nor Crystal Tears

Pat Frank
* Alas, Babylon

C.S. Friedman
Series: Coldfire.
1. Black Sun Rising
2. When True Night Falls
3. Crown of Shadows

Maggie Furey
Series: Artefacts of Power.
1. Aurian
2. Harp of Winds
3. Sword of Flame
Series: The Shadowleague.
1. The Heart of Myrial
2. Spirit of the Stone
3. Echo of Eternity

Neil Gaiman
* Neverwhere
* Coraline (SHC)
* Stardust

Michael & Kathleen Gear
Series: The First North Americans.
1. People of the Wolf
2. People of the Fire
3. People of the Earth
4. People of the River
5. People of the Sea
6. People of the Lakes
7. People of the Lightning
8. People of the Silence
9. People of the Mist
10. People of the Masks
11. People of the Owl

David Gemmell
* Morningstar
* Knights of Dark Renown
* Dark Moon
* Echoes of the Great Song
* Bloodstone
Series: Drenai Tales.
1. Legend
2. The King Beyond the Gate
3. Quest for Lost Heroes
4. Waylander
5. In the Realm of the Wolf
6. Druss the Legend
7. The Legend of Deathwalker
8. Winter Warriors
9. Hero in the Shadows
10. White Wolf
11. The Swords of Night and Day
Series: Stones of Power.
1. Ghost King
2. Last Sword of Power
3. Wolf in Shadow
4. The Last Guardian
Series: Rigante.
1. Sword in the Storm
2. Midnight Falcon
3. Ravenheart
4. Stormrider
Series: Hawk Queen.
1. Ironhand's Daughter
2. The Hawk Eternal

Mary Gentle
* Grunts!

William Gibson
* Neuromancer

Terry Goodkind
* Debt of Bones
Series: Sword of Truth.
1. Wizard's First Rule
2. Stone of Tears
3. Blood of the Fold
4. Temple of the Winds
5. Soul of the Fire
6. Faith of the Fallen
7. The Pillars of Creation
8. Naked Empire
9. Chainfire
10. Phantom
11. Confessor (TPB)

Kenneth Grahame
* The Wind in the Willows

Sharon Green
* Enchanting

Ed Greenwood
Series: Band of Four.
1. The Kingless Land
2. The Vacant Throne
3. A Dragon's Ascension
4. The Dragon's Doom
Universe: Forgotten Realms.
* Cormyr
Series: Elminster.
1. Elminster: The Making of a Mage
2. Elminster in Myth Drannor
3. The Temptation of Elminster
4. Elminster in Hell
5. Elminster's Daughter
Series: Shandril's Saga.
1. Spellfire
2. Crown of Fire
3. Hand of Fire
Series: The Shadow of the Avatar.
1. Shadows of Doom
2. Cloak of Shadows
3. All Shadows Fled

Jeff Grubb
Universe: Warcraft.
* The Last Guardian
Universe: Magic the Gathering.
* The Brothers War
Series: Ice Age Cycle.
1. Gathering Dark
2. The Eternal Ice
3. Shattered Alliance

Joe Haldeman
* Forever Peace
* All My Sins Remembered
Series: Forever War.
1. The Forever War
2. Forever Free

Barbara Hambly
* Stranger at the Wedding
Series: Sunwolf and Starhawk.
1. The Ladies of Mandrigyn
2. The Witches of Wenshar
3. The Dark Hand of Magic
Series: Darwath.
1. The Time of the Dark
2. The Walls of Air
3. The Armies of Daylight
4. Mother of Winter
5. Icefalcon's Quest
Series: Winterlands.
1. Dragonsbane
2. Dragonshadow
3. Knight of the Demon Queen
4. Dragonstar
Series: Windrose Chronicles.
1. Silent Tower
2. Silicon Mage
3. Dog Wizard
Series: Suncross.
1. The Rainbow Abyss
2. The Magicians of Night
Series: James Asher Chronicles.
1. Those Who Hunt the Night
2. Traveling with the Dead

Harry Harrison
* Deathworld (trilogy omnibus)
* Make Room! Make Room!
Series: Stainless Steel Rat.
1. The Stainless Steel Rat
2. The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge
3. The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World
4. The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You
5. The Stainless Steel Rat for President
6. A Stainless Steel Rat is Born
7. The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted
8. The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the blues
9. Stainless Steel Visions
10. The Stainless Steel Rat Goes To Hell

Elizabeth Haydon
Series: Symphony of Ages.
1. Rhapsody
2. Prophecy
3. Destiny
4. Requiem for the Sun
5. Elegy for a Lost Star
6. The Assassin King

Robert A. Heinlein
* 6xH (a.k.a. The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag)
* Assignment in Eternity
* Between Planets
* Beyond This Horizon
* Citizen of the Galaxy
* The Day After Tomorrow
* A Door Into Summer (SHC)
* Double Star
* Expanded Universe
* Farmer in the Sky
* Farnham's Freehold
* Friday
* Glory Road
* Have Spacesuit Will Travel
* I Will Fear No Evil
* Job: A Comedy of Justice
* A Menace From Earth
* Podkayne of Mars
* The Puppet Masters
* Red Planet
* Requiem
* Rocket Ship Galileo
* Sixth Column
* The Star Beast
* Starship Troopers
* Starman Jones
* Stranger in a Strange Land
* Time for the Stars
* Tunnel in the Sky
* Waldo & Magic, Inc.
Universe: Future History.
* The Man Who Sold the Moon
* The Green Hills of Earth
* Revolt in 2100
* The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
* Space Cadet
* The Rolling Stones
* Methuselah's Children
* The Past Through Tomorrow
* Orphans of the Sky
* Time Enough For Love
* Number of the Beast
* The Cat Who Walked Through Walls
* To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Frank Herbert
Series: The Dune Saga.
1. Dune
2. Dune Messiah
3. Children of Dune
4. God Emperor of Dune
5. Heretics of Dune
6. Chapterhouse Dune
Series: Dosadi.
1. Whipping Star
2. The Dosadi Experiment

James Hilton
* Lost Horizon

Jim C. Hines
Series: Jig Dragonslayer.
1. Goblin Hero
2. Goblin Quest
3. Goblin War: Jig the Goblin

Robin Hobb
Universe: Elderlings.
Series: Farseer.
1. Assassin's Apprentice
2. Royal Assassin
3. Assassin's Quest
Series: Liveship Traders.
1. Ship of Magic
2. Mad Ship
3. Ship of Destiny
Series: Tawny Man.
1. Fool's Errand
2. Golden Fool
3. Fool's Fate
Series: Rain Wilds Chronicles.
1. Dragon Keeper
2. Dragon Haven
3. City of Dragons

Hugh Howey
Series: Wool/Silo.
1. Wool (TPB)
2. Wool 2 (TPB)
3. Wool 3 (TPB)
4. Wool 4: The Unravelling (TPB)
5. Wool 5: The Stranded (TPB)
6. The First Shift - Legacy (TPB)

L. Ron Hubbard
* Battlefield Earth
* Final Blackout
* Ole Doc Methuselah

Aldous Huxley
* Brave New World

Brian Jacques
Series: Redwall.
1. Redwall
2. Mossflower
3. Mattimeo
4. Mariel of Redwall
5. Salamandastron
6. Martin the Warrior
7. The Bellmaker
8. The Outcast of Redwall
9. Pearls of Lutra
10. The Long Patrol
11. Marlfox
12. The Legend of Luke
13. Lord Brocktree
14. Taggerung
15. Triss
16. Loamhedge

Mike Jefferies
Series: Loremasters of Elundium.
1. The Road to Underfall
2. Palace of Kings
3. Shadowlight
4. The Knights of Cawdor

J.V. Jones
* The Barbed Coil
Series: The Book of Words.
1. The Baker's Boy
2. A Man Betrayed
3. Master and Fool
Series: Sword of Shadows.
1. A Cavern of Black Ice
2. Fortress of Grey Ice
3. A Sword from Red Ice
4. Watcher of the Dead

Robert Jordan
Series: The Wheel of Time.
* A New Spring
1. Eye of the World
2. The Great Hunt
3. The Dragon Reborn
4. The Shadow Rising
5. The Fires of Heaven
6. Lord of Chaos
7. A Crown of Swords
8. The Path of Daggers
9. Winter's Heart
10. Crossroads of Twilight
11. Knife of Dreams
12. A Gathering Storm [caw Brandon Sanderson]
13. Towers of Midnight [caw Brandon Sanderson]
14. A Memory of Light [caw Brandon Sanderson]

Colin Kapp
Series: Cageworld.
1. Search for the Sun
2. The Lost Worlds of Chronos
3. The Tyrant of Hades
4. Star Search

Guy Gavriel Kay
* The Last Light of the Sun (HC)
* A Song for Arbonne (TSPB)
* Tigana
* The Lions of Al-Rassan
Series: The Fionavar Tapestry.
1. The Summer Tree (TSPB)
2. The Wandering Fire (TSPB)
3. The Darkest Road (TSPB)
Series: Sarantine Mosaic.
1. Sailing to Sarantium
2. Lord of Emperors

Paul S. Kemp
Universe: Forgotten Realms.
Series: Erevis Cale.
1. Twilight Falling
2. Dawn of Night
3. Midnight's Mask

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
Series: Keltiad.
* Blackmantle: A Triumph
* The Deer's Cry
Subseries: Tales of Aeron.
1. The Copper Crown
2. The Throne of Scone
3. The Silver Branch
Subseries: Tales of Arthur.
1. The Hawk's Grey Feather
2. The Oak Above the Kings
3. The Hedge of Mist

Katharine Kerr
Universe: Deverry.
Series: Deverry 1.
1. Daggerspell
2. Darkspell
3. The Bristling Wood
4. The Dragon Revenant
Series: Deverry 2: The Westlands.
5. A Time of Exile
6. A Time of Omens
7. Days of Blood and Fire
8. Days of Air and Darkness
Series: Deverry 3: The Dragon Mage.
9. The Red Wyvern
10 The Black Raven
11. The Fire Dragon
Series: Deverry 4: The Silver Wyrm.
12. The Gold Falcon
13. The Spirit Stone
14. The Shadow Isle
15. The Silver Mage

J. Gregory Keyes
Series: The Age of Unreason.
1. Newton's Cannon
2. A Calculus of Angels
3. Empire of Unreason
4. The Shadows of God
Series: Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone.
1. The Briar King
2. The Charnel Prince
3. The Blood Knight
4. The Born Queen
Series: Chosen of the Changling.
1. The Waterborn
2. The Blackgod

J. Robert King
Universe: Magic the Gathering.
* The Thran
* Time Streams
Series: Invasion Cycle.
1. Invasion
2. Plane Shift
3. Apocalypse
Series: Onslaught Cycle.
1. Onslaught
2. Legions
3. Scourge

Stephen King
* The Stand
Series: Dark Tower.
1. The Gunslinger
2. The Drawing of the Three
3. The Waste Lands
4. Wizard and Glass
5. Wolves of the Calla

Donald Kingsbury
* Courtship Rite

Rudyard Kipling
* Kim (TSPB)

Mary Kirchoff
Universe: Dragonlance.
Series: Defenders of Magic.
1. Night of the Eye
2. The Medusa Plague
3. The Seventh Sentinel

Richard A. Knaak
* Firedrake
Universe: Dragonlance.
Thread series: Minotaurs.
1. The Legend of Huma [Heroes I, book 1]
2. Kaz the Minotaur [Heroes II, book 1]
3. Land of the Minotaurs [Lost Histories, book 4]
4. Night of Blood [Minotaur Wars, book 1]
5. Tides of Blood [Minotaur Wars, book 2]
6. Empire of Blood [Minotaur Wars, book 3]

Katherine Kurtz
Universe: Deryni.
* King Kelson's Bride
Series: Chronicles of the Deryni.
1. Deryni Rising
2. Deryni Checkmate
3. High Deryni
Series: The Legends of Camber of Culdi.
4. Camber of Culdi
5. Saint Camber
6. Camber the Heretic
Series: Histories of King Kelson.
7. The Bishop's Heir
8. The King's Justice
9. The Quest for Saint Camber
Series: Heirs of Saint Camber.
10. The Harrowing of Gwynedd
11. King Javan's Year
12. The Bastard Prince
Series: Childe Morgan.
13. In the King's Service
14. Childe Morgan

Jerry Abbott's Fantasy Library: C-D
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Here are the books in my library as of 29 April 2013.

All books are mass market paperbacks, unless otherwise indicated: TPB=trade paperback, HC=hardcover, SHC=small hardcover. Books that have been read are shown in italics.

James Branch Cabell
* The High Place

Rachel Caine
* Firestorm Weather Warden 5

John W. Campbell Jr.
* The Planeteers
* The Ultimate Weapon
Series: Arcot, Wade & Morey.
1. The Black Star Passes
2. Islands of Space
3. Invaders from the Infinite

Trudy Canavan
Series: Black Magician.
1. Magician's Guild
2. The Novice
3. The High Lord

Orson Scott Card
* The Folk of the Fringe
* The Worthing Saga
* Wyrms
* Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Series: Ender Wiggin Saga.
1. Ender's Game
2. Ender in Exile
3. Speaker for the Dead
4. Xenocide
5. Children of the Mind
6. Ender's Shadow
7. Shadow of the Hegemon
8. Shadow Puppets
9. Shadow of the Giant
Series: Alvin Maker.
1. Seventh Son
2. Red Prophet
3. Prentice Alvin
4. Alvin Journeyman
5. Heartfire
6. The Crystal City

Jacqueline Carey
Series: Kushiel's Legacy.
1. Kushiel's Dart
2. Kushiel's Chosen
3. Kushiel's Avatar
4. Kushiel's Scion
5. Kushiel's Justice
6. Kushiel's Mercy
7. Naamah's Kiss

Lin Carter
Series: Green Star.
1. Under the Green Star
2. When the Green Star Calls
3. By the Light of the Green Star
4. As the Green Star Rises
5. In the Green Star's Glow

Jack L. Chalker
Series: Rings of the Master.
1. Lords of the Middle Dark
2. Pirates of the Thunder
3. Warriors of the Storm
4. Masks of the Martyrs
Series: Well of Souls.
1. Midnight at the Well of Souls
2. Exiles at the Well of Souls
3. Quest for the Well of Souls
4. The Return of Nathan Brazil
5. Twilight at the Well of Souls
6. Echoes of the Well of Souls
7. Shadow of the Well of Souls
8. Gods of the Well of Souls
9. The Sea Is Full of Stars
10. Ghost of the Well of Souls
Series: The Dancing Gods.
1. The River of Dancing Gods
2. Demons of the Dancing Gods
3. Vengeance of the Dancing Gods
4. Songs of the Dancing Gods
5. Horrors of the Dancing Gods
Series: The Quintara Marathon.
1. Demons at Rainbow Bridge
2. The Run to Chaos Keep
3. The Ninety Trillion Fausts
Series: Changewinds.
1. When the Changewinds Blow
2. Riders of the Winds
3. War of the Maelstrom
Series: Four Lords of the Diamond.
1. Lilith: A Snake in the Grass
2. Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold
3. Charon: A Dragon at the Gate
4. Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail
Series: Soul Rider.
1. Spirits of Flux and Anchor
2. Empires of Flux and Anchor
3. Masters of Flux and Anchor
4. Birth of Flux and Anchor
5. Children of Flux and Anchor
Series: The Three Kings.
1. Belshazzar's Serpent
2. Melchior's Fire
3. Kasper's Box

A. Bertram Chandler
* Frontier of the Dark
Series: Rimworld.
* The Rim of Space & The Ship from Outside
* Bring Back Yesterday
Series: John Grimes.
1. The Road to the Rim & The Hard Way Up
2. To Prime the Pump
3. The Broken Cycle
4. Spartan Planet (False Fatherland)
5. The Inheritors & Gateway to Never
6. The Big Black Mark
7. The Far Traveler
8. Star Courier
9. To Keep the Ship
10. Matilda's Stepchildren
11. Star Loot
12. The Anarch Lords
13. The Last Amazon
14. The Wild Ones
15. The Dark Dimensions & The Rim Gods
16. Into the Alternate Universe & Contraband from Otherspace
17. Alternate Orbits
18. The Way Back

Joy Chant
* Red Moon and Black Mountain

Vera Chapman
Series: King Arthur.
1. The Green Knight
2. The King's Damosel
3. King Arthur's Daughter

C.J. Cherryh
* Fortress of Owls
* The Goblin Mirror
* Rusalka
* The Dreaming Tree.
Series: The Morgaine Saga (omnibus 1-3).
1. Gate of Ivrel
2. Well of Shiuan
3. The Fires of Azeroth
4. Exile's Gate
Universe: Union-Alliance.
Series: Company Wars.
1. Heavy Time
2. Hell Burner
3. Downbelow Station
4. Rimrunners
Series: Merchanters.
1. Merchanter's Luck
2. Tripoint
3. Finity's End
4. Forty Thousand in Gehenna
Series: Unionside.
1. Cyteen: Betrayal
2. Cyteen: Rebirth
3. Cyteen: Vindication
4. Regenesis
Series: Compact Space.
1. Pride of Chanur
2. Chanur's Venture
3. The Kif Strike Back
4. Chanur's Homecoming
5. Chanur's Legacy
Series: Faded Sun.
1. Kesrith
2. Shon'jir
3. Kutath
Series: Other Union-Alliance Stories.
* Hestia
* Cuckoo's Egg
* Voyager In Night
* Port Eternity
* Wave Without A Shore
* Serpent's Reach
* Brothers of Earth
* Hunter of Worlds
* Angel with the Sword
* Sunfall

Deborah Chester
Series: Sword, Ring, and Chalice.
1. The Sword
2. The Ring
3. The Chalice
4. The Queen's Gambit
5. The King Betrayed
Series: Ruby Throne.
1. Reign of Shadows
2. Shadow War
3. Realm of Light

Arthur C. Clarke
* Against the Fall of Night
* Childhood's End
* The City and the Stars
* Earthlight
* A Fall of Moondust
* The Fountains of Paradise
* The Hammer of God
* Imperial Earth
* The Other Side of the Sky
* Prelude to Space
* Rendezvous with Rama
* Songs of Distant Earth
Series: Odyssey.
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. 2010: Odyssey Two
3. 2061: Odyssey Three

Susanna Clarke
* Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

Jo Clayton
Series: Drinker of Souls.
1. Drinker of Souls
2. Blue Magic
3. A Gathering of Stones
Series: The Skeen.
1. Skeen's Leap
2. Skeen's Return
3. Skeen's Search
Series: Duel of Sorcery.
1. Moongather
2. Moonscatterer
3. Changer's Moon
Series: The Dancer.
1. Dancer's Rise
2. Serpent Waltz
3. Dance Down the Stars
Universe: Diadem.
Series: Diadem 1.
1. Diadem from the Stars
2. Lamarchos
3. Irsud
4. Maeve
5. Star Hunters
6. The Nowhere Hunt
7. Ghosthunt
8. The Snares of Ibex
9. Quester's Endgame
10. Shadow of the Warmaster
* A Bait of Dreams
Series: Shadith's Quest (Diadem 2).
1. Shadowplay
2. Shadowspeer
3. Shadowkill
Series: Shadowsong (Diadem 3).
1. Fire in the Sky
2. The Burning Ground
3. Crystal Heat

Hal Clement
* Mission of Gravity
* Cycle of Fire
* Still River

Dawn Cook
Series: Decoy Princess.
1. The Decoy Princess
2. Princess at Sea
Series: Truth.
1. First Truth
2. Hidden Truth
3. Forgotten Truth
4. Lost Truth

Glen Cook
* The Dragon Never Sleeps
* A Matter of Time
* Star's End
* The Swordbearer
* The Tower of Fear
Series: Darkwar.
1. Doomstalker
2. Warlock
3. Ceremony
Series: Dread Empire.
1. The Fire In His Hands
2. With Mercy Toward None
3. A Shadow of All Night Falling
4. October's Baby
5. All Darkness Met
6. Reap the East Wind
7. An Ill Fate Marshalling
Series: The Black Company.
1. The Black Company
2. Shadows Linger
3. The White Rose
4. The Silver Spike
5. Shadow Games
6. Dreams of Steel
7. Bleak Seasons
8. She Is the Darkness
9. Water Sleeps
10. Soldiers Live
Series: Garrett.
1. Sweet Silver Blues (The Garrett Files, sHC)
2. Bitter Cold Hearts (The Garrett Files, sHC)
3. Cold Copper Tears (The Garrett Files, sHC)
4. Old Tin Sorrows (Garrett PI, sHC)
5. Dread Brass Shadows (Garrett PI, sHC)
6. Red Iron Nights (Garrett PI, sHC)
7. Deadly Quicksilver Lies
8. Petty Pewter Gods
9. Faded Steel Heat
10. Angry Lead Skies
11. Whispering Nickel Idols
12. Cruel Zinc Melodies

Edmund Cooper
* Deadly Image
* Gender Genocide
* Sea Horse in the Sky
* Slaves of Heaven

John Crowley
* Otherwise (TPB)
* Little, BIG (SHC)

Ray Cummings
* Beyond the Stars
* A Brand New World
* The Exile of Time
* The Shadow Girl
Series: Tama.
1. Tama of the Light Country
2. Tama, Princess of Mercury

Elaine Cunningham
Universe: EverQuest.
* The Blood Red Harp
Universe: Forgotten Realms.
Series: Counsellors & Kings.
1. The Magehound
2. The Floodgate
3. The Wizardwar
Series: Songs & Swords.
1. Elfshadow
2. Elfsong
3. Silver Shadows
4. Thornhold
5. Dreamspheres
Series: Starlight & Shadows.
1. Daughter of the Drow
2. Tangled Webs
3. Windwalker

Julie E. Czerneda
Series: Stratification.
1. Reap the Wild Wind
2. Riders of the Storm
3. Rift in the Sky
Series: Trade Pact Universe.
1. A Thousand Words for Stranger
2. Ties of Power
3. To Trade the Stars
Series: Species Imperative.
1. Survival
2. Migration
3. Regeneration
Series: Web Shifters.
1. Beholder's Eye
2. Changing Vision
3. Hidden in Sight

Kara Dalkey
* The Curse of Sagamore

John Dalmas
* Soldiers
Series: Fanglith.
1. Fanglith
2. Return to Fanglith
Series: Regiment.
1. The Regiment
2. The White Regiment
3. The Kalif's War
4. The Regiment's War
5. The Three-Cornered War
Series: The Lion of Farside.
1. The Lion of Farside
2. The Bavarian Gate
3. The Lion Returns
Series: Yngling.
1. The Yngling
2. Homecoming
3. The Yngling and the Circle of Power
4. The Yngling in Yamato
Series: Lizard War.
1. The Lizard War
2. The Helverti Invasion

Dante
* The Divine Comedy

Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Series: The Bitterbynde.
1. The Ill-Made Mute
2. The Lady of Sorrows
3. The Battle of Evernight

L. Sprague Decamp
* The Complete Compleat Enchanter (with Fletcher Pratt, sHC)
* The Fallible Fiend
* Rivers of Time
Series: The Reluctant King.
1. The Goblin Tower
2. The Clocks of Iraz
3. The Unbeheaded King
4. The Honorable Barbarian

Samuel R. Delaney
* Dhalgren

Charles Delint
* Yarrow
* The Newford Stories (omnibus, HC)
* The Little Country (TSPB)

Lester Delray
* The Eleventh Commandment
* The Mysterious Planet
* Pstalemate

Carol L. Dennis
Series: Dragon.
1. Dragon's Pawn
2. Dragon's Knight
3. Dragon's Queen

Philip K. Dick
* Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
* Galactic Pot-Healer
* The Ganymede Takeover
* The Man in the High Castle
* Martian Time-Slip
* Radio Free Albemuth
* The Simulacra
* Time Out of Joint
* Valis

Gordon R. Dickson
* The Alien Way
* The Dragon, the Earl, and the Troll
* Hour of the Horde
* Naked to the Stars
* None But Man
* On the Run
* Pro
* Spacepaw
* The Star Road
* Wolfling
Series: The Childe Cycle.
1. Necromancer
2. Tactics of Mistake
3. Dorsai
4. Soldier Ask Not
5. Spirit of Dorsai
6. The Chantry Guild
7. Young Bleys
8. Other
9. The Final Encyclopedia

Thomas M. Disch
* Camp Concentration

Franklin W. Dixon
Series: The Hardy Boys (original text).
1. The Tower Treasure (SHC)
2. The House on the Cliff (SHC)
3. The Secret of the Old Mill (SHC)
4. The Missing Chums (SHC)
5. Hunting for Hidden Gold (SHC)
6. The Shore Road Mystery (SHC)
7. Secret of the Caves (SHC)
8. The Mystery of Cabin Island (SHC)
9. The Great Airport Mystery (SHC)
10. What Happened At Midnight (SHC)
11. While the Clock Ticked (SHC)

Stephen R. Donaldson
Series: The Gap.
1. The Real Story
2. Forbidden Knowledge
3. A Dark and Hungry God Arises
4. Chaos and Order
5. This Day All Gods Die
Series: Mordant's Need.
1. The Mirrors of Her Dreams (sHC)
2. A Man Rides Through (sHC)
Universe: Thomas Covenant.
Series: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
1. Lord Foul's Bane
2. The Illearth War
3. The Power That Preserves
Series: The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
4. The Wounded Land
5. The One Tree
6. White Gold Wielder
Series: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
7. The Ruins of Earth (HC)
8. Fatal Revenant (HC)
9. Against All Things Ending (HC)

Fyodor Dostoevsky
* Crime and Punishment
* The Brothers Karamazov
* The Idiot

Alexander Dumas
* The Three Musketeers
* The Man in the Iron Mask
* The Count of Monte Cristo

Dave Duncan
* A Rose-Red City
* The Hunters' Haunt
Series: The Seventh Sword.
1. The Reluctant Swordsman
2. The Coming of Wisdom
3. The Destiny of the Sword
Series: A Man of His Word.Series: A Handful of Men.
1. The Cutting Edge
2. Upland Outlaws
3. The Stricken Field
4. The Living God
Series: The King's Blades.
1. The Gilded Chain
2. Lord of the Fire Lands
3. Sky of Swords
4. Paragon Lost
5. Impossible Odds
6. Jaguar Knights
Series: The King's Daggers.
1. Sir Stalwart
2. The Crooked House
3. Silvercloak

Lord Dunsany
* The King of Elfland's Daughter

David Anthony Durham
Series: Acacia.
1. The War with the Mein
2. The Other Lands
3. The Sacred Band

Jerry Abbott's Fantasy Library: A-B
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Here are the books in my library as of 29 April 2013.

All books are mass market paperbacks, unless otherwise indicated: TPB=trade paperback, HC=hardcover, SHC=small hardcover. Books that have been read are shown in italics.

Lynn Abbey
* Unicorn & Dragon
* Jerlayne
* Siege of Shadows
Series: Rifkind.
1. Daughter of the Bright Moon
2. The Black Flame
3. Rifkind's Challenge
Series: Wooden Sword.
1. The Wooden Sword
2. Beneath the Web
Series: Ultima.
1. The Forge of Virtue
2. The Temper of Wisdom

Joe Abercrombie
Series: The First Law.
1. The Blade Itself (TPB)
2. Before They Are Hanged (TPB)
3. The Last Argument of Kings (TPB)
4. Best Served Cold

Richard Adams
* Maia
* Watership Down

Robert Adams
Series: Horseclans.
1. The Coming of the Horseclans
2. Swords of the Horseclans
3. Revenge of the Horseclans
4. A Cat of Silvery Hue
5. The Savage Mountains
6. The Patrimony
7. Horseclans Odyssey
8. The Death of a Legend
9. The Witch Goddess
10. Bili the Axe
11. Champion of the Last Battle
12. A Woman of the Horseclans

Louisa May Alcott
Series: The March Family.
1. Little Women
2. Little Men
3. Jo's Boys

Brian Aldiss
* Greybeard
* The Long Afternoon of Earth
* Malacia Tapestry
Series: Helliconia.
1. Helliconia Spring
2. Helliconia Summer
3. Helliconia Winter

Lloyd Alexander
Series: Westmark.
1. Westmark
2. The Kestrel
3. The Beggar Queen
Series: The Chronicles of Prydain.
1. The Book of Three
2. The Black Cauldron
3. The Castle of Llyr
4. Taran Wanderer
5. The High King

Poul Anderson
* After Doomsday
* The Avatar
* Beyond the Beyond
* Brain Wave
* The Broken Sword
* The Corridors of Time
* The Dancer from Atlantis
* The Devil's Game
* The Enemy Stars
* Fire Time
* The High Crusade
* The Long Way Home
* A Midsummer Tempest
* The Mother of Kings
* The New America
* The Night Place
* Orbit Unlimited
* Past Times
* The Queen of Air and Darkness
* Question and Answer
* The Saturn Game
* Shield
* Tau Zero
* There Will Be Time
* Three Hearts and Three Lions
* Three Worlds to Conquer
* The Unicorn Trade
* Vault of the Ages
* War of the Wing-Men
* The Winter of the World
* A World Named Cleopatra
* World Without Stars
Series: The King of Ys.
1. Roma Mater
2. Callicenae
3. Dahut
4. The Dog and the Wolf
Series: Maurai.
1. Maurai & Kith
2. Orion Shall Rise
Series: Time Patrol.
1. The Guardians of Time
2. Time Patrolman
3. The Shield of Time
4. Time Patrol
Series: The Psychotechnic League.
1. The Peregrine
2. Virgin Planet
3. The Psychotechnic League
4. Cold Victory
5. Starship
Series: Nicholas van Rijn.
1. The Man Who Counts
2. Trader to the Stars
3. The Trouble Twisters
4. Satan's World
5. The People of the Wind
6. Mirkheim
7. The Earth Book of Stormgate
Series: Fireball.
1. The Boat of a Million Years
2. Harvest of Stars
3. The Stars Are Also Fire
4. Harvest the Fire
5. The Fleet of Stars
Series: Dominic Flandry.
1. We Claim These Stars
2. Earthman, Go Home!
3. Mayday Orbit
4. Agent of the Terran Empire
5. Flandry of Terra
6. Ensign Flandry
7. The Rebel Worlds
8. A Circus of Hells
9. The Day of Their Return
10. A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
11. A Stone in Heaven
12. The Long Night
13. The Game of Empire

Piers Anthony
* Bio of an Ogre
* Chaos Mode (Mode Series book 3)
* Isle of Woman
* Rings of Ice
* Shade of the Tree
Series: Adept.
1. Split Infinity
2. Blue Adept
3. Juxtaposition
4. Out of Phaze
5. Robot Adept
6. Unicorn Point
7. Phaze Doubt
Series: Incarnations of Immortality.
1. On a Pale Horse
2. Bearing an Hourglass
3. With a Tangled Skein
4. Wielding a Red Sword
5. Being a Green Mother
6. For Love of Evil
7. And Eternity

Catherine Asaro
Series: Saga of the Skolian Empire.
1. Primary Inversion
2. The Radiant Seas
3. Catch the Lightning
4. The Last Hawk
5. Ascendant Sun
6. The Quantum Rose
7. Spherical Harmonic
8. The Moon's Shadow
9. Skyfall
10. Schism
11. The Final Key
12. The Ruby Dice
13. Diamond Star

Isaac Asimov
* The Stars Like Dust
* The Gods Themselves
* The End of Eternity (sHC, 1955)
Series: Robot.
1. I, Robot
2. The Caves of Steel
3. The Robots of Dawn
4. The Naked Sun
Series: Foundation.
1. Prelude to Foundation
2. Forward the Foundation
3. Foundation
4. Foundation and Empire
5. Second Foundation
6. Foundation's Edge
7. Foundation and Earth

Robert Asprin
Series: MYTH.
1. Another Fine Myth
2. Myth Conceptions
3. Myth Directions
4. Myth-Ion Improbable
5. Hit or Myth
6. Myth-Ing Persons
7. Little Myth Marker
8. M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link
9. Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections
10. M.Y.T.H. Inc. In Action
11. Sweet Myth-Tery of Life
Series: Phule.
1. Phule's Company
2. Phule's Paradise
3. A Phule and His Money
4. Phule Me Twice
5. No Phule Like an Old Phule

Jean M. Auel
Series: Earth's Children.
1. Clan of the Cave Bear
2. The Valley of Horses
3. The Mammoth Hunters
4. The Plains of Passage
5. The Shelters of Stone
6. Land of Painted Caves

Jane Austen
* Pride and Prejudice

Richard Awlinson
Series: Avatar.
1. Shadowdale
2. Tantras
3. Waterdeep

Richard Baker
Universe: Forgotten Realms.
* City of Ravens
Series: The Last Mythal.
1. Forsaken House
2. Farthest Reach
3. Final Gate

R. Scott Bakker
Series: The Prince of Nothing.
1. The Darkness that Comes Before (HC)
2. The Warrior-Prophet (HC)
3. The Thousandfold Thought (HC)

James Barclay
Series: Chronicles of the Raven.
1. Dawnthief
2. Noonshade
3. Nightchild

Don Bassingthwaite
Series: Legacy of Dhakaan.
1. The Doom of Kings
2. World of Traitors
3. The Tyranny of Ghosts

L. Frank Baum
* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Peter S. Beagle
* The Last Unicorn

Greg Bear
* Blood Music
* Darwin's Radio
* Eon
* Eternity
* Heads
* Moving Mars
* Psychlone
* Queen of Angels
* Slant
* Songs of Earth & Power
* The Wind from a Burning Woman
Series: The Forge of God.
1. The Forge of God
2. Anvil of Stars

Gregory Benford
* In the Alien Flesh
Series: Jupiter Project.
1. Jupiter Project
2. Against Infinity

Carol Berg
Series: The Bridge of D'Arnath.
1. Son of Avonar
2. Guardians of the Keep
3. The Soul Weaver
4. Daughter of Ancients

Alfred Bester
* The Demolished Man
* The Stars My Destination

Ann Bishop
Series: Black Jewels.
1. Daughter of the Blood
2. Heir to the Shadows
3. Queen of the Darkness
4. The Invisible Ring
5. Dreams Made Flesh
6. Tangled Webs
7. The Shadow Queen
8. Shalador's Lady
9. Twilight's Dawn
Series: Tir Alainn.
1. The Pillars of the World
2. Shadows and Light
3. The House of Gaian
Series: Ephemera.
1. Sebastian
2. Belladonna

James Blish
* And All The Stars A Stage
* Cities In Flight
* Mission to the Heart Stars

Ben Bova
* As on a Darkling Plain
* Colony
* The Dueling Machine
* Escape Plus
* Jupiter
* Mars
* Sam Gunn Unlimited
* Test of Fire
* The Watchmen
* The Winds of Altair
Series: Exiles (trilogy omnibus).
1. Exiled from Earth
2. Flight of the Exiles
3. End of Exile

Ray Bradbury
* Fahrenheit 451
* The Martian Chronicles
* Something Wicked This Way Comes

Marion Zimmer Bradley
* The Door Through Space
* Falcons of Narabedla
* The House Between the Worlds
* Hunters of the Red Moon
* Lythande
* The Other Side of the Mirror
* The Ruins of Isis
* Web of Darkness
Series: Darkover
1. Darkover Landfall
2. Stormqueen!
3. Hawkmistress!
4. The Heirs of Hammerfell
5. The Spell Sword
6. The Forbidden Tower
7. Star of Danger
8. The Winds of Darkover
9. The Bloody Sun
10. The Heritage of Hastur
11. The Sword of Aldones
12. The Planet Savers
13. Sharra's Exile
14. The World Wreckers
15. Exile's Song
16. The Shadow Matrix
17. Traitor's Sun
18. The Fall of Neskaya
19. Zandru's Forge
20. A Flame in Hali
21. Free Amazons of Darkover
22. Sword of Chaos

Peter V. Brett
Series: The Warded Man.
1. The Warded Man
2. The Desert Spear

Patricia Briggs
* The Hob's Bargain
Series: Mercy Thompson.
1. Moon Called
2. Blood Bound
3. Iron Kissed
4. Bone Crossed
Series: The Hurog Duology.
1. Dragon Bones
2. Dragon Blood

David Brin
* Earth
* Glory Season
* The Postman
* The Practice Effect
Series: Uplift.
1. Sundiver
2. Startide Rising
3. The Uplift War
4. Brightness Reef
5. Infinity's Shore
6. Heaven's Reach

Kristen Britain
Series: Green Rider.
1. Green Rider
2. First Rider's Call
3. The High King's Tomb

Terry Brooks
* The Black Unicorn
* Magic Kingdom for Sale
Universe: Shannara.
Series: The Word and the Void.
1. Running with the Demon
2. A Knight of the Word
3. Angel Fire East
Series: The Genesis of Shannara.
4. Armageddon's Children
5. The Elves of Cintra
6. The Gypsy Morph
Series: Shannara.
7. First King of Shannara
8. The Sword of Shannara
9. The Elfstones of Shannara
10. The Wishsong of Shannara
Series: Heritage of Shannara.
11. The Scions of Shannara
12. The Druid of Shannara
13. The Elf-Queen of Shannara
14. The Talismans of Shannara
Series: Voyage of the Jerle Shannara.
15. Ilse Witch
16. Antrax
17. Morgawr
Series: High Druid of Shannara.
18. Jarka Ruus
19. Tanequil
20. Straken

John Brunner
* Stand on Zanzibar

Steven Brust
* Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grill
* The Gypsy (with Megan Lindholm)
* To Reign in Hell
Universe: Adrilankha.
Series: Vlad Taltos.
1. Taltos
2. Dragon
3. Yendi
4. Jhreg
5. Teckla
6. Phoenix
7. Athyra
8. Orca
9. Issola
10. Dzur
11. Jhegaala
Series: Khaavren.
1. The Brokedown Palace
2. The Phoenix Guards
3. Five Hundred Years After
Series: The Viscount of Adrilankha.
1. The Paths of the Dead
2. The Lord of Castle Black
3. Sethra Lavode

Algis Budrys
* Rogue Moon

Lois McMaster Bujold
* The Spirit Ring
Series: Chalion.
1. The Curse of Chalion
2. Paladin of Souls
3. The Hallowed Hunt
Series: The Sharing Knife.
1. Beguilement
2. Legacy
3. Passage
4. Horizon
Series: The Vorkosigan Adventure.
1. Falling Free
2. Shards of Honor
3. Barrayar
4. The Warrior's Apprentice
5. The Vor Game
6. Cetaganda
7. Borders of Infinity
8. Brothers In Arms
9. Mirror Dance
10. Memory
11. Komarr
12. A Civil Campaign
13. Diplomatic Immunity
14. Cryoburn
15. Ethan of Athos

Anthony Burgess
* A Clockwork Orange
* The Wanting Seed

Edgar Rice Burroughs
Series: Moon.
1. The Moon Maid
2. The Moon Men
Series: Venus.
1. Pirates of Venus
2. Lost on Venus
3. Carson of Venus
4. Escape on Venus
5. The Wizard of Venus & Pirate Blood
Series: Mars.
1. A Princess of Mars
2. The Gods of Mars
3. The Warlord of Mars
4. Thuvia, Maid of Mars
5. The Chessmen of Mars
6. The Master Mind of Mars
7. A Fighting Man of Mars
8. Swords of Mars
9. Synthetic Men of Mars
10. Llana of Gathol
11. John Carter of Mars

F.M. Busby
* All these Earths
* Breeds of Man
Series: Rissa Kerguelen.
1. Young Rissa
2. Rissa and Tregare
3. The Long View
4. Alien Debt
Series: Demu (omnibus).
1. Cage A Man
2. The Proud Enemy
3. The End of the Line
Series: Hulzein.
1. Star Rebel
2. Rebel's Quest
3. Rebel's Seed

Anne Kelleher Bush
* The Knight, the Harp, and the Maiden

Jim Butcher
Series: The Dresden Files.
1. Storm Front
2. Fool Moon
3. Grave Peril
4. Summer Knight (TPB)
5. Death Masks (TPB)
6. Blood Rites (TPB)
7. Dead Beat (TPB)
8. Proven Guilty (TPB)
9. White Night
10. Small Favor (TPB)
11. Turn Coat (TPB)

An instructive lesson in How Jews Think, from the Talmud
Jenab6
jenab6
Here is an instructive outtake from the Babylonian Talmud, which is the most sacred collection of scriptural literature in the canon of most Zionist Jews. I present it here to show you how Zionist Jews think, in particular about their relation with gentiles and the extent to which they will abuse language and logic and morals in order to "justify" themselves.


    Rabbi Shila administered lashes to a man who had intercourse with a gentile woman. Knowing that the rabbi did not have the authority to decide legal cases and punishments, the man went to the king.
       "There is a Jewish man who holds court without royal appointment," the man told the king.
       The king summoned the rabbi to appear before him. When he came, the king asked, "Why did you flog that man?"
       "Because he had relations with a donkey," answered the rabbi.
       "Do you have witnesses?" asked the king.
       "Yes," said the rabbi. "Elijah came in the form of a man and testified."

[The rabbi lied to the king and got away with it.]

       "If so, then he is liable for death," said the king.
       The rabbi said, "From the day we have been exiled from our land, we do not have permission to put someone to death. You can do whatever you want with him."
       While the king and the rabbi discussed the case [apparently, the Jew's usurpation the king's legal authority had already been forgotten], the rabbi began quoting scripture, saying "Yours, Lord, is the greatness, the strength, the splendor..."
       "What are you saying?" asked the king.
       "Only this," said the rabbi. "Blessed is God who has given an earthly kingship similar to the heavenly Kingship and has given you dominion and made you merciful in judgement."

[The rabbi turned his quotation of scripture into a brazen flattery of the king, and the king lapped it up.]

       "So the honor of the government is dear to you? Then I shall make you a judge!" The king gave the rabbi a strap and appointed him as a judge.

[That put an end to the possibility that someone else might report the rabbi again for exceeding his legal authority. Also, notice that the man, whom the rabbi had punished, was not given any opportunity to present his case in more detail. He might have, for example, denied the rabbi's false testimony about Elijah appearing to give false testimony about the man having sex with a donkey.]

       When they left the king's palace, the man said to the rabbi: "Does God perform miracles for lies?"
       "Wicked one," replied the rabbi, smiling as he anticipated his first Jewish abuse of his new authority. "Are they not called donkeys, as it says whose flesh is the flesh of donkeys?"

[The rabbi abused scripture. The phrase comes from Ezekiel 23:20, where Jerusalem is compared to a prostitute liable for punishment because it lusted after the ways of gentile countries. In the metaphor, the gentiles are compared with donkeys, whose over-sized genitals had prompted the prostitute's lust. It was a political metaphor that the rabbi perverted into a sex-related racial slur.]

       The rabbi saw that this man was going to inform on him again to the king, that he would report to the king that the rabbi had called him a donkey.
       "This man is a pursuer," thought the rabbi. "And the Torah says that if someone comes to kill you, rise early and kill him first."
       The rabbi hit the man with the strap and killed him.

—The Talmud, Berachot 58a. Paraphrased and [annotated].

       I paraphrased the passage to make it more understandable. As it was written it can take some analysis to figure out who was speaking to whom.
       Basically, the story begins when a Jewish religious leader breaks the law by usurping the government's authority to impose legal punishments. The man whom the rabbi punished quite properly reported the usurpation to the king, believing that the king, in his wisdom, would set matters aright.
       But then the Jew showed up and started talking.
       With adroit misdirection, such as Jews are famous for, the rabbi changed the purpose of his meeting with the king. The rabbi was the one supposedly on trial for taking the law into his own hands, as he wasn't permitted to do. But with his smooth words, the rabbi changed the premise of the meeting so that the other guy became the defendant.
       For some reason or other, the man whom the rabbi had whipped wasn't allowed to contradict anything the rabbi said. Maybe the rabbi contrived to have a meeting with the king from which the man was excluded. If so, then it was a blunder on the king's part. It left the rabbi free to lie to the king all he liked, and get the king to approve of his story by means of flattering the king on how "just" he was, comparing him to the justice of God.
       The result was that instead of being punished for breaking the law, the Jew was elevated to an office where he could whip and otherwise abuse people with impunity. His very first abuse was to judicially murder a man in order to prevent him from going back to the king with additional information regarding the Jew's unfitness for anything other than death.
       This is how the Jews get ahead. To gain advantage, or to avoid punishment for their evil deeds, Jews will bear false witness about others to deceive gullible authorities, and they will silence  "antisemites" who would tell the truth about them.

Finding a planet or a comet in the sky. A program for the Casio fx-9860gii calculator.
Jenab6
jenab6
I wrote this program so that I could predict where comet Ison would appear in the sky when it becomes bright at the end of 2013 and in early 2014. It will work with planets or asteroids, too. The observed object can be in either an elliptical or a hyperbolic orbit. However, the observer must be in an elliptical orbit (and is assumed to be on Earth).

The first line contains a calendar date in "YYYY.MMDD, hh:mm:ss" format, stored in Str 1.

The second line contains the Keplerian elements of the observed object's orbit, stored in List 1. The Keplerian elements are, in order, the semimajor axis in astronomical units, the eccentricity, the inclination to the ecliptic (degrees), the longitude of the ascending node (degrees), the argument of the perihelion (degrees), and the time of perihelion passage in Julian date format.

For the comet C/2012 S1 (ISON), the 2nd line should be [updated 21 April 2013]
{-3100.4397,1.00000403225,61.86601,295.73633,345.50991,2456625.28083}→List 1↵

For the comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS), the 2nd line should be
{-3506.585,1.000086,84.19942,65.66544,333.6425,2456361.652}→List 1↵

The semimajor axis for any hyperbolic orbit should be entered as a negative number.

"2014.0106, 12:00:00"→Str 1↵
{-3192.643,1.00000392,61.8375,295.7414,345.5067,2456625.285}→List 1↵
Exp(StrLeft(Str 1,4))→Y↵
Exp(StrMid(Str 1,6,2))→M↵
Exp(StrMid(Str 1,8,2))→D↵
Exp(StrMid(Str 1,12,2))+Exp(StrMid(Str 1,15,2))÷60+Exp(StrMid(Str 1,18,2))÷3600→T↵
Int ((M−14)÷12)→A↵
Int ((1461(Y+4800+A))÷4)→B↵
Int ((367(M−2−12A))÷12)→C↵
Int ((Y+4900+A)÷100)→E↵
Int ((3E)÷4)→F↵
B+C−F+D−32075.5→J↵
J+T÷24→T¸
If List 1[1]=0 Or List 1[2]≤0 Or List 1[2]=1:Then Stop:IfEnd↵
If List 1[1]>0 And List 1[2]>1:Then Stop:IfEnd↵
If List 1[1]<0 And List 1[2]<1:Then Stop:IfEnd↵
(π÷180)List 1[3]→List 1[3]↵
(π÷180)List 1[4]→List 1[4]↵
(π÷180)List 1[5]→List 1[5]↵
If List 1[1]>0:Then Goto 2:IfEnd↵
1.32712440018ᴇ20→G↵
1.49597870691ᴇ11→O↵
86400√(G÷(-OList 1[1])^3)→M↵
M(T−List 1[6])→M↵
0→U↵
1→V↵
While Abs (V−U)>1ᴇ-12↵
U→V↵
List 1[2]sinh V−V−M→F↵
List 1[2]cosh V−1→G↵
List 1[2]sinh V→H↵
List 1[2]cosh V→I↵
-F÷G→A↵
-F÷(G+AH÷2)→B↵
-F÷(G+AH÷2+B²I÷6)→C↵
V+C→U↵
WhileEnd↵
cos⁻¹ ((List 1[2]−cosh U)÷(List 1[2]cosh U−1))→F↵
If U<0:Then 2π−F→F:IfEnd↵
List 1[1](1−List 1[2]cosh U)→R¸
Rcos F→List 2[1]↵
Rsin F→List 2[2]↵
List 2[1]cos List 1[5]−List 2[2]sin List 1[5]→List 3[1]↵
List 2[1]sin List 1[5]+List 2[2]cos List 1[5]→List 3[2]↵
List 3[1]→List 2[1]↵
List 3[2]cos List 1[3]→List 2[2]↵
List 3[2]sin List 1[3]→List 2[3]↵
List 2[1]cos List 1[4]−List 2[2]sin List 1[4]→List 3[1]↵
List 2[1]sin List 1[4]+List 2[2]cos List 1[4]→List 3[2]↵
List 2[3]→List 3[3]↵
Goto 3↵
Lbl 2↵
365.256898326List 1[1]^1.5→P↵
(T−List 1[6])÷P→M↵
M−Int M→M↵
If M<0:Then M+1→M:IfEnd↵
2πM→M↵
M+(List 1[2]−List 1[2]^3÷8+List 1[2]^5÷192)sin M+(List 1[2]²÷2−List 1[2]^4÷6)sin (2M)+(3List 1[2]^3÷8−27List 1[2]^5÷128)sin (3M)+(List 1[2]^4÷3)sin (4M)→U↵
9→V↵
While Abs (V−U)>1ᴇ-12↵
U→V↵
V−List 1[2]sin V−M→F↵
1−List 1[2]cos V→G↵
List 1[2]sin V→H↵
List 1[2]cos V→I↵
-F÷G→A↵
-F÷(G+AH÷2)→B↵
-F÷(G+AH÷2+B²I÷6)→C↵
V+C→U↵
WhileEnd↵
List 1[1](cos U−List 1[2])→List 2[1]↵
List 1[1]√(1−List 1[2]²)sin U→List 2[2]↵
√(List 2[1]²+List 2[2]²)→R¸
List 2[1]cos List 1[5]−List 2[2]sin List 1[5]→List 3[1]↵
List 2[1]sin List 1[5]+List 2[2]cos List 1[5]→List 3[2]↵
List 3[1]→List 2[1]↵
List 3[2]cos List 1[3]→List 2[2]↵
List 3[2]sin List 1[3]→List 2[3]↵
List 2[1]cos List 1[4]−List 2[2]sin List 1[4]→List 3[1]↵
List 2[1]sin List 1[4]+List 2[2]cos List 1[4]→List 3[2]↵
List 2[3]→List 3[3]↵
Lbl 3↵
{1,0.0167049,-0.0018,348.0305,102.9938,2456294.541}→List 4↵
(π÷180)List 4[3]→List 4[3]↵
(π÷180)List 4[4]→List 4[4]↵
(π÷180)List 4[5]→List 4[5]↵
365.2563496155List 4[1]^1.5→P↵
(T−List 4[6])÷P→M↵
M−Int M→M↵
If M<0:Then M+1→M:IfEnd↵
2πM→M↵
M+(List 4[2]−List 4[2]^3÷8+List 4[2]^5÷192)sin M+(List 4[2]²÷2−List 4[2]^4÷6)sin (2M)+(3List 4[2]^3÷8−27List 4[2]^5÷128)sin (3M)+(List 4[2]^4÷3)sin (4M)→U↵
9→V↵
While Abs (V−U)>1ᴇ-12↵
U→V↵
V−List 4[2]sin V−M→F↵
1−List 4[2]cos V→G↵
List 4[2]sin V→H↵
List 4[2]cos V→I↵
-F÷G→A↵
-F÷(G+AH÷2)→B↵
-F÷(G+AH÷2+B²I÷6)→C↵
V+C→U↵
WhileEnd↵
List 4[1](cos U−List 4[2])→List 2[1]↵
List 4[1]√(1−List 4[2]²)sin U→List 2[2]↵
√(List 2[1]²+List 2[2]²)→R¸
List 2[1]cos List 4[5]−List 2[2]sin List 4[5]→List 5[1]↵
List 2[1]sin List 4[5]+List 2[2]cos List 4[5]→List 5[2]↵
List 5[1]→List 2[1]↵
List 5[2]cos List 4[3]→List 2[2]↵
List 5[2]sin List 4[3]→List 2[3]↵
List 2[1]cos List 4[4]−List 2[2]sin List 4[4]→List 5[1]↵
List 2[1]sin List 4[4]+List 2[2]cos List 4[4]→List 5[2]↵
List 2[3]→List 5[3]↵
List 3[1]−List 5[1]→List 6[1]↵
List 3[2]−List 5[2]→List 6[2]↵
List 3[3]−List 5[3]→List 6[3]↵
(T−2451545)÷36525→W
84381.448−46.84024W−5.9ᴇ-4W²+1.813ᴇ-3W^3→θ↵
πθ÷648000→θ↵
List 6[1]→X↵
List 6[2]cos θ−List 6[3]sin θ→Y↵
List 6[2]sin θ+List 6[3]cos θ→Z↵
√(X²+Y²+Z²)→R↵
tan⁻¹ (Y÷X)→A↵
If X<0:Then A+π→A:IfEnd↵
If X>0 And Y<0:Then A+2π→A:IfEnd↵
(12÷π)A→A↵
(180÷π)sin⁻¹ (Z÷R)→D↵

θ¸


Locate 1,1,"t(JD)"↵
Locate 1,2,"r(AU)"↵
Locate 1,3,"R(AU)"↵
Locate 1,4,"ε(rad)"↵
Locate 1,5,"α(h)"↵
Locate 1,6,"δ(°)"↵

The output from the updated, improved version of the program are...

* The calendar date and GMT, echoed out from input.
* The Julian date corresponding to that calendar date and time.
* Geocentric distance in astronomical units.
* Geocentric right ascension in hhmmss format.
* Geocentric declination in ddmmss format.

* The obliquity of the ecliptic of date, in degrees.
* The sun-comet angular separation (total), in degrees.

* The x component of the comet's position in heliocentric ecliptic coordinates, AU.
* The y component of the comet's position in heliocentric ecliptic coordinates, AU.
* The z component of the comet's position in heliocentric ecliptic coordinates, AU.
* The distance between the comet and the sun, on date, in astronomical units.

* The x component of Earth's position in heliocentric ecliptic coordinates, AU.
* The y component of Earth's position in heliocentric ecliptic coordinates, AU.
* The z component of Earth's position in heliocentric ecliptic coordinates, AU.
* The distance between Earth and the sun, on date, in astronomical units.

With the right ascension and declination known, you could look in a star atlas and find out which constellation the comet is in, then go outside and find the comet.

Download the executable calculator program COMET.G1M (freeware, 4 kb) from my Google Drive, here.


Part 2. Determination of the Keplerian Elements of an Elliptical Orbit by the Method of Gauss from Three Angle-Only Geocentric Position Measurements and the Contemporaneous Position Vectors of the Sun.

Find it here.

Determining an orbit from two positions, on the condition that one of them is an apside
Jenab6
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Let's say that you know the position of your spaceship in heliocentric ecliptic coordinates at two different times.

At time t₁, the spaceship is at position 1: x₁, y₁, z₁
At time t₂, the spaceship is at position 2: x₂, y₂, z₂
t₂ is greater than t₁

Example A.
t₁ = JD 2456317.0 = time of perihelion passage
x₁ = +1.262310597
y₁ = −0.559230364
z₁ = −0.042736537
x₂ = +1.377907342
y₂ = +0.259659022
z₂ = −0.028416589


Example B.
t₁ = JD 2456625.28 = time of perihelion passage
x₁ = +0.003927222
y₁ = −0.011543726
z₁ = −0.002758467
x₂ = −0.084737466
y₂ = +0.500044286
z₂ = +0.263324058


Where the distances are expressed in astronomical units. Although you know both of the positions, you initially know only one of the times. The other time must be calculated. Furthermore, we insist that one or the other of those positions, but not both of them, occurs at an apside of the orbit, either at perihelion or at aphelion.

The heliocentric distances are
r₁ = √(x₁² + y₁² + z₁²)
r₂ = √(x₂² + y₂² + z₂²)

Example A.
r₁ = 1.381301218
r₂ = 1.402447487


Example B.
r₁ = 0.012501593
r₂ = 0.571458035


The distance between those two positions is
d = √[(x₂−x₁)² + (y₂−y₁)² + (z₂−z₁)²]

Example A.
d = 0.8271320903


Example B.
d = 0.5834240576


In the two-body approximation, orbits are conic sections. The sun is at the focus of an orbit, and both positions are points on the orbit.

We define the integer variable β and permit it to have only the values 1 or 2. When used as a subscript, β will indicate which position is an apside of the orbit. The other position, indicated by the subscript φ, will be the non-apsidal point on the orbit.

If (β=1) and (r₁ is less than r₂), then
the perihelion is at position #1, and θ₁ = u₁ = m₁ = 0.

If (β=2) and (r₂ is less than r₁), then
the perihelion is at position #2, and θ₂ = u₂ = m₂ = 0.

If (β=1) and (r₂ is less than r₁), then
the aphelion is at position #1, and θ₁ = u₁ = m₁ = π radians.

If (β=2) and (r₁ is less than r₂), then
the aphelion is at position #2, and θ₂ = u₂ = m₂ = π radians.

Example A.
β=1, θ₁=0, u₁=0, and m₁=0


Example B.
β=1, θ₁=0, u₁=0, and m₁=0


Where θ is the true anomaly of the spaceship in its orbit, u is the eccentric anomaly, and m is the mean anomaly.

For elliptical orbits, the apside at one of the positions can be either the perihelion or the aphelion. But for hyperbolic orbits, only the two possibilities involving the perihelion are possible. That's because hyperbolic orbits don't have apoapsis.

β = either 1 or 2
φ = 3−β
N = (−1)ᵠ

To make it clearer,

If β=1, then φ=2 and N=1
If β=2, then φ=1 and N=−1

Example A.
β=1, φ=2, N=1


Example B.
β=1, φ=2, N=1


The variables β and φ will usually be subscripts. The variable N is a sign toggle factor. Note that in defining N, the variable φ is used as an exponent rather than as a subscript.

The eccentricity is found by solving, simultaneously, the polar equation of the orbit, which relates the heliocentric distance, r, with the true anomaly, θ, and the law of cosines. After some algebra, we get

e = 2 (cos θᵦ) rᵦ (rᵦ−rᵩ) / (rᵩ²−rᵦ²−d²)

If (e is less than 0), then no orbit exists.
If (β=1) and (e is greater than 1) and (r₁ is greater than r₂), then no orbit exists.
If (β=2) and (e is greater than 1) and (r₂ is greater than r₁), then no orbit exists.

Example A.
e = 0.0934278806
elliptical orbit exists, so continue


Example B.
e = 1.000004039
hyperbolic orbit exists, so continue


If no orbit exists, then there is no reason for continuing. Also, this discussion is not relevant to the special cases of circular or parabolic or plunge orbits. On the other hand, if an elliptical or a hyperbolic orbit exists, we will now find the true anomaly of the non-apsidal position, θᵩ.

γ = (rᵦ²+rᵩ²−d²) / (2rᵦrᵩ)
θᵩ = θᵦ + N arccos γ

The principle value arctangent function can be substituted for the arccosine, if desired.

θᵩ = θᵦ + N {(π/2) − arctan[ γ / √(1−γ²) ]}

Example A.
θ₂ = 0.603183138 radians


Example B.
θ₂ = 2.844674608 radians


If the eccentricity is between 0 and 1, then adjust θᵩ to the interval [0,2π). On the other hand, if the eccentricity is greater than 1, then leave θᵩ just as it is from the equation. We don't adjust the anomalies of hyperbolic orbits to the [0,2π) interval, as we do with elliptical orbits.

You might have noticed that a condition has been applied to the orbit we are determining, namely that the arc of true anomaly that the object sweeps through, as it moves around the sun from position 1 to position 2, is strictly between 0 and π radians. Although there are two possible directions of angular motion, this procedure assumes that the object will take the short way around. Actually, that condition was introduced with the calculation of the eccentricity, but you'd have to follow the algebra, which I suppressed for brevity, to see it.

The semimajor axis of the orbit is found as follows.

a = rᵦ / (1 − e cos θᵦ)

To make it clearer,

For both elliptical and hyperbolic orbits, when position β is the perihelion, a = rᵦ / (1−e)
For elliptical orbits, when position β is the aphelion, a = rᵦ / (1+e)

Example A.
a = 1.523652877


Example B.
a = −3095.18647


For hyperbolic orbits, the semimajor axis is negative. For elliptical orbits, it is positive.

For a while hereafter, the math appropriate for elliptical and for hyperbolic orbits differ and must be treated separately.

Elliptical orbits.
a greater than zero.
e between zero and one.

The eccentric anomaly in the orbit at the non-apsidal position, uᵩ, is found from

sin uᵩ = (rᵩ/a) sin θᵩ / √(1−e²)
cos uᵩ = e + (rᵩ/a) cos θᵩ

If cos uᵩ≠0 then
begin
If (cos uᵩ is less than 0) then Q = π radians
If (cos uᵩ is greater than 0) and (sin uᵩ is less than 0) then Q = 2π radians
If (cos uᵩ is greater than 0) and (sin uᵩ is greater than 0) then Q = 0
uᵩ = arctan (sin uᵩ / cos uᵩ) + Q
end

If cos uᵩ=0 then
begin
If (sin uᵩ is greater than 0) then uᵩ = π/2 radians
If (sin uᵩ is less than 0) then uᵩ = 3π/2 radians
end

Example A.
sin u
₂ = +0.524434992
cos u
₂ = +0.851450491
u= 0.552051395 radians

Practically speaking, the situation in which cos uᵩ=0 (exactly) will seldom occur, and that in which both cos uᵩ=0 and sin uᵩ=0 will never occur for elliptical or for hyperbolic orbits. (It only occurs for plunge orbits.)

The mean anomaly in the orbit at the non-apsidal position is found from Kepler's equation.

mᵩ = uᵩ − e sin uᵩ

Example A.
m
₂ = 0.503054545 radians

The period of the orbit is

P = (365.256898326 days) a¹·⁵

Example A.
P = 686.953722 days


The mean motion, μ, in the orbit is found from

μ = (2π radians) / P

Example A.
μ = 0.00914644627 radians/day


The transit time in days, Δt, required for the spaceship to travel from position #1 to position #2, is

Δt = (N/μ) [mᵩ − π sin(½ θᵦ)]

Example A.
Δt = 55 days


And now you can calculate the time that you did not initially know.

t₂ = t₁ + Δt

Example A.
t₂ = JD 2456372


A time of perihelion passage, T, of the spaceship in its orbit is found from

T = tᵦ − mᵦ/μ

Example A.
T = JD 2456317
(This was given at the beginning because the apside at position #1, for which the time was given, is the perihelion. If it had been the aphelion this calculation step would be non-trivial.)


Other times of perihelion passage can be found by adding or subtracting whole number multiples of the period.

T' = T ± nP

Hyperbolic orbits.
a less than zero.
e greater than one.

We find the hyperbolic eccentric anomaly at the non-apsidal position, uᵩ.

B = cosh uᵩ = (1/e) (1 − rᵩ/a)

You can use whichever of the following two expressions is the handier.

uᵩ' = arccosh B
uᵩ' = ln [B + √(B² − 1)]

if (sin θᵩ is less than 0) then uᵩ=−uᵩ' else uᵩ=uᵩ'

Example B.
uᵩ = 0.01900435609


The hyperbolic mean anomaly at the non-apsidal position, mᵩ, is found from the hyperbolic form of Kepler's equation.

mᵩ = e sinh uᵩ − uᵩ

You can use the exponential equivalent for the sinh function, if you wish.

mᵩ = (e/2) [exp(uᵩ) − exp(−uᵩ)] − uᵩ

Example B.
mᵩ = 1.220737821e-6


Hyperbolic orbits aren't periodic, so we don't adjust negative hyperbolic anomalies to the interval [0,2π). If it comes out negative, then we should leave it that way.

The hyperbolic mean motion is

μ = (86400 radians/day) √[GM๏/(−ρa)³]

There, ρ = 149,597,870,691 meters/AU, and GM๏ = 1.32712440018e20 m³ sec⁻².

Example B.
μ = 9.989671676e-8 radians/day


The transit time from position #1 to position #2 is

Δt = (N/μ) mᵩ

Example B.
Δt = 12.22 days


And now you can calculate the time that you did not initially know.

t₂ = t₁ + Δt

Example B.
t₂ = JD 2456637.5


For hyperbolic orbits, perihelion passage will occur at

T = tᵦ

Example B.
T = JD 2456625.28


To make it clearer, the time of perihelion passage, T, will be found as follows:

If (r₂ is greater than r₁), then T = t₁
If (r₁ is greater than r₂), then T = t₂

The part of the math for which the treatment of elliptical and of hyperbolic orbits differs is past, so we present a reunified treatment of both hereafter.

We find the cross product r₁ × r₂ as follows:

X' = y₁ z₂ − z₁ y₂
Y' = z₁ x₂ − x₁ z₂
Z' = x₁ y₂ − y₁ x₂

Example A.
X' = +0.0269883468
Y' = −0.0230164267
Z' = +1.0983379595


Example B.
X' = −0.0016603851
Y' = −0.0008003865
Z' = +0.0009855988


The magnitude of the cross product is

R = √(X² + Y² + Z²)

Example A.
R = 1.098910551


Example B.
R = 0.002090192


We obtain the unit vector normal to the orbit and co-directional with the orbit's angular momentum.

X = X' / R
Y = Y' / R
Z = Z' / R

Example A.
X = +0.0245591843
Y = −0.0209447681
Z = +0.9994789458


Example B.
X = −0.7943697
Y = −0.3829249
Z = +0.4715351


The inclination of the orbit, i, is found from

i = arccos (Z)

Example A.
i = 1.849685704°


Example B.
i = 61.86601°


A vector co-directional with the velocity in the orbit at the perihelion position can be found from the cross product R × rᵦ.

Vxᵦ'' = Y zᵦ − Z yᵦ
Vyᵦ'' = Z xᵦ − X zᵦ
Vzᵦ'' = X yᵦ − Y xᵦ

Example A.
Vx
₁'' = +0.559834082
Vy
₁'' = +1.262702439
Vz
₁'' = +0.012704561

The magnitude of the cross product is

Vᵦ'' = √[(Vxᵦ'')² + (Vyᵦ'')² + (Vzᵦ'')²]

Example A.
V
₁'' = 1.381301218

The co-directional unit vector is

Vxᵦ' = Vxᵦ'' / Vᵦ''
Vyᵦ' = Vyᵦ'' / Vᵦ''
Vzᵦ' = Vzᵦ'' / Vᵦ''

Example A.
Vx
' = +0.405294714
Vy
' = +0.914139814
Vz
' = +0.00919753116

The actual magnitude of the velocity at the perihelion position is found from the Vis Viva equation. (Remember that the semimajor axis, a, is intrinsically negative for hyperbolic orbits.)

Vᵦ = (29784.692 m/s) √(2/rᵦ − 1/a)

Example A.
V₁ = 26499.885 m/s


There, the coefficient is the orbital speed of Earth when it is at a distance from the sun equal to the semimajor axis of its orbit.

(Digression: No, this is not the average speed of Earth in its orbit. To find the average speed in a periodic orbit, you must divide the circumference of the orbit by the orbital period. The circumference of an ellipse is found by solving a complete elliptical integral of the second kind, using the semimajor axis and the eccentricity of the ellipse as input. The average speed in orbit is always less than the speed at the distance of the semimajor axis. The larger the eccentricity is, the bigger the difference will be. In Earth's case, with e=0.016715, the difference is only about 1 m/s.)

The velocity in the orbit at the apside is

Vxᵦ = Vᵦ Vxᵦ'
Vyᵦ = Vᵦ Vyᵦ'
Vzᵦ = Vᵦ Vzᵦ'

Example A.
Vx₁ = +10740.263 m/s
Vy₁ = +24224.600 m/s
Vz₁ = +243.734 m/s


We begin by finding the orbit's angular momentum (per unit mass) from the cross product rᵦ × Vᵦ, and we introduce a conversion factor, ρ = 149,597,870,691 meters/AU.

hx = ρ (yᵦ Vzᵦ − zᵦ Vyᵦ)
hy = ρ (zᵦ Vxᵦ − xᵦ Vzᵦ)
hz = ρ (xᵦ Vyᵦ − yᵦ Vxᵦ)

Example A.
hx = +1.344843061e14
hy = −1.146921484e14
hz = +5.473075570e15


The longitude of the ascending node, Ω, is found from

sin Ω = hx
cos Ω = −hy

If cos Ω≠0 then
begin
If (cos Ω is less than 0) then Q = π radians
If (cos Ω is greater than 0) and (sin Ω is less than 0) then Q = 2π radians
If (cos Ω is greater than 0) and (sin Ω is less than 0) then Q = 0
Ω = arctan (sin Ω / cos Ω) + Q
end

If cos Ω=0 then
begin
If (sin Ω is greater than 0) then Ω = π/2 radians
If (sin Ω is less than 0) then Ω = 3π/2 radians
end

Example A.
sin Ω = +1.344843061e14
cos Ω = +1.146921484e14
Ω = 49.5414853°


cos w' = (xᵦ cos Ω + yᵦ sin Ω) / rᵦ

if sin i=0 then sin w' = (yᵦ cos Ω − xᵦ sin Ω) / rᵦ
if sin i≠0 then sin w' = zᵦ / (rᵦ sin i)

If cos w'≠0 then
begin
If (cos w' is less than 0) then Q = π radians
If (cos w' is greater than 0) and (sin w' is less than 0) then Q = 2π radians
If (cos w' is greater than 0) and (sin w' is greater than 0) then Q = 0
w' = arctan (sin w' / cos w') + Q
end

If cos w'=0 then
begin
If (sin w' is greater than 0) then w' = π/2 radians
If (sin w' is less than 0) then w' = 3π/2 radians
end

Example A.
sin w' = −0.958541819
cos w' = +0.284952313
w' = 286.555996°


The angle w' is the sum of the argument of the perihelion, ω, and the true anomaly at the apsidal position, θᵦ. We have already determined θᵦ as follows:

Elliptical orbits.
If (rᵦ is less than rᵩ), then θᵦ = 0
If (rᵦ is greater than rᵩ), then θᵦ = π radians

Example A,
θ₁ = 0
.

Hyperbolic orbits.
θᵦ = 0

We subtract to find the argument of the perihelion, ω.

ω' = w' − θᵦ

Example A,
converted to degrees,
ω' = 286.555996°


We correct the argument of the perihelion to the interval [0,2π), if necessary.

If (ω' is less than 0) then ω=ω'+2π else ω=ω'

Example A
converted to degrees
ω = 286.555996°


Now we have the complete set of Keplerian orbital elements: a, e, i, Ω, ω, T.

Example A (Mars)
a = 1.523652877
e = 0.0934278806
i = 1.849685704°
Ω = 49.5414853°
ω = 286.555996°
T = JD 2456317


An atheist answer to "Where did the universe come from, and why?"
Jenab6
jenab6

A Christian made a video that he posted on YouTube, in order to challenge atheists with the question "Where did the universe come from, and why?" Here's my answer.

cjae2631, the question you asked is a very good question. Until the beginning of the 20th century, no atheist could have answered it, except with a characteristically honest "I don't know." You should expect that reply from atheists from time to time. When an atheist doesn't think the evidence supports any particular conclusion, he'll nearly always tell you that he doesn't know. Atheists don't often play the cheater's debate trick of insisting that their case is made if their opponent fails to make his.

"Where did the universe come from?"

First, get rid of any preconceptions you might have regarding the nature of empty space, and, unless you are really good with physics, shed any pretensions that you understand what a vacuum is, or what spacetime is. You probably don't know as much about these important subjects as you think you do.

Long ago, a philosopher asked "Why something rather than nothing?" Pure logic is sufficient to answer that question. Nothing can't be because "be" is just a word that means "exist," whereas nothing or "no thing" is a negation of existence. The being of existence is tautological; existence exists for the lack of an alternative.

But having figured out that much, you still don't know what existence is like when it has no special reason to be any way at all. And you haven't explained the universe by finding an explanation for existence itself. For those answers, pure logic isn't enough, and you must turn to empiricism.

Existence in its default condition is what physicists call the flat, unperturbed vacuum state. It's a cold spacetime in which there are no potential differences in energy levels that endure beyond the limitation of the uncertainty principle. There are no causes or effects. On the quantum level, random events happen, fluctuations of vacuum energy having magnitudes that follow a Planck distribution for a cold blackbody. But no order arises from them. Spacetime boils with flux of this kind, even at absolute zero temperature.

Our universe isn't in this default condition. It is a radical departure from it, with the difference having been greater in the past, and will be less in the future, than it is now. The default state of existence is what our universe is slowly evolving back to, as it expands and as it cools and as its entropy rises. The universe has already undergone several very conspicuous changes in its broad character, with more such changes yet to come, though the time scales over which such changes occur are lengthening.

Vacuum fluctuations happen simply because they are intrinsic to the nature of spacetime, which means they are the primary characteristic of existence in its default state. The classical notions of "emptiness" or "nothingness" as being this default condition are in error, and most people, entertaining these classical ideas regarding existence and its negation, are wrong.

Fluctuations of energy in vacuum, having actions less than Planck's reduced constant, are intrinsic to the nature of spacetime, and they are the primary characteristic of existence in its default condition.

These vacuum fluctuations occur within our universe, too, just as they would occur in flat, unperturbed spacetime. But our universe has, on top of this background of vacuum noise, enduring potential differences in energy levels that go far above the uncertainty principle. These potential differences give our universe its structure and create many kinds of possibilities for the organization of matter, such as stars and life.

The way a universe is born is as follows. Within another spacetime, the fluctuation of energy in vacuum follows, as I've said, a Planck distribution of magnitude. Most of these energy bumps and dips, relative to the energy level of the vacuum state, are too small to be of any importance. A small percentage, however, are energetic enough to produce virtual elementary particles, such as (e-,e+), by pair production. And a very, very, very small percentage has enough energy to do much more.

I recently read that only one vacuum fluctuation in 10³⁴⁴ (ten to the power of 344) has enough energy to trigger the genesis of a new universe. I am unable to check that estimate at present.

When it happens, purely by chance, that a vacuum fluctuation causes, within a parent spacetime, there to be enough energy at the same place and time, the energy will, by the gravitation of its equivalent mass, separate itself from the parent spacetime by an enclosing event horizon. The energy that had been in the fluctuation exits the parent spacetime by falling into a black hole of its own making.

Once in its own trivial universe, the energy that had been in the vacuum fluctuation is in a state that is hypercertain with respect to the uncertainty principle. It's basically all in one quantum address, without anything else to relate to, and without any forces to do the relating with. That state is metastable, like a bicycle hub balanced on one spoke. After a half-life or so of a few billion Planck times each, it decays spontaneously, just as radioactive nuclei do.

The "unity" of the energy that had been in the vacuum fluctuation is broken when a force, which in our universe was the strong nuclear force, breaks free of the original symmetry. This makes possible a plurality of quantum addresses, and the singular initial state, being now very improbable, is quickly abandoned. Quantum addresses proliferate with great rapidity, causing the inflation of space in a new universe.

And that's where universes come from. Your question has had its answer.

Now that I've answered your question, I'll point out for you some flaws in your thinking.

First, in your summary list of suggested possible answers, which you gave in your video, for atheists seeking to reply to your question, you omitted at least one possibility. Specifically, you left out the answer that I gave, which is the answer that empirical studies of nature indicate is the answer most likely to be correct. Why did you do that? I'll be generous enough to assume that you were simply ignorant. But because I have shown you that answer here, you can't be excused anymore.

Second, when you proposed that the right answer to the question of where the universe came from might be "a higher power created it," you didn't really solve the ultimate problem of epistemology. An atheist will simply turn around and challenge you to explain where this higher power came from, and, at that question, you will be left with the same set of answers, and not one more, that atheists would have had with respect to the existence of the universe prior to the 20th century.

I think that people believe in gods because they are afraid of death. They want there to be something afterward, some continuation of their minds and selves, because their survival instinct makes them uncomfortable to foresee the complete loss. I believe that is why people cling to the god-idea, or to the higher-power-idea, so tenaciously. All of this theological intellectualism is phony. You religious folks simply can't handle the truth because of your fear of it.

Several people tried to argue back at me, and herebelow I'll present my replies to them.

Matt, I referred to what happens on the quantum level because that is where the true understanding is to be found. In the first place, the god-idea has no empirical basis whatever. It's a carry-over from a pre-scientific age to which religious people in modern are seeking to apply a respectably scientific veneer. But when anyone who really understands the relevant science steps forward and provides a good explanation, an explanation derived from what empirical methods have revealed about nature, these same religious people want to wave it aside.

No. The weakest theory of all is the god-idea. Although it seems comprehensively explanatory, it comes from no data. It either can't be tested or, if it is, the faithful can never seem to recognize negative results. And it really explains nothing because of the first-cause flaw, the one the religious people like to pretend isn't there. If a god created the universe, then what created the god? The god-idea is no better than the idea that Earth is supported on the back of a turtle, since what then holds up the turtle?

Science has quite a few speculative theories about the shape of, or possible shapes of, spacetime. They began with someone realized that gravity curves space, and that black holes create an infinite curvature. Spacetime can be topologically modeled according to the gradients in gravitational potential energy, and some unusual results have been seen in the math. But whether any of those spacetime topologies have a physical existence isn't yet known. Wormholes are an example.

Black holes aren't speculative, since there exist data for which black holes are the best, and sometimes the only, explanation.

Metaphysical riddles usually turn out to have physical answers. I sometimes run into people who think that metaphysics is a fancy synonym for mysticism. It isn't; metaphysics is the study of reality. Physics (as in physical science) is part of metaphysics. And quantum mechanics is a part of physics that is particularly useful is explaining the origin of universes.

Cosmology (a part of astronomy) only takes us only so far. It lets of observe the early universe back to about 300,000 years after the Big Bang. Farther ago than that, we can't see because all the matter was in the form of plasma then, and plasma is opaque to light. Cosmology supports the idea of a high temperature era during the early universe, and it supports the idea of large-scale homogeneity in the early universe, with small local density variations which enabled stars and galaxies to form by gravity.

What cosmology doesn't do is allow us to examine times much closer to the Big Bang, and therefore much closer to whatever the universe's origin was.

That's where and why quantum physics takes over. Since we can't see behind the plasma wall at 300,000 years ABB, we try to recreate in particle physics laboratories the conditions that existed then. Although we can't get right down to the Big Bang, we can get much nearer to it with particle accelerators than we can with telescopes.

Quantum physics is the science best positioned to answer the question of where the universe came from, and the best answer that I know about—best because it is consistent with all the empirical knowledge that I know about—is the answer I gave in my original status post.

What is my "quantum turtle" based on? I expected that question. Although you don't like to admit it, the god-idea, used as an explanation for the existence of the universe, has a terrible flaw. If a god created the universe, then what created the god? It is a flaw that the religious people can be seen evading every time one of them debates an atheist about the existence of gods. It is a natural, emotional reaction to try throwing the same stone back at me, to attribute that same flaw to the argument that I brought forward, in which the nature of existence itself is what causes universes to appear.

One thing you must realize before we can profitably debate the question further is that the classical idea about vacuum being "nothing" is wrong. A vacuum that is as perfect as physical laws will let it be doesn't have any mass in it that is related to anything else by a cause-effect relationship. However, that vacuum does still contain energy, always in random flux, some of which is briefly in the form of virtual particles. The reason for why we don't see anything, and for why a vacuum appears to be "empty space," is that our vision is coarse of resolution in comparison the size of these events. What we see is an average across space and over time, an average in which the highs and lows of energy are smoothed out in the same way that a large flat sheet of very rough sandpaper would look smooth from a distance of a mile away. Or much as an LED flashlight seems to be of constant brightness, though in reality the emitter is flashing on-off-on-off very quickly.

But the point is this: the classical notion of vacuum is wrong, wrong, wrong. It takes special kinds of measuring technology to prove it, but the technology exists and the nature of vacuum is now better understood than it was in the days when the ancient Greeks were inventing words like "metaphysics."

So that explanation I gave you has no "turtle support." Its support is an empirically corrected conception of vacuum. Existence might not be quite what you thought it was.

Whether you like it or not, there is a godless answer to the question of where the universe came from that has none of the flaws that the god-idea has, and the answer is based in large part on quantum physics.



Oh, I would like to believe in a loving God, too. But I don't believe whatever I want, or whatever makes me feel safe, or whatever promises me some reward or other. I believe what I can, what I think the truth is because of what my eyes see, what my ears hear, what my accumulated experience persuades me toward. I think that God is a beautiful idea, but there is no truth in beauty per se.

Logic isn't innate. Mankind had been around for tens of thousands of years before those laws were written down, for the first time, by Aristotle. The human mind doesn't operate on logic by instinct. Logic is acquired by experience: either by formal instruction or by hard knocks over a long life. Only a few people really know the laws of logic to the point where they can write them both in words and in symbolic form. Even fewer have used the laws of logic sufficiently often that they've become intuitive, to the point where someone can "smell" a bad argument; it isn't a skill that everyone acquires much of, whatever they might think.

The god-idea persists in our times, I think, because people fear death. They want relief from the discomfort of that fear. Religion promises it. But I think that the promises are lies, pretty lies, comforting lies, whose beauty and solace are used as levers to pry open people's minds in order to get the falseness accepted.



Answering the big questions is something science has been doing for a long time. Philosophers propose directions for inquiry, but doing the actual exploration in those directions is the work of empirical researchers, or scientists. A philosopher came up with the atomic theory, but it was particle physicists that proved it. The question "What is the nature of matter?" is another of those "big questions," and it has been answered, if not completely, then in some detail.

So what is so strange about an explanation for where the universe came from that conforms to every bit of scientific knowledge we have? Well, it displeases some people because it Leaves God Out. But that is, in fact, a point in its favor. Because, whereas we can see the universe, we can't see any gods, your favorite included. We agree that the universe is here; we don't agree that God is. And I don't think you'd care to propose a test of the matter that I would accept as decisive.

May I point out that you have misdirected attention to the Large Hadron Collider, as if my explanation of where universes come from depended on its "next print-out"? It doesn't, you know. Let's get back to where the explanation does come from. It isn't recent. The vacuum genesis idea has been around for about 44 years. The idea about universes originating as vacuum fluctuations predates the Large Hadron Collider, having been first proposed in 1969.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_genesis

It's had time for lots of smart people to think it over carefully, and nobody (with the relevant competence) has ever found anything wrong with it.

You said that quantum physics has answered no big questions. Surely you're joking. As I already mentioned, it verified the atomic theory of matter, and the nature of matter was one of those Big Questions. It's an Old Big Question, but it still counts. It was proposed in ancient times by a Greek philosopher, but it was answered in our times by quantum physicists. More recently, quantum physicists have proposed a mechanism for gravity.

The question of how universes originate isn't necessarily "bigger" than the question about the mechanism for gravity. It is helpful to stop your mind from being boggled (slowed down, inhibited) by dimensional comparisons. Treat universes as objects that obey laws, just as atomic nuclei are objects that obey laws.

"Just as something which appears to be a vacuum at the Newtonian level proves to not be so at the Einsteinian level..."

You mean the quantum level. Einstein contributed to a general theory of relativity, which is a different theory than quantum mechanics.

"...there may be additional fields, forces, and 'stuff going on' at yet lower levels than what we currently know about."

String theory, for example, which in its unified form is M theory. However, we will propose new theories as experimental data calls for them, and not before. Relativity was called for by such things as the gravitational deflection of starlight and by an anomaly in the precession of the perihelion of the orbit of Mercury. Quantum mechanics was called for to resolve the apparent wave-particle dual nature of light, as revealed by interference in diffraction patterns.

You might be using the idea of zero to refer to two different concepts without realizing it. In physics, the choice of ground (the zero of reference) for energy states is somewhat arbitrary. Even when the choice for the ground is the flat, unperturbed vacuum state, zero energy more nearly means "no signal" rather than "non-existence."

You wrote: "It's interesting science, and it's fascinating stuff, but it's not answering the question you claim it's answering. It's a more nuanced and elaborate variation on the '0 = -1 + 1' gem, which does indeed explain how a force can turn nothingness into somethingness. But since the effect of splitting 0 into -1 and +1 ought by logic to have a cause of some sort, it's an infinite regression."

As I've already explained, the human conception of vacuum as "empty space" originated in advance of the technical ability to perceive otherwise. Vacuum looks empty to human eyes because human eyes can't resolve subatomic separations or pico-second actions.

Although zero doesn't imply non-existence, the word "nothing" does. Nothing never exists, and, for that reason, there never was any need to ask why nothing could become something.



Me: "A philosopher came up with the atomic theory, but it was particle physicists that proved it."

You: "Ironic, given that there's nothing philosophically atomic about the atom. That's one of the more clear cases of muddling philosophical abstractions with information derived from the scientific method."

Philosophy is what you do when you pursue the truth for its own sake, as opposed to pursuing it for gain. When Democritus presented an atomic theory of matter in the 5th century BC, he was suggesting ideas about matter that was nearer to the truth than previous ideas about matter were.

Of course, Democritus knew nothing of quarks or neutrinos or pions. Those further steps in the direction of truth about matter would come later. But Democritus was a philosopher, and his theory about atoms was philosophy. It became -science- 2300 years later, in the early 19th century, with the development of instruments that would make possible an experimental verification of the existence of atoms (led by John Dalton, Johann Loschmidt, and Robert Brown).

Me: "Well, it displeases some people because it Leaves God Out"

You: [Obligatory assertion that I'm not trying to bring God into this discussion, which will be ignored, like the previous ones]

In case you had not noticed, let me call to your attention the fact that these are comments appended to my status post, which in the first place was made in order to share my reply to a Christian video-maker, who had challenged me to describe a godless mechanism for the genesis of universes. I did that on YouTube, and I was so pleased with my response that I wanted to share it here.

The dichotomy between theistic and atheistic theories about the origin of universes is the theme of my post, and hence it is also the theme of the comments that I append below it. If you are pushing some other theme, then you are the one who is deviating, not I.

Me: "The vacuum genesis idea has been around for about 44 years. The idea about universes originating as vacuum fluctuations predates the Large Hadron Collider, having been first proposed in 1969."

You: "The Hadron Collider was introduced in a whimsical manner, as if some physics experiment could be expected to output a clear understanding of the origin of things."

The Large Hadron Collider was built as a step upward in the energies of particle collisions that human scientists could study. It was designed to test theories about previously undiscovered elementary particles that previous colliders were not powerful enough to test.

The reason experiments must be REPEATABLE, in order to be scientifically valid, is that there can always be a distribution in the results. What happens most of the time might not be what happens first. An instrument like the Large Hadron Collider is not made to study one collision only, but one after another in a long series, which together constitute the experiment. Sooner or later, what happens most of the time at the energies the LHC can cause protons to reach will be learned, and that will tell us things about the behavior of matter at energies such as those near the time of the Big Bang that we would never have learned with telescopes.

You: "A vacuum which is not a 'philosophical vacuum' is categorically beside the point, as it's not a vacuum for philosophical purposes. If the Universe emerged from a Newtonian vacuum which has subatomic stuff going on which follow various laws, then from whence did THAT emerge?"

I'm unsure of what you mean by 'philosophical vacuum.' Philosophy is the pursuit of truth for its own sake. It is not supposed to be a collection of incorrect and superseded concepts, held on the justification that they were, once upon a time, mankind's best guess. When science proved those old conceptions to be wrong, philosophy as well as science discarded them.

Isaac Newton devised a kind of physical mechanics that works well as an approximation, on the condition that high relative speeds, strong gravitational fields, and quantum field effects aren't important to calculating the future of a physical system.

From whence did THAT (the vacuum fluctuations the characterize the vacuum state) emerge? Why, it emerges as an intrinsic property of reality.

Mankind didn't theorize vacuum into being the way it is.

The quantum scale fluctuation of energy in the vacuum is a discovered fact about nature; it is not an invention.

Nobody decided that vacuum would be this way. It was learned through experimental testing.

As there are atoms, so, too, are there vacuum fluctuations.

You: "This was pointed out 43 years, 364 days ago, by a panoply of gifted and respected physicists and philosophers, the overwhelming majority of whom weren't trying to inject "God" into the discussion. Your claim that nobody important has kneecapped this idea is simply and blatantly false."

Whenever knowledge takes a significant uptick, there are always a few who are slow to accept the new ideas. Lots of "respected physicists" didn't take well to the theory of relativity. Lots of competent astrophysicists didn't believe that there were such things as black holes. In fact, there were quite a few "respected" physicists who denied (for a time) that matter could ever be found in a form as dense as a neutron star is. Eventually, most of them changed their minds, unless they died first. So pardon me if a book containing the published doubts of a few scholarly skeptics fails to impress. The mainstream isn't always right, but it usually is right, and the concept of a vacuum state characterized by quantum scale energy fluctuations has definitely satisfied most of the world's respected physicists.

You: "So I take it from your closing paragraph that your philosophical position is that the question of 'how did nothing become something in the first place?' is integrally invalid...that 'something' (sub-atomic and pico-second things remain things) has eternally existed?

Yes, something always exists. The reason for that is that what does not exist—nothing—does not exist. So much you can get from logic alone. But what existence (i.e., something) is like, when it has no special reason for preference, must be learned. And the science that is best positioned to learn it is quantum physics, though certain other sciences, such as astrophysical cosmology, are helpfully contributory.

Whereas something always exists, this isn't true for particular universes, which begin, as I said earlier, as extreme departures from existence's default state. As I also said earlier, universes evolve back toward the default state of existence in an asymptotic manner as they age, cool, and increase their entropy. When all the stars are gone, when matter has decayed, when all the black holes have evaporated by Hawking radiation, when the last quasi-atom of (e-,e+) positronium has orbitally decayed and annihilated, then will this universe be, once again, in the default state of existence, in which no event causes another, and in which the most important events are quantum vacuum fluctuations.


Part 2. More about the Sandy Hook massacre.

These paragraphs were added on 12 February 2013.

Other people have also noticed that the details about the Sandy Hook massacre are frequently either very implausible or in mutual conflict. One of them is the "raised as a Jew" Christian Orthodox priest Brother Nathanael. Click on his name to watch the video. There is definitely something fishy and underhanded going on with respect to this event.

Police officers, such as police lieutenant Paul Vance, are contradicting themselves in the same breath "We want the people in the community, in the state, in the world to know exactly what's going on, but there are also some issues that we need to keep the cards close to our chest." So which is it, Lt. Vance? Which of those two mutually contradictory statements that you made is really true? Are we to know exactly what is going on, or will some of the details be kept secret from us? It can't be both.

The medical examiner who clearly testified that the children at Sandy Hook were murdered by a rifle, was later overruled by the media, who told us that Adam Lanza had no rifle in his possession while he was inside the elementary school, but instead had somewhere between two and four pistols (the exact number remains unclear). Two is the more likely. We can imagine that Lanza had one pistol in his hands and three more in his pockets, but then where would he be keeping those "hundreds" of extra bullets the police said he had with him?

I mean, if you're looking for the simplest explanation for awkward current events, try this: the US government has fallen into the habit of conspiring against the American people, even to the point of carrying out military attacks upon them, and even to the point of murdering American children. It would explain a great deal, far beyond Sandy Hook's curious omissions of detail, including

The federal assault on a white farm family near Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992.
The federal assault on a white religious community in Waco, Texas, in 1993.

The 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.
The purchase of a billion hollow-point bullets by the Department of Homeland Security.

The acquisition and use of military equipment by police departments.
The federal harassment of citizen militias.
The military training exercises over US cities.
The sustained effort by the federal government to circumvent the 2nd Amendment.

So many seemingly disconnected things fall into their place in a consistent pattern, if only you assume that the government of the United States has become the enemy of the American people.

Although I disagree with Ayn Rand about the nature of, and the wisdom to be found in, racism
—among other things—she was quite right when she wrote the following:

"Criminals are a small minority in any age or country. And the harm they have done to mankind is infinitesimal when compared to the horrors—the bloodshed, the wars, the persecutions, the confiscations, the famines, the enslavements, the wholesale destructions—perpetrated by mankind’s governments. Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights, a government is man’s deadliest enemy. It is not as protection against private actions, but against governmental actions that the Bill of Rights was written." —Ayn Rand.

Predicting the location of Comet Ison
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Okay. So you want to know how to predict where Comet ISON will be visible in Earth's sky on a specified night. But you were asleep in school while your teacher was trying to explain astrodynamics, and you need a refresher course in hyperbolic orbits. Here you go.

Step 1. Reduce the comet's orbital elements and a time of observation to the comet's position in rectangular heliocentric ecliptic coordinates.

ISON's orbital elements.
a = −3618.577 AU
e = 1.0000034572
i = 61.8122°
Ω = 295.7459°
ω = 345.5039°
T = JD 2456625.2954

The Keplerian orbital elements for a hyperbolic orbit.
[ a, e, i, Ω, ω, T ] @ time = t
Notes: a<0, e>1.

Sun's gravitational parameter, GM๏.
GM๏ = 1.32712440018e20 m³ sec⁻²

Conversion between astronomical units and meters.
1 AU = 1.49597870691e11 meters

Hyperbolic mean motion, m, of the comet in radians per day.
μ = (86400 sec/day) √[GM๏/(−a)³]

Choose a time of observation, t, and convert it to Julian Date.
Example: 1 January 2014 at 12h GMT is JD 2456659.0

Hyperbolic mean anomaly, m, of the comet at time t.
m = μ (t−T)

Eccentric anomaly, u, of the comet at time t.
u₀ = 0
Repeat over index j
f₀ = e sinh u(j) − u(j) − m
f₁ = e cosh u(j) − 1
f₂ = e sinh u(j)
f₃ = e cosh u(j)
d₁ = −f₀ / f₁
d₂ = −f₀ / [ f₁ + ½ d₁ f₂ ]
d₃ = −f₀ / [ f₁ + ½ d₁ f₂ + ⅙ d₂² f₃ ]
u(j+1) = u(j) + d₃
Until |u(j+1)−u(j)| < 1e-12
u = u(j+1)

True anomaly, θ, of the comet at time t.
θ' = arccos { (e − cosh u) / (e cosh u − 1) }
if u>0 then θ = θ'
if u=0 then θ = 0
if u<0 then θ = 2π − θ'

Heliocentric distance, r, of the comet at time t.
r = a (1 − e cosh u)

Canonical position of the comet at time t.
x''' = r cos θ
y''' = r sin θ
z''' = 0

Rotate the canonical position by the argument of the perihelion.
x'' = x''' cos ω − y''' sin ω
y'' = x''' sin ω + y''' cos ω
z'' = z'''

Rotate the double-primed vector by the inclination.
x' = x''
y' = y'' cos i
z' = y'' sin i

Rotate the single-primed vector by the longitude of ascending node to get the heliocentric position of the comet, at time t, in ecliptic coordinates.
x = x' cos Ω − y' sin Ω
y = x' sin Ω + y' cos Ω
z = z'

Heliocentric longitude, λ', in radians.
if x>0 and y>0 then Q=0
if x>0 and y<0 then Q=2π
if x<0 then Q=π
λ' = arctan(y/x) + Q
Heliocentric longitude, λ, in degrees.
λ = (180/π) λ'

Heliocentric latitude, β', in radians.
β' = arcsin(z/r)
Heliocentric latitude, β, in degrees.
β = (180/π) β'

Canonical velocity of the comet at time t.
Vx''' = −(a/r) √[GM๏/(−a)] sinh u
Vy''' = +(a/r) √[GM๏/(−a)] √(e²−1) cosh u
Vz''' = 0

Rotate the canonical velocity by the argument of the perihelion.
Vx'' = Vx''' cos ω − Vy''' sin ω
Vy'' = Vx''' sin ω + Vy''' cos ω
Vz'' = Vz'''

Rotate the double-primed vector by the inclination.
Vx' = Vx''
Vy' = Vy'' cos i
Vz' = Vy'' sin i

Rotate the single-primed vector by the longitude of ascending node to get the sun-relative velocity of the comet, at time t, in ecliptic coordinates.
Vx = Vx' cos Ω − Vy' sin Ω
Vy = Vx' sin Ω + Vy' cos Ω
Vz = Vz'

The state vector of the comet, in heliocentric ecliptic coordinates, at time t.
[ x, y, z, Vx, Vy, Vz ]

Step 2. Reduce Earth's orbital elements and a time of observation to Earth's position in rectangular heliocentric ecliptic coordinates.

Orbital Elements for the Earth-Moon Barycenter.*
a = 1.000003 AU
e = 0.016701
i = 0°
Ω = 0°
ω = 103.154°
T = JD 2456294.541
*A way to correct the coordinate system from the EM barycenter to geocentric exists, but for this purpose it isn't necessary.

The Keplerian orbital elements for an elliptical orbit.
[ a, e, i, Ω, ω, T ] @ time = t
Notes: a>0, 0<e<1, and the time t here is the same as that used for the comet.

The period of Earth's orbit, P, days.
P = (π / 43200) √[ a³ / (GM๏) ]

The mean anomaly, m, of Earth at time t.
m₀ = (t−T) / P
m₁ = 2π [m₀ − integer(m₀)]
If m₁<0 then m=m₁+2π else m=m₁

Eccentric anomaly, u, of Earth at time t.
u₀ = m + (e − e³/8 + e⁵/192) sin(m) + (e²/2 − e⁴/6) sin(2m) + (3e³/8 − 27e⁵/128) sin(3m) + (e⁴/3) sin(4m)
Repeat over index j
f₀ = u(j) − e sin u(j) − m
f₁ = 1 − e cos u(j)
f₂ = e sin u(j)
f₃ = e cos u(j)
d₁ = −f₀ / f₁
d₂ = −f₀ / [ f₁ + ½ d₁ f₂ ]
d₃ = −f₀ / [ f₁ + ½ d₁ f₂ + ⅙ (d₂)² f₃ ]
u(j+1) = u(j) + d₃
UNTIL |u(j+1)−u(j)| < 1e-12
u = u(j+1)

The canonical position of Earth at time t.
x''' = a (cos u − e)
y''' = a √(1−e²) sin u
z''' = 0

True anomaly, θ, of Earth at time t.
if x'''>0 and y'''>0 then Q=0
if x'''>0 and y'''<0 then Q=2π
if x'''<0 then Q=π
θ = arctan(y/x) + Q

Rotate the canonical position by the argument of the perihelion.
x'' = x''' cos ω − y''' sin ω
y'' = x''' sin ω + y''' cos ω
z'' = z'''

Rotate the double-primed vector by the inclination.
x' = x''
y' = y'' cos i
z' = y'' sin i

Rotate the single-primed vector by the longitude of ascending node to get Earth's heliocentric position, at time t, in ecliptic coordinates.
X = x' cos Ω − y' sin Ω
Y = x' sin Ω + y' cos Ω
Z = z'

Canonical velocity of Earth at time t.
Vx''' = −√{GM/[a(1−e²)]} sin θ
Vy''' = √{GM/[a(1−e²)]} (e + cos θ)
Vz''' = 0

Rotate the canonical velocity by the argument of the perihelion.
Vx'' = Vx''' cos ω − Vy''' sin ω
Vy'' = Vx''' sin ω + Vy''' cos ω
Vz'' = Vz''' = 0

Rotate the double-primed vector by the inclination.
Vx' = Vx''
Vy' = Vy'' cos i
Vz' = Vy'' sin i

Rotate the single-primed vector by the longitude of ascending node to get Earth's sun-relative velocity, at time t, in ecliptic coordinates.
Vⅹ = Vx' cos Ω − Vy' sin Ω
Vʏ = Vx' sin Ω + Vy' cos Ω
Vᴢ = Vz'

The state vector of the planet, in heliocentric ecliptic coordinates, at time t.
[ X, Y, Z, Vx⊕, Vy⊕, Vz⊕ ]

Step 3. Find the position of the comet in geocentric celestial coordinates.

The line-of-sight vector from Earth to the comet at time t.*
dx = x−X
dy = y−Y
dz = z−Z
*Neglects the speed-of-light correction for planetary aberration.

The obliquity of Earth, ε, in radians at time t.
t₀ = (t − 2451545) / 36525
ε = (84381.448 − 46.84024 t₀ − 0.00059 t₀² + 0.001813 t₀³) / 206264.8

Rotate the LOS vector to geocentric celestial coordinates.
dx' = dx
dy' = dy cos ε − dz sin ε
dz' = dy sin ε + dz cos ε

Distance of the comet from Earth, dr, at time t.
dr = √[(dx')² + (dy')² + (dz')²]

Geocentric right ascension, α', in radians at time t.
if dx'>0 and dy'>0 then Q=0
if dx'>0 and dy'<0 then Q=2π
if dx'<0 then Q=π
α' = arctan(dy'/dx') + Q
Geocentric right ascension, α, in hours at time t.
α = (12/π) α'

Geocentric declination, δ', in radians at time t.
δ' = arcsin(dz'/r)
Geocentric declination, δ, in degrees at time t.
δ = (180/π) δ'

Ephemeris for Comet ISON in 2013-2014.

Perihelion: 28 November 2013, r = 0.0125 AU or 2.69 solar radii from the sun's center.
Closest approach to Earth: 26 December 2013, d = 0.4207 AU, right asc. 16.745 hours, decl. +52.7°.
Most northerly point: 6 January 2014, d = 0.5165 AU, right asc. 21.98 hours, decl. 84.8°.

DATE | AU from sun | AU from Earth | R.A. h | declination °

01 Nov 2013 | 0.9855 | 1.1965 | 11.30 | +5.8
05 Nov 2013 | 0.8855 | 1.0904 | 11.68 | +2.7
10 Nov 2013 | 0.7521 | 0.9734 | 12.27 | −2.0
15 Nov 2013 | 0.6058 | 0.8855 | 13.04 | −8.0
20 Nov 2013 | 0.4394 | 0.8459 | 14.03 | −14.8
25 Nov 2013 | 0.2327 | 0.8842 | 15.27 | −21.1
30 Nov 2013 | 0.1443 | 0.8887 | 16.46 | −15.5

01 Dec 2013 | 0.2008 | 0.8472 | 16.43 | −13.3
05 Dec 2013 | 0.3783 | 0.7218 | 16.37 | −5.8
10 Dec 2013 | 0.5543 | 0.6043 | 16.35 | +4.1
15 Dec 2013 | 0.7061 | 0.5134 | 16.39 | +16.1
20 Dec 2013 | 0.8432 | 0.4498 | 16.49 | +31.1
25 Dec 2013 | 0.9701 | 0.4215 | 16.68 | +49.0
30 Dec 2013 | 1.0893 | 0.4346 | 17.14 | +67.3

01 Jan 2014 | 1.1351 | 0.4512 | 17.54 | +73.9
05 Jan 2014 | 1.2243 | 0.5011 | 20.26 | +83.9
10 Jan 2014 | 1.3314 | 0.5878 | 2.348 | +79.9
15 Jan 2014 | 1.4343 | 0.6934 | 3.367 | +71.9
20 Jan 2014 | 1.5338 | 0.8117 | 3.732 | +65.7
25 Jan 2014 | 1.6301 | 0.9389 | 3.945 | +60.9
30 Jan 2014 | 1.7237 | 1.0725 | 4.103 | +57.2

01 Feb 2014 | 1.7605 | 1.1275 | 4.158 | +56.0
05 Feb 2014 | 1.8328 | 1.2393 | 4.260 | +53.8
10 Feb 2014 | 1.9213 | 1.3822 | 4.378 | +51.6
15 Feb 2014 | 2.0078 | 1.5278 | 4.489 | +49.7
20 Feb 2014 | 2.0925 | 1.6755 | 4.597 | +48.2
25 Feb 2014 | 2.1756 | 1.8246 | 4.703 | +46.9
28 Feb 2014 | 2.2246 | 1.9145 | 4.766 | +46.2

All those predictions were generated by me, using an earlier set of orbital elements for Comet Ison from the JPL Small-Body Database, and with elements for the Earth's orbit that I posted earlier, using a program I wrote on a Casio fx-9860gii SD calculator.


Part 2. The Evolution of My Lie Regarding the Origin of the Word Potato.

It is a story that goes back to ancient China. Once there was a kind and generous sage named Po Tai. He would travel around and do charitable things. Once Po Tai, going down a dusty road, arrived at a village where the people were starving! Having no food himself, Po Tai offered the people his toes. From that day forward, the edible tuber that most resembles Po Tai's toes are called potatoes.

I am informed by one of my cousins that the above legend regarding the potato is plagued by falsehood and error. So here is a revised version.

Once there was a kind and generous Inca sage named Po Tay. He would travel around and do charitable things. Once Po Tay, going down a dusty road, arrived at a village where the people were preparing to attend a ritual human sacrifice. When they saw Po Tay, they realized that he sacrificing him would please the gods better than sacrificing a mere criminal would, so they grabbed him. After the Po Tay was sacredly murdered on the altar, the Inca High Priest, as was customary, ate his heart. The deacons of the church supped upon his brain, and the Inca King ate his eyeballs. The warrior elite were privileged to dine upon the rest of Po Tay's body until their hunger had been satisfied. When it came the commoners' turn to take a share, all that was left were Po Tay's toes. From that day forward, the edible tuber that most resembles Po Tay's toes were called potatoes.


Part 3. My Amazon Review of Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand.

Atlas Shrugged is a well-told work of fiction. However, the reader should be aware that the events in the story, as in any work of fiction, come out as they do because that's how the author wanted the outcome to be. Although Ayn Rand does try hard to make it appear that what happens is the result of logical necessity or of some law of human nature, no such thing is really true.

As far as "objective" merit goes, Ayn Rand's philosophy strikes nearer to true than do many of its rival metaphysics. Objectivism is better than monotheism. And it is also better than socialism. But despite those superiorities, it is flawed, and the flaws are the result of two false premises: (1) the assumption that humans in general are rational actors and (2) the assumption that every form of collectivism is as unnatural and, hence, is as failure-prone as Marxism is.

First, people in general are not rational. They never have been, and probably they never will be. On Earth you can find ostensible "humans" on either side of the borderline of sapience. Humans act, most of the time, on emotion. They form their beliefs because of emotion. Expecting the majority of humans to be, to think, to act rationally so that capitalism will work wonderfully for all who will engage with it constructively is very much like expecting humans to be, to think, to act in such a way that socialism would work wonderfully well for all who will engage with it constructively.

In other words, Ayn Rand's advocacy of capitalism contains exactly the same flaw that a Marxist's advocacy of socialism contains. Both she and they imagine that human beings are something other than what they really are. Rand over-estimates the extent to which humans can behave rationally. The Marxists over-estimate the extent to which humans can be made to behave altruistically.

Second, although elsewhere (e.g. The Virtue of Selfishness) Ayn Rand deplores the deceptive use of the "package deal" argument, she uses it herself. Rand casually throws together into one category collectivism of every form. But there are important differences between one basis for collectivism and another. And those differences matter because they result in some forms of collectivism working better in practice, as judged over millennia of recorded history, than certain others do.

How many readers of Atlas Shrugged thought that the maliciousness of Hank Rearden's brother and mother were just a bit over the top? That their chronic hostility and their manipulative ways were somewhat too extreme to be plausible for a family? That was my impression, too. It is a family without maternal or filial love. When Ayn Rand wrote those characters, she did it with the intention of setting the family in the same category as Marxism. And the two definitely do not belong together, even though both are forms of collectivism.

That package-dealing identifies Ayn Rand as a perpetrator of philosophical fraud, for she cannot have been so ignorant as to have done it by mistake.

Two hundred million years ago, species were competing with each other for survival, and the main advantages were strength and ferocity. For a very long time, more power meant larger size. The big dinosaurs could overpower (and eat) the smaller dinosaurs. But at some point, about 100 million years ago, nature found a limit with that strategy. Because, you see, strength increases in proportion to the square of body size, whereas weight increases in proportion to the cube of body size. There's a size that is best for useable strength in land creatures, and, once evolution had made creatures that large, there was just no point in making them bigger, since bigger would be weaker.

Evolution never stops finding ways for life to compete, and by 60 million years ago, it had found its alternative: intelligence. But whereas reptile babies hatch with enough survival programming for some of them to get past the hazards of their environment, infants of an intelligent species are relatively helpless when they are born. There is just no telling how many times species with intelligence appeared, only to die out because they would not act collectively, would not guard each other, and left their young exposed, just as the reptiles had always done.

But, fortunately, nature's blind experiments with life found a remedy, a behavioral patch that would make collective action possible for creatures having a sufficiently strong mutual biological relationship. The patch was a new emotion, which we call love, and which at first was an emotional attachment of a mother for her children. Subsequently, males would begin to feel it, too, and their behavior would change so that the mother and their children would be better protected, better sheltered, better provided for. (Specifically, the children must be his or the biological basis for collectivism wouldn't be strong enough.)

And, gradually, the biological basis of love became somewhat broader, so that creatures came to favor their brothers, and then their cousins, above those who weren't related in any important degree. The Arabs have an expression that summarizes it well. "Me against my brothers, me and my brothers against the tribe, me-my-brothers-and-our-tribe against the neighboring tribes," and so on. The strength of the collective bonds created by love vary in proportion to the degree of biological relatedness.

And that's where racism comes from. It's a simple, evolutionary extension of the family feeling. When Ayn Rand called racism "the lowest form of collectivism," she was quite, quite wrong. It is the highest, the most natural, and the most workable form of collectivism. It is a form that should not be packaged-dealed with Marxism. A dog with an empty supper dish is, after all, more like unto a dog with a full supper dish than unto a cat with an empty supper dish.

The proper measure of man is what he is, not what he owns, and certainly not what he has been "licensed" to use.

So be aware, as you thrill to the story in Atlas Shrugged, that Rand's philosophy contains a flaw from which you can draw reasonable-sounding, yet false, conclusions about the nature of man and about the proper organization of human society.


Part 4. From Yahoo Answers in 2009.

Question: "Have American women lost their femininity? It seems that traditional values are being construed as a subservient oppressed life for a woman. Without these traditional traits in a woman, I don't think a woman is a woman anymore. Men are going elsewhere to find these traits. Men will appreciate a woman and hold her on a high pedestal and appreciate her, if she is not mean and bossy. Anyways, the angry responses from women that I will get only reinforce the ugliness of their heart."

You're right, and the answers that you've been getting prove that most people just don't get it. Or won't get it: a stubborn refusal to see where things are going.

Even if what feminists really advocated were fairness and equality between the genders, as they pretend it is, there would still be a problem. That problem is survival: staying alive in a natural world whose laws are beyond our power to change.

We are, at present, insulated by a technological culture driven by fossil fuel power. The energy we get from fossil fuels lets us substitute machines for human labor, technology for biology. We prop ourselves up, and then we forget that we are on props, which conceivably could fall and topple us all into whatever hazards we were being buffered from. Because of technology, human flaws that would once have been pruned off by sexual selection no longer seem reason for aversion. We become "tolerant," and we tell ourselves that tolerance is a good thing.

What if fossil fuels run out? Now that so many of us can't see without eyeglasses, what if we lose the ability to manufacture eyeglasses? Think also of diabetes and every other disease for which modern technology alone stands between humans and decimation.

There are times when you must choose between values, and at such times you must have those values correctly prioritized, such that you understand which of them is the greater, and which the lesser. You also must understand when people have generally gotten themselves out on a limb that might break at any moment, and that correctly prioritizing values requires taking precautions against an uncertain future.

Fairness is a good thing. But survival is a better thing because it is a prerequisite for the value of fairness. Nothing has any value to the dead. Only to something alive may anything else be good. If cheating is required for your survival, then you should cheat. The worst that can be done to you, if your cheating is discovered, is no worse than what nature would have done to you if you hadn't cheated.

That's as true for races as it is for people. In fact, it is more important for races, since individuals must die and there is no help for it, but races have at least a potential for immortality. Feminism is a ploy, a trick, ostensibly aimed at fairness, but in reality aimed at the destruction of the white race. See those white men, become disgusted with the behavior of white women, seeking to marry foreign women? Do you think that move was unanticipated by the people who planned and crafted the feminist movement?

Those same people, or their cousins, also invented Marxism, which is another ploy. Although it is aimed at people a different way, it's basic methodology is the same: promise power to a part to corrupt that part, in order to weaken the whole. With Marxism, the part is the working class. With feminism, the part is women. In both cases, the whole is a race (often the white race).

There is a racial predator in the world, and it is sneaky, clever, and able to create and carry out multi-generational plans of attack. And you really know who they are, too. You know what Karl Marx, Yakov Sverdlov and Leon Trotsky had in common with Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, and Bella Abzug. I don't have to tell you. But as Orwell said, "The greatest power is that which can prevent its own mention." So let's try to stop playing the vindictive "fairness" game. Men and women aren't natural enemies; we've only been tricked into acting that way. A natural enemy is not a matter of gender or socioeconomic class, but always of race.


Part 5. Random notes.

In his eulogy of Jewish mass murderer Baruch Goldstein, Rabbi Ya'acov Perin said, "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail!" His statement prompts an obvious reply: "And six million Jews are not worth an Aryan fingernail."

Pocahontas is a Disney movie and so it is full of deceptive racial propaganda. Did you notice how the line from the song "Colors of the Wind" is meant to be an argument for race-mixing? "And you'll never here the wolf cry to the blue-horned moon for whether we have white or copper skin..." Can anyone explain to me exactly why a wolf should care what foolishness humans get themselves up to? Don't you suppose that a wolf might "cry to the blue-horned moon" if a dog showed up and asked to join his pack?

The Newton CT elementary school shooting shows why everyone should carry guns
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Evil people seek authority for the same reason that pedophiles look for jobs as camp counselors:
To gain the power to fuck with the innocent.

The Relation between Gun Violence and Gun Control.

Politics have exploded in the aftermath of the elementary school shooting in Connecticut. Leftists have been taking every possible opportunity to promote gun control. Stupidly. There will always be criminals and crazies in the population. Laws banning guns don’t prevent these people from having and using guns.

No prohibition, whether of alcohol, or of marijuana, or of cocaine, or of guns, has ever succeeded in denying access to the prohibited item by those intent on their abuse.

It is easily verifiable that gun crime in the United States is most severe where gun control is strictest, and that gun crime is least serious in the areas where gun restrictions are the fewest. New York City, for example, has strict gun control and a high rate of gun crime. Meanwhile, in West Virginia you can carry around a pistol or a rifle, openly, without any license requirement, and gun crime hardly ever happens there.

That's how it is everywhere. In the state of Victoria, Australia, the gun homicide rate rose by 300% following gun confiscation pursuant to gun-control legislation enacted in that country. The reason? Only the criminals, including the murderers, had guns. Australia had rushed to impose gun control on its citizens following a 1996 massacre similar to the one that took place in Aurora, Colorado, on 20 July 2012. Given a moment to reflect, anyone can figure out that such massacres can occur only when there's no one else with a gun at the scene of the crime who can stop the killer. But, in Australia, people acted before they thought, and now that the legal clamps are down the freest of the Australians today are the criminals. Because of gun control in Australia, there are now more murders with guns, not fewer. Although it might seem at first glance to defy logic, it actually does not; the correlation between the strictness of gun control and the rate of gun crime is the most logical thing in the world.

Why don’t people learn from experience?

Gun control laws don’t work because criminals break them. In fact, gun control laws are never necessary. Why not? Because murder is already illegal, and so is robbery, and so is any other act of unjustified aggression that can be carried out with (or without) guns. The laws that prohibit such crimes authorize the state to punish their perpetrators.

According to the police, Adam Lanza stole some guns, killed his mother, transported the guns loaded, brought guns on to school property, broke into a school, fired guns within city limits, and committed mass murder. All of those acts are illegal. How much of an idiot does someone have to be to suppose that breaking one more law, a gun-control law, would have mattered to him?

Gun control laws add nothing socially useful. They certainly do not prevent gun crimes. If you want to prevent gun crime from happening, then you must take advantage of a simple, but very important fact:

Good people outnumber bad people. Or, sensible people outnumber crazy people.

Got that? Good. What it means is if everyone were armed, if everyone carried firearms all the time, the bad people wouldn’t be able to discharge their entire magazines into helpless crowds. Instead, the good people would kill the bad shooter before he could fire more than 10% of his bullets, and that would save the lives of all the people who would otherwise have been killed by the latter 90% of the bad guy’s ammunition.

Now that’s a real improvement.

In order to see how things can be in the absence of gun-control laws, simply look somewhat to the state of Vermont. Vermont's gun policy is the least restrictive in the United States. Only in Vermont can a citizen carry a concealed gun without a permit. Vermont is one of a very few states in which a citizen may own and carry a fully automatic pistol or rifle. Vermont has one of the lowest rates of gun crime in the country, about 140 violent crimes per 100,000 population per year. None of the dire predictions of the leftists have come to pass there. Why not? Because good people outnumber bad people in Vermont.

Now, in sharp contrast, let's look at the District of Columbia, where the liberals have had their way. The District of Columbia has the most restrictive gun control laws in the United States. Nearly every sort of gun freedom that people in other parts of the USA enjoy is denied there. And what impact have all these gun control restrictions had on the rate of violent crimes? The District of Columbia's violent crime rate is higher than that of any state, about 1400 violent crimes per 100,000 population per year—ten times the corresponding rate in Vermont.

Here are my sources of data, so you can check what I've said. Wikipedia's article on "Gun laws in the United States." Census Bureau data, "Crime Rates by State, 2008 and 2009, and by Type, 2009 (PDF)."

The Sandy Hook massacre in Connecticut isn’t an argument in favor of gun control. Quite the opposite. It is an argument in favor of a universally armed populace. Unfortunately, in their panic, many people are reacting without thought, calling for the gun control “remedy” that history proves does not work, believing the leftist propaganda that sensible and thinking people would know better than to trust. The gun-banners are moving fast to push their agenda on the American public because they know it is only a matter of time before the Americans start thinking more carefully than they are doing now.

See the photo of the teacher who was killed while shielding her students with her body? If she had had a gun to shoot back with, she might have had an even chance of shooting the gunman, instead of the other way around. If all of the teachers in the school had been armed, the gunman’s luck would have run out very fast. Nowhere near 20 children would have been killed because the bad man would have been dead before that could happen.

Let me try this again.

Connecticut is a state with fairly strict gun control laws, much stricter than those of Vermont. The reason violent crime is fairly low there, about 300 violent crimes per 100,000 population per year, despite the gun control laws, is that its also a state where most residents are white. (Race is a factor in the crime rate, also.) But when a vicious killer came along to put the efficacy of gun control to a test, the laws didn't work. They didn't work because gun control laws are the first laws that someone breaks when he intends to commit crimes with guns.

It's simple, I know. But you'd be surprised at how many people just can't figure it out.

And it wouldn't do any good, either, to pass a law making it illegal to break any of the other laws, gun control laws especially, since the criminals would just laugh and break that law, too, as they load their rifle magazine on the way to the elementary school. I hope that the folly of expecting laws to engender safety is clear to everyone.

What will stop criminals from shooting up crowds is armed people in every crowd who can shoot back. That will reduce the criminal's opportunity for doing evil to only three or four shots, instead of thirty or forty shots, before someone puts a stop to his massacre.

Let's all say it together: "Now that's a real improvement!"

However long it took for the police to respond to the 911 call from Sandy Hook Elementary, that amount of time was sufficient for the murderer to kill 20 children, several teachers, and the school principal. It would have been nice if the killer had met armed opposition... just a bit more promptly. Armed teachers could have done what the police could not do: save 20 children and themselves from a gunman.

Connecticut is already, pretty much, a gun control state. We've seen that the gun control approach doesn't work. But in a society where nearly everyone had a gun, the response to gun aggression would be instant, without even a single minute of delay.

An armed populace is its own best defender. Good people outnumber bad people. Arm the people, and evildoers will tremble, as they should. Remove all restrictions on gun ownership, and the good and lawful people will have the balance of firepower nearly always in their favor. Allow people the use of arms, as Thomas Jefferson and all the Founding Fathers intended, and crazed gunmen will be gunned down as they appear, before they can kill so many people.

As often as I criticize Israel, there's one thing that the Israelis do right that American municipal governments do wrong, and that's their public policy regarding guns. There's none of this leftist gun control in Israel. There's none of the sense that someone carrying a gun is affronting the polite sensibilities of other people. Indeed, it is quite the contrary. School teachers can be seen carrying fully automatic rifles, just in case they see some "terrorists" who might need to be shot.

This sensible attitude toward guns, so conspicuous in Israel, can be found nearly everywhere on Earth except in the following places:

(1) Countries whose governments are dictatorships.

(2) Historically white countries where the media have been promoting gun fear and sowing distrust among men since the mid-20th century.

Why Otherwise Intelligent People Don't Think Clearly About Guns.

In the historically white countries, anti-gun propaganda has been spread by news and entertainment presentations in the press, in the movies, and on television for almost a human lifespan. Most of that propaganda is the mischief of Jewish media bosses, and it has created among white people an irrational attitude toward guns which tends to favor gun control laws.

How many times have you watched a Hollywood movie and noticed that the "gun culture" seems rather hyper-macho? Whether the character is a hero or a villain, he's portrayed as a "tough guy" who likes nothing better than getting into a fight with his gun. That's part of the propaganda. If you study history, then you know that a real gun culture, at least among white people, is a very polite culture, where good rules of conduct are made and respected, and enforced as necessary. But Hollywood is run by Jews, and the Jews don't want anybody, whites especially, to regard guns as a facilitator of civility. They'd much rather you associate guns with aggression, with violence, with the sort of things that blacks do with guns—instead of the usual behavior of whites with guns.

White people in general have an inborn psychological flaw. When whites have gotten an erroneous set of moral ideas into their heads, they become very slow to learn correction from experience. Observed realities are discounted. Careful research is explained away. Facts are angrily denounced. Statistics don't matter. A white person with this affliction will, upon hearing the truth, adopt a smug sense of superiority, a sense of "I've heard this before, and I won't believe it because I know better," when, in fact, he doesn't really know better; he is merely comfortable with his wrongness. Denying reality for "moral reasons" is a mental disorder to which white people are especially susceptible. And, unfortunately, many white people throughout the world have adopted a panicky, irrational attitude toward guns, such that reasoning with them usually does no good.

Change.org asked me to sign a petition calling for gun control laws. Here is my reply.

No thanks. There's no way I'm going to be rushed into doing something so stupid as signing a gun ban petition. If the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre proves anything, it proves that gun control in general and gun-free zones in particular don't prevent criminals with guns from perpetrating mass murder. And it proves, also, that the police cannot possibly reach the site of a mass murder in progress in time to prevent 20 or so deaths.

So much is blindingly obvious. So much so that no one honest could possibly miss it. And, therefore, whoever uses the Sandy Hook massacre as a pretext for calling for gun control is not honest. They are also villains, of a higher sort.

It is clear that the gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School should have been confronted by armed opposition immediately, without even one minute's delay. Imagine if the teachers had been armed. There's the gunman in the hall, with an armed teacher in front of him, another behind him, and two more drawing aim at him from classrooms on either side. One second later, there is no more danger to anyone at the school.

That will work. That is the answer. Gun control has been tried, and it has proved not to work. Its failure was easily predictable for the simplest reasons by the most logical of arguments. Criminals break laws. So they break gun control laws, too. And if you were to pass a law making it illegal to break any of the other laws, the criminals would break that law, too.

I mean, really. How much of a dumbass does someone need to be in order that he not have the mental ability to figure that out? How low does his IQ need to be before he can imagine that gun control is a remedy for gun crime? Even if you don't know the history regarding the efficacy of Prohibitions, whether of alcohol, or of marijuana, or of cocaine, or of Bibles, or of guns, the simple fact that criminals break laws should tell you that gun control laws won't stop gun crime.

The Possible Complicity of Government and/or Banking Leaders as Major Villains.

The LIBOR scandal is a controversy regarding an exceptionally large fraud that began in London, England. LIBOR stands for "London Interbank Offered Rate," meaning the interest rates that one bank can expect to pay or to get when it borrows from another bank. The LIBOR is used as a standard reference for loan interest rates around the world. Banking officials in England and elsewhere had formed a conspiracy to manipulate the LIBOR in pursuit of dishonest gain. The scandal began after they got caught. Several banks, including Barclays in England and UBS in Switzerland, have been fined for their involvement in LIBOR-related frauds. Since the LIBOR is connected to at least $350 trillion dollars in financial services, these illegal manipulations of the index may constitute, in aggregate, the largest financial crime in history.

There have been allegations on the Web and on the Usenet that both Peter Lanza, father of the alleged Sandy Hook Elementary School killer Adam Lanza, and Robert Holmes, father of the alleged Batman Movie killer James Holmes, were scheduled to testify before the US Senate regarding any knowledge they might have regarding the LIBOR crimes. From those allegations, a theory has arisen regarding the possible instigation of two mass murders in the United States by banking officials who intended the crimes to intimidate these witnesses into keeping their mouths shut, lest even worse things happen to them and to their families.

There have also been denials of these allegations on the internet, which assert that neither Peter Lanza nor Robert Holmes was ever scheduled to testify about the LIBOR controversy before the US Senate or in court.

I don't know what the truth is at present. However, events with large political significance usually happen for reasons that, although they might be evil, they are also quite easily understandable. Most thieves, for example, don't steal because they are "crazy"; rather, they steal because they want to enjoy spending someone else's money. Using the same principle in regard to the mass murders in Aurora, Colorado, and in Newtown, Connecticut, the least believable explanation is that two men killed a bunch of people just because they were crazy. Any explanation that offers a logical motive for the murders, however sinister, is more likely to be the truth.

Before I'd heard about the LIBOR scandal, I had already noticed a general drift of events that seemed to be overly convenient to advocates of gun-control. I'd already begun to suspect that the massacres in Aurora (20 July 2012) and in Newtown (14 December 2012) were a bit other, or a little more, than they might at first seem to be. I had taken note of the extraordinary push for gun control and for the repeal of stand-your-ground laws from the mainstream media during the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting, especially in regard to misrepresentations and deceptions that the media employed in connection with witness testimony and with George Zimmerman's injuries. I'd observed Barack Obama had submitted to Congress a long list of gun makes and models, proposed to be banned by federal legislation, at a time when an unusual number of crimes were happening that would induce the legislators to facilitate the passage of these proposed bans.

In other words, before I had heard that Peter Lanza and Robert Holmes were to be witnesses adverse to the interests of the bankers, I'd formed the opinion that recent events formed a pattern, much as an artist makes a painting with many brushstrokes. Events had been bringing into focus a picture in which rich and/or powerful people were trying to frighten, pressure, deceive, and intimidate the common citizens of the United States into giving up their guns and their right to own guns.

So it was, and still is, rather easy to believe that certain banking officials, suspected of being guilty of some spectacular dirty dealing, and having much to lose if they are convicted of their crimes, might be willing to hire assassins to kill people and try to set the blame for mass murder upon the family members of men who were prepared to testify against them in the LIBOR matter.

It does make sense. It makes much more sense than "Oh, the killer just went crazy" because crazy isn't really a motive. You can go crazy in lots of ways other than killing a score of movie-goers or elementary school children.

The possible LIBOR scandal connection was brought to my attention by an article by Kenneth Schortgen, posted 16 December 2012 on the Examiner.com website. It was entitled "The Connecticut Elementary School Shooting: Is THIS The Real Reason For This Shooting? The LIBOR Scandal Link!" That article was removed—with excessive haste—on the evening of 18 December 2012, after someone asserted that no connection existed between the LIBOR scandal and either of the two aforesaid mass murders in the United States. A copy of the text, along with some follow-up speculation, was posted on the northerntruthseeker website.

Susan Posel, a spokesperson of "Occupy Corporatism," has on her blog (17 December 2012) wrote an essay entitled "No Viable Connection Between Peter Lanza & US Senate LIBOR Hearings," in which she denies that there is any such connection, calling the claims made in the vanished Examiner article "disinformation." However, Susan Posel has herself been identified as a source of disinformation. On the other hand, some more credible sources have joined the denial, including the respected Daily Paul, which reports a Senate Banking Committee aid (who asked not to be named) has having said: "This rumor is 100% false. The Senate Banking Committee does not have any LIBOR hearings currently scheduled, and has never considered either of these men as potential witnesses."

However, the idea that Robert Holmes might be connected with the LIBOR scandal wasn't cooked up just recently. It surfaced as far back as July 2012, not long after James Holmes shooting spree at the Batman theater. See Batman Connections, Robert Holmes, and the LIBOR Scandal, posted 26 July 2012.

Again, I don't know what the truth is about whether Peter Lanza or Robert Holmes were, or weren't, set to testify before the US Senate about LIBOR-related crimes. The theory is a plausible one, and, if it is a hoax, then it was exceptionally well-crafted. It's a shame that the Senate committee aid declined to identify himself; if he had done so, then anyone could check up on the authenticity of the source of the denial. As it is, we have only the credibility of the site that reported the denial—which isn't really all that poor, considering its association with Ron Paul.

Perhaps the most sensible of the commentaries about the mass murders in Aurora CO and in Newtown CT, and about various speculations pertaining thereto, was posted on YouTube by TrutherGirls.

My confidence in the LIBOR connection theory has gone from about 75% down to about 25%. Just to keep the theory's nature on the record, I'm going to detail it hereafter.

A Conspiracy Theory Regarding a Connection between LIBOR-Related Financial Crime and Two Mass Murders in the United States.

If only one of those fathers of alleged mass murdering sons were to have testified in a LIBOR hearing, it would be an interesting coincidence. But if both of them had been scheduled to do so, then the odds of coincidence drop to almost zero and the odds of conspiracy rise to almost certainty.

The conspiracy theory runs like this. The bankers framed Robert Holmes' son, James, for a mass murder committed in Aurora, Colorado, on 20 July 2012 at a preview showing of a Batman movie called The Dark Knight Rises. After looking at a side-by-side comparison of the man with the red-dyed hair, alleged to have been the killer, and the man who is now in jail awaiting trial for the crime, it does seem that they are two different men. One of the men has a wider nose and thinner lips than the other man does, though their faces are of similar shape around the chin.

If they are different men, then one of them is James Holmes (either in jail or in the hands of kidnappers). The other man is either the mass murderer or else he's an actor who superficially resembles James Holmes and who was hired to impersonate the murderer, who, in turn, has made good his escape and is hiding in some unknown place.

As the result of his son's situation, the theory goes, Robert Holmes is no longer willing to testify in the LIBOR probe.

The conspiracy theory continues as follows. On the morning of 14 December 2012, an assassin hired by the bankers broke into the Lanza home, killed Nancy Lanza, kidnapped Adam after restraining him with duct tape, and then headed off to Sandy Hook Elementary School. Once there, the hit-man broke into the building and dumped Adam on the floor. He then proceeded to shoot some of the children, some of the teachers, and the school principal. Finally, he shot Adam Lanza in the head and left his body there for the police to find.

How the assassin made his escape is explained in several different ways. First, he might have walked right through the gathering of local and state police officers, all of whom pretended not to see him as he made a casual, debonaire escape from the scene of his crime. Second, the assassin might have fooled law enforcement agents by being dressed as a policeman, or as a sheriff's deputy, or as an early-arrived federal agent. Third, the assassin might actually be a law enforcement officer, a guy who enforces the laws most of the time, but who will break laws, any laws, on orders from the bankers.

The reason for framing Adam Lanza posthumously with the Sandy Hook massacre is to frighten Peter Lanza, who does still have a living son to consider, so much that he will decline to testify against the bankers in the LIBOR matter.

Whether this conspiracy theory is true or not—and, of course, some conspiracy theories are true, but it isn't always easy to tell which ones—one wonders just which side the US government would favor if the LIBOR connection hypothesis is true. Would the government support the people of the United States? Or would the US government, instead, support a gang of mass-murdering bankers who send assassins to kill small children in order to intimidate witnesses from testifying against them?

Moreover, even without any connection between these mass murders in the United States and the LIBOR criminals working for the world's major banks, it's still fairly certain that something unusual is going on. I didn't need to hear about LIBOR in order to get an impression of a hidden and organized menace being somewhere in the background. My suspicions had been directed more in the direction of Obama, the CIA, and the Jewish-owned MSM. When I first heard about LIBOR, I thought that I'd been mentally chasing the wrong raccoon for once.

Details about the Sandy Hook Massacre. Things that don't add up.

Okay, no conspiracy theory now. Just facts as revealed by the early coverage of the Sandy Hook Massacre by CBS News. The police did temporarily detain a man named Chris Manfredonia, who had been in the school for a legitimate purpose. For a while, news media were dubbing Manfredonia as a "second shooter," but this was an error. Mr. Manfredonia seems to be an ordinary citizen, caught up in a bad situation through no fault of his own.

However, there was another man who was chased by police into the woods near the school, and either the police failed to catch him, or they caught him and let him go. His name and reason for being near the elementary school are unknown, and his presence was the reason for the early reports of a "third shooter." In fact, there probably was only one shooter, and it was either Adam Lanza or that fellow who got away through the woods.

A post on the Before It's News website draws attention to early reports about the AR-15 Bushmaster rifle, allegedly being used by Adam Lanza to shoot elementary school children, being found in the trunk of Lanza's car. If Adam Lanza killed himself in the school, then how did this rifle make its way back into the trunk of a car? The coroner or medical examiner claimed that the dead people inside the school had been shot by a rifle. Was there a second rifle? If so, then was it found at the scene? If so, then was it also an AR-15? Weren't any bullets found that could be identified, at least to the extent of knowing what caliber their cartridges had been?

It seems logical that if Lanza's mom's rifle was found in the trunk of a car, then it probably wasn't the rifle used to do the killings. And a different rifle could imply a different shooter. Just because it no longer seems likely that a group of naughty bankers in England ordered the massacre, that doesn't mean that someone else didn't do so. Another powerful group with an agenda (e.g., gun control) might have hired an assassin and arranged for Adam Lanza to be the fall guy, murdered so that he could tell no tales.

The Possibility that the Sandy Hook Massacre Never Really Happened.

At about 20:00 on 20 December 2012, I became acquainted with the possibility that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting never took place, but rather the US government staged the entire incident with actors. It might have begun as a law enforcement drill, which Barack Obama decided to turn into a media-amplified hoax intended to scare Americans into accepting gun control legislation, and provide Congress with an incentive to pass such legislation. The LIBOR connection idea might have been an embellishment that was quickly regretted, leading to efforts to squash it, which is why a large number of blog hosting websites, including LiveJournal, went down on 18 December.

Well, did the massacre at the elementary school happen or not? I don't know, yet. I'm just a guy trying to sort out truth from lies over a computer connection. On this page, I just report claims that someone represents as the truth. When I think that I'm able to pick the right claims from all of the wrong ones, I'll say so.

Police get angry about social media comments on the Sandy Hook Massacre, make threats to arrest commenters in a manner that would exceed their authority.

References.
Social Media Pranksters Will Be Prosecuted, Officials Warn In Newtown
Connecticut Police Spokesman: Newtown Will Prosecute Independent Journalist Whistleblowers

Police Lt. J. Paul Vance told reporters in Newtown, Connecticut, that anyone posting "misinformation" on social media regarding the Newtown Elementary School Massacre would be arrested and prosecuted for "crimes." One wonders what the charges would be.

It's difficult to believe that anyone would choose this moment to be offensive with comments regarding children who recently died, or otherwise take mischievous advantage of the tragedy. However, the police have made declarations regarding their intentions to arrest and prosecute that exceed their authority. Police Lt. Vance said he would take action against anyone who posted "misinformation."

It is NOT a crime to publish an incorrect opinion, or to mistakenly summarize current events. Everyone has a right to express opinion, and no one should be held in violation of law just because he was confused about what the facts are. The First Amendment protects offensive opinions as well as nice ones, so even people who go online to smirk and gloat about the Newtown Massacre, as rude as they are, have not broken any laws that they can be prosecuted for.

There are few exceptions to lawful free speech. Here they are.

1. It is illegal to disclose classified information in an unauthorized manner.

2. It is illegal to disclose proprietary information in a way that jeopardizes someone's lawful business interests.

3. It is illegal to commit perjury.

4. It is illegal to commit libel or slander.

5. It is illegal to create, with one's speech, a clear and present danger.

There is also "disturbing the peace," but the content of your speech may not be the basis of any criminal charges. Rather, a speaker is required not to impose on other persons with his presentation. If you talk so loudly at night that your neighbors can't get to sleep, then you've disturbed their peace and can be arrested by the police in order to make you stop. On the other hand, any attempt by law enforcement to regulate the content of speech in this way would be a misuse of their authority and a violation of the First Amendment.

It is perfectly legal to be rude. It's legal to transmit one's honest understanding of a body of facts, whether or not it is entirely correct. It's legal to convey one's personal opinion on any subject, regardless of what anyone else thinks about that opinion.

We don't burn witches at the stake, nor atheists either. And we don't prosecute any other expression of ideas just because someone else doesn't like those ideas.

Even J. Paul Vance has a right to go on camera and, while acting like a incompetent blowhard, share with us his stupid, offensive, and false opinion regarding what is, and what isn't, legally permissible speech. Personally, I don't think he knows enough about the laws to enforce them effectively, but that's just my opinion.

A painting is created by a thousand brushstrokes. And although one pixel does not an image make, as pixels accumulate over time, it becomes steadily easier to say what the subject of the image might be. Just so, as we observe current events we begin to suspect that things aren't quite, or aren't entirely, as the authorities describe them to be.

Listen to the video, in the second link above, and hear the arrogant cop tell his countrymen, more or less, and I paraphrase: "We will say how things are. You will not disagree. If you do, we will punish you as we would punish a criminal."

So, who wants to be America's Alexandr Solzhenitsyn?

Official Historical Revisionism in regard to events at Sandy Hook Elementary?
(Note: I wrote this entire section before I found out about the possible Libor scandal connection.)

One thing to watch for is a changing timeline. The early timeline is likely to be the accurate one. Any changes are probably not going to be corrections for the sake of accuracy; rather, they will be revisions for the purpose of making the police look good, or for patching a gap in a false official story.

In a timeline given by ABCnews, the 911 call reporting shooting in the school was made at 9:40, while the police didn't get into the school until 11:00. Quote: "11 a.m.: Police give the first indications that there are multiple fatalities inside. Fifty minutes later, [i.e. 11:50 am] they announce that most of the dead are children. 'Units in the school. I got bodies here,' is heard over the police radio."

A timeline published on The Huffington Post puts the onset of shooting at 9:35, which is in reasonably good agreement with the ABCnews timeline. However, it also asserts that a SWAT team arrived 10 minutes later, at 9:45, and that they "swept the buildings with police dogs" (no doubt sniffing out the source of all that shooting) at 10:00. It also says that the killer was reported dead at 10:30.

Who's right? Inconsistency can be the result of honestly made errors, but they can also point to manipulation of the data, possibly for political reasons. Let's compare the reported time gaps.

From first 911 call to the arrival of the police.
ABCnews says: 1h20m.
Huffington Post says: 10m.

From first 911 call until police confirm dead children.
ABCnews says: 2h10m.
Huffington Post says: 25m ("swept the buildings") or 55m ("killer dead").

The differences are too large to be honest mistakes. One or the other account is wrong. If I had to guess, I'd say that Huffington Post has received misinformation regarding the timeliness of the police response. No wonder the cops are having spokesmen threaten to arrest people who disagree with whatever it is they choose to say about the massacre. If the ABCnews timeline is the correct one, then the cops were slow.

And we ought to consider that it is possible that both timelines are partly correct: maybe the police arrived quickly, but stayed safely in the school parking lot, or in the woods behind the school, while shooting noises were coming from inside the school. I hope that's not true, but I don't see any reason to declare it to be impossible.

Be alert for other inconsistencies among timelines, especially between early ones (near the time of the massacre, which happened the morning of 14 Dec 2012) and the later ones. If a false official story is being concocted, whether the reason is to make the police look more effective at preventing mass murders than they really are, or whether the reason is to make gun control laws seem wise and necessary, despite their being neither, then it will probably involve changing the timeline from truth to fiction.

Watch, also, for historical revisionism of other details.

On 16 December, there appeared, again in the Huffington Post, a trial balloon involving the idea that the police, responding very quickly to the first 911 call, frightened Adam Lanza into shooting himself to death, so that he wouldn't have to face death a few minutes later during a shootout with police officers. The smart psychological tactic by police—of somehow letting their awesome presence be known—supposedly saved the lives of "hundreds" of other elementary school children who would have been shot by the "hundreds" of extra bullets that Adam Lanza had been carrying around in his pockets. Yessir, that intimidated Lanza right into blowing his own head off. Or so they say. I'm skeptical of this detail to the point of doubting the credibility of the Huffington Post, but you can believe as you wish.

This paragraph added on 7 January 2013. The narrative on the Sandy Hook Massacre has begun to change. NBC News "reports" that Adam Lanza had visited Sandy Hook Elementary School on the day before the massacre and became involved in a fight with four of its teachers. Although this might be true, it is very suspicious that we are hearing about this detail so late. Something like this should have been reported immediately, during the early coverage of the shooting. A grudge would have been a plausible motive for Lanza's later deeds, and all those efforts by expert psychologists to investigate Lanza's background, probing for some unknown cause of psychopathy, would have been unnecessary. Of course, the rumor about this fight between Adam Lanza and several teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary might be true, but it's the kind of things that should have had a very early revelation. If such a fight had happened, then it should have been in the news no later than 16 December 2012. The tardiness of its emergence gives it the look of historical revisionism.

The following paragraphs were added on 11 January 2013.

The narrative on the Sandy Hook Massacre began changing early. Initially, the media were saying that Nancy Lanza was a teacher at Sandy Hook and that she was killed by her son at the school. A few days later, the story had changed, so that Nancy Lanza wasn't a teacher at Sandy Hook and that she was killed by her son at her home. Also, the news media were reporting that adults who supposedly were witness to the incident, whatever it was, had heard "hundreds" of gunshots. But when the children were interviewed by the press, some of them didn't remember any gunshots, some of them heard sounds that they interpreted as someone kicking a door, and some of them said that they heard gunshots but were vague about the details. One exception: a boy who attended Sandy Hook said he heard gunshots, but that they didn't sound like police officer gunshots or animal control gunshots, so they had to be bad-man gunshots. Furthermore, there have been conflicting reports in the media about the type and number of firearms allegedly used by Adam Lanza in the school. The early reports specified two handguns (a Glock and a Sig Sauer) and a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle. The medical examiner asserted that the victims had been shot with a rifle. Later, the media were contradicting the early reports, instead saying that the police had informed them that Adam Lanza did not have a rifle with him, but did have four handguns. (How did he carry them? In a bag? One stuck in each of his pants pockets? Was he an especially good juggler?) The media were reporting, also, that Adam Lanza was allowed into the school, rather than breaking in, because someone believed him to be a clergyman.

How suspicious this is. The medical examiner testified that all of the shooting victims in Sandy Hook Elementary were shot with a rifle. But the only rifle found at the scene was found inside the trunk of the car that Adam Lanza drove to the school. Adam Lanza's dead body was inside the school. The gun was locked in the trunk of his car. The medical examiner says that the dead children were shot with a rifle. Somebody is lying! Maybe everybody is lying. They just can't agree on which lies they should be telling.

It seems that there was a rifle in Sandy Hook Elementary, and that it was fired, at least once, from the school toward the parking lot. The news media showed a car with holes (in and out again) that were made by a rifle bullet. But if the AR-15 Bushmaster rifle belonging to the Lanza family was found in the trunk of Adam Lanza's car, then which rifle was used inside the school? And if it wasn't Lanza's rifle that was used, then why need we assume that it was Lanza who did the shooting? My early theory in which an assassin invaded the Lanza home, killed Nancy, kidnapped Adam, stole a few guns, and hied away to Sandy Hook for a murder spree, which he afterward blamed on Adam, with or without the knowledge and cooperation of local, state, and federal police, suddenly seems plausible. An alternative theory, in which the massacre was a hoax, embellished by a few rifle shots from near or inside the school, also seems plausible. The official story is running in third place in the plausibility race.

The following paragraphs were added on 18 January 2013.

Okay, the summary of facts most likely to be true has changed again. Now NBC News is saying that the shooter used four handguns and no rifles at all were involved. Even the weapon found in the trunk of Lanza's car might not have been a his mother's rifle, as we were at first told—but whatever type of weapon it was, it wasn't used in the killings. So for nearly four weeks, we've been lied to by three television networks, a bunch of cops, a medical examiner, and the alleged President of the United States, who kept telling us, over and over, that the murder weapon was an "assault" rifle, a "semiautomatic" rifle, a "powerful" rifle, a "military" rifle, a "Bushmaster" rifle, a "Bushwhacker" rifle, or an AR-15 rifle. Apparently, rifles didn't arrive at Sandy Hook until the police brought them there, which make the reported discovery of rifle bullet holes in some of the cars in the school's parking lot very interesting—assuming it's true. Given the source (the mainstream media) it might not be. We really shouldn't be surprised. The MSM revealed its true character with its brazen lies and cherry-picked details regarding George Zimmerman in the matter of Trayvon Martin. The Sandy Hook massacre is America's second big dose of media dishonesty, and it has the very same political motive: gun control.

If the Sandy Hook massacre was carried out with handguns, why not say so? The answer that I suspect might be correct might sound excessively cynical, but here it is. Handguns, rather than rifles, are the usual tools of murderers and robbers. Whenever gun confiscation occurs, the people who lose their guns are always those who never did any wrong with guns. The criminals always seem to keep theirs. It is, therefore, rather obvious that the government isn't really concerned about denying weapons to murderers and robbers. When the government tells you that this is the intended purpose of gun control, the government is telling you lies. The government begins with rifle confiscation because rifles are weapons that are accurate over long ranges, meaning that they are the sort of weapon that citizens would logically chose in fighting the soldiers of a tyrant or the troops of an occupying army. Although handguns are more convenient to the criminal, a rifle is far more suited to engaging a well-armed enemy force. So when the government begins a program of gun-control by demonizing rifles and by trying to make people to surrender rifles, it is signaling that its true purpose is to soften the people up for dictatorship or for foreign occupation.

The NRA Sold Out.

The National Rifle Association endorsed a proposal to put police officers in every school. That's not really a good remedy to the problem of the occasional gunman. For one thing, most of the time the police officers on duty in the schools would have little to do except look the other way when black students sell drugs in the halls, meaning that these officers would be paid for doing nothing, except when a mass murderer should show up. Despite the impression the media are trying to give us, killers bent on massacring elementary school children are a rarity. The taxpayers would have to pay the salaries of a great many full-time police officers, at least one in each public school, who would, most of the time, have little or nothing to do.

Also, cops usually find ways to make jackasses out of themselves when they have time on their hands. A bored police officer might decide to "justify" his paycheck by doing all kinds of picky, picky enforcement, and coddle his ego by throwing his official weight around. He might even be a bad guy himself, with a hidden desire to hurt somebody. Sometimes, mean men do find jobs with police departments.

A much better idea is to arm the teachers. The teachers are already being paid to teach and tend the children at the school. No additional tax money would need to be spent if they were to begin carrying guns in shoulder holsters inside their jackets. Further, the teachers have already been screened as being suitable for working with children, and they have been weeded of misfit personalities over time. Using the teachers as official bodyguards for school children is a remedy that is both cheaper and safer than using cops for that purpose would be. By endorsing the cops-in-schools idea, the NRA appears to have caved in to political pressures and should no longer be considered a reliable advocate for gun rights.

Further Reading. When the Music Stops: How America's Cities May Explode in Violence. The latter part of the essay explains that the police won't be able to stop urban flash riots because their reaction time is hours, whereas the flash riot formation time is only minutes. That means the rioters can outmaneuver the police with strike and run tactics, coordinated by cell phones and iphones. The essay goes on to outline a plan by which beleaguered citizens can fight back against flash rioters by using teams of snipers, armed with rifles, lying prone in the beds of pickup trucks. This civilian mobile infantry will also have a reaction time of only minutes and can kill or disperse the rioters, saving the lives of persons who were caught in the rioters' ambush. Now, if you happen to be on the side of the flash rioters, then you don't want the rioters' prey to have any means of fighting back, and gun confiscation, from that point of view, would be desirable. On the other hand, if you prefer, in the event that a choice must be made between dead productive citizens and dead predatory criminals, that the criminals be the ones to die, then you don't want gun confiscation. Rather, you'd want all citizens to be armed.

A Word about Power.

In a constitutional republic, the law is superior to the government, and the constitution is the supreme law. Only an evil, corrupt government seeks to circumvent the constitution in order to infringe on the rights of the people. Only an evil, corrupt executive head of state, uses "emergency war powers," enacted more than 150 years ago to deal with an economic crisis, as an excuse for executive orders intended to harm the people or to make them vulnerable to harm. Only an evil, corrupt legislature passes laws in conflict with the constitution, with the intention that its Acts will be obeyed and the constitution disregarded.

In a constitutional republic, there is nothing legally wrong with the idea that a county sheriff can arrest the national head of state for breaking the law. Violating the constitution is breaking the law.

For that matter, there's nothing wrong with a military unit going beyond refusing to obey an unlawful order and, upon being deputized by a county sheriff (to give them civil authority), going to arrest the head of state for breaking the law. The soldier's oath puts the defense of the constitution first, and obedience to the orders of the head of state is a lesser requirement. That's why obeying an illegal order, even if it comes from the head of state, would make the soldier a criminal—in a constitutional republic.

Issuing an executive order in contravention of the constitution is breaking the law. Anyone interfering with such an arrest is an accessory after the fact, to be arrested and tried along with the criminal head of state, and to be shot dead if his resistance makes such arrest impossible. In constitutional republics, heads of state can't just do whatever they want. They must obey the laws, too. And they are subject to the same punishments that apply to anyone else. The national constitution, as the founding document by which the country was given its legal existence, is the supreme law of the land.

One of the rights protected by the Constitution of the United States is the right to keep and bear arms. The government is precluded from enacting legislation that would deny, hamper, or burden this right by the phase with which the 2nd Amendment ends: "shall not be infringed." When the government does exactly this, it violates the constitution. A gun control measure enacted by Congress would make criminals of Representatives and Senators. If the president signs a gun control joint resolution from Congress, then he is a criminal (of the big-boss kind) from that moment onward.

Groups in America—today and for the foreseeable future—need martial power, in the form of weapons, in the sense that a band playing in Texas needs a fiddle. It's just how things are done here, and you won't get very far without them. America isn't really civilized anymore. It once was, but the Jews and the political traitors among us changed the United States of America from a civilized nation into a greedy corporation where the bosses only want to starve to death, or else work to death, all of the little people.

That's what the USA is now, and has been, and will remain until it dies: a corporation, not a republic. If you want to bring a republic back to the American people, you'll have to defeat the consortium of bankers, corrupt government cliques, and complicit media institutions in a war that must, for success, end with these domestic enemies of the Constitution being hanged.

But the government doesn't have all of the power. Other groups have enough of it, as well, to hold their own and to further their interests. The government refers to these groups as gangs. Gangs are able to defy law enforcement within the United States because they are organized and have, for the most part, successfully resisted infiltration by government spies. Indeed, the gangs have infiltrated the government's law-enforcement agencies better than the reverse.

The police will back down, and have been backing down, from armed confrontation with gangs, with the sole exception of white nationalist groups. For white nationalists, the US government brings out its tanks, its attack helicopters, its armed drones, its jet fighters, and armies of cops in battle dress with full-auto weapons and grenades. Against white nationalist groups, the government will openly do murder, including the murder of white children. But I suspect the reason is that white nationalists have never fought determinedly enough to hand the government a defeat in battle. Were white nationalists to begin winning their combat engagements with government forces, they'd earn some respect—after the early surge had abated.

Treason isn't the only crime that profits when it is successful. Terrorism is another. Meaningful terrorism, that is. The powers-that-be aren't really harmed by someone who shoots children inside a public school. But they are harmed when they, themselves, are the targets. The powers of which I speak aren't to be found among elementary school teachers or principals, but among the directors, shareholders, and senior executives of the banks within the Federal Reserve System, as well as the directors, shareholders, and senior executives of the major telecommunications corporations. The wise terrorist does not waste his time doing what does not truly disturb his real enemies, nor does he squander his resources in fighting armies that he can simply step around.

When government works as it should, the country is a gang to which every citizen belongs and for which the military forces and the police are just the "strong arm" part. In America's early days, that's how things were. It's characteristic of civilization that things be this way. The people didn't fear the police because the police were good fellow gang members who had the job of enforcing the gang's rules. It was aliens, outsiders, meddlers with the interests of the citizen, who had to fear the gang's power. But governments have a long track record of turning sour, of growing corrupt—especially when Jews have influence upon them. And gradually the police are no longer considered to be, neither among themselves nor among the populace, "fellow citizens." They morph into monsters who claim the right to boss everybody else.

The problem for white groups is that they are more civilized than the government is. Despite the occasional hero-martyr like Robert Mathews or Joe Stack, white groups are, without exception, too "moral" in the Christian sense to kill and kill and kill and kill until the enemy is taught to have some respect. The Latino groups don't have that problem. The black gangs certainly do not have it. The organized non-white groups therefore get the respect that the white groups have yet to earn. Whites want to obey the laws, and the obedience habit persists into times when even the whites themselves—who, typically, are the last to know—understand that the laws are being made by hostile powers. That makes white people the easiest group to oppress and squeeze for "taxes," and it's why white people are the losers in every political correctness game.

One of the greatest heroes Australia has is the late Rodney William Ansell, the rugged fellow whose life inspired the fictional character of Crocodile Dundee. He was named Australian Man of the Year in 1988 because his fame had brought hundreds of millions of dollars into the Australian tourism industry. Ansell died in a shoot-out with Australian police who came to confiscate his guns. I'm not saying that the police officers who came for the guns were evil men, but they were carrying out an evil purpose upon the orders of evil men, and they ought to have known better. Just as a soldier should never carry out an illegal order, so likewise must a police officer never enforce any law that harms the decent citizen who would like nothing better than to obey the laws, if the laws were such that they could be safely obeyed. Policemen do have an obligation to be thinking moral agents; they can no more evade this responsibility by saying "I was only following orders" than a soldier can.

The white habit of respecting authority, combined with a lust for approval and for gain, is also why white groups, trying to become organized, must deal with so many traitors. When I was in the National Alliance, I saw a long succession of young white men, mostly in their early 20s, greet Dr. Pierce with big salesman smiles, after which they applied a measure of flattery, followed by a detailed explanation of why Dr. Pierce ought to appoint him at once as his 2nd-in-command, or at least give him some Important Job—one that didn't raise a sweat—right away. When offered a job that was either tedious, such as stuffing leaflets into envelopes, or physically difficult, like pouring concrete or raising steel arches for a new Quonset building, in return for the (low) salary that the National Alliance could afford to pay them, few of these guys lasted very long. Most of them turned around and drove away, bitter that they hadn't been properly appreciated.

These initially obsequious fellows came to us hoping for gain, for status, or for access to rebel girls with ambiguous morals (there actually were some of those). When the disappointed job applicants, who had trumpeted their loyalty to their race before being asked to do some real work on its behalf, left the National Alliance's main office (near Hillsboro, West Virginia), some of them would offer to supply antagonistic powers with "intelligence." One of these finks enabled the federals to ambush a guest who had come from Germany to help us, and who had been a far better worker than the informer had been. The German young man was wanted by the law in his country for raising his right arm in an inappropriate way, and the federals used that as a pretext to intercept him while he was shopping at Wal-Mart in Lewisburg WV, to jam a pistol barrel into his face, to crack his head down upon the top of a car, and to break his arm while arresting him for deportation proceedings.

You might notice that the US government is not especially interested in nabbing and deporting illegal Chicano immigrants who are wanted in Mexico for political crimes or for drug offenses—although this does happen occasionally. You might also notice that Mexican illegals who offer no resistance to arrest aren't treated as that German fellow was treated. I wonder why that is.

The reason is power. The Chicano organizations are a racist group who have no difficulty finding recruits who are truly loyal to their race, who will serve without reservation, and who won't betray their "brothers and sisters." The same can be said for many of the black groups. But white people have a treason problem, which is caused by the inevitable infusion, into the ranks of any white nationalist organization, of persons who pretend to be race patriots, but who are in reality individualist self-promoters. If they can't have a high place, they want no place at all. If they don't get what they think they deserve, and right quickly, they will leave and bargain with the enemy for whatever they can get.

When it comes to real criminal activity, the white groups do the least of it. Much more crime per group member can be found among the Latinos or the blacks. But, remember, these non-white organized gangs have power enough to make the police back off. And they got that power by being racially loyal, truly so, and not merely as a pretense.

If a white person comes to a white nationalist group to join, he should not expect to be given a leadership role. He should expect, rather, to work in whatever capacity the existing leaders find him to be competent. He should not expect to be paid much money. Some of his fellows might be working for free, as volunteers. He should not expect any possible self-promotional talk to gain him favor. The boss will have heard it all before, and his disgust is more likely. You come humbly and prepared to dig a ditch all the day long, or you don't come at all.

There are few things funnier than watching a 20-year-old man trying to cajole a 65-year-old man, while simultaneously conning him with half-truths that he doesn't believe the older guy will notice. It's like watching a six-year-old boy "explain" to his daddy why he didn't really break the window, even though it might look that way. But that's what you see at the headquarters of a white nationalist group, at least once in a while. This kind of shallowness among persons attracted to rebel causes, as white nationalism is perceived to be, is why whites haven't made the strides toward organized collective power that the racial groups of other races have made.

Although already only about 2% of people have enough perception to understand that rebellion against the establishment is necessary and that time for organizing is running out, of this two percent, all but two percent are useless because they aren't prepared to devote themselves to the cause. So what white organizations must do is carry on an non-stop effort to sort through the people they can reach, in order to find the useful 2% of 2%, that one person in 2500, who is worth hiring.


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