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Strange Attractor Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Vision of the Hawk: The Art of Arik Moonhawk Roper, Arik Roper

Vision of the Hawk: The Art of Arik Moonhawk Roper

Arik Roper
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Copies of Arik Roper's 'Vision of the Hawk' are now shipping from our online sales warehouse @state51 . We have a few copies of the deluxe hardback limited edition left, which include Starcult, an 88pp book of drawings, and a screenprinted book plate. https://t.co/pkLYLWGAEV https://t.co/HVIQPKf3x7

Paperback, 2023

$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Tales from the Embassy: Communiqués from the Guild of Transcultural Studies, 1976-1991, Dave Tomlin

Tales from the Embassy: Communiqués from the Guild of Transcultural Studies, 1976-1991

Dave Tomlin
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As a follow up, Joe Gannon (L: he did Pink Floyd's light show at the UFO club) and Dave Tomlin (R: author of 'Tales From the Embassy') herald the coming of the first Notting Hill Carnival on Portobello Road, in 1966. (from https://t.co/7iPZfXrXAD) https://t.co/NJT3FwuOhy

Paperback, 2017

$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Secret Life of Puppets, Victoria Nelson

The Secret Life of Puppets

Victoria Nelson
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Please do have a listen to this fabulous @weirdstudies conversation with the brilliant and ever-wise Victoria Nelson, author 'The Secret Life of Puppets', 'Gothicka' and our own 'Neighbour George'... https://t.co/UkERUEYNH0 https://t.co/N6TnyfA0sg

Paperback, 2003

$34.00$17.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Fire, William Anthony

Fire

William Anthony
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@theQuietus @Tony_Surgeon Great to see Balch getting some love! We'll be publishing the first English-language biography of him, by film historian and @BFI curator William Fowler, late next year: 'Towers Open Fire: The Queer Film World of Anthony Balch'. Get as news more it we.

Paperback, 2020

$11.58$5.79 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Foreground Music: A Life in Fifteen Gigs, Graham Duff

Foreground Music: A Life in Fifteen Gigs

Graham Duff
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9 December @RoughTrade Notting Hill. Forthcoming SAP author Dorothy Max Prior talks to 'Foreground Music' author Graham Duff about the reissue of her "perfect super cute pop ditty” 'I Confess’ on Industrial Records, Rema Rema, Adam & The Ants and much more. https://t.co/Ut48C9i0sV

Paperback, 2019

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: In a Sound World, Victor Segalen

In a Sound World

Victor Segalen
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Sunday 2-5pm @Cafeoto - Free! Join David Toop, R.W.M. Hunt and Marie Roux to discuss our publication of 'In A Sound World', a science fiction novella by the polymathic French author Victor Segalen, available in English for the first time. https://t.co/KcKl6KhDBl https://t.co/ZJ8GVX1luu

Paperback, 2021

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Bone Music, Stephen Cramer

Bone Music

Stephen Cramer
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Faust legend Jean-Herve Peron discusses X Ray discs in this short interview. Bone Music by Stephen Coates, a follow up to 2015’s X Ray Audio, is due for publication late this year, and takes the story of the bones further into Soviet Eastern Europe. https://t.co/HtvfvQsxL0

Paperback, 2016

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley, Phil Baker

City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley

Phil Baker
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Tuesday - Phil Baker leads us through Aleister Crowley's City of the Beast for the Viktor Wynd Museum online lecture series: https://t.co/lRO1QPBZLZ (correct link this time!) https://t.co/cgoHazU7U7

Paperback, 2022

$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: North: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos, Gyrus

North: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos

Gyrus
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Gyrus, author of "North: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos” guests on @weirdstudies to discuss that most elusive of deities, the great god Pan… https://t.co/YHxwNxJUlo? https://t.co/iK4koPq59H

Paperback, 2014

$20.95$10.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Otherwise: The Screenplay for a Horror Film That Never Was, Mark E. Smith

The Otherwise: The Screenplay for a Horror Film That Never Was

Mark E. Smith
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“For The Fall fan who thinks they’ve read everything,” writes Edwin Pouncey in The Wire 449, “this tale of a creative friendship between two very different writers will come as a revelation.” Read an extract from The Otherwise over @thewiremagazine https://t.co/6zenfTrqmi https://t.co/usp3F8h8r0

Paperback, 2021

$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book