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	A Journal of the Plague Year - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe.
		It is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London.
		It was in fact written in the years just prior to the book's first publication in March of 1722 – Defoe was only five years old in 1665, and the book itself was published under the initials H.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Journal_of_the_Plague_Year (234 words)

	Time and Ethics in Albert Camus's The Plague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Basing his evaluation of The Plague on Camus's de-romanticization of historicism, Laurence M. Porter was one of the first to rethink the consequences of the novel's allegorical structure, explaining that the plague and history both lack 'a discernible meaning for Camus' (591).
		Shoshana Felman's scrutiny of The Plague as authentic chronicle of historical events (Nazi brutality and the Holocaust) might be a persuasive way to conclude this rather abridged survey of the dialogue among contemporary critics who have evaluated the historical and moral import of Camus's text.
		A principal component of The Plague's moral climate is what might appropriately be termed the novel's moral dialogue, a narrative structure informed by competing voices reflecting a range of ethical agendas, from those which seek to validate an absolute ethical standard for behaviour to those which affirm the contingency and historical specificity of ethical value.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/682/682_krapp.htm (9749 words)

	Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: The Future is Already Here
		We're right on the doorstep of the 21st century, and, indeed, the year 2001, with all the resonances that magic figure has had for us since the film of the same name debuted thirty-odd years ago, will soon be a historical date.
		I am co-hosting a two-hour documentary called "Inventing the Future: 2000 Years of Discovery" for the Canadian version of The Discovery Channel, and in November 1999 I went to Princeton University to interview Joe Tsein, who created the "Doogie Mice" — mice that were born more intelligent than normal mice, and retained their smarts longer.
		One of the great intellectual embarrassments of the 20th century is that five hundred years after Copernicus deposed Earth from the centre of the universe, virtually every newspaper carries a daily astrology column — the horoscopes — but astronomy gets, at best, a column once a week, and in many papers not even that.
	www.sfwriter.com /lecture1.htm (5038 words)

	study3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Journals of the plague years: documenting the history of the AIDS epidemic in the United States.
		By examining the different ways that different types of storytellers chronicle the political, social, public health, medical, and economic aspects of epidemic disease, this essay will demonstrate why the AIDS epidemic has been of such intense interest not only to physicians and public health experts but also to journalists, novelists, playwrights, memoirists, and historians.
		AIDS is a particularly fascinating example of society's broad concern with epidemics because it both is a global pandemic and, in recent years, has become a chronic disease.
	web.indstate.edu /mary/N322/study3.html (162 words)

	AIDS in Australia
		The plague had a small but ominous beginning: a rare gay cancer was reported in the United States.
		The plague was beginning to spread, and Australians were warned in 1982 that it was only a matter of time before it reached our shores.
		The year 1982 was the last glimpse of calm before the arrival of a storm.
	www.spacedoutinc.org /DU-14/AIDSinAustralia.html (1519 words)

	History & Memory--Moscow's Victory Park
		A similar decision was made by the CC a year later and signed on that same day by the Council of Ministers.
		What, in fact, happened in that year was the entrance of the public as a new factor into a subject that had been doomed to failure as long as it had remained closed at the top of the party hierarchy under the former authoritarian Soviet regime.
		The year 1993 was also the fiftieth anniversary of both the battle of Stalingrad and of the breaking of the siege of Leningrad.
	iupjournals.org /history/ham13-2.html (9277 words)

	Norman Spinrad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a book which shows what a true Nazi would do if he could do absolutely everything he wished.
		According to an article attributed to Spinrad[1] the book was banned for eight years in Germany, but was finally exonerated after appeals.
		Actually, the sale of the book as such was not prohibited, because that ban would have been contrary to the freedom of speech, but the public display of the book or its covers was prohibited, because of the swastika symbol, which is banned in Germany.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_Spinrad (496 words)

	New & Noteworthy Paperbacks - New York Times
		The report of the children, who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary, became a rallying point for Roman Catholics and a profound irritant to a Government opposed to the church.
		Matters of art and politics are debated as the Russian writer attempts to discover the circumstances of his stepson's death.
		JOURNALS OF THE PLAGUE YEARS (Bantam Spectra, $9.95), a novella by Mr.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9906E7D91239F93AA25752C1A963958260 (640 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Books
		The Black Death, the pandemic of bubonic plague that hit Europe in the mid-fourteenth century, is like a disaster movie: a menace stalks the land; cries go up in the streets; millions of people die, not including you and me. Therefore, like disaster movies, the Black Death is very popular.
		The source of bubonic plague is the bacillus Yersinia pestis, named for a French bacteriologist, Alexandre Yersin, who identified it during a later outbreak, in China and India, in the eighteen-nineties.
		The plague is related not just to prosperity but to prosperity followed by hardship, and in the early fourteenth century the hardship came.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books/index.ssf?050321crbo_books (3213 words)

	www.myspace.com/plagueband
		The same year also saw the emergence of a new sound from Plague, while holding true to its Metal roots Plague began to incorporate a more melodic, progressive, yet simplistic sound.
		Plague has also competed in a Battle Of The Bands in Victoria, Texas, where in spite of being an out of town band with no local support, Plague still came out the winner.
		Plague is a band that is stronger than ever before, Plague is a band of strong musical diversity.
	www.myspace.com /plagueband (1489 words)

	Speculative Fiction (&). Beyond/PREVIEW - Terry Black
		I was about one quarter finished when I realized that JOURNALS had to be part of my column on California Visions.
		He believes that if he collects all the mutating plague strains inside him, that they will eventually mutate into a benign strain.
		JOURNALS OF THE PLAGUE YEARS is an important work, well worth your time.
	www.reesestudio.net /internet/sf/v.1/article4.htm (2074 words)

	BoySetsFire "Misery Index: Notes from the Plague Years" Equal Vision Records - LEAKMOB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		BoySetsFire is a band thats made a huge impact not only in the hardcore scene, but in independent music in general over the past decade.
		The album has some of the most venomous work in their entire library, criticizing the totally lethargic way people respond to our current political situation, even challenging the Man upstairs, asking how he can let all of this go, in the song "With Cold Eyes", my favorite song on the album.
		This is a bitter and emotional song, that is a pinnacle of the BoySetsFire style, letting the emotions rage without sounding like a 12 year old girl, as is so popular in the "emo" scene today.
	www.leakmob.com /showthread.php?t=1517 (291 words)

	The SF Site: New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy
		But soon she finds a personal connection to the ghost said to be haunting the school: she's the ghost of a girl that Deal's grandmother wronged years ago.
		By the year 2080 plague and war have driven the two million survivors of the human race into domed cities.
		Twenty years later Jack is addicted to Rapt, the only known drug able to fight The Fear, and working at the only job still available to him: a guard at a Spares farm.
	www.sfsite.com /vault/bkss02.htm (2892 words)

	Postviews - past SF reviews, by author, S to Sp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		In "Journals of the Plague Years" a nameless sexually transmitted plague has swept the world.
		A narrator from the future warns us at the beginning of the book that all those in the journals are "quite mad", and there is that stripped back but recognizable insanity to the characters, as one can see in a drunken brawl or crazed fans.
		As the four protagonists come to resolve the fate of the Plague Years it is not technology or wits or might but the struggle between doubt and optimism that will decide the day.
	homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au /agapow/Postviews/past_s-sp.html (6519 words)

	Week 3 Readings
		For ten years, beginning on January 1, 1660, Pepys kept a personal diary.
		Of interest to us are his entries relating to the Great Plague which struck London in 1665 and 1666.
		Like the hero in Daniel Defoe's fictional account of the plague year, Pepys remained in London throughout that terrible time.
	eee.uci.edu /clients/bjbecker/PlaguesandPeople/week3.html (442 words)

	ES&T Online News: Ozone, fine dust plague Great Lakes air
		Local sources of smog help drive air quality over accepted limits in cross-border regions of the United States and Canada, according to a new report from the International Joint Commission, a binational watchdog for the Great Lakes region.
		Researchers have tracked concentrations of 6 criteria pollutants and 15 hazardous air pollutants during the past 10 years in Detroit–Windsor, Port Huron–Sarnia, and Sault Ste.
		Although emissions of hazardous air pollutants have declined since 1991, the ozone and fine dust that make up smog continue to threaten the health of children and the elderly, the report says.
	pubs.acs.org /subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2004/mar/science/jp_ozone.html (171 words)

	DIVERSE UNIVERSE
		Thanks to those committee people who have agreed to continue their roles for another year, and welcome to our new committee members.
		The fact that the book took some years to see publication (and that the name "AIDS" was avoided throughout) remains as testimony to those early days of AIDS hysteria.
		Six years on, the face of AIDS has changed and, hopefully, so has the social acceptability of homophobia.
	www.spacedoutinc.org /DU-05.html (2870 words)

	Lit Crit : Really Good Books
		Jeez, I've read some mixed reviews about Norman Spinrad in the past, but The Journals of the Plague Years is a powerful book.
		Some people might be turned off by some of Spinrad's ideas, but Plague Years is a good example of effective style and structure.
		But Peg Kerr's "resolution", and the finally-in-the-last-chapter connection between the two time periods were accomplished with transparent writerly "devices" which, being transparent, didn't work (This is consistent with a writing style that includes pov slips and a few dropped threads - when I started the book, I thought her writing sounded a bit like mine.
	www.speculations.com /?t=169865&s=100 (8831 words)

	The SF Site: The Original Anthology Series in Science Fiction
		By 1996 it seemed that the field would support one major original anthology series installment per year, and that Full Spectrum and Universe would be that book in alternate years.
		High pay, a certain increased attention in terms of reviews, an impression of the better series as prestige markets, and editorial policies and schedules which sometimes allow greater selectivity, have allowed the editors of many of these anthologies to consistently feature a sampling of the best short SF of their respective periods.
		The magazines remain the lifeblood of the field, the place where the most short stories are published, and the most new writers are first featured, but it does us good to have a book to point to each year as a special event.
	www.sfsite.com /columns/rich57.htm (2208 words)

	Nairobi University's Faculty of Medicine
		This is pretty much exactly the plot of Norman Spinrad's Journals of the Plague Years [amazon.com].
		The only difference is that the super-immunity spontaneously emerged in Nairobi, not in San Francisco, and we can actually refer to AIDS by name and not eliptically as «the virus».
		Stories, comments, journals, and other submissions on use Perl; are Copyright 1998-2006, their respective owners.
	use.perl.org /comments.pl?sid=16944&cid=26423 (127 words)

	Stratus SF SIG News 1989
		The hotels were both very helpful to the con, particularly the Marriott (the Sheraton has had chronic management changes and, as a result, their people aren't quite as on the ball as the Marriott's are).
		It should not be any suprise but Roger Rabbit, one of the most inventive movies to emerge from Hollywood in years, has not been nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture of 1988.
		I agree that the last few years have offerred few outstanding books but I don't think the genre is stuck in a "computer net and disco" ghetto.
	fanac.org /fanzines/sfnews/sfnews89.html (2706 words)

	TIME.com: Journals of The Plague Years -- Jul 18, 1988 -- Page 1
		This "retroactive" plague, as Andrew Holleran calls the AIDS epidemic in Ground Zero (Morrow; 228 pages; $16.95), is causing not only panic but a radical change in sensibilities.
		Phrases like "oral sex" and "anal penetration," once startling to read outside hard-covers, are now routinely bounced off satellites with the weather reports.
		Holleran's collection of essays and Paul Monette's memoir of his dying lover, Borrowed Time (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 342 pages; $18.95), are reports from the combat zone.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,967924,00.html (724 words)

	SciFan: Books: Journals of the Plague Years by Norman Spinrad (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		SciFan: Books: Journals of the Plague Years by Norman Spinrad (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, collections)
		Journals of the Plague Years, by Norman Spinrad
		Sex means death when a virus, originating in Africa, is unleashed on the world for twenty terrible years, until a cure is finally found, in a new edition of this science fiction fable featuring commentary by the author.
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=6828 (170 words)

	Trula Mama: July 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		It's hard to choose a favorite story as they were all so good, but my favorite is 'Journals of the Plague Years' by Norman Spinrad.
		I am so excited about this because some of the women attending I have known online for years, it'll be so cool to finally meet them and their kids.
		But it's not like he's going to win, because the democrats are in secret plotting with the republicans...if it starts to look like Kerry's going to win, watch how quickly he'll/they'll sabotage his campaign.
	www.mspmedia.net /http://www.mspmedia.net/blog/archive/2004_07_01_archive.html (3761 words)

	A Place So Foreign and 8 More by Cory Doctorow - an infinity plus review
		Although it meanders a bit too much, "Home Again, Home Again" features interestingly complex characters and postulates an intriguing social situation.
		"0wnz0red" -- a computer-geek take on Norman Spinrad's Journals of the Plague Years -- involves a laboratory-created benign virus.
		It's not as powerful and evocative as the Spinrad novella, but it's an entertaining read.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /fantasticfiction/aplacesoforeign.htm (396 words)

	TIME Magazine -- Breaking News, Analysis, Opinions, Multimedia and Blogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Congress hasn't done much this year, but few bills have stirred more passion than one to protect horses from being turned into horsemeat
		In a TIME interview, the former Iranian President says the Iraq war could have been avoided, and endorses a "two-state" solution to the Middle East conflict
		The embattled Prime Minister announces that he will leave office within the year.
	time-proxy.yaga.com (821 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Readings
		Particularly strongly treated are issues of poverty and race and the myriad social, political, and physical ramifications of the AIDS epidemic.
		In some cases, these concerns flow together into compelling essays, like in Edmund White's "Journals of the Plague Years," which treats the flowering of literature written by gay men during the worst periods of the AIDS crisis.
		If I can find a problem with the pieces in this book, it's that they produced a reading list more massive than I could address in an entire year.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-07-20/books_readings3.html (610 words)

	Feminist SFF & Utopia: Theme & Character Lists: AIDS & Other Plagues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		(1989, Naiad) (future US divided by aids-like plague; blood is stolen from healthy people; lesbian sf adventure)
		Journals of the Plague Years (1988) - (AIDS has mutated & spun off into many other rapidly mutating plagues.
		Out of the future America, with Quarantine Zones, Armies of the Living Dead, and "interface" sex replacing "meat sex", arise a new cult, dedicated to forcing the rapid mutating of the virus(es) through massive infection.)
	feministsf.org /femsf/bibs/plagues.html (276 words)

	Philadelphia citypaper.net \| 25 Years of Independent Journalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The Truth is Out There Somewhere: 9/11 Wendi Polinow has never considered herself a radical.
		The Collapse I t's been five years, but still, I feel nervous about speaking the words aloud.
		Opposites Attract: A bourgeois crackhead and his teenage student bond in Half Nelson.
	citypaper.net /articles/current/index.shtml (262 words)

	He Walked Among Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		He has also written teleplays, feature films, political commentary, film criticism, and extensive literary criticism, some of which has been collected in SCIENCE FICTION IN THE REAL WORLD.
		He also writes songs, has recorded a few of them, and in the last few years has occassionally performed live.
		Norman Spinrad was President of World SF and three-time President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
	www.ereads.com /spinrad.html (183 words)

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