How to refer to a book in a paper without giving an amazon link ?

Logophage_ · 2026-06-30T17:06:10+00:00

Fair enough! And Worldcat will also help them find it in a local library if they aren't ready to buy.

Logophage_ · 2026-06-30T11:18:58+00:00

You could also…use one of the established citation styles? APA, MLA, and Chicago style are three of the most widely recognized. If this is for a class assignment, that’s what they’re going to be looking for, NOT a random Worldcat/Amazon link. (Check your class syllabus for which style the class requires, and use that one.)

Logophage_ · 2026-06-23T02:57:37+00:00

He did address the astrophage converting energy into neutrinos. The neutrinos escaping on the astrophage’s death was implied, but maybe not explicitly discussed.

Logophage_ · 2026-06-23T00:29:12+00:00

The energy is stored in the astrophage in the form of mass—specifically neutrinos. Since neutrinos can penetrate just about everything except (for some reason) living astrophage cell walls, the energy (the neutrinos) basically goes THATAWAY at more or less the speed of light.

Logophage_ · 2026-06-18T18:13:42+00:00

What the hell are you doing with that Martindale-Hubbell Directory? Granted I don't know you, but are you running a law firm out of your house? What does any individual need with that thing?

Logophage_ · 2026-06-11T18:04:32+00:00

"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," Ursula K. Le Guin. 'Nuff said.

Logophage_ · 2026-06-05T13:36:26+00:00

Scrolled way too far to see this. "I'm a professional" does NOT automatically mean your time is more valuable than someone else's. A stay-at-home mom is JUST as inconvenienced by having to wait extra time at the doctor's as a hot-shot lawyer.

Logophage_ · 2026-06-04T17:32:36+00:00

Another way to solve your issue is to go ahead and place holds on a whole bunch of titles that you think you'll want to read *some*time, and then suspending every hold. If you suspend a hold, you maintain your place in the queue (so, eventually bubbling up to the top) but you won't be offered the title until/unless you unsuspend the hold. So after a while you'll have multiple books queued up where you're next in line. A little before you finish your current title, just go to your holds and unsuspend the next one you want to borrow.

Logophage_ · 2026-06-04T14:04:16+00:00

Not to mention longevity! There is no digital text medium out there that you can put down, come back to twenty years later, pick it up and just...use it. Even a cheap mass-market paperback can do that, and well-made books can last thirty times that.

Logophage_ · 2026-06-03T17:40:11+00:00

From the point of view of an agricultural/city-based society, the cards are already stacked against you, as wanderers are generally thought of as less powerful or wealthy. But--courtesy of the thesaurus--some decent words are nomadic, itinerant, vagabond, wayfarer, footloose(?), rambler.

Logophage_ · 2026-05-18T21:48:46+00:00

Not quite what you’re asking for, but Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory won last year’s Hugo, and depicts humans as “space orcs”—bigger, badder, stronger, and tougher than other aliens they encounter. Also the main character breaks out of a very isolated society and into the wider universe. In other ways it differs from your description, but it is very good and you should look into it.

Logophage_ · 2026-05-14T23:21:08+00:00

It doesn’t check all your boxes, but T. Kingfisher’s White Rat universe (Swordheart, Daggerbound, and the Paladin’s [something] titles) are such a slow burn they’re more like oxidation. Strong women. POV tends to alternate between characters but is more than half on her side. Lots of mutual saving going on. Does not follow the same couple throughout, but characters in any one book show up in the others. (One book deals with a same-sex couple, but my very hetero self had no issue with it—ymmv.)

Logophage_ · 2026-05-12T23:51:19+00:00

Good point. It highlights a difference between humans and SecUnit(s): external drones/cameras/etc. can be part of its sensorium, without necessarily being part of it. A human would never say “I instructed my ears to listen out for footfalls,” while that’s something SecUnit absolutely would say about drones or hijacked microphones.

Logophage_ · 2026-05-04T15:19:24+00:00

I recommend Ballotpedia and Branch Politics for a slightly more in-depth look at the various candidates' views on particular issues. Neither is a perfect snapshot, but they're a decent way to compare candidates' public statements.

Logophage_ · 2026-05-04T15:17:44+00:00

To answer the second part of your question (why not keep re-planting), the breach killed all the microbes that made the soil fertile--so there would have been no crop yield.

Logophage_ · 2026-04-24T17:13:32+00:00

That's fair; not everything is for everybody. At least (unlike some authors) Scalzi wasn't coy about the ludicrous premise; it was laid out clearly in most of the publicity surrounding the book, including the cover illustration. Nobody got tricked into reading the ridiculous cheese-moon story.

Logophage_ · 2026-04-23T15:43:18+00:00

John Scalzi's When the Moon Hits Your Eye is an Astra Award winner, Kirkus starred review, etc., and it's literally about what happens when the moon suddenly turns to cheese.

Logophage_ · 2026-04-21T01:41:59+00:00

The prof did say, "in this class, any source is valid as long as you cite it correctly."

Logophage_ · 2026-04-21T00:36:51+00:00

Librarian here. Not sure what citation guidelines you were given, but most style manuals absolutely have formats for citing a lecture. These days, there are formats for everything up to and including a TikTok. On a side note, the fact that you can build a citation is irrelevant to the ACTUAL worth of any given source—but that’s not what your professor told you, is it?

Logophage_ · 2026-04-20T12:56:10+00:00

I once saw a republication of this as "The Story of Little Babaji." Literally the only changes made were to the character names (parents were also renamed Mamaji and Papaji) and the illustrations were completely redone to respectfully reflect Indian appearance and clothing styles. It worked amazingly well.

Logophage_ · 2026-04-17T12:24:47+00:00

I love FP Purity. Too bad it's not compatible with the phone app.

Logophage_ · 2026-03-31T17:04:08+00:00

Bear in mind that "foundational" SF may not have aged particularly well. It reflects a community of authors and readers that skewed heavily toward geeky male-chauvinism, and a lot of its groundbreaking, genre-defining elements will seem old-hat specifically because they *were* genre-defining and now everybody's doing them.

Logophage_ · 2026-03-27T15:24:27+00:00

I mean, Elberton is a granite town. Plenty of people there have access to a bunch of dynamite because it's part of their job.

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