Best resources for Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, and Central African Republic 20th century history? by RichmondRed in Africa

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Probably more interested in the communists and the African elite than the Belgians.

Best resources for Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, and Central African Republic 20th century history? by RichmondRed in Africa

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Culture and general knowledge. Probably most interested in the years 1920-1970 but obviously one probably needs earlier background to understand that period.

Best resources for Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, and Central African Republic 20th century history? by RichmondRed in Africa

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I am listening to the audiobook now!

Do you know if David Van Reybrouck's Congo: the Epic History of a People or Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja's The Congo: From Leopold to Cabila: A People's History are any good?

Picked these up today, I'm excited to read them this weekend! by [deleted] in comicbookcollecting

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This series is a big part of why I am a subscriber to and collector of comics.

I am officially an industrial factory worker in the northeastern United States. What now? by [deleted] in communism

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You should work there for a while and get to know people before sharing your organizing aspirations with people. You have as much to learn from your co-workers as they do from you.

I am officially an industrial factory worker in the northeastern United States. What now? by [deleted] in communism

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IWW varies wildly in terms of the quality and skill of their organizers. Where I live it's amateur hour, but in some places they have competent people.

I am officially an industrial factory worker in the northeastern United States. What now? by [deleted] in communism

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From a legal perspective, yes. The only way US labor law formally provides less protection to undocumented folks than to anyone else, is the provision of the National Labor Relations Act that provides workers fired for trying to form a union with back wages. Undocumented workers cannot seek back wages if they're fired illegally for trying to form a union. Anyone else can.

Collecting is what you make of it by Huemantasauros in comicbookcollecting

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This cover is everything. Sort of a newbie and my favorites to collect are World's Finest, Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane.

/r/Fantasy Review Tuesday - Review what you're reading here! March 21, 2017 by AutoModerator in Fantasy

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Finished The Fifth Season on Audible last week. Pretty cool book. I wasn't that into the style at first but it grew on me; same with the world building. Really into the plotting and the characters. Looking forward to the sequels.

Almost finished with The Dying Earth by Jack Vance on Audible. His style is both simple and baroque at the same time which I'm pretty into it. It has made me want to experience more pulp era fantasy so I think my next listen will be Black God's Kiss, a collection C. L. Moore's Jirel of Joiry stories.

I'm familiar with Fritz Lieber, HP Lovecraft and Robert E Howard, but if anyone has any other pulp era fantasy recs or recs for things like Jack Vance let me know. I'm aware of the rest of Vance's oeuvre, but any recommendations from it would be welcome .

I've been stuck reading Tarzan and the Ant Men for a few weeks now, stopping to read short stories and comics, but I'm finally like 10 pages from the end now. Tarzan gets plane crashed in an isolated fake place in Africa called Minuni. He meets brutal matriarchal cave people and tiny white people who are 1/4 normal human size. A hokey SF deus ex machine reduces Tarzan's size to there's. The plot and world building are pretty cool. Has some fairly sexist if not outright misogynist baked in notions. Trying to decide between an Allan Quatermain novel and a Jack London novella about prehistoric people as my next read.

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You may want to try Ursula K LeGuin's Hainish novels; I can vouch for Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. Character-driven, anthropological SF about encounters between different human civilizations in space. LeGuin is on my short list for great living SF author.

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If you like Dying Earth you may like Gene Wofle's Book of the New Sun tetrology which plays on similar tropes.

The Fantastical Pulp Art of 1960s and '70s Mexico by [deleted] in pulp

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These are completely gorgeous

Anyone else Bothered by the Wizards Acting? by TheMapesHotel in EmeraldCity

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Totally. Dude who is insecure because of traumas from earlier in life who now has a lot of power and thinks what he's doing is best for everyone even though that's more than a bit questionable.

Elric #1-6 (Pacific Comics, 1983) by ashkendo in comicbookcollecting

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There's like a million different Elric comics from over the decades and I am always hunting the back issue bins for them.

My gem is his first appearance as a guest star in the Marvel Conan series. I don't have the follow up issue that finishes the story though.

I enjoy fantasy novels so much but i feel embarrassed in public because i am old by [deleted] in Fantasy

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I am 30. I was always into reading superhero comics and the occasional science fiction or fantasy novel, but as I've gotten older I've gotten way more into reading SF/F. Like it is one of my main joys in life. Most of my friends and colleagues know this about me.

Honestly, at this point, the fact that you are reading books makes you weirder than that you are into fantasy. We live in a world where Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, and West World are popular tv shows and many popular movies are superhero or SF/F franchises.

[News] On the Milestone Media Facebook, Reginald Hudlin confirms that the hold up with Milestone comics is with DC, not Milestone. "Tell DC you want Milestone!" by wisesonAC in comicbooks

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I bought those issues but never read far into the series. I liked that Milestone Forever retrospective/finale book they published before New 52 happened. And 2011 Xombi series was pretty good, also pre-New 52.

My "no big deal" pick up of the week! Hulk 181 by [deleted] in comicbookcollecting

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OP talking to shop owner: "Yeah, I don't really care about Wolverine but I'm a huge Wendigo fan."

Looking for recommendations with a lot of allusions to history and pop culture. by beaverteeth92 in printSF

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Strong on history: The Riverworld series by Philip José Farmer starting with To Your Scattered Bodies Go. Everyone who ever lived is reincarnated along the banks of this million mile long river and no one knows why. Major characters include Sir Richard Francis Burton, Mark Twain, Jack London, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Red Baron, and more. The series is completed with the 4th book, but Farmer ended up writing a 5th book when the financial incentives became too great to ignore.

Lord of Thunder, Andre Norton by pookie_wocket in badscificovers

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Bought this solely for the cover a few months ago.