Blown Fields or Flowerful Closes

[princeofcairo]

In the eternal struggle between myself and Fields Book Store -- pound for pound and title for title the best occult book store in the English-speaking world -- I win some and I lose some. This time, I lost some. I just walked into the punch, and never walked it off. I don't even remember putting up much of a fight: I actually bought a book off the

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[richardthinks]

Makes me wonder if they stock Suppressed Transmission. Or if they would, if only it were not under the imprint of a game company.

[richardthinks]

...I am delighted that your Russian comment above is labeled "fishing."

[krfsm]

Triumph of the Nomads: A History of Aboriginal Australia - have you had any chance to form an opinion on the worthiness/useability for gaming purposes of this one?

[princeofcairo]

Nope. I just shelved it in my Australian history section assuming that if I ever need to do something with the topic I now have a book on it. But one can easily come up with plenty of ways to use it, from inspiration for a Dreamtime-based fantasy RPG to material for the natives of some desert planet in exploratory SF.

[woodwardiocom]

"We don't like to blur it too much," can clearly mean many things.

[willplant]

i saw this in the excellent Topping and Company bookshop in Bath and very nearly bought it

http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199590049.do

i was trying to mentally balance the blurb mention of BtVS/Charmed with the OUP publisher and failed...

Any thoughts on it?

[princeofcairo]

It's quite good, although far from comprehensive. I relied on it for Bookhounds of London.