Peter and Mary are old and forgotten ― that is, until Lazy Bear arrives with gentle magic, poetry, and delightful repartee. Tender and understanding, charming and humorous, children and adults alike are transported to a make believe land where anything can happen.

An unhappy elderly couple are transformed back into children by a magical bear who takes them down the road to share new adventures, gathering up cowardly lion twins, redundant circus performers and a ship with an all-penguin crew. Lazy Bear Lane was Thorne Smith's only children's book and its wonderland of innocence deserves to be read again and again.

Starcombing contains eighty-five newly collected pieces of David Langford's witty commentary on the SF/fantasy scene - columns, articles, reviews, essays, even a few short-short stories from the famous 'Futures' page in Nature. Compulsive reading, crammed with insights and laughs.

A collection of Thorne Smiths's poetry from the WW 1 Naval Reservist journal The Broadside as well as many submitted to The Smart Set, a literary magazine founded in 1900 that gave a start to many up-and-coming authors. Others were written while Thorne was hospitalized in France in 1918.

We meet this affluent bachelor, the epitome of a 'mad' scientist, as he adventures to delights with his leprechaun girlfriend. After transforming statues into people (and vice versa) in his home town, he moves to the Greek gods in the Metropolitan Museum. You'll have quite a few laughs mixed in with social commentary. Read it.