how many books...

[sgt.null]

How Many Books did Null make up in
abc's of book titles????????????????

[Harbinger]

95?

[Iolanthe]

I have no idea. I didn't even realise you were cheating until the vicar one. Must be my trusting nature

[sgt.null]

at some point i will count them and report back.

[sgt.null]

still waiting on that count, nullify the null!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sorus]

No, only real books are allowed.

You're going to need to write and publish all the ones you made up.

[sgt.null]

a listing of the books I made up

Valhalla Days - Helga Nurmi
X - author unknown
John Q Public - by John Doe
XXX Naughty Nurses : author unknown
Summer In WInterhaven - Vera Fall
Unicorn Poster Book - Vira Chase
Varmits: a Southern Recipe Book
eat the rich - lemmy killmister
gummie worms, a coffee table book by zeke
i am me - doug Johnson
Jury Rigging by Robert Kardashian.
Killzone - Frank WHite
narwals i have known - pete silmpleton
sky is grey - thomas Thomason
Violet is Blue - Thom Thompson
youth in asia : sum did gai
I Love You - Jack Carson
other means of deception - elvis green
quisling - abraham mosher
ur - ted farmer
who, what, where, why, when - lois lane
yumpin' yiminy - jehosophat jones
Zed's Dead - Bruce Williams.
donkey - gk Watkins
Vicious Pandas - Jack Hanna
been there, done that : george berlin
vicar thrust and annie fannie - mark desod
x-ray technicians in heat : george sands
zanzibar - otto kelfling
devil town - lucy cipher
Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder - Ward Wood
Nice (Paris) is Nice - Jaques Frogalis
RIght Now, I Could Use Some Tea - Earl Grey
Vim & Vigor - Victor Vance Voerstetter
dog in the took - theodore Geisel
pretty little fools - dr. otto van wellington
under the lovers - jackie king Susskind
osprey nation - william h greene
Uther Pendragon (A Case History) - Chas. Woodbridge
Wishing the Other Shoe Would Drop - J.T. Hammersmith
fantomas - pierre louis dussett

[sgt.null]

a listing of the books I made up

Valhalla Days - Helga Nurmi
X - author unknown
John Q Public - by John Doe
XXX Naughty Nurses : author unknown
Summer In WInterhaven - Vera Fall
Unicorn Poster Book - Vira Chase
Varmits: a Southern Recipe Book
eat the rich - lemmy killmister
gummie worms, a coffee table book by zeke
i am me - doug Johnson
Jury Rigging by Robert Kardashian.
Killzone - Frank WHite
narwals i have known - pete silmpleton
sky is grey - thomas Thomason
Violet is Blue - Thom Thompson
youth in asia : sum did gai
I Love You - Jack Carson
other means of deception - elvis green
quisling - abraham mosher
ur - ted farmer
who, what, where, why, when - lois lane
yumpin' yiminy - jehosophat jones
Zed's Dead - Bruce Williams.
donkey - gk Watkins
Vicious Pandas - Jack Hanna
been there, done that : george berlin
vicar thrust and annie fannie - mark desod
x-ray technicians in heat : george sands
zanzibar - otto kelfling
devil town - lucy cipher
Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder - Ward Wood
Nice (Paris) is Nice - Jaques Frogalis
RIght Now, I Could Use Some Tea - Earl Grey
Vim & Vigor - Victor Vance Voerstetter
dog in the took - theodore Geisel
pretty little fools - dr. otto van wellington
under the lovers - jackie king Susskind
osprey nation - william h greene
Uther Pendragon (A Case History) - Chas. Woodbridge
Wishing the Other Shoe Would Drop - J.T. Hammersmith
fantomas - pierre louis dussett

[Ananda]

Ed's Moose Pump Onto
-by SRD

I really recommend this book! It is great.

[Sorus]

I would read at least a couple of those, just on general principle. Better get to work.

[sgt.null]

I count 41?

and some of those should have been easily a tip-off.

youth in asia : sum did gai

really?

vicar thrust and annie fannie - mark desod

[sgt.null]

The Necronomicon in H. P. Lovecraft's books serves as a repository of recondite and evil knowledge in many of his works and the work of others. Despite the evident tongue-in-cheek origin of the book, supposedly written by the "Mad Arab Abdul al-Hazred," who was supposed to have died by being torn apart by an invisible being in an Arab marketplace in broad daylight, many have been led to believe that the book is real.

William Goldman's The Princess Bride is presented as an abridgment of The Princess Bride by "S. Morgenstern".

The story of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle revolves around another mysterious and forbidden book, written by the title character (Hawthorne Abendsen), named The Grasshopper Lies Heavy. Dick's book describes an alternate history where the Axis Powers were victorious in World War II and the United States has been divided between Japan and Nazi Germany. The book-within-a-book is an alternate history itself, depicting a world in which the Allies won the war but which is nonetheless different from our own world in several important respects. Towards the end of the story, Abendsen admits to writing The Grasshopper Lies Heavy under the direction of the I Ching (which influenced The Man in the High Castle as well).

All of the stories in Robert W. Chambers' 1895 collection The King in Yellow feature a fictional play of the same name, which drives all readers mad and/or shows them another reality. Very little of the play is transcribed in the stories, although it is shown to be set in the kingdom of Carcosa, created by Ambrose Bierce.

Guillaume Apollinaire's short fiction "L'Hérésiarque" ("The Heresiarch" or "The Heretic") describes two heretical Christian gospels written by the excommunicated Catholic cardinal Benedetto Orfei. Orfei's heresy is that the three figures of the Trinity—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—were incarnate in Jesus' time, and were crucified alongside him. Orfei's first work is The True Gospel, describing the human life of God the Father, an embodiment of virtue about whom little is known. Orfei's second work describes the human life of God the Holy Spirit; the title of this work is not mentioned, but is referred to only as his 'second gospel'. In this 'gospel,' the Holy Spirit is a thief who willfully indulges in all manner of vice, including violating a sleeping virgin who then gives birth to Jesus Christ, or God the Son. Later, both the Holy Spirit and the Father are arrested as thieves and crucified, the latter unjustly. Orfei's heresy is intended to illustrate man's contradictory but coexistent aspects of sinner and martyr.

Fictional books and authors figure prominently in several short stories by the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. A few of Borges's fictional creations include The Book of Sand, Herbert Quain (author of April March, The Secret Mirror, etc.), Ts'ui Pen (author of The Garden of Forking Paths), Mir Bahadur Ali (author of The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim), as well as the imaginary Encyclopædia Britannica of the story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius". In "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote", a fictional poet named Pierre Menard attempts to recreate Don Quixote exactly as Miguel de Cervantes wrote it.
Stanislaw Lem wrote several books containing methods and ideas similar to Jorge Luis Borges's fiction. Between One Human Minute and A Perfect Vacuum, he reviews 19 fictional books (and one fictional lecture). In Imaginary Magnitude there are several introductions to fictional works, as well as an advertisement

In Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby, the characters are searching for all the remaining copies of the book Poems and Rhymes Around the World, which contains a poem Nabokov’s 1941 novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the titular writer-hero is responsible for the novels The Prismatic Bezel, Success, and The Doubtful Asphodel.

[Damelon]

They are numberless, like grains of sand on a beach.

[sgt.null]

book is a medium for recording
Information in the form of writing
or images, typically composed of
many pages (made of papyrus,
parchment, vellum, or paper)
bound together and protected
by a cover. The technical term
for this physical arrangement is
codex (plural, codices). In the
history of hand-held physical
supports for extended written
compositions or records, the
codex replaces its predecessor,
the scroll. A single sheet in a
codex is a leaf and each side
of a leaf is a page.

[Cord Hurn]

Could have sworn it was only forty.

[sgt.null]

This is real -

By the late 1960s and 1970s, as the laser's limits as a weapon became evident, rayguns were dubbed "phasers" (for Star Trek), "blasters" (Star Wars), "pulse rifles", "plasma rifles", and so forth.

In his book Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku used gamma ray bursts as an evidence to illustrate that extremely powerful rayguns such as the Death Star's primary weapon in the Star Wars franchise do not violate known physical laws and theories. He further analyses the problem of rayguns' power sources.