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    People Minus X by Raymond Z. Gallun (Simon & Schuster, 1957, $3.00, 187pp, hc, n., cover by Tony Palladino)
        Novel expanded from “Dawn of the Demigods” (Planet Stories, Summer 1954).

    People Are Strange by Eric Gamalinda (Black Lawrence Press, June 2012, 978-1-936873-13-5, $16.00, 115pp, tp, co, cover: Spa by Umberto Grati)
        Collection of eight stories, two apparently original, with fantasy, surreal, or magic realist elements.
    Details taken from online listing.
    • · Formerly Known as Bionic Boy · Eric Gamalinda · ss Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World ed. J. Hagedorn, Penguin US, 2004
    • · I Alone and the Hours · Eric Gamalinda · ss Juncture ed. L. Stapleton & V. Gonzales, Soft Skull Press, 2003
    • · Elvis of Manila · Eric Gamalinda · ss Flippin’: Filipinos on America ed. Luis H. Francia & Eric Gamalinda, Asian American Writers Workshop, 1996
    • · Famous Literary Frauds · Eric Gamalinda · ss The Asian American Literary Review Winter/Spring 2011
    • · People Are Strange · Eric Gamalinda · ss The Thirdest World ed. Lara Stapleton, Factory School, 2007
    • · Buzz · Eric Gamalinda · ss
    • · Fear of Heights · Eric Gamalinda · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1995
    • · Yes, Jesus Loves Me · Eric Gamalinda · ss

    Dark Shepherd by Fred Gambino (NewCon Press, May 14, 2024, 978-1-914953-78-1, £13.99, 304pp, tp, n., cover by Fred Gambino) [Dark Shepherd]
        Also available in a hardback edition (-77-4, £26.99), limited to 100 numbered, signed, copies. Also available in a deluxe, hardback edition (£55.99), limited to 24 numbered, signed, copies, with special artwork by Gambino.
    Details taken from online listing.

    Reality Rift by Fred Gambino (NewCon Press, December 16, 2025, 978-1-917735-16-2, £13.99, 288pp, tp, n., cover by Fred Gambino) [Dark Shepherd]
        Volume two in the series. Also available in a hardback edition (-15-5, £26.99), limited to 50 numbered, signed, copies. Also available in a deluxe, hardback edition (£59.99), limited to 28 numbered, signed, copies, with special artwork by Gambino.
    Details taken from online listing.

    Early Birds by Erle Stanley Gardner (Crippen & Landru, April 2004, free, 14pp, ph, ss)
        Short story pamphlet commemorating Gardner as Ghost of Honor at Malice Domestic XVI, May 2004.

    Fractal Music, Hypercards and More…: Mathematical Recreations from Scientific American by Martin Gardner (W.H. Freeman & Co., 1992, hc, nf)
    • · White, Brown, and Fractal Music · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1978, as “White and Brown Music, Fractal Curves and One-Over-F Fluctuations”
    • · The Tinkly Temple Bells · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American May 1978, as “The Bells: Versatile Numbers That Can Count Partitions of a Set, Primes and Even Rhymes”
    • · Mathematical Zoo · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American June 1978, as “A Mathematical Zoo of Astounding Critters, Imaginary and Otherwise”
    • · Charles Sanders Peirce · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American July 1978, as “On Charles Sanders Peirce: Philosopher and Gamesman”
    • · Twisted Prismatic Rings · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American August 1978, as “A Möbius Band Has a Finite Thickness, and So It Is Actually a Twisted Prism”
    • · The Thirty Color Cubes · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1978, as “Puzzling Over a Problem-Solving Matrix, Cubes of Many Colors and Three-Dimensional Dominoes”
    • · Egyptian Fractions · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1978, as “Puzzles and Number-Theory Problems Arising from the Curious Fractions of Ancient Egypt”
    • · Minimal Sculpture · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American November 1978, as “In Which a Mathematical Aesthetic Is Applied to Modern Minimal Art”
    • · Tangent Circles · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1979, as “The Diverse Pleasures of Circles That Are Tangent to One Another”
    • · The Rotating Table and Other Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American February 1979, as “About Rectangling Rectangles, Parodying Poe and Many Another Pleasing Problem”
    • · Does Time Ever Stop? Can the Past Be Altered? · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American March 1979, as “On Altering the Past, Delaying the Future and Other Ways of Tampering with Time”
    • · Generalized Ticktacktoe · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1979, as “In Which Players of Tic-Tac-Toe Are Taught to Hunt Bigger Game”
    • · Psychic Wonders and Probability · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American May 1979, as “How to Be a Psychic, Even if You Are a Horse or Some Other Animal”
    • · Mathematical Chess Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American June 1979, as “Chess Problems on a Higher Plane, Including Mirror Images, Rotations and the Superqueen”
    • · Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American July 1979, as “Douglas R. Hofstadter’s “Gödel, Escher, Bach””
    • · Imaginary Numbers · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American August 1979, as “The Imaginableness of the Imaginary Numbers”
    • · Pi and Poetry: Some Accidental Patterns · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1979, as “In Some Patterns of Numbers or Words There May Be Less Than Meets the Eye”
    • · Packing Squares · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1979, as “Some Packing Problems That Cannot Be Solved by Sitting on the Suitcase”
    • · Chaitin’s Omega · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American November 1979, as “The Random Number Omega Bids Fair to Hold the Mysteries of the Universe”

    Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments by Martin Gardner (W.H. Freeman & Co., 1986, 0-7167-1799-9, hc, nf)
    • · Coincidence · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1972, as “Why the Long Arm of Coincidence Is Usually Not As Long As It Seems”
    • · The Binary Gray Code · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American August 1972, as “The Curious Properties of the Gray Code and How It Can Be Used to Solve Puzzles”
    • · Polycubes · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1972, as “Pleasurable Problems with Polycubes, and the Winning Strategy for Slither”
    • · Bacon’s Cipher · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American November 1972, as “On the Practical Uses and Bizarre Abuses of Sir Francis Bacon’s Biliteral Cipher”
    • · Doughnuts: Linked and Knotted · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American December 1972, as “Knotty Problems with a Two-Hole Torus”
    • · The Tour of the Arrows and Other Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American May 1973, as “A New Miscellany of Problems, and Encores for Race Track, Sim, Chomp and Elevators”
    • · Napier’s Bones · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American March 1973, as “The Calculating Rods of John Napier, the Eccentric Father of the Logarithm”
    • · Napier’s Abacus · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1973, as “How to Turn a Chessboard Into a Computer and to Calculate with Negabinary Numbers”
    • · Sim, Chomp, and Race Track · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1973, as “Sim, Chomp and Race Track: New Games for the Intellect (And Not for Lady Luck)”
    • · Elevators · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American February 1973, as “Up-And-Down Elevator Games and Piet Hein’s Mechanical Puzzles”
    • · Crossing Numbers · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American June 1973, as “Plotting the Crossing Number of Graphs”
    • · Point Sets on the Sphere · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1973, as “Problems on the Surface of a Sphere Offer an Entertaining Introduction to Point Sets”
    • · Newcomb’s Paradox · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American July 1973, as “Free Will Revisited, with a Mind-Bending Prediction Paradox by William Newcomb”
    • · Reflections on Newcomb’s Paradox · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American March 1974, as “Reflections on Newcomb’s Problem: a Prediction and Free-Will Dilemma”
    • · Reverse the Fish and Other Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1974, as “Nine Challenging Problems, Some Rational and Some Not”
    • · Look-See Proofs · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1973, as ““Look-See” Diagrams That Offer Visual Proof of Complex Algebraic Formulas”
    • · Worm Paths · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American November 1973, as “Paterson’s Worms, Fantastic Patterns Traced by Programmed “Worms””
    • · Waring’s Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American December 1973, as “On Expressing Integers As the Sum of Cubes and Other Unsolved Number-Theory Problems”
    • · Cram, Bynum and Quadraphage · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American February 1974, as “Cram, Crosscram and Quadraphage: New Games Having Elusive Winning Strategies”
    • · The I Ching · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1974, as “The Combinatorial Basis of the “I Ching,” the Chinese Book of Divination and Wisdom”
    • · The Laffer Curve · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American December 1981, as “The Laffer Curve and Other Laughs in Current Economics”

    Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and other Mathematical Mystifications by Martin Gardner (Copernicus Books, 1997, 0-387-94929-1, hc, nf)
    • 1 · The Wonders of a Planiverse · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American July 1980, as “The Pleasures of Doing Science and Technology in the Planiverse”
    • 27 · Bulgarian Solitaire and Other Seemingly Endless Tasks · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American August 1983, as “Tasks You Cannot Help Finishing No Matter How Hard You Try to Block Finishing Them”
    • 45 · Fun with Eggs · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1980, as “Fun with Eggs: Uncooked, Cooked and Mathematic”
    • 67 · The Topology of Knots · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1983, as “The Topology of Knots, Plus the Results of Douglas Hofstadter’s Luring Lottery”
    • 85 · M-Pire Maps · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American February 1980, as “The Coloring of Unusual Maps Leads Into Uncharted Territory”
    • 101 · Directed Graphs and Cannibals · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American March 1980, as “Graphs That Can Help Cannibals, Missionaries, Wolves, Goats and Cabbages Get There from Here”
    • 121 · Dinner Guests, Schoolgirls, and Handcuffed Prisoners · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American May 1980, as “What Unifies Dinner Guests, Strolling Schoolgirls and Handcuffed Prisoners?”
    • 139 · The Monster and Other Sporadic Groups · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American June 1980, as “The Capture of the Monster: a Mathematical Group with a Ridiculous Number of Elements”
    • 159 · Taxicab Geometry · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American November 1980, as “Taxicab Geometry Offers a Free Ride to a Non-Euclidean Locale”
    • 177 · The Power of the Pigeonhole · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American August 1980, as “On the Fine Art of Putting Players, Pills and Points Into Their Proper Pigeonholes”
    • 191 · Strong Laws of Small Primes · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American December 1980, as “Patterns in Primes Are a Clue to the Strong Law of Small Numbers”
    • 207 · Checker Recreations · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1980, as “Checkers, a Game That Can Be More Interesting Than One Might Think”
    • 233 · Modulo Arithmetic and Hummer’s Wicked Witch · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American February 1981, as “Gauss’s Congruence Theory Was Mod As Early As 1801”
    • 247 · Lavinia Seeks a Room and Other Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1981, as “How Lavinia Finds a Room on University Avenue, and Other Geometric Problems”
    • 267 · The Symmetry Creations of Scott Kim · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American June 1981, as “The Inspired Geometrical Symmetries of Scott Kim”
    • 285 · Parabolas · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American August 1981, as “The Abstract Parabola Fits the Concrete World”
    • 303 · Non-Euclidean Geometry · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1981, as “Euclid’s Parallel Postulate and Its Modern Offspring”
    • 317 · Voting Mathematics · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1980, as “From Counting Votes to Making Votes Count: the Mathematics of Elections”
    • 331 · A Toroidal Paradox and Other Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American December 1979, as “A Pride of Problems, Including One That Is Virtually Impossible”
    • 345 · Minimal Steiner Trees · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American June 1986, as “Casting a Net on a Checkerboard and Other Puzzles of the Forest ”
    • 361 · Trivalent Graphs, Snarks, and Boojums · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1976, as “Snarks, Boojums and Other Conjectures Related to the Four-Color-Map Theorem”

    The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix by Martin Gardner (Prometheus Books, 1985, 0-87975-281-5, 326pp, hc, nf)
        Subtitled “The Fabulous Feats and Adventures in Number Theory, Sleight of Word, and Numerological Analysis (Literary, Biblical, Political, Philosophical and Psychonumeranalytical) of That Incredible Master Mind”.
    • · Dr. Matrix (Los Angeles) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1961, as “In Which the Author Chats Again with Dr. Matrix, Numerologist Extraordinary”
    • · Dr. Matrix (Sing Sing) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1963, as “The Author Pays His Annual Visit to Dr. Matrix, the Numerologist”
    • · Dr. Matrix (Chicago) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1964, as “Presenting the One and Only Dr. Matrix, Numerologist, in His Annual Performance”
    • · Dr. Matrix (Miami Beach) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1965, as “Some Comments by Dr. Matrix on Symmetries and Reversals”
    • · Dr. Matrix (Philadelphia) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1966, as “Dr. Matrix Returns, Now in the Guise of a Neo-Freudian Psychonumeranalyst”
    • · Dr. Matrix (Wordsmith College) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1967, as “Dr. Matrix Delivers a Talk on Acrostics”
    • · Dr. Matrix (Squaresville) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1968, as “The Beauties of the Square, As Expounded by Dr. Matrix to Rehabilitate the Hippie”
    • · Dr. Matrix (Fifth Avenue) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1969, as “Dr. Matrix Gives His Explanation of Why Mr. Nixon Was Elected President”
    • · Dr. Matrix (The Moon) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1969, as “A Numeranalysis by Dr. Matrix of the Lunar Flight of Apollo 11”
    • · Dr. Matrix (Honolulu) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1971, as “Lessons from Dr. Matrix in Chess and Numerology”
    • · Dr. Matrix (Houston) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American February 1972, as “Dr. Matrix Poses Some Heteroliteral Puzzles While Peddling Perpetual Motion in Houston”
    • · Dr. Matrix (Clairvoyance Test) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American August 1973, as “An Astounding Self-Test of Clairvoyance by Dr. Matrix”
    • · Dr. Matrix (Pyramid Lake) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American June 1974, as “Dr. Matrix Brings His Numerological Science to Bear on the Occult Powers of the Pyramid”
    • · Dr. Matrix (The King James Bible) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1975, as “Dr. Matrix Finds Numerological Wonders in the King James Bible”
    • · Dr. Matrix (Calcutta) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American November 1976, as “In Which Dm (Dr. Matrix) Is Revealed As the Guru of Pm (Pentagonal Meditation)”
    • · Dr. Matrix (Stanford) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American December 1977, as “Dr. Matrix Goes to California to Apply Punk to Rock Study”
    • · Dr. Matrix (Chautauqua) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American December 1978, as “Is It a Superintelligent Robot or Does Dr. Matrix Ride Again?”
    • · Dr. Matrix (Istanbul) · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1980, as “Dr. Matrix, Like Mr. Holmes, Comes to an Untimely and Mysterious End”

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