Name That Book!

[Taliesin]

#4 Sorry all I can think of is The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

Very, very close!

You got the author right, and as our sources tell us, the concept of The Illustrated Man is used in this book very much. He is the main villain, in fact.

[Pendragon]

Then #4 is Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

[Whifflingpin]

12 - Childe Roland, in Browning's poem, to the Dark Tower came, did he not?

I guess that makes the book Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series.

[Whifflingpin]

Bump

Perhaps it is time for Taliesin to reveal all.

Let the dead arise!

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[Taliesin]

Oh, forgot about this topic.

Pendragon and Whifflingpin, you are correct.
But since we forgot to answer so, perhaps someone yet will find the topic and guess the answers so we won't reveal the answers right now.

[Taliesin]

1. Those Communist Revolutionaries might feel solitude when looking at the stars
Why the Communist Revolutionaries? Why not just Communists?
Think "when". When was the communist revolution? Or how is it usually referred to, to be more exact.

3. The more chronologically gifted great-grandmother

Great-grandmother is how some people translate the title, although it is never translated so as the title of the book. Never.
How do you say "more chronologically gifted" in other words? And concering there is also a "less chronologically gifted great-granny"?
Keep in mind that even the younger granny is very, very old.

7. "What is the - "title of the book""-?" "Well, to kill people"

Perhaps a certain tehnique of making chairs also answers the question.

8. By nothing, I will do it!

We don't want to fight
But, by "title of the book", if we do,
We've got the ships,
We've got the men,
We've got the money, too.



11. A good reason why to create being. The title of the book refers to a good reason to create being - that is, existence. Universe, if you wish.

So I asked the raven as he passed by,
I said, "Tell me, raven, why'd you make the sky?"

[Whifflingpin]

8 - Missing word in the clue rhyme is "Jingo," which is, I think, the title of a book by Terry Pratchett.

[Pendragon]

#1 a long shot, but could it be: The Hunt for Red October - by Tom Clancy ?

[Whifflingpin]

3) Is Edda a greatgranny?
So Elder Edda and Younger Edda, the Norse saga cycles?

{Edit - Oh yes! Wikipedia is great! "There are a number of theories concerning the origins of the word edda. One theory holds that it is identical to the word that seems to mean "great-grandmother". (See Ríg.) Another theory holds that edda derives from Old Norse óðr, "poetry." A third is that it means "the book of Oddi", Oddi being the place where Snorri Sturluson was educated."}

[Taliesin]

#1 a long shot, but could it be: The Hunt for Red October - by Tom Clancy ?

Nope.
You got October correct, although.

Solitude- how would you say it in another words.
And when can you look at the stars?

8 - Missing word in the clue rhyme is "Jingo," which is, I think, the title of a book by Terry Pratchett.

Correct!

3) Is Edda a greatgranny?
So Elder Edda and Younger Edda, the Norse saga cycles?

{Edit - Oh yes! Wikipedia is great! "There are a number of theories concerning the origins of the word edda. One theory holds that it is identical to the word that seems to mean "great-grandmother". (See Ríg.) Another theory holds that edda derives from Old Norse óðr, "poetry." A third is that it means "the book of Oddi", Oddi being the place where Snorri Sturluson was educated."}

Correct!

[Taliesin]

Three left!
Giving some hints about time and place.

1. Those Communist Revolutionaries might feel solitude when looking at the stars

The plot takes place during the end of the 19th century in the month of October near London.

7. Well, to kill people, what else?

The events take place about 1200-2300 BC, we are not very sure, since there is very little reference to the chronology of Earth. It takes place on many, many planets and star systems.

11. A good reason why to create being.

Nowadays, in an imaginary town in Northern America.

[Taliesin]

*is necromantic since it is still quite a good topic*

As a hint, the authors are Zelazny, Banks and de Lint.

[Pendragon]

Zelazny being the clue that set the mind to thinking, #1 is A Night in the Lonesome October. I used to read Zelazany a lot.

Just as a guess, since my daughter once had to read it, and it is by an author named Banks, would #11 be Winesburg, Ohio?

And to try for a "hat trick" I will guess the last, #7, to be I'll be Watching You by Charles de Lint.

So, yes or no?