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[rivkat]

Lots of nonfiction, much of it dancing around the theme of intellectual property and/or violent death:

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[fajrdrako]

Interesting comments! Thank you.

[onijade]

The good book about dueling, at least in my humble opinion, is By the Sword by Richard Cohen.

It's also quite anecdotal, but it's well written and very interesting. As a history of the sword it's also got a much wider scope than just dueling. There's quite a bit about modern fencing -- the author was an Olympic fencer -- and I think he's captured the excitement of the modern sport.

[executrix]

Oh, I *hated* Cohen's book, I thought it was a poorly paced hodgepodge. Anyway, I don't think sport fencing has any more to do with dueling than chess does with warfare. (Squee! I just started fencing again after a several-year layoff. I'm afraid the coach is a little put out with me because of my perfectly accurate description of saber fences as "psychopaths"--although I suppose I shouldn't have said it because I knew he fences three-weapon.)

[boniblithe]

Every time I see Jeremy Rifkin's name I get post traumatic stress disorder from having had to read him for Ethics of Biomedical Science.

*shudders*

Keegan?

[fearsclave]

Interesting. Your post seems to imply that you read a lot of military history.

[accommodatingly]

You're surprisingly charitable to j. rifkin given his track record. Does he cite Snow Crash? It anticipates the part of his argument you liked.