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Yarns Without Threads |
Where the story refers specifically to naturism or nudism, the title is in bold.
New and updated entries in this sixth issue of Yarns Without Threads are listed at the end
| Author | Title(s) and First publication |
|---|---|
| Nick Alimonos | The Dark Age Of Enya - 2004 |
| Poul Anderson |
The Corridors of Time - 1965 The Dancer from Atlantis - 1971 The Merman's Children - 1973 The Winter of the World - 1976 Boat of a Million Years - 1989 |
| Laurence Anholt and Arthur Robins | The Emperor's Underwear - 1996 |
| Piers Anthony | Rings of Ice - 1974 The Adept series:
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| Isaac Asimov | The Gods Themselves - 1972 |
| John Ball | The Cool Cottontail - 1966 |
| Nicola Barker | Wide Open - 1998 |
| H E Bates |
The Revelation - 1934 Breeze Anstey - 1937 |
| John Baxter | The Beach - 1968 |
| Stephen Baxter and Arthur C Clarke | The Light Of Other Days - 2000 |
| Guy Bellamy | The Nudists - 1986 |
| John Beynon (pen name of John Wyndham) | The Secret People - 1935 |
| Cecil Biffin | Not Even A Fig Leaf - 1959? |
| J F Bone | The Lani People - 1962 |
| Jennifer (James) Finney Boylan | The Planets - 1991 |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | The Mists of Avalon - 1983 |
| John Brunner | The World Swappers - 1959 Bedlam Planet - 1968 Quicksand - 1969 Good Men Do Nothing - 1970 |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | Two of the Tarzan stories:
The Martian stories featuring John Carter, including:
|
| Erskine Caldwell | Jackpot - 1940 |
| Ken Campbell | The Furtive Nudist - 1992 |
| Leslie Charteris | The Reluctant Nudist - 1957 |
| Petra Christian | The Sexploiters - 1973 |
| Jo Clayton | Some books from the 9-volume Diadem series:
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| Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter | The Light Of Other Days - 2000 |
| Stephen Clarke | Merde Actually - 2005 |
| Henry Cobbold | Wearing a Smile - 2001 illustrator Tim Major |
| Stephen Crowley | The Koala Bares - 2002 |
| Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee writing as Ellery Queen | The Egyptian Cross Mystery - 1932 |
| Louise Dardanelle | World Without Raiment - 1943 |
| Manoj Das | The Naked - 2001 |
| Robyn Davidson | Tracks - 1980 |
| Elmer Davis and Guy Holt | Bare Living - 1933 |
| Patrick Dennis pen-name of Edward Everrett Tanner III | Auntie Mame - 1955 Around the World with Auntie Mame - 1958 |
| John Doan | Life-One - 2003 |
| Jay Dubya | Frat Brats - 2004 |
| Helen Dunmore | Zennor In Darkness - 1993 |
| Geoff Dyer | Out Of Sheer Rage - 1997 |
| Max Ehrlich | Naked Beach - 1979 |
| John Elder | The Naked Hunchback - 2001 |
| Lucy Ellmann | Doctors and Nurses - 2006 |
| Earl Emerson | Going Crazy in Public - 1996 |
| Maria Eppie | Gone Wild - 2002 |
| Philip José Farmer | The Riverworld series:
|
| Howard Fast | The Trap (aka The First Men) - 1959 and The Sight Of Eden - 1960 collected in Time and the Riddle: 31 Zen Stories and in The Edge of Tomorrow |
| Leslie A. Fiedler | Nude Croquet - 1957 |
| Ian Fleming | Dr No - 1958 Thunderball - 1961 |
| Colin Fletcher | The Man who walked through Time - 1967 |
| Ellen Forney | Monkey Food - 1999 |
| Erle Stanley Gardner | The Case Of The Sunbather's Diary - 1955 |
| Kaye Gibbons | Divining Women - 2004 |
| Anthony Gibbs | The New Crusade - 1934 |
| Colin Gibson | The Pepper Leaf - 1971 |
| Harry Harrison | Final Encounter - 1964 Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Robot Slaves - 1989 |
| Robert Heinlein |
The Puppet Masters - 1951 The Door Into Summer - 1956 Stranger in a Strange Land - 1961 Time Enough for Love - 1973 Glory Road - 1963 Farnham's Freehold - 1965 Friday - 1982 The Number of the Beast - 1980 |
| Guy Holt and Elmer Davis | Bare Living - 1933 |
| Michel Houellebecq | Atomised - 1999 |
| Orrie Hitt | Nudist Camp - 1957 |
| Peter Hunt | Murder Among The Nudists - 1934 |
| Bob Hymer | Smarty Pants Snake and the Chinese Button Knot - 1978 |
| Eva Ibbotson | A Song for Summer - 1997 Island of the Aunts / Monster Mission - 1999 |
| Lucy Irvine | Castaway - 1983 |
| H A Keller | Yesterday's Sin - 1934 reprinted as Her Day of Sin |
| Edward Kiernan | God's Hitchhiker - 1955 |
| Allen Kim Lang | Murder in a Nudist Camp - 1966 |
| Louise Lang | Nudists Die Too - 2005 |
| Joe R Lansdale | Captains Outrageous - 2001 |
| Reon Laudat | It's a Love Thang - 2002 |
| James Laver | Nymph Errant - 1932 |
| D H Lawrence | Women in Love - 1921 |
| Timothy Lea (pen name of Christopher Wood) | Confessions from a Nudist Colony - 1976 |
| Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay writing as Ellery Queen | The Egyptian Cross Mystery - 1932 |
| Peter Lefcourt | Eleven Karens - 2003 |
| Gillian Linscott | A Healthy Body - 1984 |
| John S Lloyd | Leaving Flat Iron Creek - 1999 |
| David Lodge | Out Of The Shelter - 1970 |
| Adam Mars-Jones | Summer Lightning - 1988 |
| James Vance Marshall | Walkabout - 1959 |
| Byron & Kay McAllister | Undercover Nudist - 2005 |
| Leslie Meier | Star Spangled Murder - 2004 |
| Sam Merwin Jr | The Time Shifters - 1971 |
| Eric James Miller | The Metaphysics of Nudity - 1996 |
| Walter M Miller Jr | Command Performance - 1952 aka Anybody Else Like Me |
| Gladys Mitchell | Printer's Error - 1939 |
| Judith Moffett | Surviving - 1986 Pennterra - 1987 |
| Tim Moore | Continental Drifter aka The Grand Tour - 2001 |
| A W Palmer | The Reluctant Nudist - 2005 |
| Richard S Prather | Strip For Murder - 1955 |
| E. R. Punshon | Death Among the Sunbathers - 1934 |
| Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee) | The Egyptian Cross Mystery - 1932 |
| Patrick Raymond | Daniel and Esther - 1989 |
| Mary Renault | The King Must Die - 1958 |
| Mack Reynolds | Commune 2000 A.D. - 1974 |
| Robert H Rimmer | The Harrad Experiment - 1966 Proposition 31 - 1968 The Premar Experiments - 1975 |
| Arthur Robins and Laurence Anholt | The Emperor's Underwear - 1996 |
| William L Rohde | Murder on the Line -1951 reprinted as High Red for Dead - 1956 |
| Eric Frank Russell | Exposure - 1950 The Great Explosion - 1962 |
| Mary Scott | Nudists May Be Encountered - 1991 |
| David Sedaris | Naked - 1997 |
| Dr Seuss | The Seven Lady Godivas - 1939 |
| Alice Sheldon (writing as James Tiptree Jr or as Raccoona Sheldon) |
Birth Of A Salesman - 1968 Faithful To Thee, Terra, In Our Fashion - 1968 The Snows Are Melted, The Snows Are Gone - 1969 Your Haploid Heart - 1969 Through A Lass, Darkly - 1972 On The Last Afternoon - 1972 Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket - 1972 The Earth Doth Like A Snake Renew - 1973 Slow Music - 1980 Out Of The Everywhere - 1981 Brightness Falls From The Air - 1985 Our Resident Djinn - 1986 The Starry Rift - 1986 Backward, Turn Backward - 1988 |
| Carol Shields | Dressing Down - 2000 |
| William Jack Sibley | Any Kind of Luck - 2001 |
| Stacy Sims | Swimming Naked - 2004 |
| Dodie Smith | I Capture the Castle - 1949 |
| E E 'Doc' Smith | Masters of Space - 1961 |
| Thorne Smith | The Bishop's Jaegers - 1932 The Glorious Pool - 1934 |
| Feodor Sologub | The Created Legend - 1914 |
| Stephen Spender | The Temple - 1988 |
| Harold Stephens | The Tower and the River - 1998 |
| Theodore Sturgeon | More Than Human - 1953 |
| James Tiptree Jr (pen name of Alice Sheldon) | Lots - see a few rows up! |
| Edward Everrett Tanner III writing as Patrick Dennis | Auntie Mame - 1955 Around the World with Auntie Mame - 1958 |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - 1876 Huckleberry Finn - 1884 |
| William Vaneer | Scandals At A Nudist Colony - 1953 |
| John Varley | Steel Beach - 1992 |
| Irving Wallace | The Prize - 1962 |
| Stuart Ward | Body Freedom Day - 2004 |
| H G Wells | Men Like Gods - 1923 |
| Earl Wilson | Pike's Peek or Bust - 1946 |
| Donald A Wollheim (editor) | Let's Go Naked - 1952 |
| Christopher Wood writing as Timothy Lea | Confessions from a Nudist Colony - 1976 |
| John Wyndham (writing as John Beynon) | The Secret People - 1935 |
| New/Updated Author | Title(s) and First publication |
|---|---|
| Poul Anderson |
The Merman's Children - 1973 The Winter of the World - 1976 |
| Petra Christian | The Sexploiters - 1973 |
| Stephen Clarke | Merde Actually - 2005 |
| Henry Cobbold | Wearing a Smile - 2001 illustrator Tim Major |
| John Doan | Life-One - 2003 |
| Jay Dubya | Frat Brats - 2004 |
| Lucy Ellmann | Doctors and Nurses - 2006 |
| Orrie Hitt | Nudist Camp - 1957 |
| Bob Hymer | Smarty Pants Snake and the Chinese Button Knot - 1978 |
| Louise Lang | Nudists Die Too - 2005 |
| John S Lloyd | Leaving Flat Iron Creek - 1999 |
| Byron & Kay McAllister | Undercover Nudist - 2005 |
| Eric James Miller | The Metaphysics of Nudity - 1996 |
| E. R. Punshon | Death Among the Sunbathers - 1934 |
| William L Rohde | Murder on the Line -1951 reprinted as High Red for Dead - 1956 |
| Dr Seuss | The Seven Lady Godivas - 1939 |
| Stephen Spender | The Temple - 1988 |
| Harold Stephens | The Tower and the River - 1998 |
| Stuart Ward | Body Freedom Day - 2004 |
Suggestions for additional material to be included in Yarns Without Threads are most welcome, as are your own views and reviews. Please email these to me.
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