Great “S” Blogs
- SFiles22 – a great place to get started. Find the order and placement of inserts, detailed discussion on the footnote ciphers, catalogues of margin art, discussion amongst readers, etc.
- Monkeys and Rabbit Holes – another great blog with some really interesting finds.
- 19 Constellations – the newest blog to join the treasure hunt.
- The Island of Obsidian – a Portuguese blog
- @anabramsfan – a focus on “S” and its connection with the other major works of JJ Abrams
- Searching S – another LOST fan takes aim at S and its mysteries
- DTMADEMEDOIT – a reluctant blogger gathers her thoughts and comments together for an insightful look at the influences of “S.”
- Vessel of Fools – a first-time blogger begins “S” and shares stories from his own life as he wrestles with “S.”
- Osfour’s Page – Lost with “S” – a blog with an Arab focus.
- S Snippets: A Creative Writer writes creatively about “S.”
- Cool fan-created storyboard of the tavern scene in Chapter 1
- Detailed walkthrough of “S” in Chinese
Wikis
Other
- S. ou LE BATEAU DE THÉSÉE (A forum for French readers. Here is the English translation by Google)
- A Masters Thesis on the Search for Self in “S” (PDF)
- The Taman Shud Case – Inspiration for the Santorini Man Murders
- B. Traven – Inspiration for the Straka authorship mystery
Official External “Inserts” (Confirmed as Canon)
- Trailer #1
- Trailer #2
- The EOTVOS Wheel website
- McKay Magazine’s review of Ship of Theseus by Edsel B. Grimshaw
- The Summersby Confession (audio of the confession along with corresponding transcript)
- The Jen Heyward Tumblr Blog
Unconfirmed External “Inserts”
- Chapter 10 Alternate Endings (multiple versions translated from Czech to English)
- The twitter conversation between Eric Husch and Jen Heyward (Eric’s profile pic is intriguing – a bird of negative space)
- The twitter account of V.M. Straka (just quotes from the book and inserts)
Translations of “S.”
- Hungarian (S. – Thészeusz Hajója)
- Chinese
- Italian (S. – La Nave di Teseo)
- French (S. – LE BATEAU DE THÉSÉE)
- Dutch (S. – Schip van Theseus) – June 13, 2014
- German (S. – Das Schiff des Theseus) – October 8, 2015
- Portuguese (S. – O Navio de Teseu) – December 3, 2015
Related Wikipedia Articles
These are topics that may (or may not) shed light on “S.”
- Amritsar Massacre in 1919 (Fn19 p365)
- Antoni Gaudí (picture with Amarante Durand – p89)
- Archduke Ferdinand
- Archimedes’ Palimpsest
- Archimedes’ Principle
- Axis Mundi (cf. Erich Husch’s margin comment on p278)
- Baruch Spinoza
- Bayazid Bastami (Fn14 p234)
- Calais (cf. It all goes back to Calais)
- Carcassonne Board Game
- Carmina Burana (Filomena Caldeira’s favorite music – p285)
- Collective Unconscious
- Cordillera (The title of one of V.M. Straka’s works)
- Coriolis Effect
- Egbert B. Gebstadter (source for Edsel B. Grimshaw?)
- Eötvös Effect
- Etymology of Palimpsest
- Eurasian Magpie
- Frederick Catherwood (cf. the Catherwood Cup in The Daily Pronghorn insert)
- Fukuzawa Yukichi (one of the Straka candidates)
- Fugue State
- The Glass Bead Game
- Godel, Escher, Bach
- Grimshaw (cf. Edsel B. Grimshaw)
- Haymarket Square Massacre (Fn1, p70)
- Hermann Hesse
- Holystone
- The Hundredth Monkey Effect
- Karst (cf. Karst and Sons)
- Negative Space (Western perspective)
- Negative Space (Japanese perspective)
- Omphaloskepsis (cf. The Mckay Magazine Review of Ship of Theseus)
- Park Güell (cf Marginalia p89)
- Paul is Dead (cf. the Paul is Dead reference by Erich Husch on p207)
- Princip (the assassin of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, spawning WWI)
- Saint Sebastian (cf. V.M. Straka’s final known whereabouts was the San Sebastian Hotel)
- Synchronicity
- The Ship of Theseus Paradox
- Zeno’s Paradoxes
Other Links of Interest
- Doug Dorst on Writing His Mind-Bending Novel “S” and Leaving You in the Dark
- An Evening with V.M. Straka (we mean Doug Dorst)
- Torrent of Words (a book about a WWI fighter and poet – see p380)
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I would suggest adding a link to the Taman Shud case (a.k.a. Somerton Man) as being a very likely inspiration for the Santorini Man – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case
Good idea. Will do.
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Just an interesting real world (outside of S) coincidence: I found Václav Straka!
http://www.pametnaroda.cz/witness/index/id/605
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