Other “S” Resources

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

• S. Wiki

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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