title: Stonehenge: A New Interpretation of Prehistoric Man and the Cosmos
author: John North
description: North (history and philosophy of science, Gronigen Univ., Netherlands; The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology, LJ 7/94) brings his distinguished background in astronomy to this study of Neolithic monuments. His aim is "to discover certain patterns of intellectual and religious behavior through a study of archaeological remains that seem to have been deliberately directed in some way towards phenomena in the heavens." Most of this book is a painstakingly detailed on-site investigation. Judging from the scale of Stonehenge and other monuments that incorporated astronomical alignments, North argues that the heavens played a central place in Neolithic and Bronze Age religion. While this major achievement belongs in all collections on Stonehenge, only the most tenacious general reader will persevere to the end.?Joan W. Gartland, Detroit P.L.<br />Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: The Stone City
  THE STONE CITY
  Martin, George R. R.
  The crossworlds had a thousand names. Human starcharts listed it as Grayrest, when they listed it at all—
  which was seldom, for it lay a decade's journey inward from the realms of men. The Dan'lai named it 
  Empty in their high, barking tongue. To the ul-mennaleith, who had known it longest, it was simply the 
  world of the stone city. The Kresh had a word for it, as did the Linkellar, and the Cedrans, and other 
  races had landed there and left again, so other names lingered on. But mostly it was the crossworlds to 
  the beings who paused there briefly while they jumped from star to star. 
  It was a barren place, a world of gray oceans and endless plains where the windstorms raged. But for the 
  spacefield and the stone city, it was empty and lifeless. The field was at least five thousand years old, as 
  men count time. The ul-nayileith had built it in the glory days when they claimed the ullish stars, and for 
  a hundred generations it had m