Thursday Link Salad

Like the title says:

1) In this age of ebooks being a "revolution in publishing" a useful reminder - paperbacks were once revolutionary too.

2) Of interest to military readers - Deconstructing Dieppe, a history of a battle whose name has become a "metaphor for military disaster."

3) This guy says swordfighting is not what you think it is.

4) From the same web site, 10 myths about space travel that make science fiction better.