Someone may find it, or it may sit on the shelf for years and years. At least if someone buys them all and sells them, someone who wants a copy can get it. Double edged sword
Paul M. I don’t think your reasoning is wrong, but I was thinking more of the heart of that person who is faced with that decision of whether to take all three or leave one behind.
I pick up the first book of the Wheel of Time and a Song of Fire and Ice whenever I see one at my local goodwill shops. I do this to keep people from being tricked into the series. It also makes the later books go into discount for people who are too late to save.
I have a signed First ed of Integral Trees somewhere. I walked into my local SF specialist one day and found Larry Niven, Frank Herbert, Ann McCaffrey and Jack Chalker signing !
You're videos are very informative in shedding light on various scifi books. Giving reviews, showing covers, and bits of info will encourage others to buy and read more scifi.
Thomas Mann's one of my favorite authors of all time. The Magic Mountain remains one of the best novels I've ever read, and I read Joseph and His Brothers not too long ago, a true epic!
I have heard the word 'meme' attributed Richard Dawkins. It says he coined the word in his 1976 book THE SELFISH GENE. And I have also heard it attributed to Norman Mailer of all people.
It absolutely from Richard Dawkins and I read that book when it first came out. The word sat around for decades until, like an improbable meme, it took off again about 15 years ago. That's memes for you.
That Brunner Catch a Falling Star is a re-publish of his first Ace Double novel the 100th Millennium. Ace cut huge chucks out of the novel and in 1968 he restored and re-edited it thus the retitle.
I can relate to adding to a collection. I want to keep everything. To not become a hoarder, I’ve gotten into listing everything and keep until they sell…space pending of course.
I have all (I think) four volumes of Quark; I bought all four together in the mid-1970's. There are later unrelated magazines with the same name. This is the first time I've ever seen another copy of any of this series.
Thanks. Loved when you said ‘Cliff Simak, my close personal friend’ and you smiled. He is an author that fascinates me. I’d love to have meet him, but sure I’d mess up any conversation I tried to have with him! I’m on a quest to learn much more about him.
Your "Outlaw of Gor" is a first edition from December 1967 in what appears to be very good condition. This is a collectors item and I hope you get what it's worth.
@@salty-walt i already commented it on one of his other videos, but mentioned it here because the author's name came up and i actually think it is that good. he also seemed unfamiliar with the name, although chinese pronunciation is a bit inscrutable to the unintroduced westerner. i also haven't heard him mention the author in any of his other vids, and since i think it deserves to be considered as part of the Great Scifi Canon, it's worth repeat mentionings to all parties involved.
I love your channel. Your candid and spontaneous reviews have the ring of truth. I don’t always agree with your assessment of books we have read in common. But your viewpoint is always intelligent and fun to watch.
I keep acting as the French pronunciation police on the tube, but c'est la vie, I guess? J.-K. Huysmans' name is pronounced wheess + mahn. Killer haul, my friend
I have that copy of Huysman's Against Nature from my university studies in the 80s. An amazing book, well worth reading. Didn't know it was rare. I also have a thrifted copy of Joanna Russ's The Adventures of Alyx which I bought maybe 30 years ago and still haven't read (it's The Women's Press SF edition). I have never ever heard anyone talk about it, or even about Joanna Russ. I think that's my next read. Thanks for an interesting haul!
Italian pronunciation quirks became regionalized here in the US with immigration; I am told they are not recognized/understood by Italians from Italy. The pronunciation "BOTCH-a GAL-oop" (my ex girlfriend) is the New Jersey version. The other version is probably also correct. Here in NJ they pronounce prosciutto - "pra-ZHOOT." But New Jersey has the biggest concentration of Italians in the US (I am not one of them), so maybe they carry some weight. Eastern NJ is the only US region where the primary nationality background is Italian. The Gor books you show might be first editions. Only later volumes (and not as good, I am told) were DAWs. One of my friends is the illustrator of the Goosebumps covers (among other cool stuff). We both agree that the state of TPB book covers these days (lots of graphics versus actual illustration) is deplorable. This week, I picked up two original Mickey Spillane paperbacks; Swords and Sorcery edited by DeCamp (1963); and The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (Avon 1949). Yeah, I like old stuff. I love a good book haul video. Thanks.
Whoever ends up with the A. Merritt books is going to have a fine time relaxing with some early Fantasy adventures; actually, The Ship of Ishtar - my favourite of the two - is more along the lines of a rousing sea adventure, while The Moon Pool is the moodier, creepier tale. Just depends whether one is ready for a Sinbad-type excursion (Ship of Ishtar), or more of a Lovecraft/Bram Stoker mash-up (Moon Pool). Or both! I think my fave Merritt so far is Burn, Witch Burn!, then Ishtar. Looking forward to the next 5-book round-up. Thanks for the quick progress report.
I really liked Robinson's Mars trilogy. He sets up a clever device that really delivers the narrative. Most books or series that involve a multi-generational span kinda lose their thrust. In this the main characters have some kind of life-prolonging meds that keep them in the entire length of the story.
You have the best hauls, I learn a lot from the background you give on the books you've found. I'm currently reading "Breakfast of Champions," having just finished a collection of Robert E. Howard short stories & novellas. I always look forward to seeing what you find in the wild; that signed Bradbury was quite a catch.
The word "meme" actually comes from evolutionary biology, first coined by Richard Dawkins in the book, "The Selfish Gene." They are put forth as being an analogue to genes whereby they serve to transmit from person to person various cultural ideas, principles, symbols, etc. An entire field of study, called memetics, arose in the 90s to study the impact of memes in relation to evolution. For bettter or worse, it was hijacked by popular culture to also apply to internet clips and such. Perhaps that phase was initiated by Rushkoff.
Correct. Rushkoff was instrumental in popularizing it in a lot of his pop-sociology books from the 90s and aughts..... like Media Virus and Coercion, and his novel Ecstasy Club, about the early rave scene in the bay area (which I will admit to being way too into when I was younger lol)
I didn't realize Rushkoff developed the modern iteration of memetics, which branched off Richard Dawkins creation of the word (same thing, just much broader)
It's good to see Titan appear on a book channel, even if briefly. I enjoyed Varley's Titan/Wizard/Demon series when I read it long ago, and I never see a reference to it (much like Alien Speedway). The series does get kind of weird as it goes on, though. The only book I have re-read more than The Andromeda Strain is The Foundation Trilogy.
The Satyricon edition is lovely. An interesting aspect of that book is that it was what some consider the first (or at least a very early) example of decadent literature. Huysmans' main character in Against Nature talks about it quite a bit.
The first 8 Gor books were published by Ballentine Books and the rest were published by DAW Books. The first few books actually have some good world building.
the slipcase hardcover of Satyricon is no joke. Very important work and Proto-Fantasy influence on genre. ---- Also those two Gor books have excellent covers ( not that Boris V's covers aren't good ) and the first 3 books are the ones that are old fashion adventure tales in the ER Burroughs tradition without the S&M bondage stuff in later books.
Good wishes on you. Do beter at school next year and you get 'beter wishes'. Get accepted into a proper university and you might get 'best wishes'. X grandpa. :P
I highly recommend Harry Turtledove's Videssos books--fantasy inspired by the Byzantine empire. It is a crime that the Misplaced Legion and Krispos series have not been reprinted in hardcover editions.
I've read Petronius -'The Satyricon' is often described as the oldest novel in the world- it's good, but fragmentary and episodic as some of the text is lost. The Fellini film of it is a blast. I've read 'Serotonin' too, but then I like MH's stuff- bracingly grim. Huysmans is the man. You should keep that 'Quark', Matt, as they are uncommon and important. M John Harrison is a genius and I think he'll resonate with you, great guy I've known for decades. Keep the Merrit and Cabell, too, I'd say- required reading. Good vid as ever!
I read "Dark They Were, And Golden Eyed" with 7th graders this fall. It was rather surreal, because I read it myself in 7th grade, a good 35 years ago. It made me think of the sci-fireplace.
Someday I may plead with you to do a sharp , crisp 14 min video on how and why genre cover art was superior to modern genre art/ book design of today. It's at a point where finding sci fi / fantasy in the wild just for the covers is worth it!
Not to pre-steal Matt's thunder, but I have a video coming up on this- plus I think Matt and I will have different but complimentary takes on this, being of different generations. But I'd like a clip on this from Matt too.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal There's also the US/UK subjective taste issues to add to the complementary spice. ( Was that the one with the little spirals in her hair?) You know I've got long term issues surrounding airbrushed science fiction covers which in the States usually signaled a children's book from scholastic, or a knockoff of such, where in the UK it was a sign that the book might be off the standard path. At least we all agree that Chris Foss is boss.
@@waltera13 -Yes, the transatlantic barroer aesthetic. Foss is bosss- well, after Jim Burns for me. You'll find my upcoming SF covers vid will have a spin you won't find elsewhere- have a great day, my friend!
I’m a screenwriter and love sci-fi. Recently I was told my feature is too high budget to sell on its own and it was recommended I write it as a novel first to get fan backing. I love the sci-fi they’re adapting, but I also wish sci-fi could have its own movie space where audiences don’t know what’s going to happen. Using a script to write a novel (or adapting your idea into a script and then writing it as a novel) is great for pacing and action, especially in the sci-fi thriller space. But good lord do I wish people could experience the world without preconceptions. I’ve also seen what happens when books are adapted and it’s usually pretty awful.
No one could argue with your view about the awfulness of most novel adaptations, of course. However, there are a (relatively small) number of film adaptations that drastically improve on the source texts! For example, after watching Christopher Nolan's film "The Prestige" (one of my all-time favorites), it led me to seek out the eponymous novel by Christopher Priest. I very strongly recommend against bothering to read it! It's utter garbage (my opinion, of course), and it took considerable self-control to slog my way to the end, but I strive not to compare two works of art without seeing them in their entirety. I even corresponded with Priest after I read his vicious attacks on the film, trying to determine if there was anything substantive to his complaints. There was not -- it was mere jealousy. How sad. A pair of examples are the two film adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's "Solaris". Lem gets a great deal of praise for his novels, particularly "Solaris". But n contrast to the other Lem novels I've read ("Return from the Stars" and "His Master's Voice"), in my view "Solaris" pales severely. It was badly diminished by technological and practical oversights, for one criticism. So in comparison, both film adaptations, by Tarkovsky (1972) and Soderbergh (2002), excel over Lem's novel. But Tarkovsky's film desperately needed something approaching an hour cut from the extremely dull and turgid waste of good celluloid (insomniacs take note). Consider just how much time he wasted showing us seemingly mile upon mile of freeways seen from a car. The conversations en route were of little value and could have been compressed into the space between two off-ramps. Whereas Soderbergh's work is, again in just my view, a great treasure. I would say that it vastly transcends both the novel and the earlier film. I'd list other examples, but this is far too long already. The point of all that chatter is that the commonly held notion that film adaptations are always (or nearly always) unworthy of the source novel is simply unjustified.
Have you heard of Marko Kloos - Terms of Enlistment? It's the first book in the series: Frontlines. It got me hooked in and wondered your thoughts on it.
Hate to be that guy but Rushkoff didn't invent the word meme, that would be Dawkins. Richard Dawkins. In the book "The Selfish Gene" in the 1970s. Though Rushkoff was one of the popularizers of the term in the 90s into the aughts. I remember reading his book "Ecstasy Club" in college. which was about the early 90s rave scene in the Bay Area, and the "meme" concept plays heavily in the plot. He's got a new book out that's all about the billionaires building their bunkers to survive the apocalypse. Supposed to be great. I was also a big fan of his books in HS and college, in the sort of Y2K "Adbusters" era of independent media....
Nice Bradbury book. I read "earthmen and strangers" in about 3 sittings this past summer. Found it in a store near me called "The Great Escape" Vinyl, comics, etc. BTW totally off subject I have become aware that Greg Bear passed away in November. Just surprised I hadn't seen anything on youtube anywhere. His Blood Music is so great.
Love your videos and analysis. However, fyi Richard Dawkins coined the term meme as a replicating entity within a culture, like a gene in biology in his book "The Selfish Gene" 1976
I recognize that name Bartram because I recently listened to The Bald Eagle by Jack E. Davis(2022) which is largely a history book (I tend to read more nature related nonfiction than history so I went in thinking it was more in that direction than it was. I find that nature books can be just as amazing as science fiction books at times). Anyway Bartram is featured a good amount early in the book alongside Audubon and other naturalists in the colonial and early American times. I looked up the book when it rung a bell for me watching your video and I recognized that I had already looked it up recently. Anyway so there might be a few more people interested in his work now. It's rare you to see your showing a nonfiction book here. When I occasionally pick up a book to flip it's almost always nonfiction.
A Bradbury autographed to ME? I mean, my birthday just passed, but it's really sweet that you tried, that you thought of me! I'm sorry though, it's probably inappropriate to accept gifts like this from you without ever having spoken to you in person. And I put a moratorium on buying books myself, so . . . although I appreciate it, I'll have to decline. I'm sorry. Thanks again.
I have that same Toynbee Convector, First Edition, First Printing, Mint Condition, signed in green felt marker which, of course, bled through the page (the man was addicted to felt markers for signing things). Nevertheless, you ARE cooler than me, I must concede. Nice haul. 👏
BP does that "Best of Isaac Asimov" 12 stories book contain a story titled "Victory Unintentional"? Great haul and, how goes the "Alliance"? I've got that "Tarnsman of Gor" edition, original Ballantine issue. It was good reading IMO, at the tender age of 17. Thanks for link to the auction. Great post as always! Cheers.
I found a Casca #1 recently. It was in great shape but not long after buying it the cover came off because it was very brittle near the binding. Almost like it was perforated. I got it for a good price and I actually want to read it so I'm not too mad about it but it did bum me out.
Skull-face is a fun collection of pulpy Sax Rohmer-type “yellow peril” mystery-horror yarns. Keep it. The photo on the back of Death in Venice is the young actor from the movie adaptation.
Many Thanks, as always, for the memory tour! Speaking of Vonnegut, have you run across Kilgore Trout’s (aka P. H. Farmer) Venus on the Half-Shell yet? Thanks for showing the Wind and The Willows-I just found my old fave, Make Way for Ducklings! You just jogged my memory of Watership Down btw-that (and especially the animated movie-1978 ish) was pretty horrific for Children‘s Lit by today’s standards. Ahhh, the Seventies ;) Anyway, Cheers!
Got a Children of Time today in my local 'kringloop' (like a thrift store but without a profit goal and subsidized by local government), €2.50. Good as new and unread. Score!
I was under the impression that bookclub editions weren't worth anything. And even if "first edition" they are just cheap reprints often of paperback originals. To me, the first edition paperback would be worth way more. I don't even buy bookclub editions when I see them. Should I change my ways?
I’m fairly new to the science fiction world, but why do older sci-fi covers seem so much more inspired than modern ones? Modern cover art seems to be bland a lot of the times, whereas I look at classic sci-fi covers and instantly think, damn, that looks interesting…I wonder what it’s about? They really catch your eye.
William Bartram's travels in Georgia and Florida in the 1770s and his interactions with the native Americans is really great. He describes some slave-holding Indians being "active, bold and clamorous" while their slaves (subjugated Indians) are the opposite. I read a selection of his writings that was intro'ed by James Dickey. Admittedly the lists of botanical species does get a little tiresome.
Nice. I need an ugly copy of A Case of Conscience. I travel with whatever I'm reading and my copy of CoC is a nice first book club edition which shan't leave the house.
_Ministry for the Future_ is very much in the mode of documentary fiction and to that extent possibly the most KSR book KSR has written so far. I think you would possible have to be _very interested_ in climate change to get a lot out of it. 2140 has a similar background, but a lot more of the traditional pleasures of character and story.
Hi. I enjoy your channel. I require your help. I'm looking for a sci-fi book I read around 45 years ago. I guy, working for a corporation, crashed on a planet. The planet was silicone and crystal based. Animal and environment. His space suit gets ripped to shreds, by the "rocks" and "ground ". The only way to survive is to build a suit from the environment. There's of course, more, but it's been a long time. I'm hoping you or any of your subscribers may have an idea. Thank you.
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The world can use more people that leave one copy behind rather than take all three. You did good.
S'truth.
Someone may find it, or it may sit on the shelf for years and years. At least if someone buys them all and sells them, someone who wants a copy can get it. Double edged sword
Paul M. I don’t think your reasoning is wrong, but I was thinking more of the heart of that person who is faced with that decision of whether to take all three or leave one behind.
I pick up the first book of the Wheel of Time and a Song of Fire and Ice whenever I see one at my local goodwill shops. I do this to keep people from being tricked into the series. It also makes the later books go into discount for people who are too late to save.
So many cool books. Quite the haul. It was neat seeing a lot of both new covers (to me) and covers that I haven't seen since a kid.
I have a signed First ed of Integral Trees somewhere. I walked into my local SF specialist one day and found Larry Niven, Frank Herbert, Ann McCaffrey and Jack Chalker signing !
You're videos are very informative in shedding light on various scifi books. Giving reviews, showing covers, and bits of info will encourage others to buy and read more scifi.
What a treat. A double whammy of book hauls, from you and Moid!!!
Thomas Mann's one of my favorite authors of all time. The Magic Mountain remains one of the best novels I've ever read, and I read Joseph and His Brothers not too long ago, a true epic!
I have heard the word 'meme' attributed Richard Dawkins. It says he coined the word in his 1976 book THE SELFISH GENE. And I have also heard it attributed to Norman Mailer of all people.
Came here to say this.
Me too
It absolutely from Richard Dawkins and I read that book when it first came out. The word sat around for decades until, like an improbable meme, it took off again about 15 years ago. That's memes for you.
That Brunner Catch a Falling Star is a re-publish of his first Ace Double novel the 100th Millennium. Ace cut huge chucks out of the novel and in 1968 he restored and re-edited it thus the retitle.
I can relate to adding to a collection. I want to keep everything. To not become a hoarder, I’ve gotten into listing everything and keep until they sell…space pending of course.
I have all (I think) four volumes of Quark; I bought all four together in the mid-1970's. There are later unrelated magazines with the same name. This is the first time I've ever seen another copy of any of this series.
This channel is a gem
"Could be wrong...on...everything in my life" 😂
Thanks. Loved when you said ‘Cliff Simak, my close personal friend’ and you smiled. He is an author that fascinates me. I’d love to have meet him, but sure I’d mess up any conversation I tried to have with him! I’m on a quest to learn much more about him.
Your "Outlaw of Gor" is a first edition from December 1967 in what appears to be very good condition. This is a collectors item and I hope you get what it's worth.
Darn! I gave all my Casca books to a friend a few years ago, including N.1. Never thought they'd be worth money...
cixin liu (2:55) wrote the three body problem, one of the best scifi series ever imo. read it
Wow. I bet he's never heard of it & never been told that.
@@salty-walt Irresistible irony.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Thanks Steve! My" secret t-shirt phrase" by the way is " Magnetic Irony" so, pretty close. . . ;)
@@salty-walt i already commented it on one of his other videos, but mentioned it here because the author's name came up and i actually think it is that good. he also seemed unfamiliar with the name, although chinese pronunciation is a bit inscrutable to the unintroduced westerner. i also haven't heard him mention the author in any of his other vids, and since i think it deserves to be considered as part of the Great Scifi Canon, it's worth repeat mentionings to all parties involved.
It's my favorite. Hey Fit 2B read! Haha
. seems I run into you everywhere lol
That boy on the back of the Thomas Mann book is the actor who played the object of affection in Visconti’s film adaptation of Death In Venice
That copy of "Antimony" by Robinson is, I think, super rare.
I love your channel. Your candid and spontaneous reviews have the ring of truth. I don’t always agree with your assessment of books we have read in common. But your viewpoint is always intelligent and fun to watch.
"The World Inside" (also, "A Happy Day in blah blah"): best read at age 14 or so.
I keep acting as the French pronunciation police on the tube, but c'est la vie, I guess? J.-K. Huysmans' name is pronounced wheess + mahn. Killer haul, my friend
Love that edition of The World Inside. It’s also one of the reasons I read so much science fiction now. From your recommendation actually, thanks
I have that copy of Huysman's Against Nature from my university studies in the 80s. An amazing book, well worth reading. Didn't know it was rare. I also have a thrifted copy of Joanna Russ's The Adventures of Alyx which I bought maybe 30 years ago and still haven't read (it's The Women's Press SF edition). I have never ever heard anyone talk about it, or even about Joanna Russ. I think that's my next read. Thanks for an interesting haul!
Italian pronunciation quirks became regionalized here in the US with immigration; I am told they are not recognized/understood by Italians from Italy. The pronunciation "BOTCH-a GAL-oop" (my ex girlfriend) is the New Jersey version. The other version is probably also correct. Here in NJ they pronounce prosciutto - "pra-ZHOOT." But New Jersey has the biggest concentration of Italians in the US (I am not one of them), so maybe they carry some weight. Eastern NJ is the only US region where the primary nationality background is Italian.
The Gor books you show might be first editions. Only later volumes (and not as good, I am told) were DAWs.
One of my friends is the illustrator of the Goosebumps covers (among other cool stuff). We both agree that the state of TPB book covers these days (lots of graphics versus actual illustration) is deplorable.
This week, I picked up two original Mickey Spillane paperbacks; Swords and Sorcery edited by DeCamp (1963); and The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (Avon 1949). Yeah, I like old stuff.
I love a good book haul video. Thanks.
The SF Masterworks are also quite common in Canada, if you ever get north of the border
Don't know if any one as pedantic as me have answered yet, but an Anthology has numerous authors and a Collection is just one author.
The word 'Meme' first appeared in The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins in 1976.
For Butler, i only see new copies and have yet to come across a used one. Ridiculously rare to come across a used copy
Whoever ends up with the A. Merritt books is going to have a fine time relaxing with some early Fantasy adventures; actually, The Ship of Ishtar - my favourite of the two - is more along the lines of a rousing sea adventure, while The Moon Pool is the moodier, creepier tale. Just depends whether one is ready for a Sinbad-type excursion (Ship of Ishtar), or more of a Lovecraft/Bram Stoker mash-up (Moon Pool). Or both! I think my fave Merritt so far is Burn, Witch Burn!, then Ishtar.
Looking forward to the next 5-book round-up. Thanks for the quick progress report.
Anthologies contain stories by multiple authors. Collections contain stories by a single author. That's the code.
...and that Mann is a film tie-in cover, by the way.
I really liked Robinson's Mars trilogy. He sets up a clever device that really delivers the narrative. Most books or series that involve a multi-generational span kinda lose their thrust. In this the main characters have some kind of life-prolonging meds that keep them in the entire length of the story.
You have the best hauls, I learn a lot from the background you give on the books you've found. I'm currently reading "Breakfast of Champions," having just finished a collection of Robert E. Howard short stories & novellas. I always look forward to seeing what you find in the wild; that signed Bradbury was quite a catch.
The word "meme" actually comes from evolutionary biology, first coined by Richard Dawkins in the book, "The Selfish Gene." They are put forth as being an analogue to genes whereby they serve to transmit from person to person various cultural ideas, principles, symbols, etc. An entire field of study, called memetics, arose in the 90s to study the impact of memes in relation to evolution. For bettter or worse, it was hijacked by popular culture to also apply to internet clips and such. Perhaps that phase was initiated by Rushkoff.
Correct. Rushkoff was instrumental in popularizing it in a lot of his pop-sociology books from the 90s and aughts..... like Media Virus and Coercion, and his novel Ecstasy Club, about the early rave scene in the bay area (which I will admit to being way too into when I was younger lol)
I didn't realize Rushkoff developed the modern iteration of memetics, which branched off Richard Dawkins creation of the word (same thing, just much broader)
Always fun to view great content. A big haul with some wild books.
It's good to see Titan appear on a book channel, even if briefly. I enjoyed Varley's Titan/Wizard/Demon series when I read it long ago, and I never see a reference to it (much like Alien Speedway). The series does get kind of weird as it goes on, though.
The only book I have re-read more than The Andromeda Strain is The Foundation Trilogy.
The Satyricon edition is lovely. An interesting aspect of that book is that it was what some consider the first (or at least a very early) example of decadent literature. Huysmans' main character in Against Nature talks about it quite a bit.
Don’t know that book but Alan Dean Foster wrote a number of fun SF books.
The first 8 Gor books were published by Ballentine Books and the rest were published by DAW Books. The first few books actually have some good world building.
the slipcase hardcover of Satyricon is no joke. Very important work and Proto-Fantasy influence on genre.
---- Also those two Gor books have excellent covers ( not that Boris V's covers aren't good ) and the first 3 books are the ones that are old fashion adventure tales in the ER Burroughs tradition without the S&M bondage stuff in later books.
wayland drew I believe is John Brunner
Ray Bradbury's picture gives off perfect Grandpa vibes.
Good wishes on you. Do beter at school next year and you get 'beter wishes'. Get accepted into a proper university and you might get 'best wishes'. X grandpa. :P
Somewhat of an origins issue. Dad read "Wind in the Willows" to me at bedtime when I was three. It was full steam ahead from there. Stay safe.
I highly recommend Harry Turtledove's Videssos books--fantasy inspired by the Byzantine empire. It is a crime that the Misplaced Legion and Krispos series have not been reprinted in hardcover editions.
I've read Petronius -'The Satyricon' is often described as the oldest novel in the world- it's good, but fragmentary and episodic as some of the text is lost. The Fellini film of it is a blast. I've read 'Serotonin' too, but then I like MH's stuff- bracingly grim. Huysmans is the man. You should keep that 'Quark', Matt, as they are uncommon and important. M John Harrison is a genius and I think he'll resonate with you, great guy I've known for decades. Keep the Merrit and Cabell, too, I'd say- required reading. Good vid as ever!
Thanks, Stephen. I saw Pastel City crop up in one of your vids and have been hoping to run into it. Hope you're well.
@@Bookpilled I'm fine thanks, Matt. Old and in the way but still rockin' it!
I read "Dark They Were, And Golden Eyed" with 7th graders this fall. It was rather surreal, because I read it myself in 7th grade, a good 35 years ago. It made me think of the sci-fireplace.
You keep showing books that I still had, (Before a catastrophic house fire a few years back.) and it's a little jarring. Keep it up.
Someday I may plead with you to do a sharp , crisp 14 min video on how and why genre cover art was superior to modern genre art/ book design of today. It's at a point where finding sci fi / fantasy in the wild just for the covers is worth it!
Not to pre-steal Matt's thunder, but I have a video coming up on this- plus I think Matt and I will have different but complimentary takes on this, being of different generations. But I'd like a clip on this from Matt too.
I'll agree with you on that!
@@outlawbookselleroriginal There's also the US/UK subjective taste issues to add to the complementary spice. ( Was that the one with the little spirals in her hair?) You know I've got long term issues surrounding airbrushed science fiction covers which in the States usually signaled a children's book from scholastic, or a knockoff of such, where in the UK it was a sign that the book might be off the standard path. At least we all agree that Chris Foss is boss.
@@waltera13 -Yes, the transatlantic barroer aesthetic. Foss is bosss- well, after Jim Burns for me. You'll find my upcoming SF covers vid will have a spin you won't find elsewhere- have a great day, my friend!
I’m a screenwriter and love sci-fi. Recently I was told my feature is too high budget to sell on its own and it was recommended I write it as a novel first to get fan backing. I love the sci-fi they’re adapting, but I also wish sci-fi could have its own movie space where audiences don’t know what’s going to happen. Using a script to write a novel (or adapting your idea into a script and then writing it as a novel) is great for pacing and action, especially in the sci-fi thriller space. But good lord do I wish people could experience the world without preconceptions.
I’ve also seen what happens when books are adapted and it’s usually pretty awful.
No one could argue with your view about the awfulness of most novel adaptations, of course. However, there are a (relatively small) number of film adaptations that drastically improve on the source texts! For example, after watching Christopher Nolan's film "The Prestige" (one of my all-time favorites), it led me to seek out the eponymous novel by Christopher Priest. I very strongly recommend against bothering to read it! It's utter garbage (my opinion, of course), and it took considerable self-control to slog my way to the end, but I strive not to compare two works of art without seeing them in their entirety. I even corresponded with Priest after I read his vicious attacks on the film, trying to determine if there was anything substantive to his complaints. There was not -- it was mere jealousy. How sad.
A pair of examples are the two film adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's "Solaris". Lem gets a great deal of praise for his novels, particularly "Solaris". But n contrast to the other Lem novels I've read ("Return from the Stars" and "His Master's Voice"), in my view "Solaris" pales severely. It was badly diminished by technological and practical oversights, for one criticism. So in comparison, both film adaptations, by Tarkovsky (1972) and Soderbergh (2002), excel over Lem's novel.
But Tarkovsky's film desperately needed something approaching an hour cut from the extremely dull and turgid waste of good celluloid (insomniacs take note). Consider just how much time he wasted showing us seemingly mile upon mile of freeways seen from a car. The conversations en route were of little value and could have been compressed into the space between two off-ramps. Whereas Soderbergh's work is, again in just my view, a great treasure. I would say that it vastly transcends both the novel and the earlier film.
I'd list other examples, but this is far too long already. The point of all that chatter is that the commonly held notion that film adaptations are always (or nearly always) unworthy of the source novel is simply unjustified.
Have you heard of Marko Kloos - Terms of Enlistment? It's the first book in the series: Frontlines. It got me hooked in and wondered your thoughts on it.
Some of the gore books were forbidden in germany up until the end of the 90s, due to a huge idealization of slaving and violence
Hate to be that guy but Rushkoff didn't invent the word meme, that would be Dawkins. Richard Dawkins. In the book "The Selfish Gene" in the 1970s.
Though Rushkoff was one of the popularizers of the term in the 90s into the aughts. I remember reading his book "Ecstasy Club" in college. which was about the early 90s rave scene in the Bay Area, and the "meme" concept plays heavily in the plot. He's got a new book out that's all about the billionaires building their bunkers to survive the apocalypse. Supposed to be great. I was also a big fan of his books in HS and college, in the sort of Y2K "Adbusters" era of independent media....
Just when I saw the thumbnail my jaw dropped.
Nice Bradbury book. I read "earthmen and strangers" in about 3 sittings this past summer. Found it in a store near me called "The Great Escape" Vinyl, comics, etc. BTW totally off subject I have become aware that Greg Bear passed away in November. Just surprised I hadn't seen anything on youtube anywhere. His Blood Music is so great.
Just bought Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (Penguin Classics one). Let's see if this book really lives up to it's name.
That Will Smith edition of “Willow” looks interesting. And I’m loving that orbit 2! and that edition of “Titan“ holy cow I want! Love that book.
Love your videos and analysis. However, fyi Richard Dawkins coined the term meme as a replicating entity within a culture, like a gene in biology in his book "The Selfish Gene" 1976
Oh this was a fun haul!
Definitely give Neal Asher a try. His work is full on epic space opera.
I recognize that name Bartram because I recently listened to The Bald Eagle by Jack E. Davis(2022) which is largely a history book (I tend to read more nature related nonfiction than history so I went in thinking it was more in that direction than it was. I find that nature books can be just as amazing as science fiction books at times). Anyway Bartram is featured a good amount early in the book alongside Audubon and other naturalists in the colonial and early American times. I looked up the book when it rung a bell for me watching your video and I recognized that I had already looked it up recently. Anyway so there might be a few more people interested in his work now.
It's rare you to see your showing a nonfiction book here. When I occasionally pick up a book to flip it's almost always nonfiction.
A Bradbury autographed to ME?
I mean, my birthday just passed, but it's really sweet that you tried, that you thought of me! I'm sorry though, it's probably inappropriate to accept gifts like this from you without ever having spoken to you in person. And I put a moratorium on buying books myself, so . . . although I appreciate it, I'll have to decline. I'm sorry.
Thanks again.
I have that same Toynbee Convector, First Edition, First Printing, Mint Condition, signed in green felt marker which, of course, bled through the page (the man was addicted to felt markers for signing things). Nevertheless, you ARE cooler than me, I must concede.
Nice haul. 👏
Integral Trees is fun
BP does that "Best of Isaac Asimov" 12 stories book contain a story titled "Victory Unintentional"? Great haul and, how goes the "Alliance"? I've got that "Tarnsman of Gor" edition, original Ballantine issue. It was good reading IMO, at the tender age of 17. Thanks for link to the auction. Great post as always! Cheers.
great haul. what camera do you use? Your vids are CRISP!
Ishtar really got me contemplating many orbs
I found a Casca #1 recently. It was in great shape but not long after buying it the cover came off because it was very brittle near the binding. Almost like it was perforated.
I got it for a good price and I actually want to read it so I'm not too mad about it but it did bum me out.
Skull-face is a fun collection of pulpy Sax Rohmer-type “yellow peril” mystery-horror yarns. Keep it. The photo on the back of Death in Venice is the young actor from the movie adaptation.
NICE! First book up is Midworld, with a sweet Rich Corben cover! :)
The Gor books were a joke back at the SF society at Birmingham University. Universally panned! Are they due a reappraisal?
I actually just started reading Catch a Falling Star. It’s a little heavy on info up front but that’s Brunner.
That Orbit 2 cover is awesome
Ministry of the Future is excellent, starts off really strong too.
I recently read "Earthmen and strangers" got the same edition as you have. I really liked it,some great stories.
MIdworld I read and reread that as a kid.
Lols, you're going to have some fun with The Satyricon if you're going into it blind. I won't give anything away. Fascinating backstory about it too
Many Thanks, as always, for the memory tour! Speaking of Vonnegut, have you run across Kilgore Trout’s (aka P. H. Farmer) Venus on the Half-Shell yet?
Thanks for showing the Wind and The Willows-I just found my old fave, Make Way for Ducklings!
You just jogged my memory of Watership Down btw-that (and especially the animated movie-1978 ish) was pretty horrific for Children‘s Lit by today’s standards. Ahhh, the Seventies ;) Anyway, Cheers!
I saw a copy of Venus yesterday, actually. They had it priced at $30.
@@Bookpilled Nice! I’m glad it‘s still around…
I have a copy of Venus in excellent condition than I snagged for a couple bucks from a used bookstore that obviously didn't know what they had.
i've really been enjoying your videos since discovering your channel. What do you use for tracking your collection?
My fuzzy mental recall
Got a Children of Time today in my local 'kringloop' (like a thrift store but without a profit goal and subsidized by local government), €2.50. Good as new and unread. Score!
Richard Dawkins 'invented' the world 'meme', in 'The Selfish Gene'.
Three copies of Casca #1 !?!?!?!?!
Woah!! Exciting stuff 🎉
I was under the impression that bookclub editions weren't worth anything. And even if "first edition" they are just cheap reprints often of paperback originals. To me, the first edition paperback would be worth way more. I don't even buy bookclub editions when I see them. Should I change my ways?
I’m fairly new to the science fiction world, but why do older sci-fi covers seem so much more inspired than modern ones? Modern cover art seems to be bland a lot of the times, whereas I look at classic sci-fi covers and instantly think, damn, that looks interesting…I wonder what it’s about? They really catch your eye.
I just found a signed Bradbury for $1.25 today
Send that Anne Mccaffrey set to Bob.
William Bartram's travels in Georgia and Florida in the 1770s and his interactions with the native Americans is really great. He describes some slave-holding Indians being "active, bold and clamorous" while their slaves (subjugated Indians) are the opposite. I read a selection of his writings that was intro'ed by James Dickey. Admittedly the lists of botanical species does get a little tiresome.
Did you get that book in Maxwell s house of books?
I'll add that The Integral Trees is the only Niven I didn't like. :-)
That is quite the haul. What city is this guy in? I want to go there and be a book hound.
Cool, looking forward to the reviews.
Tell your friend Cliff I enjoyed his little known book City I got from your auction after he gifted it to you.
This was pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Anonymous Troll Demon.
Nice. I need an ugly copy of A Case of Conscience. I travel with whatever I'm reading and my copy of CoC is a nice first book club edition which shan't leave the house.
_Ministry for the Future_ is very much in the mode of documentary fiction and to that extent possibly the most KSR book KSR has written so far. I think you would possible have to be _very interested_ in climate change to get a lot out of it. 2140 has a similar background, but a lot more of the traditional pleasures of character and story.
Awesome haul. Dunno about Gor. Isn't that really just Conan ripoff type stuff?
Neal Asher is Iain M Banks on steroids. Entertaining stuff, but some of the violence gets so extreme that it's ridiculous.
Hi. I enjoy your channel. I require your help. I'm looking for a sci-fi book I read around 45 years ago.
I guy, working for a corporation, crashed on a planet.
The planet was silicone and crystal based. Animal and environment. His space suit gets ripped to shreds, by the "rocks" and "ground ". The only way to survive is to build a suit from the environment.
There's of course, more, but it's been a long time.
I'm hoping you or any of your subscribers may have an idea. Thank you.