In The Zone: STRUGATSKY BROTHERS 'Roadside Picnic' Unboxing (+ Benchley & Boulle)
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- Steve takes delivery of the standard Folio Society edition of 'Roadside Picnic' (aka 'STALKER'), 'Jaws' (Peter Benchley) and 'Planet of the Apes' (Pierre Boulle). Nice!
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I have quite a few Folios and 'with minor emendations' is a standard inclusion. I am fairly sure that it refers to nothing more sinister than the odd punctuation tweak and so on. I have never noticed even the slightest changes to actual text.
That's almost certainly the case, but these days, with Fleming and Dahl being tackled by the Thought Police I'm going to enquire and close-read the Benchley in particular: it is quite a dirty book in some places. Cheers!
Great choices, OB! These unboxings of yours never get old. Always a good party. As always, great content, production, quality and especially presentation. Cheers!
I used the new camera so the colours pop. It has its drawbacks for long shoots, but I must use it more for book closeups as they look fab. Thanks Rick!
@@outlawbookselleroriginal I thought something was different. The new camera rocks!
@@rickkearn7100 -I've used it a few times, mostly on outdoor shoots, it really makes colours pop on the books. I shoot in 4K with it, so it takes ages to transfer, huge amounts of disc storage and edits/renders take hours, so anything in Feb- now that is highly coloured is $K rendered in 1080p HD. The fact is -because I'm a technical klutz- I made a schoolboy error as my PC only has half the RAM needed to actually render in 4K, so the results you see are way below the level the camera can deliver. As I'm shooting in Italy in May, I am tempted to keep the material until I can upgrade my PC, but I don't know when that will be. So I guess I'll keep the SD cards and produce 4K revised versions of what I shoot in the future.
Nice! I like that Roadside Picnic very much!
Looking forward to your “Books I’d like to own” video ✨
Thanks for reminding me of that one! I must shoot it soon
People forget just how much an impact McKean and ARKHAM ASYLUM had in 1989/1990. It was massive. I do wish I had the remastered Absolute Edition, as DM oversaw the restoration of the art. Two geniuses.
When it came out in hardcover first, I ordered 100 copies for the bookshop I was working at. It was just before Christmas 1989. I had them spread out across low shelving at the front of the shop in a 18-foot swathe display, so whatever door you went out, you saw it. Sold tons.
What a coincidence. I actually ordered this edition of Roadside Picnic yesterday morning.
Thanks to Mute Protest for pointing out '..there's a couple (of) typos in the video title'. He's right! I responded with: "I know, but at least you called 'em typos (which is what they are). Some people would say 'spelling mistakes', which of course I wouldn't make, being a writer- and of course when I make typos on an ms, I always say 'that's what my copy editor is for' LOL. Thanks!"
Fixed now.
Writers! You can't tell them anything...
You misspelled the hashtag #scifi as #sf 🤣
@@mike-williams -Oh CURSES! LOL
That Roadside Picnic looks awfully tempting. It's a book I find re-reads very well.
Anyhow, I really hope you enjoy them. The Roadside Picnic looks especially tasty.
The art styles of Folio don't always jibe with me, but what does that matter here?
It goes without saying is that what's important is that you're happy.
I think I will post my Folio rant at some point tho.
Those look beautiful
Great haul! I really like the Strugatsky, the translation is the same as the Chicago Review Press edition in the US, and the Dave McKean art is wonderful. I still have my old Sandman comics from the 90s where he did the cover art.
McKean really does rule, doesn't he?
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Forbidden Planet online were knocking out some signed McKean hardcovers a few years back for a fiver apiece. Seemed rude not to buy at that price....I used to buy Folio books semi-regularly but these days I find their Sales to be poor in terms of choice and they seem hopelessly addicted to their limited editions costing hundreds. Their whole ethos seems to have shifted from 20+ years back.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal He is a multi talented guy. His films are worth looking into...it was interesting to see how his vision translated in Mirrormask, which he designed and directed.
When I did IT at an order fulfillment place that packaging type was called “dunnage.”
I'm a big fan of the Folio Society SF series and have about 100 of them, including their signed, limited Book of the New Sun, the last Books Gene Wolfe signed. I don't have Jaws, but the other two, yes. Although I'm not much of an Arthur C Clarke fan, I was very pleased to get Childhood's End, which I've never owned in hardcover before. I bought Consider Phlebas just because ... buying these editions becomes compulsive.
Your collection of them looks nice in the pics I've seen. As I say, individually, they don't do much for me, but shelve them together and they're very fetching. Those Wolfes are nice, but I have the Sidgwick firsts- imagine you do too!
@outlawbookselleroriginal I've got the true first editions of the Book of the New Sun (Timescape/Simon & Schuster) all signed; the first UK of which I think only three are signed (these are my favourite covers); the first omnibus editions, Sidgwick & Jackson, rebinds from the first UK editions; the first two in Easton Press editions, for some reason they only did the first three and number three continues to elude me; the Folio Society four volume set; and the Folio Society two volume omnibus set. I forbid you to laugh!
@@leakybootpress9699 -My lips are in a straight, taut line!
Jaws chapter 8...... Was a chapter that made me....😅
Hey, Steve. I will have to echo the sentiment expressed here about the beauty of Roadside Picnic - never bought a Folio book, but I am very tempted by this one (and Planet of the Apes, as well...a favourite novel of mine). One question: you say that you would dispute Folio's reputation as publisher of "the world's most beautiful books"...is there a publishing company more deserving of that accolade?
Well, they are beautiful, but I think these days Centipede probably beat everyone hands down, but if you are outside the USA the postage is super-prohibitive. I tend to favour specific books over presses and I like strong House identities -for example, I feel Head of Zeus in the UK do beautiful trade hardcovers but they have totally failed to promote their SF imprint Ad Astra very well (it doesn't even have its own page on their website- duh...). I think if Folio were as good as they claim, the books would be jacketed AND slipcased and in a standard format rather than three or four different ones (I know, I'm a format bore). My favourite trade imprint in the world in terms of design is NYRB Classics, who do some fantastic SF paperback reissues. But really, I like small presses doing limited editions of original work for hardcore fans/collectors but without resorting to print on demand and including slips, jackets and decorated boards and endpapers. No-one quite floats my boat on this like the great small presses of the 70s and 80s - Zeising, Underwood Miller, Kerosina, Morrigan - but PS Publishing do lovely books, though they produce them in a strange variant of demy that is a little wider than standard, which I find irritating. Oh to have the cash to set up my own imprint LOL....
Hello!
I wrote you an essay & decided that it felt wrong to leave in a reply to you - It might've seemed "a bit much."
The long and short is * *in my opinion* * Folio Society look/ feel really commercial in an offputting way, and uneven in their execution, so I usually look for other places for "sheer bibliophillic joy." You do you tho.
I tend to agree with Steve & the book buying consensus that Centipede Press is great (They just keep selling through print runs of things in the public domain - people PAY for these editions!)
Subterranean Press is likewise well respected and has a very interesting catalogue full of great art & great pairing of text to execution. A great tradition of working closely with authors as well, so that the illustrations/execution of the books fall in line with their vision.
Necronomicon press has beautiful iterations - worth looking at when their website is back up.
Beautiful handcrafted prestige limited edition illustrated letterpress editions fall to Pegana Press. They are quietly like Faberge Eggs. (Oxymoronic perhaps but true none the less.)
@@salty-walt -There is a bit of a 'mainstream taint of the canonical' about Folio - and by that, I mean I think they jump on the 'gift editions' of books which have been fairly commercially successful quite recently but which there is not yet any critical distance for (this is a problem in all the arts now, some things which are pooular in genres and achieve massive sales- think Pratchett, Gaiman - suddenly get kudos from A S Byatt or whoever, when such commentators really should do their genre homework more). They get canonised and Foilio prints 'em. But I felt that the ones I bought have apedigree as books, all being decades and decades old.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal TOTALLY! I hadn't even gotten to their echo chamber effect on canonization. (See rant posted elsewhere on video.)
I *also* respect that these books are iconic to YOU and you should have the option to get iconic copies for your own reflection and appreciation.
"Planet of the Apes" vibrates instinctively at your feet - as Ginsberg might say
@@salty-walt Make a separate post of your rant then.
Just a heads up, there's a couple typos in the video title
I know, but at least you called 'em typos (which is what they are). Some people would say 'spelling mistakes', which of course I wouldn't make, being a writer- and of course when I make typos on an ms, I always say 'that's what my copy editor is for' LOL. Thanks!
Fixed now. Wired this week, too much RUclips, thanks mate!
@@outlawbookselleroriginal of course! Thanks as always for the great content
@@MuteProtest -You noticed the Dickian timeloop too no doubt....I'm like the victim of one of Cronenberg's rogue Scanners this week LOL.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal oh thats that . For a second , was about to replace " the slow glass " on my phone 😅
Yeah annoying they are different sizes especially with the humungous white borders in roadside picnic
A pet hate of Folio editions are the huge page margins, DUNE being one of the worst offenders. But ROADSIDE PICNIC is the latest offender.
Planted of apes is a nice book how much in usa dolloars
Beats me, it's around £40, try a currency converter online. Obviously postage from the UK to the US will sting, which is why I don't buy Subterranean or Centipede Press.
Thanks