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So many books and so little time! Best wishes and happy reading!

By the way, it was Lanier who convinced his employer to publish Dune by Frank Herbert. The book was rejected by many publishers before. It was the first novel for Chilton, a Boston publisher specializing in business magazines and automobile repair books. This first edition did not sell well and Lanier was fired.

Great book delivery! Neal Stephenson and his Baroque cycle are great. I am living close to Hannover where the Library collects everything about Leibniz. There is a whole book only about his calculation machine and a replica too. Furthermore, there are a lot of connections between England and Hannover because of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover from 1714 to 1837. During this time, the Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg or King of Hanover was simultaneously King of Great Britain. Interestingly, there is a real Golden Letter, a handwritten document made of gold sheet in the Burmese language, which the Burmese King Alaungphaya had written on May 7, 1756 and sent to the British King George II in London, offering trade relationships. The letter is now kept in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library in Hanover. I saw Hiero in the Masterworks series. But I cannot read much about post-atomic worlds.

I'm sad to see the Lanier doesn't have a man talking to a giant slug on the cover! You'll have to let me know if that happens in the book! That Walter Miller collection is awesome!

Great haul. The Starwolf series by Edmund Hamilton were my introduction to the rebirth of Space Opera in the 60s; fun, adventure, and derring-do. Also Morgan Chase's super strength from being raised on a high-gravity planet is reminiscent of Hamilton's writing for DC Comics. 'Best of Walter M. Miller, Jr.' might not be all of his best but it is pretty close. Miller shown in his short fiction and this book contains some excellent examples. 'The Darfsteller' is one of my favorites. It won the very first Hugo Award for best Novelette.

Trading is a lot of fun. Too bad Canada doesn't have USPS Media Mail rate, its so cheap here in the states. But we have a top secret trade in the works....

Barrington bayley..a great writer..another one Brian m Stableford from the early days on through the historical stuff to his marvellous translating work for Black Coat Press. Happy reading.😊

I own most of Barrington M. Bayley's books. I consider him one of the greatest SF authors. I also own the two Hiero novels, very enjoyable books; there was never a third concluding book to the trilogy as the author died.

Another Stephenson hb collector! - the earlier book Cryptonomicon is also loosely part of the Baroque Cycle, even though it is set in the WW2 era. Won’t spoil it for you how it is connected if you haven’t read it yet. Anything by Bayley is worth getting too! Cheers.

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Sounds intriguing. I've enjoyed the Fredric Brown stories I've read so far, but this is the first I've heard of this. The sentient rock concept brings to mind a Zelazny short story I just read, Collector's Fever.

Looks very good! I see a copy of Jane Parkhurst’s Isobel there - that’s a $50+ book.

Love the thumbnail!😄

I didn't realize that I had access to a cheat sheet! Ill have to study your video before the next sale, so that i know where i want to start. Nice meeting you!

It really may be!

Today's the big day! I'm jealous! Even though that looks like a very reasonable offering for the science fiction books table, The San Francisco library hasn't had that many, or that varied a science fiction offering in many years! In this part of the world everyone turns up their nose at mass-market paperbacks, especially if they're the slightest bit worn. So how's a book crawler to find the books that he wants that aren't printed in other formats? How is he to find something other than YA Romantasy? You have a great day! Talk science fiction and make some friends!

Jealous of everyone who will be going!

But, like, is that music going to be blaring the whole time???

Like candy.

Looks like an awesome sale. Some great titles in there!

Nice looking selection, Richard. I saw those early editions of Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom books and realized that, yes it has been 50 years, no, I thought I had forgiven my brother, but I haven't. 🙄

I was hoping for more TekWar 😂 Lots of great titles there! That Blood Red Game by moorcock 👀 There’s going to be some happy buyers, that’s for sure. So many vintage PKDS! I’m glad this is for a good cause and good luck at the sale 💜

Great, I'll pop over!

The Last Unicorn Ballantine Adult Fantasy cover, The Second Book of Fritz Leiber Daw, City of the Beast - Moorcock Daw, Norton - Spell of the Witch World Daw #1! Dick - A Scanner Darkly Daw, More Moorcock Daw titles, Dick - Now Wait for Last Year Daw, and way too many to list! Are you going tomorrow to grab any of those? Amazing selection! That was a ton of fun to watch! Thanks, Richard!

Nice review. It sounds very interesting.

This book came out when I was 22 and I was so ready. It stoked me to collect all of Gibson’s books I could find. The way had been paved for me by Blade Runner, as you say, but also oddly enough by Max Headroom, the TV series, with it’s Network 23 cast of cyber-journalists. There’s an interesting introductory essay in a recent reprint edition regarding the opening line:the sky above the port was the colour of a TV tuned to a dead channel. It was pointed out that at that time it would refer to a snowy screen, and that’s what I pictured. But later, it would be a clear, featureless blue colour, on modern digital televisions. So what colour do modern readers see?

I read some of Brown when I was younger but I don't remember any of it. I have not read 'Rogue In Space'. And to your admonition to Rock On, I reply with a chorus of Everybody Must Get Stoned.

Great review of what sounds like an interesting book! I may have to run this one down. I’m intrigued!

Great video! I'm intrigued by floating sentient rocks, but I don't know if I could put up with Crag to get to it! Great video, as always!

Can I call him Manbreaker Crag?

I have not read this one. Well written beginning.

Ennnnh, I'm a huge Fredric Brown fan, but I didn't really like this one. I hate to think of this being someone's first Fredric Brown read. Too much that's unpleasant about it, if memory serves. You rate it higher than I do, actually. It was a fast read, that's for sure. I had an opportunity to read the earlier, novelette version, and I actually passed on that, and would much prefer re-reading his genius works, which I think of mainly as the Crime & Mystery content, and some of the other SF.

Sounds a bit like Project Hail Mary because of the first contact between Ryland and Rocky. Even similar types of names!

Hi Richard. Yes, and Yes! I read Rogue many years ago and remember nothing about it except that I found it enjoyable. I haven't thought about it for years. I've also read quite a few of Brown's mystery stories and found them to be excellent although sometimes quite weird. Now I'm going have to re-visit him.

Nice haul, Richard. I think you may have more NESFA editions than I do, now.

A prophetic novel that is truly an experience. Can't say that about many books I've read! Great review!

Excession got the Kurd Lasswitz Award in Germany. Last year a new German translation of Elric was published. 8 Elric novels in one huge hardcover with 1178 pages. I can also recommend Blindsight by Peter Watts.

Neuromancer is the client, the other half of The Mute {Wintermute} that Case sets free. They join together to become a super intelligence beyond Cyberspace, using the Loa to communicate with humans in the later Sprawl series

Nice haul!

Virtually nothing gets remaindered in the UK now- or at least there are now so few remainder shops that they're near invisible: I used to buy loads of remainders in the 80s and 90s. Instead we have outlets that stock overstocks from publishers (basically the same thing, but they are titles still in print that regular booksellers are still expected to sell by publishers) and print on demand editions of backlist titles- for example, if you get a super-shiny laminate cover on a Masterwork, that's from a tranche run off for the bargain book market, which is a bit naughty in my view. You also get A Format versions of B format titles specially printed for rack spinners standing in non-book trade outlets.

Interesting collection of stories in Transfinite. I don't think any of Vogt's Weapons Shop stories are in there? And fantastic art in those Elric Sagas! Nice purchases Richard!

5:52: Or John Wyndham "The Chrysalids"/ "Re-Birth"(US). A better story than "Blood Music" by a whisker imo.

"The howling winds of chaos sound above the battle cry As we slay the beasts and drink their souls to keep us half alive," - Stormbringer

Richard, I hope you will be as engrossed with "Flashback" as much as I was! I did not use "enjoy", as it hard to apply to this book. The end is interpreted variously. I think Simmons has the protagonist prove it is not a dream. I reread it several times. I have the Crouch "Upgrade" coming. While I see no connection between the 2018 Blumhouse film "Upgrade" and the Crouch novel, they seem related by concept. The film uses a specific hardware/software engineering, and the novel a bioengineering approach to portray "the next step in human evolution". The film has a very Nietzschean main character, who you do not realize IS the main character until late in the film. About all I can say without spoilers. This movie is great. Kara appears to be the Superman acolyte in The Crouch novel? I have a pile of books to read! Thanks for the mention, the microphone I purchased for my reviews has developed a crackle, maybe the proximity to metal in my desk. I will have to experiment!

Nice score on the NESFA van vogt book! I dislike the new banks livery, severely lacking spaceships! I have that same edition of Firefall. The Adam Roberts book is bk2 of 2 of the only series he has done (the rest standslones). They're set in my hometown, or a version of it. Must read them!

*LOVE* that overhead format! I think the Master of the overhead covershot SF book haul is News from the Gelding. Very unusual

Yes, Flashback is a book with a lot that will stay with you for a long time after reading it, looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Please do more videos of cyberpunk and proto-cyberpunk authors and novels we don’t hear about as much. John Shirley comes to mind.

This is a book?