The Best Sci-Fi Haul I've Ever Gotten From One Bookstore
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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One thing Bookpilled has done for me is to rekindle my love of reading. I see so many books in your videos that I want to read. Would that I have more time. Would that I had unlimited space and money to keep all the books. Thanks again, and mayhap I'll see you Sunday.
Great to hear, thank you
Definitely inspiring, with top tier suggestions for new books. I read Solaris and Roadside Picnic based on his videos - very on-point tips!
Great haul. I'm really envious of the Compton books!
I have that copy of We Who Are About To! Great book and great edition. Still need to finish it but man is it dark lol
The amount of books I’ve added to my tbr because of this guy is astounding.
You and all of us... :)
Kevin McDonald from Kids in the Hall? Is that you?
@Bookpilled Thanks for the great videos and recommendations. I've been watching over the past year, and I very much enjoy your criticisms and opinions. I read Blindsight and Blood Music based on your recommendations. 10/10 on both accounts. Like you, I loved - fervently loved - the MorningLightMountain chapter of Pandora's Star and didn't care much for the rest; that said, there are some great ideas in that book. Speaking of books with lots of big ideas but poorly written, I don't totally agree with you on the 3 Body trilogy. It's a 5/10 for me. I was blown away by the direct and subtextual criticism of the Chinese system, particularly in book 1. And the use of the dark forest/fermi paradox ideology, specifically as applied to interplanetary warfare... I was in awe. I'm currently on A Fire Upon the Deep thanks to you. I enjoy it so far.
Keep up the great commentary and videos!
Living in a small town without a bookstore or library, I will be eternally grateful for anyone selling out-of-print books online. The USPS and other carriers are my saviors.
😺✌️
I just reviewed Radio Beasts on my channel. It's a pulpy blast!
I've been hitting a new used bookstore in town and found a couple of the big names that get mentioned on this channel often, and I looked in several stores on a trip up to Maine and found a couple of good ones. I have a new hobby. It's been a lot fun and the reading has been great. The stack grows
Cover for cover I find Panther has the best.
THE SLEEPING EYE is also known as, better known as, THE CONTINUOUS KATHERINE MORTENHOE. Powerful, depressing, prescient novel.
'The Unsleeping Eye' is the exact and correct US variant title of 'The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe', which was last published in the USA under its original title by NYRB Classics about a decade ago. The sequel - 'Windows' - is an interesting example of a Compton that is more common in the US than his native UK.
I read William Morris' "The Hollow Land" in the short-lived reprint digest-sized magazine FORGOTTEN FANTASY, and I loved it. This was after Fritz Leiber almost dissuaded me from reading Morris by referring to his books as being dull but a good place to start when discussing the history of fantasy. They may be, but this story wasn't but any means. I've never read a story set in medieval times quite like it. It's probably in the top 3% of the fantasy I've read.
Cool, I was starting to feel bad for your non Patreon members, LOL.
I miss the bookshelf fireplace.
Its proper name is the sci-fire place
@@rajikkali2381 I like it.
Before you sell it i would read the intro to that Fury. Its basically C.L. Moore talking about their co-writing style and how Fury was mostly Kuttner's baby but she could recognize her portions. Interesting stuff
Wow, when you held up GOG I nearly fell out of my chair! It's amazing and I cannot recommend it highly enough. PLEASE grab that one, and 'Stations of the Tide' by Michael Swanwick and read them, they are absolutely brainburstingly wackadelic. 😁🦄
That hardback Earthsea seems to be one of the very few editions that gets the skin colour right...
That’s the copy I have and read. Didn’t know it was rare. I get 85% of my books used and pay a dollar or two for one. I can usually find whatever I want eventually.
You know it's a good book haul vid when you have to clarify you aren't a nudist. Good luck to all in the auction, amazing stuff in there
Great channel. The only booktube I watch actually
I just finish reading solaris. Thanks You so mush
Yeah, I purchased a copy after the reviews! I’m reading Red Mars for now.
I can't read
Salute
Great vid as usual. You inspire me to read my large collection of SciFi that sits on my shelves looking pretty ( oh - and they do 😊). Keep it up, man. X
_Dragon's Egg_ A very odd book. It is like Vinge's _A Deepness In The Sky_ in that I very quickly sympathised with the aliens, I think because their world was so completely and convincingly fleshed out. I liked the aliens so much that I immediately sought out _Starquake_.
I've found a few of those Lems in the wild. Always a rush
It would be a funny video to put everything in the keep pile and sell nothing !😂
I MISS BOOKPILLED'S WILD KINGDOM. ANY CRITTERS GET INTO YOUR LIVING SPACE WE CAN WATCH WHILE YOU GO THROUGH BOXES?
There may be cat cameos
That Tolkien near the end is two separate short stories/novelettes, and they're both great. Mildly humorous and whimsical fairy tale kind of stuff
"Well at the World's End" features an evil wizard named.....Gandolf. Spelled that way.
I have quite a few timescape books that I'll never read, just because I love them.
Same for me, also DAW and DelRey, spines look so good.
14:36 press for crow 👍
lol
A friend of mine who was a bookman sold Jakes the research material he used to write the Kents.
Jakes even did a sword and sorcery pastiche called Mention My Name in Atlantis. It was published by DAW.
I have that edition in storage
The Tolkein, if memory serves, is a pretty rare translation by him. You scored!
On Jakes, he wrote the incredibly popular North & South (basically a civil war soap opera) series. Made into movies & mini-series. He had already given up SF by that time. I always thought he should have got a back hander for Escape from New York. Can't remember the name of the story, but he's definitely the inventor of Manhattan as a penal colony.
Dragon's Egg was being passed around and read by my friends at Caltech in the early '80s. As I recall, Forward was a serious engineer/scientist of some sort. Nice hard sci-fi. in the '90s, Greg Egen was similarly popular in the science community.
It's kind of boring but a very respectable book
I like the book aspect. Just not the genre. Scifi is boring to me. For a genre without any rules its mighty predictable
Re: A. Merritt, The Moon Pool and Ship of Ishtar are the ones that everyone talks about, but The Face In The Abyss is my personal favorite and a good starting place if you want to get your feet wet…
Poul Anderson never gets credit for creating a sub-genre of Sci-Fi - specifically "Time Travel Enforcement". Perhaps it's too broad or obvious a direction for time travel stories to venture, but "obvious" is generally judged that way in hindsight.
The "Time Patrol" series of stories he did, starting in the 1950s, were to my knowledge the first of their kind. Today there are hundreds if not thousands of stories involving some type of person or agency who are tasked with tracking down and eliminating threats to time continuums.
Time Travel Enforcement is particularly popular in movies and television ("Time Cop", "Dr. Who", "El Ministerio Del Tiempo", "Travelers", etc.).
Asimov's "The End of Eternity" came out in 1955, the same year as Anderson's "Time Patrol". It was his first novel. Very good ideas but excruciating prose.
@@patrickocallaghan3429 There's a great deal of overlap in the concepts. It wouldn't surprise me if they'd had a conversation at a convention and both went home and wrote their own versions of the ideas they'd discussed.
Was watching this and ran over to my library to make sure my collection hadn't been stolen... so many of these I own and haven't found while browsing shops.
Agreed, a great haul!
@@MrVvulf Certainly possible. I remember Arthur C. Clarke once mentioning that he and Anderson both came out with stories involving solar sails at the same time, but that the two of them had never discussed the concept. Some things just seem to be in the air.
Great book covers are one of those little joys in life that grabs you when you're young and holds on forever. So many awesome covers in this haul
Books are scarce because no one wants to read them. Tanith Lee is boring. Leigh Brackett is good but the books you have not so much.
That is an incredible haul! Are you keeping "The Drowned World" by Ballard?
Yes, kept it
@@Bookpilled Great choice!
42 minutes eh?
What a haul - I couldnt look away
Holy shit. You're not kidding.
There isn’t a lot of science fiction horror material in film? 🤨
Have you ever considered writing your own novel?
One hell of a haul!
Just watched this and now I feel super-saturated with science-fictionyness.
Lord of Light is highly highly overrated.
Amazing Book haul / Find ☺️❤
I miss book shopping lol. I'm still looking for Clifford d. Simak & Murray Leinster. I hardly ever find them xux .. theres more but that would be a list.
Way Station is my recommendation to Matt, City seemed a little too abstract. I found a leaderbound Easton a few years ago for about forty bucks after getting the Kindle version for 99¢. Before that I’d never read SF aside from PKD.
16:50 That's the first time I've seen it spelled with I rather than O. My copy has it as Chronocules. I'm tempted to find the version you have there just for that unusual reason. Of course, the wonderfully weird cover art too.
I hope you GOG yourself one day…I mentioned it a while ago when recommending stuff to you after your experience with The Night Land. Votes, also, for spending time with: Rogue Moon, The Face in the Abyss, anything Margaret St. Clair (but you knew that already), and even Fire Pattern (which is actually an interesting novel to read, if one liked the structure of The Palace of Eternity, and one wants to experience something like that all over again, though perhaps with weaker results).
Gonna get GOGGED
This gave me a contact high
I don't get the excitement of spending 3hrs+ in a bookstore when you're intending to flip the vast majority of the books. It would make me sad, i think. It's actually a moot point, I'd want to keep them all! Great haul, and they look to be in great condition too. Good luck with the auction. 👍
In a world of unlimited space and unlimited money, I would keep them all.
@Bookpilled 100%, I know, I know. In a total contradiction of what I just said, been making some room on my shelves by selling a few dozen books myself! 🤷♂️
Alot of the excitement comes from seeing these legendary books and authors on shelves when you spot a name or an author then you peer up to see its an early print or a hard cover or cover art you've only ever seen online and it's in great condition you wonder where it came from how it got here why you're the first to see it. You can tell he enjoys the genre foremost but alot of it is appreciating the times the art the ideas and he gets to share that with an audience and put another great book on his platform it'd be impossible to read each one but he may hope you might.
@msopinion11 yeah fair enough. Certainly I'd have been like a kid in a sweetshop in Matt's position. When a collection drops like that it is a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and there's a thrill in that for sure!
Looking forward to being at the auction.
That copy of *FANE* (by David M. Alexander) that you showed is different than the one I had, in that my "Timescape" edition has the word "Timescape" in the center at the top, and not off to the right side, like yours. Maybe yours was a later printing?
You’d love a small chain of bookstores that I go to all the time in North Carolina. It’s a huge warehouse of books called McKay’s and it’s an absolute gold mine. They have the biggest selection of books I’ve ever seen and they’re all somehow about a dollar. They somehow have just about every book I’ve ever wanted and I end up buying about 20 books each time I walk in and end up spending about 20-40 bucks. I’ve literally bought books there for a nickel
The Daedalus series is wonderful, enjoyed it greatly as they were being published! Rarely see them in book shops, your getting all in one shot is a win, and I still have mine 😌
You gotta create the "scifi archive"! The vast expansion of the original scifierplace. Kinda like the library in Foundation. Btw, i think the Delaney novels are in a slipcover/slipcase box. Also, if you're collecting Timescape books, the first few Star Trek Pocket books are Timescape.
Incredible haul! Looking forward to the auction, hoping for a few awoogas, a chode blaster or two, and a few beefcakes for good measure. Also, hope you checked for signatures...
You need to get that Sigma 18-50 for the ZV-E10 for crazy good autofocus and blure, just trying to help
All 60's maybe early 70's.
Lost World and Radio Beasts are good. People by Zenna Henderson really good. Princess of Mars also great. Guess you're bound to get a few good books in a pile like that. But that's it. I already have those books.
I seem to recall The Hole in the Zero as being particularly good (although it has been a very long time). Also, a number of collections there with Fredric Brown stories. He's a pretty good old-school writer in the vague overlap area between sf, horror and crime (and comedy) - if that makes any sense.
Just gonna tell you right now - A Perfect Vaccum IS amazing. I've not read all THAT much Lem, but APV is definitely my second favorite behind Solaris.
I was just looking through some of my books and realized that I somehow have 2 copies of Shaw’s Fire Pattern…. Same cover as yours. Can’t count how many times I’ve done that type of thing… 😅
Epic book haul! And I'm going to go out on a limb and predict you will not like Dragon's Egg....
Envious of one still having The Lost World before them - must have read it half a dozen times as a kid/youth: much better than Verne imho.
In the UK we used to have ‘runners’ who sold 2nd hand books between shops - how things have changed … and not.
The ace double Jack Vance book containing the dragon masters you got is super cool! I picked up that same book but an older printing of it at a used bookstore while I was on my honeymoon to the Big Island in Hawaii alongside a stack of other early Jack Vance paperbacks. The bookstore owner was very pleased to see that stack go. They were concerned that they wouldn't sell!
Im reading Jizzle just now, turned up at the bus stop book swap...
Helstrom's Hive and the Green Brain were Herbert's bug books. There's an interesting film loosely based on it called The Helstrom Chronicles, semi-fiction semi-documentary that argues insects will win. It's an expensive collectors item now, nobody seems to be streaming it, but you can easily find the whole movie on UA-cam.
That 'The Halfling' cover is a masterpiece. I don't blame you for holding onto that for life. (Excellent condition too)
Ophiuchi Hotline, yes that is Varley's first novel, set in his Eight Worlds milieu. (I remember a reviewer complaining it was confusing, with 3 separate copies of one character wandering around. I did not find it so.)
The Wollheim "World's Best SF " anthologies I recall as being very good.
Kutners dark world just ok, C.L.Moore wrote this with him.
What an awesome book haul. I am going to start looking for books by Margaret St. Clair. She sounds very underrated.
Space Opera stuff, LOL! I had a blast reading the Tchaikovsky Architect Trilogy!
I read "Gray Matters" a looonng time ago as a teen (for probably the cover). I have no recollection of the plot, but I do remember liking it at the time.
So far not at all impressed. Looks like you got scammed.
Merritt has rare qualities, but irksome deficiencies; however, there are images in each of his works that will stay with you.
21:16 I’m gonna start reading Poul Anderson even harder.
You’re about to make yourself a lot of money sir, i will be damned if anyone out bids me on the books that I’m choosing
I'm in the Philippines and was wondering what book store you could recommend.
I didn't really find any I liked in Manila or Cebu. Didn't look that hard in Manila though.
@@Bookpilled Thank you.
An embarrassment of riches - easy to see how you spent over 3 hours in the book shop.
You are trying to take all my money Matthew, aren't you
GOG is genre-adjacent and very worth your time.
Since this a book haul video iu just had to tell someone who "gets it" lol. I just recently (about 3 weeks ago) found, at my local thrift shop here in western Oklahoma, a copy of Star of the Unborn! in I would say pretty nice shape, not perfect but nice! Oh I should mention this is by Franz Werfel. I was like "Holy Shit! " I knew what it was from the look of the spine from 10 feet away. I love my thrift shop! Oh by the way it was a 25 cent purchase! I can't believe it! Peace!
Incredible find. Enjoy it.
@@Bookpilled Thank you! Indeed I shall!
You should get good prices on all the D.G. Compton books - they're rarely available anywhere (well, UK or France, anyway). I just checked Abebooks and Amazon . I read Compton's The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe recently (you have it there under an alternative title). Excellent writer. I also read Ballard's The Drowned World recently, in paperback. Not so hard to find, even in France. I'd like to buy from your auction but I daresay buying from France is going to be nuts on postage. 😢
Thanks Keith. International shipping through Whatnot is indeed steep.
great haul and all those natty sleeves as a bonus !
HeroineB0b just had a birthday Wnot auction and made "Matt Rockstar Money" (known as MRM in the book community) with the SF Masterworks books she picked up. Always great to see new content.#ButtFace
That's awesome, she deserves it.
Nudist Wiccan Flare. New band name. Called it!
This guy ⬆ inspires billions !
You spoke of Spinrad. Have you read Bug Jack Barron? I enjoyed it.
Haven't read it yet.
Sadly it will never be Goodwill which is ashame since they are everywhere.😮😮😮
Have had some great Goodwill hauls.
bro is drinking a la croix
Nice! Big Yumbo said y'all finally got to meet - Fun.
Yes, he was with me
I wonder if any of these are signed? Will you check before selling?
I haven’t checked but will on stream
Wonder what you think of Ste Sharp or Mick Farren?
Haven't read them yet
Well, I’m depressed
Tanith Lee was so imaginative
bp is giddy
I could never be a patreon to someone who doesn't think "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is one of the best sci-fi books ever produced by Western culture....
Sorry but that book is trash
@@bookjack One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. (I haven’t read it, though. 🤔)
John Jakes got his later in life fame from a series of historical novels that were set in the American Revolution and they coincided *nicely* with BiCentennial Fervor that swept the nation.
Them's the big bucks
@@Bookpilled 🤣🤣 Dude! It Was! At least 2 TV " Mini Series" tie-ins! And they wuz the new thing!
gad-ZOOKS!
How do we find your discord?
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Thank you!