What a great haul! So many good books. Might be a bit concerned for your lungs after smelling all those books, but I get it. Ace Science Fiction Specials complete and reviewed. Also just reviewed ‘Other Days, Other Eyes’ in the same edition as you have. One of his best! Thanks for the mention!
As a reseller there are so many of those dudes you mentioned, and I'm glad you were able to pick up what he left behind. Really amazing haul, and I'm so glad you were able to add so many amazing pieces to your store and your TBR! Also I didn't feel like a scrooge when I did my 500+ book buyout last summer. There were three others digging when I was and I came out with 4x and the workers were just happy they didn't have to deal with them anymore
Wow. Margaret St. Clair. You don't see her too often. She was a fantasy writer back in the 50's and 60's. When everyone was writing their "vanilla" styled works, she was doing trippy stuff. A lot of her works are direct inspirations for Gary Gygax when he was developing his Dungeons and Dragons role playing game. Nice find there.
You lucked out again! Edmond Hamilton is a pioneer. He was writing science fiction before the magazines started ie in the early 30s. He also wrote a LOT of comic books. If you read a Superman or Batman from the 50s/60s with an SF bent, it was probably him. Most likely with an assist from his missus, Leigh Brackett (I assume you know who she is from her screen writing career). Galouye is also from "back when". Extremely pulpy. His shorts are sometimes fun, but I doubt he can maintain it for a novel. Behold the Man is Moorcocks finest work IMO. The related Breakfast in the Ruins is also good. Yes, it's religion related and gets into belief systems, humanism etc. You should read it.
Other Days, Other Eyes is excellent. Behold the Man is probably Moorcock's magnum opus. You may want to read Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar first. Sturgeon is one of SciFi's best writers, and IMO More Than Human is his best. Silverberg's best is probably Dying Inside.
What a great haul! So many good books. Might be a bit concerned for your lungs after smelling all those books, but I get it. Ace Science Fiction Specials complete and reviewed. Also just reviewed ‘Other Days, Other Eyes’ in the same edition as you have. One of his best! Thanks for the mention!
Sniffing used books is a vice of mine for sure 😅
As a reseller there are so many of those dudes you mentioned, and I'm glad you were able to pick up what he left behind. Really amazing haul, and I'm so glad you were able to add so many amazing pieces to your store and your TBR! Also I didn't feel like a scrooge when I did my 500+ book buyout last summer. There were three others digging when I was and I came out with 4x and the workers were just happy they didn't have to deal with them anymore
You're right. All the books are for sale so I shouldn't feel bad about buying them 😅
A SciFi collector with alienating opinions. Those aliens are so divisive.
Didn't think of it that way 😁
Wow. Margaret St. Clair. You don't see her too often. She was a fantasy writer back in the 50's and 60's. When everyone was writing their "vanilla" styled works, she was doing trippy stuff. A lot of her works are direct inspirations for Gary Gygax when he was developing his Dungeons and Dragons role playing game. Nice find there.
It seemed like a rare find. Thanks for the context :)
The chessboard cover would be "Startrek" meets "The Prisoner".
True. The prisoner is my uncle's favorite show. Watched all of it
I can't believe you read The Shrinking Man. That brought back so much.
A powerful book. I'm sure it will stick with me
Love Wyndham. Day of the Triffids was the inspiration for 28 Days Later. Seeds of Change. Wow.
I loved it too. Just uploaded my review of it
Great Haul ❤
Behold the Man is great. One of my 5 star reads of last year.
Good to hear. I wasn't sold on it after seeing the cover
nice haul
Day of the Triffids was a great fifties B Movie.
You lucked out again!
Edmond Hamilton is a pioneer. He was writing science fiction before the magazines started ie in the early 30s. He also wrote a LOT of comic books. If you read a Superman or Batman from the 50s/60s with an SF bent, it was probably him. Most likely with an assist from his missus, Leigh Brackett (I assume you know who she is from her screen writing career).
Galouye is also from "back when". Extremely pulpy. His shorts are sometimes fun, but I doubt he can maintain it for a novel.
Behold the Man is Moorcocks finest work IMO. The related Breakfast in the Ruins is also good. Yes, it's religion related and gets into belief systems, humanism etc. You should read it.
Sounds like a perfect book for me 😀 I was wondering who the big sci-fi authors were in the 20s and 30s. Don't hear too much about that time period
That was a wild bunch of books.
Going Out Of Business: Just think how great the haul will be when you go back in MARCH of 2025.
Read Dying Inside.
Yes sir 🫡 got it locked and loaded on my TBR
Bagging old books is smart. You should invest in more bags and use them.
I should keep a supply for old paperbacks in need
Other Days, Other Eyes is excellent. Behold the Man is probably Moorcock's magnum opus. You may want to read Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar first. Sturgeon is one of SciFi's best writers, and IMO More Than Human is his best. Silverberg's best is probably Dying Inside.
Thanks for the recommendations :) glad I got a lot of good reads to choose from
Are you sure it wasn't 4 out of 4 stars? It wasn't uncommon back in the day. Roger Ebert famously did that.
You might be right... but that's pretty dumb 😅
Why are bookshops closing down?
In this guy the owner passed away 😞
its in German!
I'm pretty sure that's German.