Worlds Without End, a website with lists and reading challenges. Interview with founder Dave Post.
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- Looking for SF awards lists, topical lists or reading challenges? Worlds Without End is a great website with the functionality to keep track of your reading and apply it to lists and challenges. All this and an update of the SF Masterworks spreadsheet!
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Revised "SF Masterworks (Gollancz)" spreadsheet (pdf or xl)
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Reading Through the SF Masterworks playlist
• SF Masterworks
Collecting and reading through the SF Masterwork series from Gollancz.
Host: Richard Rempel
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www.worldswithoutend.com/
Revised "SF Masterworks (Gollancz)" spreadsheet (pdf or xl)
vintagesf.ca/2024/06/20/sf-masterworks-updated-spreadsheet-pdf-and-xl/
or directly (note: there may be format differences in google for the xl file)
pdf: drive.google.com/file/d/1Yip23p6N0v6u0qOm35NKvzEOP-giroMi/view?usp=sharing
xl: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q2m5Q6GRHg1jQ59C0BQSp8Bb7QiwKej1/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115468934616041130707&rtpof=true&sd=true
Love Worlds Without End! I've been using the site for 10 years or so.
Great spreadsheet and listing! I like the cover illustrations on those new Masterworks (the Best Of column).
Thanks for sharing info on this site and for the fabulous interview! Great info.
He's right--the browsing experience is wonderful and missing from most bookstores these days, as most stores now are focused on best sellers and obvious books (inventory has to move, has to sell, if bookstores stay in business).
@@duanespurlock5879 Bookselling has changed a lot in the last 30 to 40 years. 1. Online sales from warehouses. 2. Price controls by big players (Amazon, Walmart). 3. As you mention, fast moving inventory requirements by surviving brick and mortar. This translates into homogeneous and reduced stock.
One hope I see in the future for used bookstores is the rapid increase in shipping prices for books. Less sales by eBay may translate in more sales in your own town.
Great interview. I had no idea about the website. On first impression, the website looks fantastic.
Thanks for the presentation on Worlds Without End. I didn't know about either before seeing you post.
Great introduction. Signed up!
This is a great video Richard. Thank you really interesting and informative 👍🏻
I found WWEnd as we regulars know it by chance back in 2012 and it has caused me to have a HUGE TBR ever since!
@@dustydigger48 Still exploring and discovering aspects of WWEnd. Looking forward to talking with Dave again regarding WWEnd 3.0. Hope to provide my viewers with a preview or tour.
Thanks for hosting the Pick & Mix challenge, Dusty! I have participated in that one since you began it in 2014.
Hi ScoLgo.Its nice to see Dave talking about the site,and Richard did a great editing job.But will we really see version 3.0 this year?.Dave has been saying that for years!
@@user-kt9tk7rj1w Guilty as charged! However, we are closer than ever to actually delivering. The excitement has made me lose my head and make another bold prediction. In my own defense, I will say that I'm at least as good at predicting a launch as George R. R. Martin or Elon Musk... 🙃
Richard, this is a great video! Thank you for all of these wonderful resources--your spreadsheets and this introduction to Worlds Without End. Phenomenal! Loved Dave Post's discussion of his history with women authors. Thank you for all of these links. Such a treasure!
The first science fiction book I read, got me hooked right away. Worlds Without End…
@@clarksavage2683 Dave replied in a comment on this video that he didn’t name the website after Simak’s book but rather a quote from the opening of ‘The Demolished Man’ by Alfred Bester.
Thank you for this video. I'll check out this web site.
Amazing site. Great interview. And great presentation with all the editing. Thank you Richard.
Worlds Without End is very much worth checking into!
Thank you for sharing this site with us it looks great!
I love this site as a resource, but now I know so much more about the site and background. Thanks so much Richard and especially Dave!
Question for Dave, did the name of the website come from the Simak book with the same title?
Not sure if Dave is reading the comments. I'll start a note with questions to ask in the future.
Actually, i did not know about Simak's book until much later... at which time I ran out and bought a copy and there it still sits on my TBR pile.
The inspiration came from the into to The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester. One of my all-time favorites!
"There are and have been worlds and cultures without end, each nursing the proud illusion that it is unique in space and time."
@@icowdaveOh nice, The Demolished Man is one of my all time favorites as well. I also have the Simak book on my TBR. Thanks again for the awesome site, love it. Cheers, Ira.
Thanks for the updated list!
Very cool. Sort of an internet fan convention. Unfortunately, those disappeared where I live decades ago. I will check his site out!
"Women Authors" are interesting. The ladies have always been there, sometimes we did not know it: Married teams CL. Moore/Henry Kuttner and A. E. van Vogt/E. Mayne Hull collaborated frequently and were published separately, too. Very different, separately!
Not SF or fiction, but Abigail Adams was very influential.
Bookmarked the website.
Great video Richard. I shall definitely be checking out this website 🙂
@joe, I was joking with Richard that I read James Tiptree and Julian May, among others, as a kid because I thought they were men! 🤪
@@JulesBurt I'm a huge fan of your channel and it would be great to hear what you think of WWEnd. Your book bagging videos and dulcet narration are ASMR for book nerds all over the world! 😊
@@wwend Thanks! I've had a good look around the site but not sure there's enough there for a dedicated video but perhaps I might be able to be something.....
That's nice, but what if I have multiple editions of a book or a book translated in a different language? I prefer to use Goodreads as you can add to your shelves different editions and different languages of a book. The book challenge is very interesting, but unfortunately, as I previously said, there is no way to select a book edition or language other than the default one.
I don't intend to offend. This should be taken as constructive criticism and maybe in the future these features could be added to the website
Not sure if Dave will be checking these comments. I'll save your observation and suggestion for the next time I speak with Dave.
Having a single entry for each book is a bit limiting and something that will be addressed in the future. Our goal is to show variant publications so that readers can select the actual edition that they read/own and the correct cover will show for each publisher. There are some other features in the pipeline to help book collectors specifically as well but that be awhile.
Do keep in mind that we're just a couple guys building this site in our spare time. We'll get there... eventually. Thanks for the comments.
I live in a middling sized city and the bookstores are Barney Nobles or Half-Price Books. The thrift store books are mostly boring. Terrible selection. I have to do most of my book acquisition through the internet.
I will say that Half-Price Bookstores in Tucson, Arizona are pretty good. Often noted that books without barcodes, pre 1978 I think, are priced better than expected. Why? Because they use the barcode to scan and set a price on books after 1978. They don't always know the value of a book before 1978.
Half-Price moved out of their original location about 15 years ago and occasionally some real treasures show up. Even so, mass-market paperbacks are thin on the ground everywhere in my city.
I used to frequent Bookman's when I lived in Tucson. It was in a house when I moved there and moved to an old grocery store(or maybe a grocery store sized electronics store - not sure what was originally there) before I left. Loved that place. There are no Half Priced Books where I live now, but rumor has it that there is an awesome bookstore downtown that I will be checking out. Most of the used bookstores in the other places that I have lived put a minimum of $4 on the older books, sometimes more. Some places have very little science fiction and it is looking like the current place may be one of those. The library isn't too bad, so I may not be buying as much as I have in the past.
@@daxxh I visited Bookman’s. Found some SF, particularly a couple hardcover Neal Stephenson books. There was a place on 4th street just after the underpass that was a nice small bookstore. Picked up a few Richard Matheson books there.