100,000 Books! THE LAST DANGEROUS BOOK HAUL: Return to Zardoz SCIENCE FICTION Dealer's Warehouse
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- In this sequel to his World Exclusive First Video Shoot Ever at the UK's largest vintage paperback dealer, Zardozbooks.com (aka Allyouneedisbooks), Steve returns two weeks later with friend and UA-cam legend JULES BURT in tow to tackle his SF 'A Format' paperback wants list- and then some!
While Jules is flabeergasted by the joy of 100,000 titles to film (!), Steve shops for his last-but-one 'Book Haul' of 2022. Thanks to Maurice Flanagan, Proprietor of Zardoz!
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I know that in the subs it says 53,000 books, but this is based on Zardoz' abe inventory- Maurice tells us it's over 100,000!
Fantastic place, thanks to both you and Jules for the footage. Just took a dip in Involution Ocean after your recommendation, definitely up my street so thanks for that heads up. Keep the content coming, this is catnip for bookworms.
Cheers Prof. Lots more good stuff where that came from. Glad you liked the Sterling, it's an old fave of mine that still satisfies!
Now I've gone to on line bookshop zardoz and I has to have the teddy bears books. Can't wait to read them. I also got my husband an anthology . Great 👍
Teddy Bear Books? Do you mean the Hoka stories by Anderson & Dickson? Hope so!
I think that the Zardozbooks link in your description might be wrong, from google search it shows as co uk rather than com
They have changed the url a couple of times recently, long as you found it, that's the main thing.
That Farmer story can be found in ' Alien Sex ' anthology . I have one word " weird " There is also Ellison ' How's The Night Life On Cissalda ? ' which has one( among many of) best Ellisons openers. Thank the powers that be i found thoes when i was hooked and far into SF .To far to turn away . Simak reminds me of Zenna Henderson and her ' The People " books. Nice haul . Cheers .
I love "How's the Night Life on Cissalda" - such a funny story.
I love the patina and design of your old Doomsman, how can you get rid of it! K
It's staying after all, can't bear to part with it!
Eye Among the Blind Pan lozenge is hard to find? I picked up a copy on the freebies table at Novacon less than a month ago, and they had a heap of them!
As far as I know, they were unsold copies from Rog Peyton of Andromeda books. Might be worth you contacting the Birmingham SF Group to see if you can pick one up. Actually, I only picked that copy up at Novacon to give away, but it's already been claimed by another BookTuber.
Just acquired one, funnily enough, but thanks Dave!
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Doesn't surprise me, as there were free copies available at the last 2 Novacons, and they still have some left. :)
I have Frankenstein Unbound in that Grafton livery. It is lovely.
Yep, it's nice, but not a patch on the Pan one from the 70s- which was the same as the US hardcover, depicts the creature as metallic. But those Grafton liveries are gorgeous. Trying to find the orange spine Granada version of 'Galaxies Like Grains of Sand' (which I once owned) but it's super-rare in excellent condition.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal I have just a few Granada/Grafton books. It was getting squeezed into Fontana at the time I started working in books. And then the Fire and Water rebranding saw off a lot of HCs imprints altogether
@@bookdork -Yes, it was never the same once that elemental colophon replaced the imprints.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal I have the three House of Cards books by Michael Dobbs in a format. One has the Fontana logo, The second has Fontana imprint with the Fire and Water logo. And the third has the Fire and Water with the HarperCollins name. All the Unwin Hyman and Paladin stuff was all being rebranded at the same time too
@@bookdork Yeah, they totally threw the baby out with the bathwater: these days, most imprints have no real identity. Picador is another classic example of an imprint that lost its way completely when they changed livery. Another example of this is Sphere- I thought it was a defunct imprint until I cam across a sphere book at work the other day-its colophon was unrecognisable.
Very enjoyable videos by you and Jules of Maurice’s book vault. I like your comments and context of the books and the authors. Always something to learn and to rekindle reading memories, thank you.
Coming from you, Gary, that's high praise- many thanks! Glad you're enjoying it all!
Hello Outlaw Bookseller, been a big fan of the channel lately. It would be great if you did a video focusing on the artists that defined science fiction aesthetics throughout different eras. Ian Miller is a personal favorite of mine. I was also wondering if you could identify the artist who did the Ballantine cover for Vance's "Future Tense". Regardless, thanks for the great content!
Ok, well that's a big idea: how far back are you thinking? Let's say from the start of 'Genre SF' in 1925. It'll be quite a way down the list, but I'll get to it eventually...thanks for your ideas.
I think I saw a cover similar to that on The Thief of Thoth. If I am not mistaken it's the same bald guy on the cover of Asimov's The Thousand Year Plan (Foundation)
This video looks very Jules Burt 😂 I like it! I’m dying to read The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod.
Well, I think Jules established the 'tabletop method' with great elan and as our friendship has always been a collaborative project, I'm sure he waon;t mind me showing his august influence! Yes, "Jungle Rot Kid" is a New Wave masterpiece, great fun and typical of Farmer's mercurial impishness at its best!
That cover for “Deep Space” is one of my favorite Peter Jones artworks. And I remember seeing “Hardware” when stationed in northern Japan, in the 80s. I bought the soundtrack immediately.
'Hardware' is a classic! I have the soundtrack too- love "The Order of Death" by PIL in particular.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Yes! That’s the song I agree.
I recognised that cover immediately from 'Space Wars, Worlds and Weapons'
@@gbeat7941 I love that book! I got it as a kid and like many, it guided me on to my SF appreciation journey.
@@JackMyersPhotography yes I got it very young so probably didn’t understand the text at all but the images are seared into my brain! 😂
I wondered where you were for 5 seconds til i saw the weir !
Those "New Writings in SF..." are new to me (and intriguing). My SF and Sci Fantasy landscape grows exponentially with every new post from Stephen. So well-read, insightful and a great bloke to boot, what's not to like? Cheers.
Thanks Rick!
I never really got into the New Writings series. It seemed to me to be the place that pre-Moorcock New Worlds writers ended up after Mike stopped buying their stuff. They did have a few good stories by people that you mentioned, but not enough for me to really invest in the series.
I have a bit of a blind spot where Bruce Sterling is concerned. I've not read any of his solo novels and must try Involution Ocean. I've just bought Heavy Weather on a recent Hay trip. Is that a good one? Trip to Hay was a bit disappointing and the only other stuff I bought were modern editions of William Gibson, so you can see that updating my cyberpunk reading is on my agenda. The only shop in Hay with much new stock is Addyman's, and his prices are going up all the time. Derek did say that he is sorting a large donation of Weird Tales magazine, but I am not going to start collecting those!
New Writings is patchy, but it's part of my Nostalgia Collecting. I prefer Bruce's early stuff and latest stuff- 'Involution Ocean' is -if not the best technically- the one I love the most. Derek is THE MAN. I'm waiting for him to dig some stuff out for me, actually, but he takes his time. Magazines? Not falling down that rabbit hole either!
Great video and a great haul Stephen,but you do realise you mentioned the ''C'' word.shock! horror!.
The Final library?intriguing,do tell.
I'd be very interested to know your thoughts on the 'Clean' Jeter.
Some great books in that haul,Mirrorshades and Dangerous Visions,what more can you ask for?
Thqnks Stephen.
I know, it really is shocking- but at least it's now December, when it's at least partially permissible -what upsets me is people mentioning it in February: for retailers, it doesn't end until late January when you do the final post-gift exchanges/refunds. It used to be that you could then rely on it not being mentioned for some months, but as time has gone on, it gets mentioned earlier and earlier and you can guarantee that someone will mention it in February now. So the retailer is eternally under the psychological hammer of a religious festival which (s)he may not wish to bow down to. It's the inescapability of it I find oppressive- when everyone is doing the same thing and you cannot go anywhere without being reminded of it, that's when it feels like Oceania under The Party. So when I retire, there will be no C word for a few years at my place at least...LOL.
Oh my goodness! I remember watching “The Starlost” as a teenager as it was a Canadian television production on our biggest and most dreadful private broadcaster, CTV. The sets consisted of stark white rooms and corridors dressed with a few props appropriate for the episode, and the exterior fuzzy focused shots of an obviously plastic model of interconnected domes was worse. What drew me to stick with it, besides the rarity of Canadian SF, was my first exposure to Keir Dullea. I hadn’t yet seen 2001 and was curious to see if this was similar. Thankfully it wasn’t! Another great video. Happy holidays!
Cheers Len. Yes, it wasn't seminal stuff, was it? Shame for Harlan, though.
Thanks for bringing attention to Barrington Bayley. A classmate was letting go/about to turn some of their old books into paper mache material and they let me come to their place and take what I wanted. I found a DAW copy of Bayley’s “The Grand Wheel” and was about to immediately donate it until you brought up how significant he was in your recent Elric video.
I hope you like it -'The Grand Wheel' is one of my fave BBs and in parts reminded me of Philip K DIck's work. He's under-appreciated and I believe he was one of the very best Genre SF writers working with that kind of material.
Quite a haul there, Steve. Great to see.
But are you really committed to removing that sticker from the Jeter? As it looks very much like a 'Dark They Were & Golden Eyed' label to me. Like 'Forever People' a hallowed hallmark in my estimation. I know a lot of collectors consider these stickers objectionable, but for me they're part and parcel of a book's history and I prefer to keep them in situ. Particularly when they memorialise legendary vendors like DTW&GE.
I decided to leave it on as the whole archaic look of Laser Books is, if anything, enhanced by such ephemera!
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Couldn't agree more.
Wow, so much food for thought!
We aim to nourish!
Have I mentioned how much I love the titles of these videos. Really appreciate it.
And Hello to Jules!
I'm very big on titles. If I could just create titles for other people's books I'd be the greatest writer alive...
Hello👍🙂
Superb video Steve, very enjoyable and as usual, very educational. Absolutely loved it! Can't wait for us to go again🙂
I'm very eager too....it won't be long, but it feels like ages! Worth waiting for! We might be relaxed enough next time to have a proper catch up, though I suspect we'll be foaming at the mouth with excitement again...
Lots of cool stuff :)
Very much so!
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