So many books!! The copy of 'The Witches of Karres' is a second printing in the Ace Science Fiction Specials series one. In my opinion it is one of the most fun reads in the series. 'Demon Breed' is also in the Ace Specials series one. I think your copy has a pretty sweet cover. At this rate you may fill all the shelves you've built! Looking forward to your library tour and reorganization.
Me too, one of my favorite type of book tube videos. The hardest part seems to be filming it, so I'll probably get my wife to help out with that video.
Ira, although Book Club editions, those 'Best of's are actually the first and only hardback editions of those books. I have ten of them. And you don't have to worry about seeking out all 21 in Book Club hardback: of the 21 Ballantine paperbacks only 11 were previously published in hardback. The rest are paperback originals. As you correctly identified, _The Best of Damon Knight_ was reprinted in paperback not by Ballantine but by Pocket Books. Great score, by the way! 👍😁
Oh, very good to know. I might have almost all the BCE's of them then. Thank you very much for the information. I may have to do a dedicated video on the collection at some point.
The Futurological Congress.: I just picked up a Harcourt edition. We All Died at Breakaway Station. I very happy to see you got a copy. Still one of my favorite SciFi books because it doesn't *explain* everything and the utter hopelessness is refreshing. I hope you enjoy it. Way Station: Still looking out in the wild. I never seen Tanith Lee so I picked up Electric Forest for the Kindle. Ira always has the most excellent hauls. Love the channel.
Glad to hear you like We All Died at Breakaway Station, I'll be reading it in July for sure now. I don't see many Tanith Lee's either, I've passed on a few really beat up copies but I'll keep looking. Cheers Robert.
Poul Anderson's War of the Wing-Men is a shorter version of The Man Who Counts. I read The Man Who Counts and really enjoyed it. It features one of Anderson's most popular characters, Nicholas van Rijn, a bombastic, roguish space trader prone to humorous malapropisms. He's one of the central characters of Anderson's long-running Technic History series, but the book stands on its own. This book and the other Van Rijn stories have a lot of humor along with hard SF elements and some interesting ideas about how different physical environments influence the cultures of people living in them. Worth reading.
Watched the video the day after it dropped, and would have left this comment then, but I had to dash off to nightshift! 🙄 Oh, well, better late than never! 🤪 Anyway, Ira, all I wanted to say was, good writers write good short stories and sometimes they write great collections, meaning that like a music album the whole collection is a great sequence of tracks. With that in mind, I feel Harlan Ellison's _Strange Wine_ from the late '70's is his most underrated "album." 👌 I, too, have the Warner Books paperback edition. 😁
Andre Norton is said the masculine way. She did legally change her name. Why? Well, her name was Alice Mary Norton, but she didn't want to have her writing taken over lapping her job as a librarian. It was true when she started writing she went under masculine pen names. Her first sf story was written as Andrew North. It became more urgent to keep her name separate from Mary Norton, the writer of The Borrowers. At the time she started writing, cataloging chose to always use the writer's 'real' name despite whatever pen name they wished to write under. Since a lot of her stories to begin with were aimed at the market now called "Young Adult" she didn't want any mix-up with Mary Norton. (I studied Library Science in college.)
Those are some brilliant hardcover artwork - excellent score! I really enjoy these book hauls but they do kind of incite me to worse buying habits myself :) Livery you call covers? I quite like that...
@@sfwordsofwonder Ah, I thought it might be the first time I heard you use it. It is interesting and I can see where it is coming from. As a casual, rather than a serious collector myself, I might stick to 'cover' and 'dust jacket'
@@OmnivorousReader And just to be clear the term is used for a matching art style between different books, like how the Lem books match up with the fonts and art.
@@sfwordsofwonder That is consistent with the way the term is used elsewhere. I must google where using it for books comes from, that is a 'new to me' use.
Wow! I missed this one. Some great stuff there. I have long referred to the science fiction book club edition of limits by Larry Niven cover art as "Piano Man in space." I mean the bartender is looking like Billy Joel in his mullet period. . . So much cool art!
@@sfwordsofwonder I don't want to rain on your parade, but Science Fiction Book Club cover art was its own thing and at the time we did not love it. You would go to a bookstore and see such amazing cover art on the paperbacks, and something you ordered from sfbc would show up at home, you tear open the box and see some misbegotten marriage of fan art / out of work collage artist /out of work children's record illustrator airbrush art, and feel ripped off. I've worked with used books for years, and It's so weird when I see younger people on booktube collecting sfbc additions wondered when it was a standard rule in any bookstore I visited that sfbc end Reader's digest editions would not be bought, would not be sold. If they came in in a lot they would go straight to the garbage or recycler. The library wouldn't take them as donations, even to sell. I'm not saying you shouldn't love 'em - it's just really interesting the different perspective on them. I mean, if you look carefully at copies where they used the same cover art as the release they had some way of doing the arts slightly differently that would "enshitify" them. Sometimes they would release these books, in long-running printings with the art unfinished: hands not drawn, faces not completed. . . just astounding. I'm sure I love the aesthetics of things that my elders cringe at. It's just jarring to be there. This is probably best discussed over beers. . .
I happen to have the same "Ringworld" hardcover bookclub edition in my collection, as you've said quite a good cover. I recently read my first Stanislaw Lem novel a few months back as well, I went with "Solaris" as my first one and also watched the Tarkovsky film, which I thought portrayed the atmosphere of the novel pretty well. It's been a while since I read "Up the Line" by Silverberg, but I remember that it was a fun time travel story.
@@sfwordsofwonder the first part of the novel worried me a bit, as it came off as being very psychological... so I thought at first is the whole going to be symbolism. But then Lem delved more into the planet Solaris and all was great. Enjoyed reading it!
NOOOOOOOO..... Damnation Alley was a novella in 1967 then a couple of years later was expanded into a novel, then book, then the film rights got purchased from Zelazny and the 1977 film murdered the story and then burnt the body and danced on the ashes.... Check out the wikipedia entry.
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'Ringing Changes' looks cool! I've heard a lot of positive reviews of R.A. Lafferty.
Excellent mistake sends! I've also heard great things about Harlan Ellison.
I've only read a few short stories of his so it will be good to dig into the whole collection. Cheers.
Great haul! We All Died.. is a tough book to find. Been looking for that one for a while.
Yeah, it took me a while to find an affordable one in decent condition. Really excited to read it. Cheers.
Nice Lems. I highly recommend The Futurological Congress.
Thanks for the recommendation, its on my list now. Cheers.
So many books!! The copy of 'The Witches of Karres' is a second printing in the Ace Science Fiction Specials series one. In my opinion it is one of the most fun reads in the series. 'Demon Breed' is also in the Ace Specials series one. I think your copy has a pretty sweet cover. At this rate you may fill all the shelves you've built! Looking forward to your library tour and reorganization.
I still haven't read anything from Schmitz, but after hearing you, Matt and others talk about them I think I need to check one out soon.
I'm a big fan of Bookshelf tours!
Me too, one of my favorite type of book tube videos. The hardest part seems to be filming it, so I'll probably get my wife to help out with that video.
What a haul! “First person, peculiar” looks interesting 🤔 I’ll look out for that one. I really enjoyed “Deathbird Stories”.
Yeah, First person, Peculiar looks to have good ratings but I haven't found any written reviews. It looks... peculiar...
Ira, although Book Club editions, those 'Best of's are actually the first and only hardback editions of those books. I have ten of them. And you don't have to worry about seeking out all 21 in Book Club hardback: of the 21 Ballantine paperbacks only 11 were previously published in hardback. The rest are paperback originals. As you correctly identified, _The Best of Damon Knight_ was reprinted in paperback not by Ballantine but by Pocket Books. Great score, by the way! 👍😁
Oh, very good to know. I might have almost all the BCE's of them then. Thank you very much for the information. I may have to do a dedicated video on the collection at some point.
The Futurological Congress.: I just picked up a Harcourt edition.
We All Died at Breakaway Station. I very happy to see you got a copy. Still one of my favorite SciFi books because it doesn't *explain* everything and the utter hopelessness is refreshing. I hope you enjoy it.
Way Station: Still looking out in the wild. I never seen Tanith Lee so I picked up Electric Forest for the Kindle.
Ira always has the most excellent hauls. Love the channel.
Glad to hear you like We All Died at Breakaway Station, I'll be reading it in July for sure now. I don't see many Tanith Lee's either, I've passed on a few really beat up copies but I'll keep looking. Cheers Robert.
Fabulous covers on the book club editions! 🙀
Yeah some great cover art. Cheers Bart.
I have read Memories found in a bathtub last month and its was so amazing and twisted, it will blow your brain out
Very good to know, I've heard great things about Lem.
Poul Anderson's War of the Wing-Men is a shorter version of The Man Who Counts. I read The Man Who Counts and really enjoyed it. It features one of Anderson's most popular characters, Nicholas van Rijn, a bombastic, roguish space trader prone to humorous malapropisms. He's one of the central characters of Anderson's long-running Technic History series, but the book stands on its own. This book and the other Van Rijn stories have a lot of humor along with hard SF elements and some interesting ideas about how different physical environments influence the cultures of people living in them. Worth reading.
Thanks for the description, that sounds right up my alley.
Watched the video the day after it dropped, and would have left this comment then, but I had to dash off to nightshift! 🙄
Oh, well, better late than never! 🤪
Anyway, Ira, all I wanted to say was, good writers write good short stories and sometimes they write great collections, meaning that like a music album the whole collection is a great sequence of tracks.
With that in mind, I feel Harlan Ellison's _Strange Wine_ from the late '70's is his most underrated "album." 👌
I, too, have the Warner Books paperback edition. 😁
Well I'll definitely be checking it out then. Thanks!
Andre Norton is said the masculine way. She did legally change her name. Why? Well, her name was Alice Mary Norton, but she didn't want to have her writing taken over lapping her job as a librarian. It was true when she started writing she went under masculine pen names. Her first sf story was written as Andrew North. It became more urgent to keep her name separate from Mary Norton, the writer of The Borrowers. At the time she started writing, cataloging chose to always use the writer's 'real' name despite whatever pen name they wished to write under. Since a lot of her stories to begin with were aimed at the market now called "Young Adult" she didn't want any mix-up with Mary Norton. (I studied Library Science in college.)
Wow, thanks for the explanation on this. Cheers.
Those are some brilliant hardcover artwork - excellent score!
I really enjoy these book hauls but they do kind of incite me to worse buying habits myself :)
Livery you call covers? I quite like that...
I don't completely like the term 'livery' but it seems that it is the correct term according to people that know more about these things than me.
@@sfwordsofwonder Ah, I thought it might be the first time I heard you use it. It is interesting and I can see where it is coming from. As a casual, rather than a serious collector myself, I might stick to 'cover' and 'dust jacket'
@@OmnivorousReader And just to be clear the term is used for a matching art style between different books, like how the Lem books match up with the fonts and art.
@@sfwordsofwonder That is consistent with the way the term is used elsewhere. I must google where using it for books comes from, that is a 'new to me' use.
Wow! I missed this one.
Some great stuff there.
I have long referred to the science fiction book club edition of limits by Larry Niven cover art as "Piano Man in space." I mean the bartender is looking like Billy Joel in his mullet period. . .
So much cool art!
Piano Man in Space, love it. Such great cover art on the old SF books.
@@sfwordsofwonder I don't want to rain on your parade, but Science Fiction Book Club cover art was its own thing and at the time we did not love it. You would go to a bookstore and see such amazing cover art on the paperbacks, and something you ordered from sfbc would show up at home, you tear open the box and see some misbegotten marriage of fan art / out of work collage artist /out of work children's record illustrator airbrush art, and feel ripped off.
I've worked with used books for years, and It's so weird when I see younger people on booktube collecting sfbc additions wondered when it was a standard rule in any bookstore I visited that sfbc end Reader's digest editions would not be bought, would not be sold. If they came in in a lot they would go straight to the garbage or recycler. The library wouldn't take them as donations, even to sell.
I'm not saying you shouldn't love 'em - it's just really interesting the different perspective on them. I mean, if you look carefully at copies where they used the same cover art as the release they had some way of doing the arts slightly differently that would "enshitify" them. Sometimes they would release these books, in long-running printings with the art unfinished: hands not drawn, faces not completed. . . just astounding.
I'm sure I love the aesthetics of things that my elders cringe at. It's just jarring to be there. This is probably best discussed over beers. . .
I happen to have the same "Ringworld" hardcover bookclub edition in my collection, as you've said quite a good cover. I recently read my first Stanislaw Lem novel a few months back as well, I went with "Solaris" as my first one and also watched the Tarkovsky film, which I thought portrayed the atmosphere of the novel pretty well. It's been a while since I read "Up the Line" by Silverberg, but I remember that it was a fun time travel story.
What did you think of Solaris the novel? I'll be reading it at some point but I know it can be hit or miss for people. Cheers.
@@sfwordsofwonder the first part of the novel worried me a bit, as it came off as being very psychological... so I thought at first is the whole going to be symbolism. But then Lem delved more into the planet Solaris and all was great. Enjoyed reading it!
NOOOOOOOO..... Damnation Alley was a novella in 1967 then a couple of years later was expanded into a novel, then book, then the film rights got purchased from Zelazny and the 1977 film murdered the story and then burnt the body and danced on the ashes....
Check out the wikipedia entry.
Haha, thanks.