I Cleaned Out A Library Book Sale - Vintage Science Fiction and Fantasy Scores
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I’ll take whatever content schedule you’re able to fit into your life. You got a lot on the go, so I appreciate whatever it is your able to produce. Even the Bigfoot stuff.
You remind me of a guy I knew in college in the early-1980s. He had a massive collection of paperback, pulp science fiction books...thousands of them. He always had one in his hand and would be reading it...on the way to class, walking away from class...endlessly....even while eating. The weirder the story, the more he seemed to like it. I'd love to know where he his today.
Make sure you listen to that Dead Milkmen CD* before you sell it. It's a disturbing, obnoxious Reagan-era classic.
*Big Lizard
I like the omnibus review videos, keep doing them.
Small nitpick here. 5:17 Krazy Kat is by no means "Outsider Art" ! It's one of the most formative newspaper comic strips of the 20th century, ran in newspapers all across the country in the pre-war era and the work of none other than George Harriman, one of the most important comic artists ever. Kind of one of the first "highbrow" comics artists that infused cartoon characters with what I guess you might call pathos. (William Randolph Hearst was a huge fan.) He influenced everyone from Robert Crumb to Charles Schulz. Harriman was far from outsider.
I have a feeling that calendar is worth good money dude.
I may have gotten my wires crossed with something else, thanks for filling in the detail.
You said what I was thinking FAR more eloquently.
Thank you sir!
(My compulsion is sated.)
I was thinking the same thing. During its publication it was as mainstream as you could get.
Big Lizard in my Backyard by The Dead Milkmen is great.
It's a classic for sure. I am certain it would be "canceled" today.
I have the boxed set of the Foundation trilogy with those covers. I must have bought it back in the 1970s.
I too don''t quite understand why Pohl's _Gateway_ gets so much love. But I am willing to give it another chance sometime. _Black Star Rising_ is a late work and quite interesting. The best Pohl I know of is _The Space Merchants,_ a satire on advertising which he wrote with Cyril Kornbluth, and _Starburst,_ which is a satisfyingly strange story that I can't really describe with spoiling, but it's a story about a first ever interplanatery mission, which then goes off in an unusual direction.
I have just written a great fictional book and want to sell it to an Author as a ghost writer.
My all time favorite cover artist is still Frank Frazzeta for his work on the Barsoom series.
Really glad you started this channel, You seem to really enjoy it! The only Science Fiction I had read was Dune and some Phillip K. Dick up until 2 years ago. I happened upon More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon and got hooked. Got some excellent recs from you so far, keep it up!
I had to get myself a copy of Brian Aldiss' Hothouse based on your recommendation in the last video. Will get around to reading it soon!
Hope you enjoy it.
If you want to know why Heinlein was highly rated (yes, it is a big if) you would probably want to try his short stories and his YA (used to be called 'Juvenile') novels. I think there four or five - Orphans in the Sky is one of them. As someone noted in the comments somewhere, his novels, especially the later/longer ones, tended to be padded out with much pontification on issues close to his heart and/or loins. If pressed, I'd admit I enjoyed some of his earlier work (when I was earlier too) and recommend collections of shorter stories (40s/50s and mostly from his so-called Future History series) like Revolt in 2100, The Menace from Earth or "A" Robert Heinlein Omnibus (not to be confused with "The" Robert Heinlein Omnibus, which consists of three novels). No, seriously, it is too easy to bounce off the prejudiced, self-important dirty old man he was later to become.
I thought of you today; got a call on Sunday to pick up books from an estate and 70% are science fiction/fantasy My car was packed back to front Doing the initial sort right now; they are vintage
Found your channel through Moid. Instant fan of your content and subbed as well!
Welcome
A lot of great finds. I'm looking forward to Schismatrix Plus as well. Its a collection of the novel and short stories that take place in the same universe and was an influence on Alastair Reynolds. The Worm Ouroboros sounds interesting too! Don't think I've come across that book or author before.
Short Stories are the HEART of SF. Wm Gibson has a collection called "Burning Chrome" that (IMHO) are better than Neuromancer. Neuromancer always read like 3 short stories that share a climax to save the author work, and kinda fizzle out. He works hard building a momentum with the choppy prose (sometimes rendering scenes hard to picture) and then at the climax he sorta drains all that energy out -like shutting the machine down.
Not as often mentioned, you'll find a LOT of proto Cyberpunk in the 1950's short stories of PKD! In fact, some of them read very 80's Punk!
Likewise, I think you've got a better chance of finding gems in Heinlein's short stories. I remember really liking the beginning of Stranger in a Strange Land as a teenager - I felt he was really onto something trying to portray an alien's state of mind in human terms through a human who experienced it. But, I never finished it, never went back and most attempts have been punished by his bombastic opinionizing. I haven't made it through enough RH to be sure, but I feel as though SiaSL was the watershed novel where he went from Short SF novellas to door stopper opinion pieces where he gets to write about justifying whatever gets him off. However, in my Covid reads of the "SF Hall of Fame" volumes I found myself confronted with Heinlein stories worth reading: "The Roads Must Roll" is SO "On Brand" that it reads like a parody of everything we find so wearisome in RH - A Libertarian Corporate/Fascist Utopia that reads like a dystopia where problems are solved by engineers and square jawed men. Unintentionally hilarious at times. The other, "Orphans of the Sky" (alt title "Universe") on the other hand is what I always wished 50's SF (and RH) would be. A good idea, adventure , "Muties" -Like a Space Opera edited down to a novella. Just plain satisfying.
There seems to be consensus that Orphans is the go-to. I had a Baen paperback of it but the cover was so embarrassingly awful that I donated it somewhere. I find him unbearably smug. I guess he had a well-spent youth as a leftwinger before he got into the Rand. I still feel like my opinion of him is a little armchair, having only read one full novel (troopers) and the first few chapters of a couple others. But there's just something about it. Will pick up the next copy of Orphans I find.
@@Bookpilled To be fair, I didn't read a padded out stand alone, but the novella in "SF Hall of Fame Vol 2" - Perhaps the title "Universe" is a designator of version. And still, that's with the proviso it's "What I always wanted ** 50's SF ** to be. Just so you eat it with the right spoon. 😉
Reading and enjoying Heinlein depends on how old you were when you started reading his novels. I started reading him in 1958. So his juvenile novels filled my mind with space adventures in a world where we were just playing with the X15. If you started reading him now it would not be the same. Then he went off the rails with his later books and I turned to other authors. He published every story and novel he ever wrote starting in Amazing Stories. Kind of like E. E. DOC SMITH. Great novels long ago but dated now.
Amazing finds!!! Love finding Black Sparrow Press in the wild.
Also, notable improvement in visibility/clarity of book covers shown on camera! Kudos.
Hothouse just arrived after last video recommendation and will be reading next.
Cool, hope you enjoy it
Didn’t know you had another channel, subscribed! Love the content, dude
I wish I could see why people love Neuromancer so damn much. I DNF’d it three times and I want to love it but it just doesn’t compute. I’m glad you’re enjoying it and wish you the best per usual BP.
I’m with you on Neuromancer, it did not do a thing for me, and from that period of time I much prefer The Silicon Man by Charles Platt. But Neuromancer is one of those books where I come out of it with a headache, although thinking “I completely get why other folks really love this.” The funny thing is: I was merely indifferent to Neuromancer - but, I hate to say it, Schismatrix Plus by Sterling is a book I actively dislike. Everything in that book, the original Schismatrix and the additional material included, was one of the surprise despised chores of my reading life. However, again, to each their own, it goes differently for each reader.
@@sethball2475 I’ll have to check out Platt in the future. We seem to have similar taste in reading although I actively dislike Neuromancer and don’t understand the sheer amount of awards and praise it gets. The prose reminds me of something a teenage edge lord would write on a weekend binder with Mountain Dew and Trollis candy. It’s a very snappy writing style and doesn’t give you enough time to enjoy anything that’s going on. To me the book slowly loses my interest right after that amazing opening line.
@@onlinedayton9882 So then, let me ask you this…have you read Snow Crash, and did you like it…?
@@sethball2475 I DNF’d Snow Crash as well. It felt a lot like Neuromancer and was just kind of all over the place for me. It may just be a genre thing and that’s why it’s not clicking.
I do have hope for Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep in the far future for my tbr. It’s just because of the genre that books in this vein have been pushed way, way down in the tbr but I have hope, albeit distant hope.
@@onlinedayton9882 I thought you might say that about Snow Crash…and for me also, it’s just not a beloved book. I just end up standing back and saying “it’s all yours”. It was entertaining; I’ve gone on to read The Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon, and I’m probably quits with the author. Not finding what I love, there…
Well I hope you get to Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?; I think PKD remains the most significant American SF novelist, regardless of how I react to him on a book-by-book basis, and Do Androids Dream is my second favourite book by him, after Dr Bloodmoney…which is one of my Top 10 SF novels of all time (um, so far). BookTubers who focus on SF and make PKD a priority have an annoying habit of seeming to never get around to Dr Bloodmoney, but I sit back and wait. Yes, fine, read Flow My Tears, and The Zap Gun, and all the other ones first, but eventually all you’ll be left with is Dr Bloodmoney, I’ll wait. Grrr. Anyway, rant over - I don’t think you’ll find Do Androids Dream is much like Neuromancer, or mostly not like Snow Crash, so there’s that.
I was looking for a book vid last night & You Tube musta lied when I checked my subscriptions. Unjust.
Fun Haul.
Those early fantasies are historical pieces that were part of the Tolkien craze 'rush to publish anything to cash in.'
Only downside (to a modern reader) is that they are written by 19th C minds - Trying to conjure an earlier epoch. . . romantically.
As a connoisseur of old things, you must know that William Morris was a spearhead to the English Arts & Crafts movement; A Pre-Raphaelite and Romantic, you've seen his textile and wall paper designs on fancy journals. Check out books on his house. Very anti -industrialist ; clearly sets the stage for Tolkien's worldview.
George MacDonald and Lord Dunsany are supposed to be some of the best of that turn of the century fantasy ilk.
Fix a typo, lose a heart. . . You Tube has Spoken.
Quite a pile of books! I read a lot of them (I stayed away from most of the Fantasy though), some good ones there, but nothing really outstanding except for a couple. Gibson's best was Neuromancer and a couple of short stories.
Metaphysical Graffiti by Dead Milkmen is one of the best albums, if only for the hidden tracks, but it's all good in their weird way. The tracks from it I've found on yt are incomplete. Wish I still had my copy. Can't afford another rn. Still, not for everybody.
Raymond Chandler and Dasheill Hammett are some of my favorites. Man that makes me want to read some next. When I was living in LA reading Chandler was like a comfortable blanket at night, looking out my window at the purple sky, yellow street lights, and hearing the traffic and street people and music coming from other apartment windows... it was like the perfect soundtrack to his books.
Along with Chandler I also recommend The Day of The Locust by Nathaniel West, for more LA horror. If you have lived and loved in LA, but escaped, those books are for you.
I have read Day of the Locust, it's a great piece. My favorite LA book is Ask the Dust by Fante. And really anything Bukowski. I did live there for a year.
@@Bookpilled Ask the Dust and Day of the Locust are a great Los Angeles pairing!
Many years ago when Hollywood Park racetrack was still in operation me and my college friends would go there hoping to see Bukowski’s ghost - that was his track - all it did for me was give me a lifelong addiction to people watching at horse tracks.
If you like Neuromancer, check out George Alec Effinger’s Marid Audran Trilogy and Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash.
Hi! I’m new to your vlog. My ears perked up when you said opera cd/dvd? I’m 73 this year and my mother was a coloratura soprano who sang in the metropolitan opera from 1935-47. If you ever come across something with her name I’d so appreciate a heads up. Her name was Josephine Antoine. She’s on Google and UA-cam. I’m not asking you to go out of your way but should you see her name. ✌🏻🤠
You need to subscribe to Gary Levosi's channel. You have a lot to learn and struggle to identify what's collectable.
Oh my fucking god. Kim Stanley Robinson is the most important living SF writer. You should wash your mouth out with soap for comparing him to Tom Clancey. I have the Blish in the original PB cover by Powers.
A lot of modern stuff. If you ever run across any Andre Norton let me know.
By the Andre died in 2005. I have always said that C.J. Cherryh is the next Andre Norton.
Take from an old man who has been reading SF/Fantasy for 60 years that is high praise.
The Etsy link to shop/Bookpilled is not working... "Uh Oh! Sorry, the page you were looking for was not found."
bradbury and asimov were my copies as a youth, from the scholastic book services at school. i took "greatest living SF writer' seriously. so i was reading in the big leagues now. i love the ending.
How do you go about finding library sales?
Not sure there's a general rule. I saw a flyer for this one at the library itself.
Go to the library and ask. Most of them do them at least a few times a year to get rid of all the books people donate. A lot of bigger libraries have things on sale all the time.
Marion Zimmer-Bradley did some really heinous things to her children, just an FYI.
You might want to read Journey to Ixtlan. It is very much a fantasy book.
CJ Cherryh - Heavy Time. Don't let the slightly cartoon cover fool you. Book is intense and spectacular.
Part of the alliance / Union company wars universe but they're pretty much all standalone books and she designed them that way so it's a perfect way to dive in.
It's all the mining / belter/ aspects of the Expanse (before the expanse existed) - without the aliens and bigger set pieces.....
Much more of a man versus the system - dark psychological paranoia drama with conspiracy theories.
She is excellent at sentence structure and flow does a really good job with dialogue and claustrophobia. Not a fun read because of how stressed everybody is - but it's absolutely not to be missed.
Great find! Definitely definitely read it if that sounds interesting to you.
Once again great video - cheers from Seattle Washington
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Audiobook version - low quality - but still old-school fun.
Sounds like the movie Outland.
@@Bookpilled - Absolutely! Not sure if that's your thing. But I can't get enough. I love it.
And I love your channel so thank you again for sharing.
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I''m sorry I was going to say i have lots of a periodical called new worlds from the nineteen sixties which had lots of sci fi short stories but i want to keep them. sorry.
Adding my 2¢ worth, Cherryh is my favorite so yes I recommend her stuff. The Retief books are mostly collections of short stories with many carryovers between books. I don't care for most of Heinlein's later works but I loved his juvenile's as a juvenile. Orphan's Of The Sky and The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress are favs that are more adult.
I went to an estate sale last weekend because they advertised a lot of vintage SF. There were hundreds, I had to control myself and ended up with 7 books for $2. Highlighted by The Stainless Steel Rat by Harrison and Cage A Man by Busby. I'm sure you would have found dozens to buy.
I like Mishima (there's a video about him in the 'Outsider Literature' playlist on my channel, with references to a certain rock band and my friendship with his Uk publisher) and Bowles, great stuff. That's the same edition of 'A Case of Conscience' I bought in 1983- Moid was in Hay a few days after my last visit (3 clips about it on my channel), I've been going there since 1985. Prefer 'Eye of the Queen' by Mann myself, but running jokes MUST be kept running....good fun vid.
Keep going. Love these book videos. Your viewership continues to grow.
I checked out Verbatim this weekend! Such a cool bookstore
Black Sparrow books are usually pretty valuable.
What libraries do you go to for these sales?? Also where are they advertised?
Can’t go wrong with The Martian Chronicles
Want the best fantasy book ever? “Name of the Wind”
If you wanna blow your mind with some early ass proto cyberpunk, Dr Adder by K W Jeter.
If you want good fantasy that also blows out orifices and isn't typical, Jurgen by Cabell, Lilith by George MacDonald, and the Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter.
As for an early science fantasy masterpiece, A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay. One of my favorite books of all time.
Thanks for the awesome content dude.
Thanks for the recs. Of all of those, the only one I have is Jurgen.
I think I've mentioned the Jeter to Matt already in an email. Its obscurity these days is totally undeserved, it separates the goats from sheep as I'm sure you found!
Gee you get some great books. I have to travel to far and distant lands to get the cool stuff that you get. I happened to be in one of those lands last weekend and picked up a bunch of Marion Zimmer-Bradley books for cheap and for some reason bought all but 4 and I've been mad at myself all week for not grabbing those too 🙄
Knowing what she did to her kids, I would feel very icky picking up anything by Marion Zimmer-Bradley.
Retief Unbound is the first in the Retief series
@17:58 "Like your mum"
#LFLR
"VBW"
A stranger in a strange land is my next boook!
Wow,the smile on your face when this starts, made my heart race
you Go grrl!
your Etsy page is not working
Awesome book finds! We have our library book sale tomorrow and I am never able to crush through the nerdy old bald guys to get to the tiny area of sci-fi. The couple of times I did it was mostly 100 different covers of Star Trek. Geesh 🙄.You have a great eye for stuff, I've never been a big sci-fi person (that would be my nerdy balding but adorable husband!), but books have always been a thing for me. As an architectural historian I gravitate towards those big bulky 500 page architecture times but people seem to have a huge hard on for a dude named Frank (Lloyd Wright) and after working in his residential archive let's just say the love affair is a bit old. Love the videos, the eyes omg 🥰, and the nerdy husband in explaining something bad to me the other day called it an "ass brand". I think you're making your mark lol!
The shine *does* come off of FLW.
I would love to talk to **someone** with more architectural knowledge than opinion who could think down to the common man's level. Discuss brutalism & recommend a book that's more about the positive hopeful 60's - 70's stuff than the oppressive monolithic stuff from the 40's &50's. (But *probably not fair to do so on Matt's page.) ;)
Nice haul.
#LFLR
"VBW"
there was a periodical called new
Do you still have a store on Etsy?
Worm Ouroboros is a fantastic book. I actually have that edition myself. Be warned though that it is a very, very, very difficult read. Like a lot of pre-Tolkien fantasy its written in a deliberately archaic style. Definitely NOT the best place to start though it is worth it if you can penetrate the way its written.
I also loved it, but I did have to push through that initial phase, specially because I am not a native english speaker, but some of the imagery from the book comes back very strong every time I think of that book. I lent it a few times but no one liked it, so I guess its a niche book. I like medieval literature so maybe that helped me. Definitively worth the effort.
Gateway rocks, man
...mean to add I struggle with Heinlein too, apart from 'Orphans of the Sky', 'The Puppet Masters' and 'Starship Troopers'. Pohl? People seem to love 'Gateway' but I found it dull. 'Man Plus' is the one to go for, take yr head off!
Thanks for the recommendations as always, Stephen. Will have to hunt down your Mishima vid.
@@Bookpilled As I say, it starts by referencing a song by a band, then goes into his life and work a bit more deeply...take it easy, comrade!
Another big thumbs up to Man Plus, my fave solo Pohl, if you spot it out in the wild. But thanks for holding up Black Star Rising, reminding me that it exists and that I’ve read it, and so could scurry over to Goodreads and throw it 3 quiet stars.
I'm confused, didn't you just show most of this on your other thrift channel?
Yes, lots of people on this channel don't watch that one.
I would also suggest you buy a copy of Hancer's price guide. Prices aren't right but it will give you an idea of relative values.
I stopped at a used book store in the area a picked up a 4 books. if I wasn't an Alan Dean Foster collector I would be sending Moid "Dark Star" because of the cover art. I did pick up "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" despite the God-awful 80's cover art. See you on the next video.
I love your content, because you remind me of me 30 years ago, discovering many of the same books for the first time. That said, you have to figure out the auto-focus thing. It's very difficult to watch. Maybe just turn off the auto-focus altogether and lock it on you? That way you can hold the book up next to your head and you know it's in focus.
CJ Cherryh is verbose, but entirely worth the price of admission. I am entirely jealous of the copy of Fahrenheit 451. That was the first science fiction book I fell in love with. His love letter to the written word.
The Foundation copies you bought are the copies i read. Vintage mid century covers. Darkwalker on Moonshae is actually the very first Forgotten Realms novel printed.
I love your videos. I've read a few of your recommendations and enjoyed them. So thanks for that. Currently reading Blind Sight and loving it.
Glad to hear you liked neuromancer.Unlike some of the other comments you've heard on Gibson's books, i like them all.The ones i have in paperback are well-worn from reading several times.The way he writes really appeals to me.
William Morris is one of my favourite authors. Writing way before any other fantasy author you mention. The worm ouroburus is also a firm favourite.... Highly recommended
Dude you are totally the guy in the Kakie costume from the hotel Transylvania 2 movie!😂
Paul Bowles just happens to be a distant relative of mine
William Morris was a writer from the 1800s (and I think he was an artist). I have a bunch of his books but haven't read them yet. The cover artist is Gervasio Gallardo who did the covers for Xiccarph, Poseidonis, and Hyperborea by Clark Ashton Smith, Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn, Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, and lots of other books in Ballantine's Adult Fantasy Series. Great stuff.
Rofl I’m having soooo much fun watching this. Totally out of my element but you’re great. Deadpan. Straight faced. All business. “ A rare find of unknown value”. I’ve had an awful awful week you’ve made me laugh and learn. Good combo. Good luck selling your known and unknown value things. I’m subscribing to learn
I’m glad you picked up the Eddison and Morris Fantasy books. I actually have not read those particular William Morris novels, but have been curious about them for ages, having read and enjoyed The Glittering Plain (Fantasy), and News From Nowhere (proto-SF).
It's technically one book but when Carter selected it for the Adult Fantasy series he put together in the wake of the Lord of the Rings' success he had to split into two volumes.
It’s cool that you and moid are in contact.
Id love to hear your comments on the sun eater series. I think you would like it!
Have not read it, will pick it up if I come across it
The Bradbury is terrific
That was the "standard" cover for Soooooo long. I've seen generations of school kids w/ that on top the stack.
"Schismatrix Plus" is Schismatrix (the novel) and the rest of the Mechanist/Shaper stories. Yes, read.
Heinlein -- last read Stranger in high school, in the '70s. Tried to re-read a couple years ago, and stalled about a third of the way in. My tastes have changed. One old Heinlein I did like quite a bit recently was the novella "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag", in an omnibus volume of his fantasies.
Do, read Raymond Chandler. A window in to a world that's passed. Maybe not that ancient paperback copy though.
Read the Worm Ouroboros in HS, no desire to repeat.