Hi. Thanks for another video. Good god, you'll never see the Sun again! For some reason, I never got any of the Dozois. Probably being Anglo-centric, buying All the Interzone anthologies and quite a few edited by David S Garnett. As you're demonstrating, there's an awful lot of good SF out there. Of the names I recognise from my Interzone years Greg Egan stands out along with Mr Stableford of course. I always enjoy Egan's short stories, so it's puzzling to me that I never went on to his novels. I bought Permutation City but never read it. I'll put that right before long. Of the two Stableford I noticed, The Growth of the House of Usher is dark and witty. It's part of his one man campaign in favour of genetic engineering and refers of course to Poe. The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady serves as the prologue to his novel The Empire of Fear; a journey into the heart of darkness and the power of the scientific method to illuminate it. When I think of Silverberg, as well as the great novels, titles like The Feast of St Dionysus, Born With the Dead and of course Nightwings always come to mind. Much of his very best writing is in short/novella form. I'm sure they'll please. Have fun and tell me the name of your optician. I have a little money to invest. :)
Ha, funnily enough, I probably do need an eye test, been a while! Egan is hard work novel-wise, I've only read one, Quarantine, and found it made me work quite hard. It's good, but requires a lot of mental effort to stay on top of it. My SF short story reading has been mainly Asimov, and that 30 or 40 years ago, so this'll be an SF education. Looking forward to it. Thanks for watching 👀 !
Made a long comment yesterday - and it's disappeared! Hope that's not starting again. Anyway try again... Brilliant haul Jon - wish we had charity shops like yours. I have the 3 Andromeda books - you're right there are only 3 - ISFDB doesn't mention it as a magazine, just an anthology series. I have 3 of the 4 Continuum books - just missing volume 3 - though in a different livery. In fact I have 2 copies of volume 2 - paperback and hardback. To be able to pick up most of the New Writings like that is incredible. I'm collecting them and until last night was missing just volume 30. But I found it on eBay and just had to purchase it - though I had to buy volume 29 again as well. And what a haul of Best New SF! There's a seller on eBay who is currently selling 27 of the first 29 (only 7 and 8 missing I think) and he is asking over £1000 for the lot. So you got them at a steal! Well done sir - they should keep you going for a while :-)
1000 quid! No chance. I am trying to sell the US edition of book 2, hardback, pretty uncommon, on ebay. 50 quid, no takers.... It is annoying when comments go MIA. I'm please to have got them all, I also found Continuum 4 but forgot I had the rest in US editions so it doesn't match! The horror.... Thanks for watching 👀!
You gotta love anthologies - especially vintage ones which make me come over all nostalgialy. Nice pickups there particularly the New Writings. You got more in one haul than I've managed to put together in five years. Oh for a decent Oxfam bookshop in this cultural wasteland. Lucky you.
It's easy to forget many of the authors who were writing stories, shorts etc in the 1970's, as they were overshadowed by the "big" names of the 1950's & 1960's, but then went on to widespread success in the 1980's and 1990's. For instance, Aldiss, Chris Priest, George R R Martin, Bob Shaw to name a few. Nice haul SFS! Great post. Cheers.
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Tremendous haul some fantastic authors there what a collection. That will keep you going for a bit.
It sure will. I'm going to have to sprinkle some short stories among my general reading. Thanks for watching 👀!
Hi. Thanks for another video. Good god, you'll never see the Sun again!
For some reason, I never got any of the Dozois. Probably being Anglo-centric, buying All the Interzone anthologies and quite a few edited by David S Garnett. As you're demonstrating, there's an awful lot of good SF out there.
Of the names I recognise from my Interzone years Greg Egan stands out along with Mr Stableford of course. I always enjoy Egan's short stories, so it's puzzling to me that I never went on to his novels. I bought Permutation City but never read it. I'll put that right before long.
Of the two Stableford I noticed, The Growth of the House of Usher is dark and witty. It's part of his one man campaign in favour of genetic engineering and refers of course to Poe. The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady serves as the prologue to his novel The Empire of Fear; a journey into the heart of darkness and the power of the scientific method to illuminate it.
When I think of Silverberg, as well as the great novels, titles like The Feast of St Dionysus, Born With the Dead and of course Nightwings always come to mind. Much of his very best writing is in short/novella form. I'm sure they'll please.
Have fun and tell me the name of your optician. I have a little money to invest. :)
Ha, funnily enough, I probably do need an eye test, been a while! Egan is hard work novel-wise, I've only read one, Quarantine, and found it made me work quite hard. It's good, but requires a lot of mental effort to stay on top of it. My SF short story reading has been mainly Asimov, and that 30 or 40 years ago, so this'll be an SF education. Looking forward to it. Thanks for watching 👀 !
Made a long comment yesterday - and it's disappeared! Hope that's not starting again. Anyway try again...
Brilliant haul Jon - wish we had charity shops like yours. I have the 3 Andromeda books - you're right there are only 3 - ISFDB doesn't mention it as a magazine, just an anthology series.
I have 3 of the 4 Continuum books - just missing volume 3 - though in a different livery. In fact I have 2 copies of volume 2 - paperback and hardback.
To be able to pick up most of the New Writings like that is incredible. I'm collecting them and until last night was missing just volume 30. But I found it on eBay and just had to purchase it - though I had to buy volume 29 again as well.
And what a haul of Best New SF! There's a seller on eBay who is currently selling 27 of the first 29 (only 7 and 8 missing I think) and he is asking over £1000 for the lot. So you got them at a steal!
Well done sir - they should keep you going for a while :-)
1000 quid! No chance. I am trying to sell the US edition of book 2, hardback, pretty uncommon, on ebay. 50 quid, no takers....
It is annoying when comments go MIA. I'm please to have got them all, I also found Continuum 4 but forgot I had the rest in US editions so it doesn't match! The horror....
Thanks for watching 👀!
You gotta love anthologies - especially vintage ones which make me come over all nostalgialy. Nice pickups there particularly the New Writings. You got more in one haul than I've managed to put together in five years. Oh for a decent Oxfam bookshop in this cultural wasteland. Lucky you.
Let me know if there's something specific you want me to look out for Kenny, happy to act as your agent! Thanks for watching 👀 .
@@SciFiScavenger Okay thanks Jon. Mentally filed.
I hope you live long and prosper ... at least you won't run out of SF to read!
I might run out shelves though!thanks for watching 👀!
It's easy to forget many of the authors who were writing stories, shorts etc in the 1970's, as they were overshadowed by the "big" names of the 1950's & 1960's, but then went on to widespread success in the 1980's and 1990's. For instance, Aldiss, Chris Priest, George R R Martin, Bob Shaw to name a few. Nice haul SFS! Great post. Cheers.
Thanks Rick, another post later on, focusing on the women of SF in the 20th century. Thanks for watching 👀!
Le Guin is the meter stick I think.@@SciFiScavenger
She's definitely in there, yes! And 9 others.
Lord above! These are the voyages of the Sci Fi Scavenger, his continuing mission to explore the galaxies charity shops. . . . .to seek out new shelves! The little green men he meets merely envious SF collectors living on the periphery of the publishing world 🤢
I would reply, but that would violate the prime directive!