Dr. Tom Shippey is the GOAT! He's primarily known as a Tolkien scholar, but has also written extensively about Vikings, Beowulf, and more broadly about sci-fi and fantasy. He's a true treasure!!
Fun hauls, thanks for sharing. Moorcock is hit or miss for me. I LOVED the Elrik books back when I was a teen, but I struggled on a re-read a few years back. Some of the Moorcock standalone books are great, some I DNF...
John Carpenter directed Vampires with James Woods in the main role. It's not a great film but it's still quite fun if you're in the right frame of mind. That God Emperor of Dune cover someone referred to as the giant penis with a face cover, hard not to think of that every time I see that version now.
@sciencefictionreads that would be interesting to have various SF books and shorts stories that got adapted into films compared. It could make for a fun series of videos 👍. That Dune cover, once you see it you can't unsee it lol
Spin State I think was in my 2000s space opera vid, or I considered it for that. If I remember right Chris is a she. I also loved False Dawn, I reckon it goes hand in hand with The Road. You are doing great work on the haul front Matt!
Little Fuzzy is such a fun book. Really felt like a movie id watch as a kid in the 90's, very supprised it never got a movie adaptation. The second one is more of the same and explores what they set up in the first book more. He wrote a 3rd but it was released postmortem and is a little rough around the edges. A friend of the family wore a few more fuzzy books, but they are a continuation of the 2nd book because they didn't find the 3rd book until much later.
Hey, thanks for the info! I should really check out Piper's work soon, as I've had him on my shelves for years and never gotten around to it. Likening Little Fuzzy to a 90's movie is an excellent selling point for me👍
@sciencefictionreads et, air bud, free willy, anything where the main character finds a cool creature of some sort and a corporation or government is trying to get the creature. Except it came out in the 60's.
The Avon SF Hall of Fame volumes I, II A, and II B were also released as a box set. Volume III, in the same livery, is slightly harder to find. Volume IV, with a slightly different cover to the rest, but with a matching spine, is very difficult to find. I know because it took me forever!
I've read only one novel by Stableford: The Fenris Device. Now if I had two centuries of life left in me, I might be able to read his entire catalog. Man, that guy was prolific. I hear that he recently passed away. Anyway, great haul, Matt. Really enjoy your channel. Cheers.
Well you may not read everything, but the other books in the series that 'The Fenris Device' is a part of are all quite short! Much like his other series the "Daedalus Mission"! Though these books of his I've been acquiring lately look to be much more literary and plotted out. Should be interesting!
I enjoyed your double haul vid. Everything that you mentioned that you "heard on booktube but you can't remember who" was Outlaw Bookseller. I find that amusing. I'm a big Moorcock fan, so I feel like I have to say something, but hey read what you like. I will say you should read some Elric before the Jerry Cornelius, because in the first book he deliberately satirizes Elric in a number of major plot elements. And each book in that JC collection is pretty different from each other. If you feel unsure about him, just read the first and third Elric books. They have the most important character beats until the end & if you find yourself really enjoying it, you can always backfill. He deliberately builds the stories in the novels that he wrote years after the initial short stories to ape the original short stories, and uses a structure similar to ERB, while filling it with characterization and emotional depth. A lot of people say Elric is the anti-Conan, but he is also subverting ERB by using his structure in a lot of these stories, but doing more with that structure than Burroughs ever did. Liminal Spaces just did a few videos on JC. I think he's got a short no spoiler one for the first book, although I remember all of them being kind of spoilery.
Thanks for the info! The Eternal Champion stuff seems like such a daunting task to get into, although as i said i did read the first Corum trilogy and i love the whole idea of the Eternal Champion across so many characters and books. Still looking forward to Elric at some point! And will have to check out Liminal Spaces videos on the topic.
Hey man I really dig your sci-fi command center. Good info on some prospective reads too, thanks buddy. Oh btw if you like Silverberg, keep your eye out for his Nebula-winning novella "Sailing to Byzantium" which is one of my faves.
Thanks Matt! Note of clarification, some of the $1 books might be falling apart a little, but are all there and are readable. I try not to throw out books, but if they are completely fallen apart I do.
Cage A Man is the first of the Demu trilogy by Busby. I remember liking them, but I may be biased because Busby's Rissa Kerguelen stories are one of my favorite series. I have most of the DAW yellow spines by Cherryh, but it wasn't much of a challenge because I bought them as they were published. 😊
The Rissa Kerguelen stories are the ones i was referring to. I have a bunch of those books. They look and sound interesting but I've never heard anyone talk about them! I'll have to check them out soon. And thankyou for the info! I likely won't keep Cage a Man as i have the Demu Trilogy in omnibus form. Still hoping to see you start posting videos some day!
I loved Cat Karina when I read it years ago - good luck with that one. Marge Piercy's cyborg novel from 1991, called He, She and It, is an SF expansion of the golem legend. Piercy also wrote one of my Top Ten favourite SF novels, Woman on Edge of Time, so of course I was happy to read something else by her, and when I found out she had another SF outing about artificial life, rooted in golem lore, I read it too. It was very good. Sorry Rogue Golem was a bit of a letdown.
I liked Ian Watson's novel Space Marine in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. I also had John Steakley's Armor on my radar a few times, but the second half of the novel is unfortunately a failure, as I hear. What a pity. I also have Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné cycle on my pile of shame. I recently read Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny. I liked it, but you could tell that it was artificially expanded from the original novella and unfortunately it also has an abrupt ending. Do you have any tips for post-nuclear end-time novels like Fallout?
I just read Angela Carters 'Heroes and Villains' which takes place after nuclear war, but it was strangely written with an unsatisfying ending so maybe one not worth checking out. 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' and 'Alas, Babylon' both come to mind, but while i have them on my shelves I haven't read either yet.
I love the story of Paul Giamatti. That is super cool. A lot of interesting looking stuff in this haul!
Yeah I was quite shocked after doing a little digging and confirming it was him! Very cool!
Dr. Tom Shippey is the GOAT! He's primarily known as a Tolkien scholar, but has also written extensively about Vikings, Beowulf, and more broadly about sci-fi and fantasy. He's a true treasure!!
Fun hauls, thanks for sharing. Moorcock is hit or miss for me. I LOVED the Elrik books back when I was a teen, but I struggled on a re-read a few years back. Some of the Moorcock standalone books are great, some I DNF...
John Carpenter directed Vampires with James Woods in the main role. It's not a great film but it's still quite fun if you're in the right frame of mind. That God Emperor of Dune cover someone referred to as the giant penis with a face cover, hard not to think of that every time I see that version now.
I'll never unsee that now haha. The Carpenter movie I think would be fun to pair with the book and then talk about the differences sometime.
@sciencefictionreads that would be interesting to have various SF books and shorts stories that got adapted into films compared. It could make for a fun series of videos 👍. That Dune cover, once you see it you can't unsee it lol
Ladyhawke was one of those tapes I played a lot as a kid. Lots of fun.
It was an iconic movie in it's time. Fantasy before fantasy was a thing.
Spin State I think was in my 2000s space opera vid, or I considered it for that. If I remember right Chris is a she. I also loved False Dawn, I reckon it goes hand in hand with The Road. You are doing great work on the haul front Matt!
Thanks Jon! Still need to get to 'The Road'.
Little Fuzzy is such a fun book. Really felt like a movie id watch as a kid in the 90's, very supprised it never got a movie adaptation. The second one is more of the same and explores what they set up in the first book more. He wrote a 3rd but it was released postmortem and is a little rough around the edges. A friend of the family wore a few more fuzzy books, but they are a continuation of the 2nd book because they didn't find the 3rd book until much later.
Hey, thanks for the info! I should really check out Piper's work soon, as I've had him on my shelves for years and never gotten around to it. Likening Little Fuzzy to a 90's movie is an excellent selling point for me👍
@sciencefictionreads et, air bud, free willy, anything where the main character finds a cool creature of some sort and a corporation or government is trying to get the creature. Except it came out in the 60's.
The Avon SF Hall of Fame volumes I, II A, and II B were also released as a box set. Volume III, in the same livery, is slightly harder to find. Volume IV, with a slightly different cover to the rest, but with a matching spine, is very difficult to find. I know because it took me forever!
Thanks for the info! And thanks for watching!
I've read only one novel by Stableford: The Fenris Device. Now if I had two centuries of life left in me, I might be able to read his entire catalog. Man, that guy was prolific. I hear that he recently passed away. Anyway, great haul, Matt. Really enjoy your channel. Cheers.
Well you may not read everything, but the other books in the series that 'The Fenris Device' is a part of are all quite short! Much like his other series the "Daedalus Mission"! Though these books of his I've been acquiring lately look to be much more literary and plotted out. Should be interesting!
I enjoyed your double haul vid. Everything that you mentioned that you "heard on booktube but you can't remember who" was Outlaw Bookseller.
I find that amusing.
I'm a big Moorcock fan, so I feel like I have to say something, but hey read what you like.
I will say you should read some Elric before the Jerry Cornelius, because in the first book he deliberately satirizes Elric in a number of major plot elements.
And each book in that JC collection is pretty different from each other. If you feel unsure about him, just read the first and third Elric books. They have the most important character beats until the end & if you find yourself really enjoying it, you can always backfill.
He deliberately builds the stories in the novels that he wrote years after the initial short stories to ape the original short stories, and uses a structure similar to ERB, while filling it with characterization and emotional depth.
A lot of people say Elric is the anti-Conan, but he is also subverting ERB by using his structure in a lot of these stories, but doing more with that structure than Burroughs ever did.
Liminal Spaces just did a few videos on JC. I think he's got a short no spoiler one for the first book, although I remember all of them being kind of spoilery.
Thanks for the info! The Eternal Champion stuff seems like such a daunting task to get into, although as i said i did read the first Corum trilogy and i love the whole idea of the Eternal Champion across so many characters and books. Still looking forward to Elric at some point! And will have to check out Liminal Spaces videos on the topic.
@@sciencefictionreads So the Spoilery bits of the Liminal Spaces are spoilery for the Elric stories too - FYI
I loved Galopagos...you gotta get in the right Vonnegut state of mind to enjoy it..
Hey man I really dig your sci-fi command center. Good info on some prospective reads too, thanks buddy.
Oh btw if you like Silverberg, keep your eye out for his Nebula-winning novella "Sailing to Byzantium" which is one of my faves.
Hey thanks! Sailing to Byzantium sounds awesome! I'll have to see if i have it in an anthology👍
Yeah i found it in an anthology 👍
Thanks Matt! Note of clarification, some of the $1 books might be falling apart a little, but are all there and are readable. I try not to throw out books, but if they are completely fallen apart I do.
Cage A Man is the first of the Demu trilogy by Busby. I remember liking them, but I may be biased because Busby's Rissa Kerguelen stories are one of my favorite series.
I have most of the DAW yellow spines by Cherryh, but it wasn't much of a challenge because I bought them as they were published. 😊
The Rissa Kerguelen stories are the ones i was referring to. I have a bunch of those books. They look and sound interesting but I've never heard anyone talk about them! I'll have to check them out soon. And thankyou for the info! I likely won't keep Cage a Man as i have the Demu Trilogy in omnibus form. Still hoping to see you start posting videos some day!
8:36 Leave me five minute alone with this book and a black sharpie and you'll think the book is brand new when I return it to you! 😉
I tried it, it worked well!
I loved Cat Karina when I read it years ago - good luck with that one.
Marge Piercy's cyborg novel from 1991, called He, She and It, is an SF expansion of the golem legend. Piercy also wrote one of my Top Ten favourite SF novels, Woman on Edge of Time, so of course I was happy to read something else by her, and when I found out she had another SF outing about artificial life, rooted in golem lore, I read it too. It was very good. Sorry Rogue Golem was a bit of a letdown.
Sounds like i need to look into Marge Piercy and obtain some of her books! Thanks, Seth!
I'm curious, have you read Serpent's Reach by Cherryh? I read it earlier this year and it's been stuck in my head weirdly
Haven’t read that one yet but I’ve got it on the shelf. Maybe I should give it read if it made an impression on you 👍
I liked Ian Watson's novel Space Marine in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. I also had John Steakley's Armor on my radar a few times, but the second half of the novel is unfortunately a failure, as I hear. What a pity. I also have Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné cycle on my pile of shame. I recently read Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny. I liked it, but you could tell that it was artificially expanded from the original novella and unfortunately it also has an abrupt ending. Do you have any tips for post-nuclear end-time novels like Fallout?
I just read Angela Carters 'Heroes and Villains' which takes place after nuclear war, but it was strangely written with an unsatisfying ending so maybe one not worth checking out. 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' and 'Alas, Babylon' both come to mind, but while i have them on my shelves I haven't read either yet.
@@sciencefictionreads Thanks for the tips.