I found that haul amazing because it was mostly things I haven't seen before. Most not terribly exciting, but still, it *is* exciting to see a haul that is just so full of books I would have to research! I look forward to your reviews and my further education.
I can picture you having a video dedicated to your favorite book covers. Or even, a video discussing those vintage mid century covers from the 1960s-1970s.
Then its time to start, I think. I am 32 and started some years ago and I realized that A LOT of the stories today just copy and or rewrite the stuff from the golden ages.
Slant was wild... early 'nanotech is magic!' stuff, and separately, what I swear is the inspiration for the 'torment nexus' meme, a device called a 'hell crown' that used mind-machine interface to actively undermine your means of coping with pain... IIRC... an alarming effing idea.
Got some great ones with some fantastic covers! I love your book hauls because we have such similar taste and I vicariously get the same fix I normally get when I have a good one. I had a few great books hauls over Christmas vacation. Got several great Ace Doubles, DAW paperbacks, The Survivors(aka Space Prison), some Jack Vance, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg, John Brunner, "Bow Down to Nul" by Aldis, "Who Goes There?" by Bob Shaw, and "Davy" by Edgar Pangborn, which I've been looking out for for awhile. Happy hunting.
A bunch of those I read, and a couple, the Niven and The Centauri device i have and a few of the covers seem familiar. Looks a lot like one my old book shelves. Interesting to see the Lichtenberg, I always enjoyed the House of Zeor and thought it was an interesting concept.
F. Paul Wilson has written some conventional SF, earlier in his career. Usually published in Analog. Often in a common future ("the LaNague League.). I remember reading Dydeetown World as a novella somewhere, but I don't remember what it was in. (I suspect I may misremember this.) What I'm seeing from the description on Amazon makes me thing that was expanded out to (a relatively short) novel length. Mack Reynolds & Dean Ing. Ing completed some of Reynolds' stuff for publication after his death, IRRC. Not a lot in this that I've read before (or have interest in reading, sad to say).
I think he's known for his interest in scientific and philosophical topics. His play _Copenhagen_ is about the meeting between the physicists Heisenberg and Bohr, and their respective stances towards Hitler's desire for an atom bomb.
Mike Resnick's Ivory. Resnick wrote what for me was the first science fiction series I'd seen centered on African cultures rather than Western ones, and Ivory was part of one of those. It's a bunch of vignettes following some tusks through history. I thought it was OK, though I think it was nominated for a Hugo or Nebula. I don't think it's your sort of book but who knows. On a personal note, I met him a couple times and he was a genuinely nice guy. He raised collies and my parents bought one from him and his wife a long, long time ago. She was the best.
@@SciFiFindshahaha - **ALL of them!** Sorry, not trying to be snarky but at this point it's like he's trying to compete with Richard Powers for a genre cover body count! Seriously, he bumped sci-fi and fantasy covers up to a new level, a bunch of artists got their chance because in the beginning they were like Michael Whelan knockoffs. He did so many amazing paintings for so many covers that I would genuinely say get one of his art books and just page through it "Works of Wonder." "Wonderworks" as well. I know coffee table art books in an age when you can just look at the pictures online seems silly but seriously the art is amazing and most of his cover paintings were super large so there's just so much subtlety and detail that the A format covers don't always capture. And he's a swell guy. To give you a more direct answer to your question, aside from countless singletons, add a number of record albums, he did iconic covers for a number of series that were insanely popular like : Elric, Dragonriders of Pern, A bunch of Heinleins, A bunch of Asimov's;: (Robots, and Foundation series), The Dark Tower series, Seriously if you flip through one of his art books it's like building A Greatest Hits TBR. And for a guy who's prolific he actually illustrates scenes from the books or comes up with a composite of a character and a mood from the book.
Man, those Jo Clayton Diadem books and the Kate Wilhelm have all been on my list for years to look out for. Would love to find those for a dollar each. The Wilhelm really surprised me, didn't expect to see that, don't hear many people talk about it.
I have that version of Gorgon Child by Steven Barnes, because it's a Luis Royo cover. He's a favorite of mine for cover art, but I'll contain my impulse to gush for the time being. I also have an art book that includes that cover art for Slant by Greg Bear.
The cover art on that Book of the Three Planets is also used on a Spinrad book, so that might be where you saw it. Agent of Chaos - though the art is flipped so the guy is on the right.
You should've just shown a couple of dud books from the first box. "Honda Accord Owner's Manual 1997" "Cajun Cooking with Dupree" "Anything by Brandon Sanderson"
That Frayn made me sit up and take notice- it's always been jacketed as a mainstream novel over here, as he has a huge reputation in Britain, though it is SF. Never seen a US copy. Geston is doomy and dark and worth a read - at least 'Lords...' and its sequel are. Continue to feel for you re the neck. I took a fall and broke my wrist last week, now shooting vids while splinted- oh joy.
I saw the Martin Caidin book there he also wrote excellent non fiction. Definitely recommend A Torch To The Enemy, it's about the B-29 incendiary raids over Tokyo 1945.
My mom is Japanese. She was 5-years old during those incendiary raids. She remembers sheltering with her family in a cramped space under the house during one raid, and then the space got unbearably hot as the house was on fire, so they fled the house. When they were living in another city, they were again sheltering during another raid. As they huddled in the hole under the house, they could hear a loud whistling sound getting louder and louder until a thud shook the ground. When they emerged from the shelter, the house was intact, but next to the house was an unexploded bomb. My mom remembers seeing yellow or greenish liquid oozing from the bomb. Because of her experience hiding in cramped spaces during those raids, my mom, to this day, gets anxious in small, enclosed places like elevators, closets, etc. When the war ended, my mom and her sisters were starving. She remembers the kindness of the American soldiers and marines who gave them food. In the early 1960's, she married my dad, a US Marine. Anyway, thank you for the recommendation; I'll find a copy of A Torch To The Enemy to read.
if you’re here scrolling, wondering why manifesting hasn’t worked for you, trust me, i was in the same spot. i felt stuck, like no matter how hard i tried, things wouldn’t move forward. then i read Vibrations of Manifestation by Alex Lane, and it broke everything down in a way that clicked. chapter 3 especially changed how i approach my goals-it’s worth every word.
what are you doing in my city without warning? 😂🎉 - the only one of those i have read besides rama is swordsman of mars by oak and i totally rec you read it for no other reason than you should read oak.
I believe the Damon Knight book, The Observers, is a sequel to the novel called CV. I only read CV, and it was a decent read. Martin Caidin wrote a novel called Cyborg, which inspired The Six Million Dollar Man TV show, way back when. I never read Cyborg…but I found Beamriders! to be a long, dull slog, where not much happened. Would you believe I found Cyberbooks to be an entertaining and somewhat action-oriented SF book - a good one from Bova. However, I have no idea how close to our reality his version of ‘cyber book’ technology was - it’s simply been too long for me to say anything like “he predicted e-books”, etc.. On the other hand, who knew a great SF/Crime plot could be attached to new book technology (as envisioned at that time). I recall quite a fast-paced, even suspenseful SF Thriller…but where there’s money to be made from new technology, even bookworm money, of course the criminals want to step in and cash in… That’s what I recall about the book, anyway. Any time anyone holds up something with Jack Williamson’s name on it, it’s a good bet I’ve read it. I loved The Singers of Time, maybe my favourite experience with Pohl and Williamson…but I have to say I hated The Silicon Dagger. But I wish you would read it! I do. The Silicon Dagger is political SF, and I would be interested in your reaction. Or, there’s The Singers of Time… I absolutely loved: Neverness, Rendezvous with Rama, and Alas, Babylon. I also recommend Aftermath by Sheffield, though I’m sure there’s a sequel I never got to - Star Fire, Star something? Uh, not sure. The Night Face was okay, very quick, I think it was originally called Let the Spacemen Beware!, or something. I think Skyfall was a bit draggy…real-world, ponderous, tech-heavy SF full of out of date Cold War politics…again, memories are hazy, hopefully not totally unreliable. I enjoyed Bear’s Queen of Angels, but found it just a wee bit of a strain to stay interested; Bear has had this effect on me a few times.
How badly do I need to bookshop? I just watched you go through an unremarkable box in your garage. 🤪 And not meaning to overstep, Matt, but does reading exacerbate your neck?
@@Bookpilled It had never occurred to me to use media mail for that size of box, and with a cross-country move coming up, I plan to explot it fully for our book/comic collection. Thanks!
@@geoff2k It definitely saves a lot of money for books. Might want to be cautious with the comic books. They contain advertisements so don't technically qualify for media mail. If they open your box to check (which they can legally do with media mail) you might get fined.
Not trying to insult anybody, but are you certain the neck issue is a physical problem? I’ve come across people who had chronic back pain that was very much a psychosomatic issue. You don’t seem like an unhealthy guy and I don’t think you mentioned any particular injury you can ascribe the chronic pain to. Just an idea.
Hey . Where do you receive messages about your Whatnot account? I just signed up and got lost immediately. I'm trying to find you there and well it was impossible. They said your account didn't exist. So when you get a chance can you direct me to where you do your selling so I can get some of those vintage goodies? Thanks. And I would have sent you a message elsewhere if I knew how to do that as well. I'll have some play money next month when I purchase a Monopoly Game. Laugh Out Loud !!! ...Hey it's the internet. You are always gonna have some weirdos here. But seriously WTF is with Whatnot?
Hi @bookpilled. I wrote my first book, a cyberpunk/scifi novel called 'Zilch', and I wondered if you'd be interested in giving it a review? If you are interested, I can send the ebook version - either a .PDF file or .EPUB file - that you can read on your phone/ereader. Or I can send you the print version (for free ofc) if you'd prefer? If you are interested, let me know your email address and which file type you'd prefer, or your postal address, and I'll send the manuscript to you ASAP. Regards, TR
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Love your book hauls, especially with such stunning cinematography, popping open instead of cutting open of boxes and featuring your dreamy eyes! 😊
I found that haul amazing because it was mostly things I haven't seen before. Most not terribly exciting, but still, it *is* exciting to see a haul that is just so full of books I would have to research!
I look forward to your reviews and my further education.
I can picture you having a video dedicated to your favorite book covers. Or even, a video discussing those vintage mid century covers from the 1960s-1970s.
In the age of dull photoshop covers, those vintage covers look incredible 🤩
yeah good point 🎉
I’m not the biggest sci-fi reader nor am I classic sci-fi reader by any means but I really enjoy your content BP.
Then its time to start, I think. I am 32 and started some years ago and I realized that A LOT of the stories today just copy and or rewrite the stuff from the golden ages.
Slant was wild... early 'nanotech is magic!' stuff, and separately, what I swear is the inspiration for the 'torment nexus' meme, a device called a 'hell crown' that used mind-machine interface to actively undermine your means of coping with pain... IIRC... an alarming effing idea.
thx i only know slan so that caught my eye 🎉
Got some great ones with some fantastic covers! I love your book hauls because we have such similar taste and I vicariously get the same fix I normally get when I have a good one.
I had a few great books hauls over Christmas vacation. Got several great Ace Doubles, DAW paperbacks, The Survivors(aka Space Prison), some Jack Vance, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg, John Brunner, "Bow Down to Nul" by Aldis, "Who Goes There?" by Bob Shaw, and "Davy" by Edgar Pangborn, which I've been looking out for for awhile. Happy hunting.
“Mediumwhelmed” is getting added to my vocabulary, just an FYI.
I actually used to own and have read a few of those. Thank you Science Fiction Book Club! I miss them.
A bunch of those I read, and a couple, the Niven and The Centauri device i have and a few of the covers seem familiar. Looks a lot like one my old book shelves. Interesting to see the Lichtenberg, I always enjoyed the House of Zeor and thought it was an interesting concept.
F. Paul Wilson has written some conventional SF, earlier in his career. Usually published in Analog. Often in a common future ("the LaNague League.). I remember reading Dydeetown World as a novella somewhere, but I don't remember what it was in. (I suspect I may misremember this.) What I'm seeing from the description on Amazon makes me thing that was expanded out to (a relatively short) novel length.
Mack Reynolds & Dean Ing. Ing completed some of Reynolds' stuff for publication after his death, IRRC.
Not a lot in this that I've read before (or have interest in reading, sad to say).
You probably know this, but Michael Frayn is a famous playwright. I had no idea he had written novels let alone science fiction.
I came here to say that ! Yes, he's written a few very well-received novels and seems to be more focused on that these days.
@@keithdixon6595 Sweet Dreams, and Headlong, are both great reads.
Wow, I came here to do the same thing. Good to know there’s some other theatre nerds in the audience.
Was totally unaware, thanks for the tipoff.
I think he's known for his interest in scientific and philosophical topics. His play _Copenhagen_ is about the meeting between the physicists Heisenberg and Bohr, and their respective stances towards Hitler's desire for an atom bomb.
I actually bought that Bolo from one of your auctions. Great Di Fate cover with prime Laumer pulp.
I enjoyed the Punishment Prairie!!!
Mike Resnick's Ivory. Resnick wrote what for me was the first science fiction series I'd seen centered on African cultures rather than Western ones, and Ivory was part of one of those. It's a bunch of vignettes following some tusks through history. I thought it was OK, though I think it was nominated for a Hugo or Nebula. I don't think it's your sort of book but who knows. On a personal note, I met him a couple times and he was a genuinely nice guy. He raised collies and my parents bought one from him and his wife a long, long time ago. She was the best.
Just picked up a similar edition of The Snow Queen, love the cover art for it.
Michael Whelan for the win.
@@salty-walt What other covers has he done? I'd like to go and check them out
@@SciFiFindshahaha - **ALL of them!**
Sorry, not trying to be snarky but at this point it's like he's trying to compete with Richard Powers for a genre cover body count!
Seriously, he bumped sci-fi and fantasy covers up to a new level, a bunch of artists got their chance because in the beginning they were like Michael Whelan knockoffs. He did so many amazing paintings for so many covers that I would genuinely say get one of his art books and just page through it "Works of Wonder." "Wonderworks" as well. I know coffee table art books in an age when you can just look at the pictures online seems silly but seriously the art is amazing and most of his cover paintings were super large so there's just so much subtlety and detail that the A format covers don't always capture.
And he's a swell guy.
To give you a more direct answer to your question, aside from countless singletons, add a number of record albums, he did iconic covers for a number of series that were insanely popular like :
Elric,
Dragonriders of Pern,
A bunch of Heinleins,
A bunch of Asimov's;:
(Robots, and Foundation series),
The Dark Tower series,
Seriously if you flip through one of his art books it's like building A Greatest Hits TBR.
And for a guy who's prolific he actually illustrates scenes from the books or comes up with a composite of a character and a mood from the book.
Your videos are my comfy place :)
"Cyberbooks" is pretty funny
I love the snow queen
Terrific work, Matt. What a great mix of books. Cheers!
Thank you, cheers, hope you're doing well.
Man, those Jo Clayton Diadem books and the Kate Wilhelm have all been on my list for years to look out for. Would love to find those for a dollar each. The Wilhelm really surprised me, didn't expect to see that, don't hear many people talk about it.
alas babylon is a favorite of mine, I discovered it as a teenager and have reread it several times
I have that version of Gorgon Child by Steven Barnes, because it's a Luis Royo cover. He's a favorite of mine for cover art, but I'll contain my impulse to gush for the time being. I also have an art book that includes that cover art for Slant by Greg Bear.
The cover art on that Book of the Three Planets is also used on a Spinrad book, so that might be where you saw it. Agent of Chaos - though the art is flipped so the guy is on the right.
You're absolutely right, that's where I recognize it from.
6:34 I just finished reading Silverberg`s, "Man in the Maze". Really enjoyed it 🙂 (with cover art by Ron Walotsky)
was in the strand today no malzbergs only a couple silverbergs - was bummed. 😮
I actually had not known that Cadain did anything other than the 3 or 4 Cyborg books basis for TSMDM. And you showed 3.
Wait I need the popcorn! 🍿
Ok ready 👀
You should've just shown a couple of dud books from the first box.
"Honda Accord Owner's Manual 1997"
"Cajun Cooking with Dupree"
"Anything by Brandon Sanderson"
I crave the punishment prairie
That Frayn made me sit up and take notice- it's always been jacketed as a mainstream novel over here, as he has a huge reputation in Britain, though it is SF. Never seen a US copy. Geston is doomy and dark and worth a read - at least 'Lords...' and its sequel are. Continue to feel for you re the neck. I took a fall and broke my wrist last week, now shooting vids while splinted- oh joy.
Love the content, man! THANK YOU! :)
I saw the Martin Caidin book there he also wrote excellent non fiction. Definitely recommend A Torch To The Enemy, it's about the B-29 incendiary raids over Tokyo 1945.
My mom is Japanese. She was 5-years old during those incendiary raids. She remembers sheltering with her family in a cramped space under the house during one raid, and then the space got unbearably hot as the house was on fire, so they fled the house. When they were living in another city, they were again sheltering during another raid. As they huddled in the hole under the house, they could hear a loud whistling sound getting louder and louder until a thud shook the ground. When they emerged from the shelter, the house was intact, but next to the house was an unexploded bomb. My mom remembers seeing yellow or greenish liquid oozing from the bomb. Because of her experience hiding in cramped spaces during those raids, my mom, to this day, gets anxious in small, enclosed places like elevators, closets, etc. When the war ended, my mom and her sisters were starving. She remembers the kindness of the American soldiers and marines who gave them food. In the early 1960's, she married my dad, a US Marine. Anyway, thank you for the recommendation; I'll find a copy of A Torch To The Enemy to read.
if you’re here scrolling, wondering why manifesting hasn’t worked for you, trust me, i was in the same spot. i felt stuck, like no matter how hard i tried, things wouldn’t move forward. then i read Vibrations of Manifestation by Alex Lane, and it broke everything down in a way that clicked. chapter 3 especially changed how i approach my goals-it’s worth every word.
I read “A very private life” and I remember it being pretty garbage. That being said, I love the cover.
I don’t understand you picked two boxes or he sent you two random ones? Why wasn’t that first one interesting? So many questions! 😂
same & true - but it was a quick run and i understand because he had a lot of books to get thru 🎉
Hey! Continue producing such fantastic content.
what are you doing in my city without warning? 😂🎉 - the only one of those i have read besides rama is swordsman of mars by oak and i totally rec you read it for no other reason than you should read oak.
Who doesn't love french philosophy? 😂😂😂
I believe the Damon Knight book, The Observers, is a sequel to the novel called CV. I only read CV, and it was a decent read.
Martin Caidin wrote a novel called Cyborg, which inspired The Six Million Dollar Man TV show, way back when. I never read Cyborg…but I found Beamriders! to be a long, dull slog, where not much happened.
Would you believe I found Cyberbooks to be an entertaining and somewhat action-oriented SF book - a good one from Bova. However, I have no idea how close to our reality his version of ‘cyber book’ technology was - it’s simply been too long for me to say anything like “he predicted e-books”, etc.. On the other hand, who knew a great SF/Crime plot could be attached to new book technology (as envisioned at that time). I recall quite a fast-paced, even suspenseful SF Thriller…but where there’s money to be made from new technology, even bookworm money, of course the criminals want to step in and cash in… That’s what I recall about the book, anyway.
Any time anyone holds up something with Jack Williamson’s name on it, it’s a good bet I’ve read it. I loved The Singers of Time, maybe my favourite experience with Pohl and Williamson…but I have to say I hated The Silicon Dagger. But I wish you would read it! I do. The Silicon Dagger is political SF, and I would be interested in your reaction. Or, there’s The Singers of Time…
I absolutely loved: Neverness, Rendezvous with Rama, and Alas, Babylon. I also recommend Aftermath by Sheffield, though I’m sure there’s a sequel I never got to - Star Fire, Star something? Uh, not sure.
The Night Face was okay, very quick, I think it was originally called Let the Spacemen Beware!, or something. I think Skyfall was a bit draggy…real-world, ponderous, tech-heavy SF full of out of date Cold War politics…again, memories are hazy, hopefully not totally unreliable. I enjoyed Bear’s Queen of Angels, but found it just a wee bit of a strain to stay interested; Bear has had this effect on me a few times.
How badly do I need to bookshop? I just watched you go through an unremarkable box in your garage. 🤪
And not meaning to overstep, Matt, but does reading exacerbate your neck?
What, no Star of the Unborn? I’m so disappointed!
You don’t know me, but slide Centauri Device and Man in the Maze into your reading soon pile and thank me later.
Do you ship these to yourself via media mail?
Yeah
@@Bookpilled It had never occurred to me to use media mail for that size of box, and with a cross-country move coming up, I plan to explot it fully for our book/comic collection. Thanks!
@@geoff2k It definitely saves a lot of money for books. Might want to be cautious with the comic books. They contain advertisements so don't technically qualify for media mail. If they open your box to check (which they can legally do with media mail) you might get fined.
Cyberbooks lol. "sitting for a while ". . . ok man. whatever you gotta tell yourself from one collector to another; no judgement here
what? wait I thought you were going to break from thrifting books this year?
"this was a while back they've been sitting in the garage"
Thrifting is a hell of a drug.
Bought these before the challenge started.
Poor old H. Beam Piper. Shot himself with a priceless pistol when he ran out of money
Didn't know that
Yep, sad and ironic
Do you have any book recommendations to reignite a love for reading?
Scroll back through one of his Top 15s, you’ll find something
Not trying to insult anybody, but are you certain the neck issue is a physical problem? I’ve come across people who had chronic back pain that was very much a psychosomatic issue. You don’t seem like an unhealthy guy and I don’t think you mentioned any particular injury you can ascribe the chronic pain to. Just an idea.
Man you get good deals.i cant find anything like that
Hey . Where do you receive messages about your Whatnot account? I just signed up and got lost immediately. I'm trying to find you there and well it was impossible. They said your account didn't exist. So when you get a chance can you direct me to where you do your selling so I can get some of those vintage goodies? Thanks. And I would have sent you a message elsewhere if I knew how to do that as well. I'll have some play money next month when I purchase a Monopoly Game. Laugh Out Loud !!! ...Hey it's the internet. You are always gonna have some weirdos here. But seriously WTF is with Whatnot?
Hi @bookpilled. I wrote my first book, a cyberpunk/scifi novel called 'Zilch', and I wondered if you'd be interested in giving it a review? If you are interested, I can send the ebook version - either a .PDF file or .EPUB file - that you can read on your phone/ereader. Or I can send you the print version (for free ofc) if you'd prefer?
If you are interested, let me know your email address and which file type you'd prefer, or your postal address, and I'll send the manuscript to you ASAP.
Regards, TR