I think I need to look into this Thomas Disch guy. Thanks.

Confound it!

Hello everyone! If you’re coming here for an explanation of why the stream got cut short so badly, please check my community post. I’m sorry this happened, but I’m going to take care of the technical issues (which have been broadly frustrating, because I have not been happy with this new modem set up from my ISP) and have a make up stream this weekend, Saturday evening, same time, 7:30 central. Thank you as always for showing up, and I apologize for the abrupt end.

Signal lost sadly

Missed y’all!

An excellent selection, Thomas. Just found your channel and subbed, thanks. Looking forward to more posts!

I really enjoyed this video. So many potential classics that will never be.

I followed Gordon R Dickson as far as I could. His assistant, a guy called Wrixton if memory serves, managed to put together what GRD was working on when he died. The book was about the bad guy and how he developed in strange parallel with the good guy, Hal Mayne. It appears that there is nothing more so Where GRD would go from here is not exactly clear. One rumor seems to be that In the siege of Earth and the Final Encyclopedia, the Dorsai will sacrifice themselves to ensure the survival of Earth and the Encyclopedia. Presumably, from this cataclysmic conflict a new route for humanity will open up

you rule!

Release? Publish!

I wonder when Delany will write the second part of Hogg, ingeniously titled "Hoggs"

Love the video, Thomas. Personally, I'm waiting in vain for the long promised sequels to David Gerrold's, War Against the Chtorr, series.

I met Delaney at a book reading in ~2002 and asked if he would ever write that sequel, He said that it was very unlikely.

Would that make the channel art… Matt paintings? I slay myself.

Finish my book, the policeman said.

An Own in Daylight would have been a fabulous title and I’m sure a trip to read! Great video. 🙌

ER Modesitt is eternally protected from this.

I read a couple of Dune precuels, and year's later the 7 and 8 novels. What a waste of time 🚮

Great video, Thomas! Love your Dorsai take. I recently read some short fiction from that universe and was shocked as to how it has managed to maintain any kind of positive reputation.

I’ve thought of this before. Dune 7 is my pick for fiction book I most want to read they can never exist. Still trying to think of a nonfiction pick.

Wow. Great video. Reminds me of in an X-Men Comic Charles Xavier’s was using Cerebro, his mutant searching computer , to read the minds of his favorite authors. And comments about how their best ideas never get to the page.

Great video. Thanks!

11:22 - Iain M. Banks! Then again, his Culture novels are more often than not finding blemishes in his, to borrow from the great Aunty Ursula, "ambiguous utopia" , and, besides, the Culture decided that our planet of savages is best left to its own devices. And, no, Iain hasn't figured out how to come from here to there, either. 😞

Thomas M. Disch "obscure" ?!? Whoever failed to read _Camp Concentration_ doesn't deserve to be called a SciFi fan!

Awesome idea 💡!!!! 😊

Now we need the same video for fantasy books we will never read...

It's always tragic when an author/artist dies before having published or completed enough of their work. I feel this way about Franz Marc.

This was fascinating. I was so ready to prove you wrong and read some of these 😅 You're right... I'll never read these

Fantastic video, thanks Thomas! I read some of the non Frank Herbert Dune books, and they aren't masterworks by any means, but fun for the fans nonetheless.

I was lucky enough to take a class with Samuel Delaney at Temple. He was a wonderful professor. Very knowledgeable and you could feel that he loved teaching and literature. I know he is a controversial figure, but he was nothing but kind when I was his student. Having just reread Butler's Parable duology, I found it disheartening-though not entirely surprising-that she didn't finish the rest of the series. I read in the New Yorker that the novels took a lot out of her because of how dark they were. - Todd

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Seriously doesnt understand the cosmic genius of "Grok" I've read Heinlein since grade school in the '60's and 95% of his bibliography. Good luck finding any grade schooler today who can read on that level. Of course few agree with some of the elements of the cosmos of Heinlein. That isnt the point. Entertaining thought provoking, imagination stimulating adventure and action is the point. O the reductionist materialist folly to understand.

What's wrong with you? Can't say child pornograoghy? That's what your friend was arrested for!!!!

Well…I feel like an idiot. Where has your channel been for all my booktube life?! Ngl, I just got hooked after looking up reviews for Certain Dark Things, which you did a review for oh-so-many moons ago. It was great by the way. So, I guess better late than never? I hope you’ll continue putting out content, cuz I’ve never gotten as excited about an anticipated book release video before as I have with yours.😂

We a few tweeks, this could almost pass off as a "Teenage Mage The Ascension Novel"

I'm halfway through this book and I am enjoying it SOOOOOOOOOOO much.

I don't think the wallpaper is that bad. It's dated for sure, but not bad. Can't see to see the completed studio! :)

Apparently China Mieville is putting out a new book? It doesn't even have a name or release date except 2025. I can forgive you for leaving it out.

Thomas, it's always good to see your videos. With all the bullshit that's been going on, I'm glad to know you're still around. When The Wolf Comes Home sounds particularly of interest.

I mean, if our parents are 70 or older it's a prerequisite to ask the question, what were they thinking? At least one sheet of wallpaper was the antichrist. My kitchen, not my main dining area, where I had many movie nights with my stuffed animals looking at the hot air balloons.

Hello. Quick question from someone who is hesitant to read this book. Dracula The Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker And Ian Holtz is the second to worst book I have ever read. The one and only saving grace of that book is that, somehow, someone managed to write something that's even worst (not Dracula-related, though). Most reviews about Dracul, however, are quite positive. My question is : How does Dracul improve on Dracula The Un-Dead ? It's just so I can decide if it's really worth reading for someone who both loves BRAM Stoker's DRACULA novel and abhors DACRE Stoker's Dracula The Un-Dead. So far, the one and only reason why I am still considering Dracul is because I heard it's about Dracula's time at the Scholomance, under the Devil's Tutelage.

great video!

I always look forward to all 3 of these lists. You always seem to have a good mix of well-known and less known upcoming books