Hope your vaca was good! (Blade-Runnery 😂)

So many books.....so little time!!

I like the idea of reading a short story to time a break!

been meaning to read more short stories. Using them to break up a monotonous task is a good idea. Safe Travels!

My Mother is a big Dorothy L. Sayers fan....

Hello my friend!! Sorry you almost drowned in quirk!!

You get through books much quicker than me! Best wishes.

Bless You!!

Great intro into Von Franz's book, I have all her books, yet to read some, others have to brush up with. She was Jung's most enlightened coworker. Ck out all the VF videos here on YT. Plaese read Barbara Hanna's bio on JUng, where Jung tells Barbara **I am glad I am Jung and NOT a Jungian**, Jung's ideas have fallen into bad times, with the Jungians twisting his core ideas into all sorts of strange methodology. You are young, bright and will and can see you are a Jungian analyst in the making. Fairy tales come true everytime. Take my life for example. I had good looks all my life, but early on, ages 14-20 I thought of myself as very ugly, with thick glasses, damaged hair from bad shamoppos/blow dryer,, I had naturally blond but slugfhtly curly hair along the sides, I just did all the wrong things with my hair,, but mainly my neurosis expoded at age 16ish. = My anima was under a evil spirit, both parents were very negative and antispiritual, father was gard core atheist/hedonist. Long story short, I was both like Cindrella and the frog that became a hamdsome prince. Cindrella as she was under evil influences and has to wait for her heroic prince. My anima = Cindrella Me as the ugly frog,,,and now some 40+ yrs later I have broken out my severe destructive neurosis, and now am being transformed into a prince. Prince = manly/high spirit qualities. Thus fairy takes are born mostly around people of great significance, but take longggggg yrs to fulfill their myth. = FT always manifest to various degress in everyone's life, FT always resurface , which can be seen most clearly w a individual who has a callinmg on his/her life. Please continue a series of videos revewing alkl VG 's books and commentaries on your FT readings via a Jungian perspective. My myth now is as warrior battling the great beast called The Antichrist spirit. As you know antichrist is emeshed, intertwined, involved in every single aspect of this world epoch. Illuminati, Wall Street, World power org's, any/all religions, all are part of this antichrist spirit. and he means business. AI is here and NOW, ,,, I am a warrior for God;s Kingdom. Thus I guess my new myth is that of Jason battling for the Golden Fleece, or David taking on Goliath, , = odds stacked immensely against me, thus totally dependent on divine powers. I stand alone, even critiquing as I read Jung and VG's works. I do not like to go around The Jungians, as they are nothing more than a New ISM, as Jung predicted would take place late in his life. Take care Paul New Orleans

It would be so much easier if you pronounced Vega correctly and used the corresponding pronunciation of Vegan. The star Vega is pronounced Vah-guh.

I loved Startide Rising but never got round to this one, I enjoyed The Postman by him too

Must check these out, never heard of H. Beam Piper tbh and I thought I knew my classic sci-fi. Cheers!

I enjoy your reviews!!

I love the anger....dot, dot, dot 😂😂

A glowing review. I have to read this one now. Always like to see these books on the shelves, ill have to get my own set.

I've got both Fuzzie books and never read anything from Piper. Sold. Thanks.

Doh! You HAVE read the Dragons of Pern books! Dragonsdawn is still my favorite one. Agreed, new readers have to read the books in publish order for the best experience.

I have this on my list of books to read. It has an interesting idea to it. I'm still going through your videos, but have you read any of the Dragons of Pern books? They are really good too. But read them in publish order. I did and the story becomes more impactful if you do.

I remember reading this book, and playing the video game. It was really good. I can't wait for the movie to come out!

When I first read this one, I didn't understand it. It started out with very little context and I had to speculate alot of things along the way. But after reading the Uplift Trilogy, it made more sense. I wish there was more of the Uplift Wars cause I like how far reaching the books were on a galactic scale. I don't know if you like scifi military books, but my favorite is the Star Carrier series by Ian Douglas. Although many of his other series are heavy in the space marines and such, this one centers around a Star Carrier, and I like the story much better than his other series. It's also got alot of really good science in it. This 9 book space drama series is concluded with a very nice twist at the end, certainly nothing you would expect from a military scifi piece.

I was just going to say that I like the cover when you said it!!

Sounds like some interesting concepts! I was looking at getting his "best of" short story book....but I heard there were a lot of typos, which annoys me.

200 is well deserved! I hope more people find you as well!!

I’m set to read this in the near future. I’m glad to hear it is so good!

He showed his fuzzies to a naturalist? Oh my!!😯😅

Enjoyed the review....may have to look for this one!!

Thanks for this review. I'm going to read Startide Rising soon and have been wondering if I should start with this one. You are not alone in recommending starting with Startide.

Nice selection of books, interested to hear your thoughts on the Eric Russel, Keith Roberts and of course Godwhale. Cheers.

Argh, I've been trying to post a reply but the ytube AI keeps deleting my comment because I mentioned a certain very popular site where you can bid on items. I found a complete set there with all 12 books for about $52 USD. I know you have two of the books already, but that 12th book is harder to find. If you are unable to get it, at least you can see what the original covers looked like at first printing. This is the exact same printing I have when I bought them at in the store decades ago. Good luck!

Close to 200 subscribers Omnivorous. Best wishes.

I discovered the Ivanhoe Gambit at my local library and as soon as I saw the cover, I knew I had to read it. And read it I did, and again, and again, and again. From then on when each subsequent book was released, I bought it. So I have a first edition copy of every book in the series (12 books in total). To understand the temporal mechanics, you have to read the books in order as it climatizes you to the 'temporal physics' used in the books. And the reason for the long timeline in book 5 is because it introduces the factions against the time wars. Cause each subsequent book after book 5, the threats become greater and will really bend your mind. Mr. Hawke's goal for the books was to expose readers to various parts of history so they can go and look up the history themselves. Apparently, it worked with you! Thank you for reviewing this book. The Nautilus Sanction is one of my favorites of the 12 books.

About radio waves making people think they are in a good environment when in fact they're not, see: A Virtual Nightmare

I love the Charles de Lint

The Night’s Sorceries book looked interesting, I’ll check that out. Right now I’m reading and collecting Vance, Andre Norton, John Brunner and Poul Anderson.

I’ve been thinking of buying this book for a while now. Do I buy it instead of the John Brunner books I was planning on getting? Aah! So many good books to read!

I've pruned my personal library down to a single suitcase (a big one) twice in my life..... I don't think I'll do it again. I think it's easy to Find Tanith Lee's in my area if there is something too elusive. Great video!

Wow 200 book tbr! Not stuck for choice there! Happy reading.

This is another book i read years ago. From what I remember, Puffin was the branch of Penguin used to publish what the considered children's books. Andre Norton was a favourite author of mine when I was a child, specially the series with the Solar Queen which included Postmarked the Stars. Well worth getting. I think it was her love of cats that hooked me...

Great cover there. Happy summer of reading to you.

When I saw the thumbnail I thought it was the 1985 movie 'Mask' with Eric Stolz, the book sounds interesting. The last Sci-Fi book I listened to was 'Gladiator' by Philip Wylie from 1930, the first Superman, have you heard of it I wonder?

I recently read The High Crusade and was interested to find out more books by Poul McCool. I’ll probably pass on this one though. Being from 3485, time travel books hit too close to home for me.

I feel like I need to at least try it but I have heard so many mixed reviews. Thanks for your honest review.

I think the copy of BEAST that you own was reissued along with THE DEEP and ENGINE SUMMER after LITTLE, BIG was published. I think I read Beast twice in the 80s and I really enjoyed you recounting the story and as you did I remembered so much of the story; little things like Painter smoking all the time because he didn't like the smell of humans, the quotation at the beginning of the book, Reynards speech at the end, ect. I really liked the ending, but Crowley already owned me, by then I had already read Little, Big and The Deep and I was looking for a copy of Engine Summer like it was the Holy Grail. His writing is quite good and I would love to hear your take on them. Thanks for the review it made my day remembering that little gem. Have a great day. Forgive my rambling on, new medication.

This was a great novella, can't wait to read more Vance. Great description of the story.

If I was marooned on a desert island and could only take one book then this would be it. Really stuffed with so many concepts.

I've heard of the book but know nothing of Teragram Doowta, sorry I couldn't resist. I love your Cockatiels, I've had my ears preened and hair pooped on by a friends pair before. Thanks for the review.

Not read Handmaids tail or seen it. Thanks for the review. Hope you have a good summer of reading.

Was my first ever SF book.. and it was hard, especially the first part. But I loved it. Went on to read the 2nd and 3rd parts right after it, they are better. 9/10 overall. I don't mind not having deep characters in this as it was mainly about all the science ideas and humanity as a whole rather than individuals driving the plot. When I was done I was so amazed, I made a list of nearly 600 SF books to read, mostly older stuff though as I want to start at the beginning of the genre. I have books that are a 10/10 now to me though, like "The left hand of darkness" by Le Guin, "City" by Simak, "Foundation trilogy" by Asimov, "Childhood's end" by Clarke. But I would have never read them if it wasn't for the Three body problem trilogy. Only problem is I now have TOO MANY BOOKS and always struggle to decide what to read next! Maybe gonna try some Octavia E. Butler next..

Your review has now been signposted on Stack Exchange. The Claw (Worldcat No. OCLC 812543472) can be found at Caval Archive Centre / Monash University Library / University of Sydney Library

Botany textbook? Psychology? Sounds really HARD.....although I've gotten excited about TULIPS before. (sorry...the 13 year old in me😂)