A Science Fiction Book Haul From the 1970s

[@nefraial]

Great fun seeing all those old covers. There is a charm to the size of the paperbacks too. I'd hop in my Time machine and meet you there next trip, but unfortunately I seem to be stuck in fast forward.

[@jscottphillips503]

Hey! I was buying a lot of those same books back in the 1970s, too! But that was 45 years ago for me, back when I still had a great head of vintage hair. Sorry I missed you!

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

My hair was pretty vintage too back then!

[@sciencefictionreads]

Oh man, The People of the Mist sounds awesome! And love to see Stableford. I'm doing a couple videos on him in the next few days.

[@danielsweet858]

Sorry for running on but this brings back so many wonderful memories. I owned & devoured a lot of these. Just found your channel & am having a blast! Thanks.

[@darrylsloan]

Wyndham's "Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter" was a US-only release. It's essentially a combination of two UK-published short story collections: "Jizzle" and "The Seeds of Time," although it doesn't feature all the stories from both. As a Wyndham superfan, I skipped it, because I have those two already. But those are two great collections, and if the US publisher picked the best stories from each (and why wouldn't they?), you're in for a treat.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I was happy to find that book. I need to read more Wyndham.

[@tlash544]

More Richard Powers Covers! Especially like the cover for The Skylark of Space. Can't get enough of the vintage paperbacks, great video.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Thanks!

[@garylovisi357]

Doc Smith is fun and so early sf, precursor to Star Wars and Star Trek in his Lensman series.

[@danielsweet858]

Richard Powers is beyond cool! Loved his Ballantine Tarzan covers when I was a kid a hundred years ago. Still do!

[@rolpaw4371]

Thank you so much for this awesome vidéo. Greetings from France, Roland.

[@DamnableReverend]

That last book, the Martian way, was my introduction to Isaac Asimov as a pretty young kid in 1988 or 1989. It was on the bookshelf in a cottage my dad, my sister and I were staying at. Before that I'd mostly read doctor who novelizations! So it was actually in a way my introduction to science fiction literature. The stories are pretty good!

[@stretmediq]

I have a ton of Asimov but fiction and nonfiction

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Excellent! I actually have a few of the old Doctor Who books as well.

[@stretmediq]

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 It's not stately but here's an old video of my library (I've added shelves since then) and if you look close you can see some SciFi kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6rWm3mCaa5nd9U

[@BookBlather]

I read my first Fritz Lieber book about a year or two ago. Conjure wife, and it was pretty creepy. Lots of very cool looking sci-fi here. You definitely need to get some more to finish filling up that box. And if they happen to Overflow that box a little bit, Would it really be such a tragedy?

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Honestly! I like the way you think!

[@denisadellinger4543]

The 70s is my decade, man. So many decisions to make, so many experiences to experience, living at home with mom and dad. Being in the band, Running the roads with my best friend, Marty in her orange Renault with the stick shift. Stepping into college and my parents driving off. My first boyfriend. Disco. The best music ever made. Next time you go back, let me hitch a ride. Read that book about time standing still. I think it would be neat to learn what they thought 2007 would be like.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

The 70s were certainly an interesting time. More interesting than 2007 anyway!

[@jeremyfee]

Congratulations on a successful time travel trip. As always, it's fun to see what books you've got in the collection.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Thanks Jeremy!

[@iopmiki8165]

Great group of books, Mike. I received an advanced reader copy of "The Gateway" by James Lance. It has a very '70s feel to it. Really good fun!

[@stretmediq]

As a survivor of the 1970s I still have nightmares of endless racks of SciFi paperbacks at the local bookstore

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

What wonderful nightmares!

[@lock67ca]

Anonymous is actually one of my favorite writers. He seemed to write quite a lot of original paperback...."adult entertainment" in the 70s and 80s.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

He really seemed to write a wide variety of things.

[@michaelsamerdyke108]

I read "People of the Mist" by Haggard back in high school. There was actually a paperback Haggard boom back then, with "Eric Brighteyes" and "The Wanderer's Necklace" as well as "The World's Desire" by Haggard and Andrew Lang. That one, "The World's Desire," was a real trip, Odysseus and Moses in the same novel.

[@mediumjohnsilver]

If you stopped on State Street in Ann Arbor in the 1970s, you may have seen me browsing the science fiction section of a bookstore called “Borders”. I understand they later expanded beyond just that one store. I may have bought my copy of _Tales of Known Space_ there. As I look through my Vaughan list, I can say the books you already had copies of were: _Methuselah’s Children_ (last seen 2022-04-16) _Shards of Space_ (2022-04-12) _The Skylark of Space_ (2022-01-25) _The Valley of Creation_ (2022-01-25) _The Martian Way and other stories_ (2021-12-21) On the other hand, _Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter_ has not appeared previously. - Archivist John

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Wow! This is incredibly helpful. David Wiley will think so too! I’m glad someone is keeping track!

[@mediumjohnsilver]

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 Yeah, I started with your Bookshelf Tour videos, and it just sort of snowballed from there. 😊

[@troytradup]

I'm not one to tell someone else how to use his time machine, but if it were me I think I'd go a bit farther back and buy NEW copies of those books. I'd probably also try to step on a butterfly here and there just to shake things up a bit upon my return to the present ...

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

To be honest, Roger isn’t all that great controlling his time machine.

[@bookfantastic]

David H. Keller wrote two noted Arkham House collections. Especially noted for the great short horror story, "The Thing in the Cellar." Another noted for called "A Piece of Linoleum," though I can't recall having been particularly impressed by this one.

[@snowysnowyriver]

Here in London in the 1970s we had the old Foyle's book store. At the time it was the largest bookstore in Europe and housed in a 5-storey Victorian shop which was a labyrinth of rooms containing 3 miles of shelving. If you and Roger go back in time again, I hope you teleport over to London, you would love 1970s Foyle's. Incidentally, that was where I bought all my original James Blish Star Trek books in the early-mid 70s. Sad to say that in recent years this 100 year old family business was sold to Waterstones. It has never been the same since.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Oh man, we should have gone to London! Next time!

[@SavageGav]

More Fritz Leiber please! Rafael Sabatini and R A Salvatore are both great fun.

[@garylovisi357]

Michael, great trip to the 70s, so many great sf books i read when they first came out. How about you use your time machine to go into the future and bring back to us some of the future classics! Cheers!

[@jamesabbiati5775]

Missed you yesterday! Another TBR-inspiring vid. Back in the 70s my friends and I used to say "Techno? Heck no!", being rabid fantasy fans. Now that I'm over that, I can go back and catch up on what I missed. ;-)

[@paulstrathdee]

I love "The People of the Mist" by H. Rider Haggard.

[@mizukarate]

Hi Mike you mentioned free libraries in your videos today. Would you do a video on how to make them and/or how to locate them. I have seen some small wooden ones nailed on trees and it did fascinate me.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

You will get that video in the future. I’m planning on getting a little free library and putting it together. It could go very wrong but I’ll try.

[@mizukarate]

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 Can't wait.

[@mizukarate]

Im considering giving unwanted books away. I will rap them in clear plastic and leave them in random spots. Also will leave it with a note "Free Books. Please Take"

[@BartelsBookshelf]

Always love seeing a slew of vintage books! (Of course, they weren't vintage when you bought them, right? 😉) I've been fascinated by that Philip Wylie book ever since I first heard about it, so I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on it. Jealous about the Ballantine Fantasy book as well! I'd love to collect those, but they're expensive and hard to find. 😔

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Thanks! I have big plans this weekend to watch your many Star Trek hauls!

[@BartelsBookshelf]

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 Thanks so much! I hope you enjoy them. 🥰

[@christianmaltais]

Anonymous' oeuvre is uneven, but his early work is really cool.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I agree.

[@NP-Hunt]

Goddamnit Michael, my wallet was already begging for mercy. Now it's just weeping uncontrollably, and wiping up its tears with a subzero reciept from the nearest atm... 😂🤣

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Sorry! I apologize to your wallet as well.

[@Zozette27]

I have read several of these books, the ones I remember the most are Two Hawks from Earth (sad about the potatoes) The Fog (oh no, pigeons) The Skylark of Space (the woman’s job was to make the tea, or was it coffee?)

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Yeah, those were some mean pigeons in The Fog!

[@christopherwurtz650]

Another first for you Mr. Vaughan (as far as I know). I never saw another BookTuber mention Fred Saberhagen before. It has been a while but I read tons of his work. He re-imagined Dracula (The Dracula Tape) and Frankenstein (The Frankenstein Papers). He wrote a sci-fi series called Berserker and I believe I read all his "Books of Swords" and "Books of Lost Swords" novels.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I’ve actually mentioned Saberhagen before a few months back when I read The Dracula Tape.

[@christopherwurtz650]

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 I stand corrected. I'll check out that video.

[@carminedesanto6746]

Digging the Space 1999 thumbnail 👍

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I actually really liked that show.

[@carminedesanto6746]

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 The story was wacky..and the stylization was over the top ..much like UFO 🛸..it had a charm . Whenever the talk of a “single stage to orbit “ comes around, sorry Elon ..I alway post a picture of the Eagle from that show 😁

[@stevengentry9396]

You went back to the '70s and willingly returned here? Fascinating. The Book of Swords series was really good. I liked the follow-up Books of Lost Swords, too. Say, next time you're in the '70s, if I give you an address, could you drop off a packet of inside finan...er, or really more life advi...um...let's just say miscellaneous information to a preteen/teen kid I used to know? He'll be easy to spot; he'll be reading those books you held up, comic books, or maybe Conan.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I will definitely plan for that, Steven!

[@CriminOllyBlog]

I just got The Human Termites too!

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I couldn’t NOT get it after that video.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 exactly!

[@wbbartlett]

Cats in Space is currently listed online for $150+. If you want to increase the critical / monetary value of something - include a cat.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Holy smokes! 🐈

[@DamnableReverend]

Maybe it was in one of your book haul videos, but otherwise, I don't remember you having talked about Edmund Hamilton before! You should do a video on Edmund hamilton, if you read a fair amount of his stuff. I haven't, but I've read a little bit, and since his name keeps coming up as the great World Smasher, I think you'll have to be featured on my podcast soon enough.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

It’s probably been a while since I’ve talked about Edmund Hamilton. Of course I have a bunch of his books.

[@lisagarrity5836]

The next time you go back to the 70s could you bring back a first edition Princess Bride for me? I'll forward the $7.95 to cover it.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

10-4!

[@fen938]

Hey Michael....can you...lend us the time machine by any chance? Could use it fo a few things...you know...

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Roger won’t even let me use it without him. He’s afraid I’ll destroy reality or something.

[@wburris2007]

Roger is not going to stop buying books, just because the box is full.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Imagine! No faith in Roger! He is the very essence of restraint!

[@stews9]

Ben Orkow = Be On Work, among other things. Hm. Neo B. Work?

[@DDB168]

Is that shirt waterproof ? Because that vinyl jacket is a real pisser 🤣 I didnt know that back story about The Gladiator, interesting. A trip to the 70's wouldn't have been complete without a book from Isaac 'Grabby' Asimov. 😉

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Don’t be jealous of my stylist rubber jacket!

[@johannemilsom7503]

Michael! I will be looking for some of these titles! To tell you the truth, Michael the 1970s is the last decade I would revisit. I was 16 in 1975. Teenage angst rit LARGE! Music and books got me through. (Bless you, Stephen King). It was the fashion and attitudes I did not like! BTW Michael, you look great. That shirt is very nice. Far too good for the 1970s. Next time you wear that ensemble, please wear your Indiana Jones hat.....?

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Yeah, the clothing was not the best back then. To be honest, I really wouldn’t mind revisiting the 80s. I had a lot of fun back then.

[@richardbrown8966]

Can't you just build a vintage science fiction wing onto stately Vaughan Manor?

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I should! I’ll get to work on that!

[@improvementchad6477]

Try reading this masterpiece "Reverend Insanity"

[@briteskin]

When it comes to books my hauls are probably going to be very lacking. Lots of vinyl records seem to be dropping in October and going to my first concert in a long while. I need to make sure have funds for possible merch. Not that Gene Simmons really needs any of my money. I did pick up a 'glow up' of a book I already have. Something I never do but ran across in my search for Lancer/Ace Conan books a reprinting of Robert Jordan's novelization of 'Conan the Destroyer'. I always disliked the photo cover. Arnold's positioning and the wig just looked bad to me. The arms on the painting look weird to me but still find this reprints cover superior to movie photo.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

You know, you are right. The movie photo was a little off.

[@ITCamefromthePage]

They had Little Free Libraries in the 1970s!?!?!?!?!?!? Man you know you went to the 70s because your version of The Fog is in much better condition than mine. The Devil's Generation? Damn they were writing about us millennials even in the 70s. Better go back in time and travel to the 80s to get the rest of your books.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

That’s a good idea. I miss the 80s.

[@godofchaoskhorne5043]

I see you havw the first law anniversary edition books behind you. Fantastic books. Horrible editions, completely barebones and the covers age 20 years by one read. Not to mention they are so fragile they came in like they were heavily used thrift store buys. Really regret not buying the regular hardcovers.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

They are really cheaply made, for sure.