I Ordered Hundreds of Sci-Fi Books While Abroad For 6 Months

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@outlawbookselleroriginal 10 ай бұрын

That was fun, Matt. Good to see you enjoying yourself wallowing in old A Format paperbacks: when you get over here to the UK, we must get together and do this- I know all the right places after all! Enjoying being back in the States.

@chrisw6164 10 ай бұрын

Every weirdo owes it to themself to read A Feast Unknown.

@helpfulcommenter 10 ай бұрын

Are you back in the states? You appear to be at a northerly latitude with an outdoorsy attitude

@rickkearn7100 10 ай бұрын

Bookpilled is one of a handful of YT channels in this genre, that I can justify watching a post in its entirety. That's saying a lot, given the miniscule amount of free time I have. Nice haul!

@daverobinson9381 10 ай бұрын

2 comments. 1. If someone as smart as you believes in bigfoot, it's worth keeping an open mind about. 2. I laughed out loud when you'd say, 'dont correct my pronunciation in the comments below. ' haha. great video, your joy of reading and depth of feeling and articulation towards these books is such a great pleasure to listen to.

@sciencefictionreads 10 ай бұрын

"No book haul is complete without 800 Keith Laumers". Absolutely true lol.

@brndafay8518 10 ай бұрын

What's next for you? Still travel or back in USA for a bit?? I watch even though I'm not a sci fi reader (not much of a reader at all!!) Just curious about a life update 🙂💗🇨🇦

@paznewis107 10 ай бұрын

I thought you were saying Keif Lama which was a comic I read 20 years ago... I've never heard of Keith Laumer.... 😂

@salty-walt 10 ай бұрын

I want the story on this haul! Like - why are you buying books from Thriftbooks w/ the intent to sell? And didn't you have to get rid of books before your trip? but you were shopping & shipping home while still abroad? I am flummoxed! THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN! Tell me there's a story. Tell me a story Matt.

@meesalikeu 9 ай бұрын

same! same!! 😂

@waltera13 10 ай бұрын

DaFUQ? Rock on. Lotsa cool lookin' ones in unbelievable condition!

@dgage1776 10 ай бұрын

I just binged all of your book reviews because i have extreme issues finding anything i like. Thank you for sharing these obscure oddities

@paznewis107 10 ай бұрын

Dude try the Zanthony, the epilogues of that series are better than the books...

@JackMyersPhotography 10 ай бұрын

There will be beef and awoogahs!

@steveeverett1736 10 ай бұрын

The Cordwainer Smith book is good and it's connected to his Instrumentality series. He was actually involved with the US Army. If you hve the Ballantyne copy of The Best of Cordwainer Smith, read the introduction by J.J. Pierce to get Dr Linebargers full story

@themojocorpse1290 10 ай бұрын

Look like you’re having fun there ripping through all those great books mate. Nice Blish ,Moorcock ,Vance . A feast unknown and Image of the beast are a bit weird!! A wicked selection 👍🏻

@HigrationsMintergrund420 10 ай бұрын

Just be warned about A Feast Unknown. You have to accept some weird stuff, like two dudes fighting each other with boners... I am currently reading Lyonesse by Vance and it is turning out to be my best read of the year so far :) can't recommend it enough in case you want to try out some fantasy again! Glad you're back

@meesalikeu 9 ай бұрын

wasnt two dudes fighting each other with boners an episode of that friends tv show? 😂

@brancellbooks 10 ай бұрын

Okay, I won't tell you that the correct pronunciation of envoy is EEN-vwah. Glad to see the hauls are back! Love seeing all these covers. I think I might have to drop in for my first auction and try to nab that hardback James Blish--though I expect many others will be trying for it as well, so I doubt I'll have much luck. You seem happier recently, too, ever since your trip. Who knew that a vacation in sunshine and warmth could improve someone's mood?

@phroz3n 10 ай бұрын

I know I'll sound ignorant, but are a lot of these books worth the read? I know old sci-fi can be really hit-or-miss, but I've never really gotten into them yet.

@warbrothers7745 10 ай бұрын

Matt loves three body problem , so probably start with that one.

@ernestschultz5065 10 ай бұрын

It's a mad mad mad mad world isn't a Brooks film. I respect you too much to allow you to labor under such a misconception. Stanley Kramer directed the movie.

@davea136 10 ай бұрын

Do the orca attacks on ships remind anyone else of Poul Anderson's _Brain Wave_?

@onehandslinger1475 10 ай бұрын

What? Gene Wolfe, a little nobody? Why? I was thinking of picking up that one?

@civoreb 10 ай бұрын

All that was missing is Keith Laumer’s Dinosaur Beach aka his magnum opus. Great haul though!

@GrammaticusBooks 10 ай бұрын

Nice haul! ... also the correct pronunciation of ....Lol!

@mugen008 10 ай бұрын

What up! Señor Bookpilled is back 0:01 !

@fanuluiciorannr1xd212 10 ай бұрын

A Perfect Vacuum is one of Lem's experiments in post-modernism. It consists of reviews of books that do not exist. The books aren't strictly SF. Its also a form of revenge from the author on the books he could never write. Every review is his obsessive admission of just how below he is in writing from the literary horizon he can see but not grasp. I don't know if he wanted to use the meta-theme of evil in this one. Because a theory on evil saw it as revenge for something that did not happen. Lem is taking preemptive revenge on his own stories. Highly recommended.

@SolarLabyrinth 10 ай бұрын

I didn't realize how much I had missed these haul videos.

@dmjohnso 10 ай бұрын

Great to have you back Matt. Looking forward to Saturday on Whatnot. I hope I remember my login…

@JohnInTheShelter 10 ай бұрын

Holy cow, Christmas, Halloween and your birthday all at once. MIDWORLD was one of the very first SF books I ever read, along with BOOK OF SKULLS and a few others.

@chuckbridgeland6181 10 ай бұрын

"Spacehounds of IPC" -- 30s pulp, both fun, and "dire" in the way that 30's pulp SF often is.. I think I actually had that edition. Night Land. I probably still have that edition, stashed somewhere in my folks' house. Ballentine split the novel it into 2 volumes, and you only have the first volume there. Fortunately readily available as an etext. The Night Land world has inspired other (modern) writers to write stories in that setting. See Greg Bear's City at the End of Time, and John C. Wright's Awake in the Night Land. A good bit of the rest are familiar. The only one I'd be tempted to re-read (or read for the first time) is the Cordwainer Smith.

@joebrooks4448 10 ай бұрын

Great Stories Of Space Travel is one of Groff Conklin's best anthologies! And he produced a bunch of the best! I have had Laumer's "Mad Galaxy" and nearly everything else he wrote since the 1970s. Van Vogt, RAH prior to 1961, and Laumer are my go-to authors, next is Norton. But I have dozens more. You have some of the best of Keith Laumer!!

@seanversion2 10 ай бұрын

Just gotta shout out the Laibach t-shirt you're wearing!

@Onomatopoeia23 3 ай бұрын

Noticed that T-shirt right away!

@doublestarships646 10 ай бұрын

I seriously want to know why we have minimalistic art now. We ALL know those covers suck but they keep pushing for it lol.

@caseyfergus6614 10 ай бұрын

It’s because hiring artists is expensive.

@doublestarships646 10 ай бұрын

@@caseyfergus6614 It can't be THAT expensive and I think they get royalties from the copies sold in some cases.

@bookssongsandothermagic 10 ай бұрын

This was wonderful to see - you do the best book hauls, and I had missed this!

@kaleishiacann8129 10 ай бұрын

Dude thats crazy about after such knowledge. I literally picked up that edition from a used bookstore last week and thought nothing of it. Also, will you run Devil's Day book club ed?

@kaleishiacann8129 10 ай бұрын

Lol yeah i just looked it up and it is crazy rare.

@chrisw6164 10 ай бұрын

Unexpected haul video, I didn’t think we’d see one of these for years.

@dougw2267 10 ай бұрын

Hodgson's The Night Land is very strange and wonderful. Some of my favorite worldbuilding ever

@OmnivorousReader 10 ай бұрын

omg - all those Jack Vances I do not have... It is almost enough to make me disregard the ridiculous USA to AU postage. LOVE the Telzey books! I have kept mine since my teens and they are in nowhere near that good condition, having been read to bits. Josephine Tey, while a great author, is far from sci-fi.

@SciFiScavenger 10 ай бұрын

Back in business! Great haul Matt, although i always get a small pang to think of you selling most of em on. The horder in me rebels at the prospect. 📚👍🚀👽

@cros_dead 10 ай бұрын

I wonder how you get the time for reading all this stuff

@B0BsBooks 10 ай бұрын

I’m about ready to “try” to spend too much money on Saturday.

@zkinak2107 10 ай бұрын

Nice copy of the Grand wheel! I got a copy from a classmate who let me take a bunch of their old paperbacks off their hands. They said they would have used them for paper machete material! I’m glad I saved my copy of the bayley book 😅.

@soopahsoopah 10 ай бұрын

8:20 Those two Brunner novels are good ones! Keepers IMO. I love Brunner.

@ernestsanchez5340 10 ай бұрын

Some of the cover art is wonderful. I would like to get a book of Sci-Fi cover art. Any recommendations?.

@fanuluiciorannr1xd212 10 ай бұрын

Well as log as you resell them you are better than many booktubers who just buy books and never read them.

@BioPhoenixReviews 10 ай бұрын

interesting you got a copy of the swordswomen from jessica salmonson. i found a copy of that a month ago and it sounded fun

@thekeywitness 10 ай бұрын

Back in the States so soon?

@ajaxline 10 ай бұрын

That smile and laugh at the beginning might be the quintessential book haul response.

@ScotP-isb 7 ай бұрын

Just started enjoying your videos! I wanted to urge you not to dismiss Lloyd Biggle’s Fury Out of Time. I liked this quite a lot. Also Lem’s A Perfect Vacuum.

@SteveHolthof 10 ай бұрын

Hey Matt, great video! Nice mountain of books…I only collect Hardcover books (unless it’s Bad Brains, or Star of the Unborn, then I’ll settle for a soft cover…but it will sting)… When is your next video?

@alannothnagle 10 ай бұрын

I love this channel! It really takes me back to the sci fi paperbacks of my childhood in the 1970s. But here‘s my problem: While I always loved the cover art of those pulp novels, the actual books were usually dull and pedestrian. So as much as I still love those covers today, it‘s still hard for me to finish one of these novels. Is that just me, or do other readers here have the same problem?

@emosongsandreadalongs 7 ай бұрын

The weird ordering of After Such Knowledge is the internal chronology, I think

@SFVintageCollector 6 ай бұрын

And I thought my book haul of 20 books was fun this is next level Matt - love your channel. Agree love the cover artwork on Nerves

@adamlytle2615 10 ай бұрын

The artist on those Lin Carter covers is Vincent DiFate. He did a bunch in this style in the '70s, like the PJF Riverworld books. But he' s better known for more conventional spaceship paintings. He did a lot of Poul Anderson covers, like The Boat of a Million Years for example.

@emosongsandreadalongs 7 ай бұрын

I get unreasonably excited when I hear you say that a book I own is "extremely rare."

@meesalikeu 9 ай бұрын

what da?? i actually read crashing suns by hamilton years ago when i was sick in bed for a couple days. old school pulp city. 😂🎉

@joebrooks4448 10 ай бұрын

Do you still have any of the Laumer? I did not see this video until Nov. 12th.

@thevintageviking4752 10 ай бұрын

I haven’t even watched it yet and this is the best video I’ve ever seen 😂 binging now!!

@warbrothers7745 10 ай бұрын

Hey man I’m on your Patreon and all your videos are gone? Is it my Patreon app or something else?

@timyo6288 10 ай бұрын

have you got Lord of the Rings by Tolkien?

@benbowers3613 10 ай бұрын

LETS GO WE GETTIN SOME BOOKS

@BooksForever 10 ай бұрын

A Wavy Gravy reference… wow! Yet another reason to love this channel.

@mizfeldy 10 ай бұрын

You got The Female Man and The Night Land in one haul. Dude. Dude.

@CuteBrainiacGirl 10 ай бұрын

This is the content i like to see :)

@jbrichardson8891 10 ай бұрын

nice haul video good to see you back opening many boxes of books

@davea136 10 ай бұрын

This time I am getting a signed Bradbury for sure!

@peterm.fitzpatrick7735 10 ай бұрын

Cornelius Chronicles!!

@gsztjnrtgnhjt 10 ай бұрын

It's pronounced "envoy".

@broiled6935 10 ай бұрын

Very good haul man 👍

@OXyShow 10 ай бұрын

Good to see You back Matt 🖖

@tmerk4292 10 ай бұрын

You mispronounced don't correct me 😂

@robertmalinowski6804 10 ай бұрын

You need a whole shelf of the yellow Daw books!

@donaldb1 10 ай бұрын

If that Cornelius Chronicles omnibus version you have there is the same one I have it's great. It has the illustrations in it, which I think modern editions omit. Also it doesn't have the editing Moorcock later did to the first two volumes to make them fit better with three and four, which makes me prefer it. There aren't major changes (not as much as in some of his other books), but it sort smooches the series together a bit and smooths off some of the differences that show how he was developing his Cornelius style as he went along, which I think is a shame.

@donaldb1 10 ай бұрын

Harry Harrison's _A Tunnel Through the Deeps_ is also known as _A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!_ It is pastiche Victorian/steamp-punk alternative history adventure story.

@Tokayd13 10 ай бұрын

I have it as A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!

@PygKLB 10 ай бұрын

I consider it one of the first steampunk. A light enjoyable read.

@donaldb1 10 ай бұрын

The version I read had an introduction by Kingsley Amis who seemed to have read it entirely unironically as a glorious celebration of the good old days of the British Empire.