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

[@outlawbookselleroriginal]

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.

[@daverobinson9381]

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.

[@rickkearn7100]

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!

[@dgage1776]

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

[@sciencefictionreads]

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

[@brancellbooks]

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?

[@SolarLabyrinth]

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

[@mugen008]

What up! Señor Bookpilled is back 0:01 !

[@steveeverett1736]

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

[@dmjohnso]

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

[@joebrooks4448]

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!!

[@chrisw6164]

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

[@themojocorpse1290]

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 👍🏻

[@fanuluiciorannr1xd212]

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

[@ajaxline]

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

[@bookssongsandothermagic]

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

[@JohnInTheShelter]

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.

[@waltera13]

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

[@adamlytle2615]

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.

[@paznewis107]

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

[@robertmalinowski6804]

You need a whole shelf of the yellow Daw books!

[@benbowers3613]

LETS GO WE GETTIN SOME BOOKS

[@JackMyersPhotography]

There will be beef and awoogahs!

[@civoreb]

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

[@ernestschultz5065]

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.

[@zkinak2107]

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 😅.

[@fanuluiciorannr1xd212]

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.

[@soopahsoopah]

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

[@brndafay8518]

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 🙂💗🇨🇦

[@jbrichardson8891]

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

[@SFVintageCollector]

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

[@chuckbridgeland6181]

"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.

[@BooksForever]

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

[@OXyShow]

Good to see You back Matt 🖖

[@dougw2267]

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

[@Tetsujin-28]

I don't think I've ever seen you so happy.

[@emosongsandreadalongs]

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

[@SciFiScavenger]

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. 📚👍🚀👽

[@seanversion2]

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

[@Onomatopoeia23]

Noticed that T-shirt right away!

[@chrisw6164]

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

[@B0BsBooks]

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

[@ernestsanchez5340]

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

[@personmcpersonperson2893]

This is so satisfying to watch

[@SteveHolthof]

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?

[@donaldb1]

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]

I have it as A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!

[@PygKLB]

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

[@donaldb1]

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.

[@thevintageviking4752]

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

[@doublestarships646]

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]

It’s because hiring artists is expensive.

[@doublestarships646]

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

[@BioPhoenixReviews]

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

[@paznewis107]

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

[@GrammaticusBooks]

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

[@CuteBrainiacGirl]

This is the content i like to see :)

[@alannothnagle]

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?

[@soopahsoopah]

0:00 the grin! this bodes well :)

[@joebrooks4448]

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

[@Ambone44]

Welcome back.

[@cros_dead]

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

[@salty-walt]

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]

same! same!! 😂

[@broiled6935]

Very good haul man 👍

[@thekeywitness]

Back in the States so soon?

[@davea136]

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

[@dr.chopper1880]

5:38 BANDS MAKE HER DANCE

[@mizfeldy]

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

[@phroz3n]

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]

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

[@kaleishiacann8129]

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]

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

[@davea136]

This time I am getting a signed Bradbury for sure!

[@peterm.fitzpatrick7735]

Cornelius Chronicles!!

[@OmnivorousReader]

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.

[@helpfulcommenter]

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

[@emosongsandreadalongs]

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

[@enumclaw79]

woah, that's a lotta books

[@timyo6288]

have you got Lord of the Rings by Tolkien?

[@radiantflux1432]

Ohh cool. A fresh video. I love your videos...

[@HigrationsMintergrund420]

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]

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

[@carlospineda421]

He's back boys

[@donaldb1]

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.

[@warbrothers7745]

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

[@ScotP-isb]

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.

[@meesalikeu]

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. 😂🎉

[@alexp3462]

joyous vid

[@supagremlin3274]

The boy is back! Good news indeed

[@onehandslinger1475]

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

[@RidleyJones]

I'm starting to think you might like James Blish.

[@jefferymort5254]

Leben heisst Leben...yeah boy

[@tectorgorch8698]

Mel Brooks? Tut tut.

[@gsztjnrtgnhjt]

It's pronounced "envoy".

[@Carepedoit]

NOT Mel Brooks. No wonder you don’t like Heinlein.

[@BooksForever]

Heinlein is the sole reason that some of us don’t like Heinlein.

[@tmerk4292]

You mispronounced don't correct me 😂