Liminal Spaces, a visit with Chris in Albuquerque.

[@LiminalSpaces03]

It was so fun to hang out in person! Thanks for the video and for stopping by! I hope to see you again next year! Sorry about the bad camera focus on this one, everybody, it was my fault!

[@vintagesf]

A highlight of the trip!

[@bartsbookspace]

Such an interesting conversation; I especially enjoyed the liminal spaces genesis part. Thanks Gents!

[@vintagesf]

@ Wishing you and yours an amazing holiday season and a happy new year!

[@adrianmcmahon5731]

It actually gave it a grainy quality that reminded me of old film stock for low light conditions. Which in a way suited the initial conversation around liminality.

[@vintagesf]

@ I think viewers are there for the conversation and content, not 4K whiskers.

[@SciFiFinds]

This is so great guys. Two of my favourite creators in the same room.

[@vintagesf]

The whole day was a blast. Chris is a lot of fun to hang out with.

[@BadTasteBooks]

Excellent conversation! Loved hearing all of Chris' thoughts on his channel and what he's been doing.

[@CptSamelsSigils]

Neato, I learned a new word! There’s trails in old granite quarries in my town. The toppled ruins, rusted metal cables and contraptions, yawning pits full of green water and mountains of grey blocks make this a liminal space between now and the past. I’ve always felt this and now I have the term to describe it, cool beans.

[@vintagesf]

I find the word 'liminal' to be fascinating. A lot to explore there.

[@LiminalSpaces03]

You have a poet's turn of phrase!

[@thebookrapport-cx8kh]

This is fantastic!

[@vintagesf]

We had a lot of chemistry together … not that chemistry. 😀

[@outlawbookselleroriginal]

Great to see you guys hanging out and having good times.

[@vintagesf]

Chris is a great guy and it was a lot of fun spending the day with him.

[@vilstef6988]

In Zelazny's Amber books, when the characters walk the Pattern , they are literally going through veils and the spaces keep changing. Zelazny got the idea of going through Shadow in a walk around Boston. Every time he rounded a corner the look or feel of the neighborhood did a severe and noticeable change. Fritz Leiber has this aspect too with the Change War.

[@vintagesf]

Interesting that you should mention Zelazny. He lived just north of Albuquerque in Sante Fe.

[@PulpMortem]

Fun video, you guys rock!

[@vintagesf]

We rocked on rocks!

[@thekeywitness]

I think my life living abroad the past 10 years has something to do with my attraction to liminality as an experience. I love feeling like I'm in a zone of the unknown, possibly beyond understanding. I've often wandered around in foreign cities hoping to get lost. Only by doing that, do you really open yourself up to new experiences.

[@LivingDeadEnby]

... or you are someone like me who gets lost even in their hometown because no sense of orientation whatsoever, paired with autism and social anxiety, then you can get all of that every day as soon as you leave the house 😅

[@thekeywitness]

@@LivingDeadEnby 😆

[@vintagesf]

Before exploring liminal spaces with Chris I thought of these spaces as were the veil between earth and another realm was very thin. Being in those spaces was a spiritual experience, otherworldly.

[@LiminalSpaces03]

Well said! I agree that the inherent liminality of existing in a culture different from your own absolutely has a unique attraction!

[@sfwordsofwonder]

Great video and chat between you guys. Looking forward to the bookhaul as well.

[@vintagesf]

@@sfwordsofwonder Chris made out like a bandit in this book haul.

[@LiminalSpaces03]

I did indeed!

[@waltera13]

What a nice holiday surprise! Thank you Richard for sharing this special time with Chris and helping us get to know him better. And thank you for finding out why he chose a name that makes his channel impossible to find from a KZbin search. There was such a cool and easy-going conversation with interesting answers that I would love a couple more of these videos. . . but I suspect that Richard is probably already back in the Great White North.

[@vintagesf]

I am indeed home for Christmas. Still a few videos left from the Southwest.

[@LiminalSpaces03]

Oh man! I hate that my channel is hard to find with a youtube search!

[@danieldelvalle5004]

I like when Chris says he likes reading that is a challenge, putting clues together, a reading experience that one can participate in. I had that type of experience reading Gene Wolfe, especially The Book of the New Sun, The Fifth Head of Cerberus, and Peace, as well as some of Wolfe's short stories.

[@vintagesf]

@@danieldelvalle5004 Gene Wolfe is someone I haven’t read yet. Books are on my shelf.

[@danieldelvalle5004]

@vintagesf I'm not sure if I should mention that Gene Wolfe is an acquired taste because I enjoyed him right off the bat. His novels and stories have the qualities of reading that Chris mentioned. You have to put the clues together. The more you put into the reading experience, the more you get out of it. Some readers don't like that. The norm on Gene Wolfe's work is that you don't read a Gene Wolfe book, you reread it. The Fifth Head of Cerberus blew my mind, as did The Book of the New Sun, which consists of five books. I've only read them once, so according to the norm, I haven't read Gene Wolfe yet. I do plan to return to those works, and other books of his. John Clute, the famous SF critic and one of the founders of the SF encyclopedia, considers Wolfe the greatest prose stylist of SF. Ursula K Le Guin called Wolfe "our Melville", which I think sums it up nicely.

[@vintagesf]

@ Not deterred but will make sure I have time for a focused reading. Thanks!

[@LiminalSpaces03]

Gene Wolfe is a perfect example!

[@danieldelvalle5004]

@LiminalSpaces03 , exactly, when you mentioned putting the clues together in a reading experience that one can participate, I immediately thought of Gene Wolfe.

[@adrianmcmahon5731]

As a recent subscriber I enjoyed your meetup with VintageSF who I've been following for a while. I don't know why but my immediate thought that popped into my head when I first heard your channel being recommended was the use of Liminal in astronomy, used to describe things like eclipses, planetary conjunctions, etc. and not the more common use in English. Now seeing both I like the name even more as it represents the transitional states in even more ways, at least to me anyway 😉

[@vintagesf]

@@adrianmcmahon5731 One of the best channels out there. Chris brings a wealth of experience and reading, not to mention enthusiasm, to BookTube.

[@adrianmcmahon5731]

@@vintagesf I subscribed to liminal Space when you mentioned you were meeting him and I've enjoyed all of the videos of his I've watched so far. His reading Arthur C. Clarke's The Star was a highlight so far. That's about the 3rd or 4th booktuber you've recommended so far that I've really enjoyed their work. I love how the KZbin SF community cross pollinates and grows 👍.

[@vintagesf]

@@adrianmcmahon5731 The good will and vibrancy of this SF community surprised me. And now you are a part of it!

[@adrianmcmahon5731]

@@vintagesf passionate collectors or hobbyists naturally connect to others with the same or crossover interests, learning and sharing with them as they go. It's one of the joys of being into anything passionately, that mutual spark that can often link wildly different people from all kinds of backgrounds into a common shared space and relationship.

[@waltera13]

Wait, I'm lost. Wasn't there also a video you just dropped about a book haul with Edgar Pangborn in it? Some old Andre Norton? I want to watch it again and comment and I can't find it. Was I occupying a liminal space?

[@vintagesf]

No book haul since the Friends of Pima Library which did not feature those books. (Cue 'The Twilight Zone' music ...)

[@waltera13]

@@vintagesf You were talking about your Bob Shaw collection almost being complete, It had Edgar Pangborn's Mirror for Observers" in it and, I thought it said posted 11 minutes ago - last night. cue TZ Music Indeed! Perhaps it's a Christmas Miracle? Have a happy Holiday!

[@vintagesf]

@ Happy holidays to you too!