The best book haul I've ever had (with Richard Rempel from Vintage SF)!

[@vintagesf]

It was so fun watching Chris dig into twelve boxes of books. Books that no one else had a crack at. With my wife we organized an efficient system and started chatting about the books we were finding. My book haul will be out next week. Thanks for a great time Chris!

[@SciFiFinds]

Fantastic haul. Star of the Unborn is next to impossible to find here in the UK it seems.

[@asdfhjklacew]

4:00 You had one job 😉

[@LiminalSpaces03]

Hahaha! I suck at following instructions!

[@CptSamelsSigils]

Nice! I have the book club edition of Claw of the Conciliator too but the rest of the series is Timescape paperback for me. I love the cover art on that so much I have a print of it hanging up in my home gym. Also I recently added Hyperion to my collection wishlist, glad to learn there’s an omnibus edition out there. Thanks for that!

[@t.e.nickerson2792]

Amazing haul! Snow Crash is a classic cyberpunk novel. Very good, but my favorite Neal Stephenson is The Diamond Age, which is in my top ten all-time sci-fi books. Oddly enough, I recently found that same edition of Orbit 19 at a used book store over the summer (though not in as good of condition as yours) and read it a few months ago. The Lafferty story is the only one that has stuck in my mind. And I read Mythago Wood this last summer as well. Excellent book! I want to try to find the rest of that series. I read that same Death Dream paperback in high school (around '89 or '90--I bought it new) and remember enjoying it, though I don't recall a lot about it other than the cool premise. I need to read it again. Masterton is hit or miss with me. There's a much more recent book by Paul Meloy called The Night Clock about a group of dream warriors, though it was much darker and rather disjointed, with not enough distinctions made between the main characters. But it did have some really cool scenes and a couple of sentient animal characters--a dog and a tiger--in the dream realms. I found it confusing, but you may like it more than I did. Not a terrible book--Meloy employs some poetic language which I love.

[@t.e.nickerson2792]

The Hyperion Cantos (collectively) are also in my sci-fi top ten. Great find. I have the four book in paperback. As an artist myself, I definitely love some of that old cover art. My favorite classic sci-fi/fantasy illustrator is Virgil Finlay. I have a couple of his books of art. Also love Stephen Fabian and Ian Miller. Just great trippy artwork. And of course several artists known for doing sci-fi and fantasy comics: Moebius, Barry Windsor-Smith, Juan Giménez, Dave McKean, Charles Vess, P. Craig Russell and Philipe Druillet to name a few. Druillet in particular stokes my imagination. If you haven't already, check out his Lone Sloane series. I have most of the books. I think there are 6 of them and I have 5 of the 6.

[@meesalikeu]

snowcrash starts off with a bang and i mean perhaps best start ever - but i found it grinds to a crawl

[@t.e.nickerson2792]

@@meesalikeu Agreed

[@sfwordsofwonder]

I love those DAW Goulart covers. Yeah, Gene Wolfe is hard to find it seems, I'm still on the hunt for a few of his hard to find paperbacks. Great haul, let me know when they get another SF collection and I'll get a plane ticket, haha.

[@GrammaticusBooks]

Good stuff! I’d love to hear your opinion on Star of the Unborn.

[@literallybooks]

Ooo, Mythago Wood is good! I want to reread it myself. “Creepy dogs do well in thumbnails” 😆 I feel the same about Koonz’s old stuff. Double Oooo on Swann who I also like. Need to read his Minotaur books and a handful of others. Both those Triffids covers are so cool. Dang, that’s some good Lafferty finds. 😮Nice on the Wolfe finds!!! Castle of the Otter is such an incredible find!! 🫨

[@scottwoodside4458]

lovely finds there! enjoy...and thanks for this channel!

[@TauZeroSF]

Nice haul! I picked up a copy of Pyschogeist a few months back. Still not sure what it is but what a name!

[@meesalikeu]

great haul - the book of the new sun editions were jaw droppers for me. i always wanted the four seperate books not the common modern double versions. and of course very cool that richard stopped by - i’m glad you two met. 🎉

[@JoeChewBaca]

Funny, you mention Cordwainer Smith and I find "The Best of Cordwainer Smith" at my local bookstore! I think it's an alternate title to the one that you found. That Weird Tales is great!!! I don't even remember how long I've had that one.

[@waltera13]

Great haul! That Moorcock is part of the dancers at the end of time cycle. An unusual example (in Moorcock's ouvre) of straight up comedic satire. "The Knight and Knave of Swords" was written 15 or 20 years after Leiber had already wrapped up the Fafrd and Grey Mouser series in "Swords and Ice Magic," so I wouldn't consider it the "climax" (and some fans consider it skippable), but hey look at that Tom Canty cover! "Mythago Wood" is simply amazing. Enchanting. Part fantasy part Folk Horror. I haven't read all the books in the series, because it was originally a standalone {Singleton for OB 😉} So I never considered it something he had been "planning" to do. Still I've heard the rest of them are great. And let me know if you'd like to hear the music that's referenced in the book. . . Funny, I used to see Snow Crash come up all over booktube. I can't quite tell by your style yet, I personally couldn't get into it, although not a difficult book, it is a challenging book, so I know you might like that. It is also written in a clipped, deconstructed style that sometimes is tongue in cheek. Subsequently, I found it hard when picturing a scene to know if I had missed information, formed an inappropriate picture because I misunderstood what was being said, or if it was meant to be ridiculous on purpose. Some people say that it is very funny and somewhat self-satirical. . . I also didn't get far in "The Diamond Age" either, but I'm just not a modernist. . ..

[@deepashtray5605]

Snow Crash is considered a cyberpunk classic up there near Neuromancer. Worth the read.

[@kufujitsu]

I've always had a soft spot for short stories - I try to read a few short stories every week at the very least - anyway those anthologies & collections look great. I had a good time with Mythago Wood - it's about a guy who finds out about a forest that is teeming with mythological entities. Not sure if you'll enjoy Thomas Burnett Swann, but I've always liked his fantasy books. They're short, fast moving, & well written. The Island of Doctor Death is simply one of my favorite single-author short story collections. The first part of Hyperion Cantos is not really a novel, but a collection of connected novellas, which were very good. & you'll enjoy the John Wyndhams for sure.

[@piotrd7355]

Snowcrash is postmodern cyberpunk. A classic of the genre, but be prepared that it is written partly very seriously, partly tongue-in-cheek. Much like the Illuminatus Trilogy.

[@unstopitable]

Pretty awesome.

[@joemac6280]

Great finds. I live about 10 minutes away from that bookstore! I never would have thought to go there for sci fi books! I have a bunch of analog sci fi mags that I was going to donate to them. Let me know if you want to look at them first?

[@LiminalSpaces03]

You must live very close to me! I'd love to take a look at your Analogs before you donate them. Send me an email and we can plan a time!

[@vilstef6988]

Connie Willis has some great Christmas stories.

[@Crabby303]

Read the Hyperion Cantos last year, thought it was amazing. Proper deep, thought-provoking SF.

[@tanshihus1]

'Nine Hundred Grandmothers' was a great read of obsession similar in flavor to 'The six-fingers of time'.

[@vilstef6988]

Chad Oliver is now obscure, but he was a respected SF writer, and professionally an anthropoloogist. His stories leaned into anthropology!

[@seamusrw]

Im pretty sure that cover for Haunted America is a view from his house. Or an artistic view. The winding road is 6a on the Cape.

[@philbrowning2779]

Oh man, I feel like such a dummy. I saw a bunch of These cool looking Robert Aickman collected works in hard cover and the covers were done by the same illustrator who did all those Marvin Kaye anthologies. They were at a half priced books, and I thought if they were still there when I came back next time I'd pick up a couple, and of course they were gone when I came back 😮.

[@cmr2079]

I think "Don't open this book" was a scifi book club exclusive.

[@Crabby303]

I thought Snow Crash was great, SF on the cyberpunk side and very tongue-in-cheek. A plot element involves underage "activity" which some may have issues with.