Montana Book Haul with Ira of

[@waltera13]

I'm loving you living large on the road. *Almost* demands longer monologues voiced over more passing scenery.

[@vintagesf]

Richard using his best Attenborough voice, "Witness the foraging of the BookTuber as he encounters another of his species. Will they battle for dominion of the book store? Ahhhh, cooperation as they hunt their prey."

[@adrianmcmahon5731]

Taking the Attenborough nature documentary reference to beyond battles for dominance. The mating rituals of SF booktubers who lay out their rarest and most fabulously multicoloured artworks to dazzle and entrance their potential mate with who has the most spectacular plumage (I e. Library) 😁

[@waltera13]

@adrianmcmahon5731 and to think, I thought it was too creepy to make a Werner Herzog documentary comment!

[@adrianmcmahon5731]

@@waltera13 welcome to the modern internet discourse where nothing ends up quite where you though it would 😉. Although I'd definitely listen to Werner Herzog doing the narration if Attenborough is unavailable as I could listen to Herzog talk about just about anything and find it fascinating.

[@sfwordsofwonder]

It was great hanging out with you and your wife Richard, you are welcome any time. I need to get to Billings for some book shopping. Looking forward to the next 3 parts of the vacation bookhaul.

[@vintagesf]

@@sfwordsofwonder A Few Books More is worth a visit if you are travelling through Billings!

[@LiminalSpaces03]

The wandering booktuber! Great haul!

[@vintagesf]

Getting a lot of mileage out of this trip. (In Canada we'd say kilometres out of this trip. 😀)

[@thebookrapport-cx8kh]

Rad! Ira is such a sweet guy! Great Haul!

[@vintagesf]

Thank you! He is very cool.

[@TheBookGraveyard]

Book tour journal is a great idea! Ira is awesome. I'm looking forward to Arizona. I used to live in Phoenix and they have some great stores there.

[@vintagesf]

Went to a number of Bookmans, HPB and Changing Hands. Love to hear what other bookstores I should visit on my next trip to Phoenix.

[@TheBookGraveyard]

@@vintagesf oh yeah, the Bookmans are great. I've pulled a bunch out of that HPB but it's like any other HPB, you just have to get lucky with the timing. I never found anything at Changing Hands. It felt more like a gift shop than a book store. I would recommend the Book Maze in Mesa. They have a huge selection of sci-fi and fantasy paperbacks and they are all inexpensive. And then the Book Gallery has two locations (Mesa and downtown Phoenix). It's the type of store that has antiquarian books locked in antique cases so it's like a book museum. But it also has sections of genre fiction paperbacks that are more our speed ha. The owner of the store told me that he owns an unpublished story written by HP Lovecraft.

[@vintagesf]

@@TheBookGraveyard Just copied your note for future reference. Thank you!

[@Yellowblam]

You’ve really captured the beauty of the American landscape with your video, Richard.

[@vintagesf]

Thank you! Arizona landscape coming up next video!

[@jaylytical2271]

Great video, love how wholesome you are and I can tell you genuinely love to read books and love to also collect them. Lots of people only do it to make themselves look good in front of others but you’re part of the group of us who simply just love books for what they are and how they affect us

[@vintagesf]

@@jaylytical2271 I do love books. Really appreciate the comment.

[@OmnivorousReader]

Great haul, looks like it was heaps of fun. That road trip photo too - looks really beautiful.

[@vintagesf]

@@OmnivorousReader Montana is a beautiful state. Will definitely visit again.

[@OmnivorousReader]

@@vintagesf Well, I will put it on the to-do list if I ever make it to the USA. Never knew much about it before.

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

This road trip is phenomenal, Richard. You picked up some great books from your visit with Ira. I’ve just recently picked up some Clifford D. Simak old paperbacks in good condition. I was glad to see him in your recent finds.

[@vintagesf]

I've read a couple of Simak and intend to read more. Ira is a great host. We had a lot of fun!

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

@ that’s great!

[@carlbooth250]

This is rapidly turning into one of my favorite channels. I figure I had about 100, 000 SF &F books in the 90s. Still do. I am lucky, not only is the an used bookstore within walking distance of my house, there is 3 in Lakewood and one in St. Pete that sells books for $2 to $5 dollars! Keep up the good work.

[@vintagesf]

Wow! Love to see your library sometime. Glad you are enjoying the content!

[@paulcooper3611]

Great episode, Richard. I'm looking forward to the others with some trepidation. I missed Doomsday Book by Connie Willis when it came out. Just read it a few years ago and found that Willis can write books that gut punch you. A time traveler experiencing the Black Death is not for the faint of heart. I'm looking forward to you review of it.

[@vintagesf]

Just finished making the "trepidation" episode. It will air January 1st. Nothing to worry about. Really enjoyed getting together with you and your wife. All the best in the new year!

[@bazoo513]

4:05 - _Aurora Rising,_ the first part of _inspecto Dreyfus_ trilogy

[@vintagesf]

Thank you! I was sure it had been renamed.

[@adrianmcmahon5731]

I do love book haul videos almost as much as I like reviews. I'm definitely acquiring a fascination for Daw books and their own wonderful artwork . I have that same John Brunner Masterworks I bought when it first came out.

[@vintagesf]

Vicarious book shopping can be addictive.

[@secretfirebooks7894]

I made a huge mistake not naming my channel "The Book Dragon." 😂

[@vintagesf]

At least you didn't name it "The Bookworm".

[@User_Un_Friendly]

Thank You Richard! Collision Course has a cover I vaguely remember from more decades at than I like to think about, a book I had started reading as a teen, but misplaced after my family moved. Now I can finally finish reading it. 🎉🎉. I don't think it was that great, but like most errant memories, one that had never quite left me, despite the years intervening. 🐶 Seriously? De Camp? While enamored of his Harold Shea series as a teen, looking back, I have to wonder at my tastes. I find him annoying and pedantic. Eh. 🐶😛

[@vintagesf]

Definitely some ups and downs with de Camp but there are some interesting creature features there. Been gathering some Bayley in hopes that there are some good reads.

[@vilstef6988]

My city is something of a book desert. I hardly ever find vintage SF. The last good haul I had was over two years ago when I found a stack of Heinlein and PKD at my favorite thrift store. I would grab the same edition of Childhood's End if I ever found it!

[@vintagesf]

@@vilstef6988 I know some collectors who frequent garage sales and estate sales. Seems pretty hit and miss to me but sometimes you luck out. I prefer and enjoy travel combined with book shopping. I’ve found a couple of great bookstores just a few hours outside of Winnipeg.

[@CasperHulshof]

As collector of the black-spined SF Masterworks: yes you are correct. My copy of The Shrinking Man (nr. 51) that I bought 'second hand' looked pretty new, has no number, and the book cover is less shiny than the real books from the 2000s. I've marked it as 'incorrect version' in my Excel file.

[@vintagesf]

Very interesting. Will make a close comparison at some point.

[@CasperHulshof]

@@vintagesf By the way, it gets even more interesting, since some of the books have the wrong number printed on the back! The Wikipedia page does note this. My copy of The Man In The High Castle (a hardback) has 72 on the back, whereas it should be 73 (it's the last in the original series). Since I also have the Heinlein novel, I have two masterworks with 72 on the back!

[@vintagesf]

@ I love this sort of detail and trivia. Thank you!

[@sciencefictionreads]

Karl Schroeder is excellent. I've read his 'Ventus' and 'Permanence' and praise them both. I believe he has a Mennonite background and lives in Toronto. The Prefect was re-named Aurora Rising (for some ridiculous reason) many years later when the book became part of a trilogy.

[@vintagesf]

I think it was your voice in the back of my head saying, "Pick it up! You'll regret not snagging a Karl Schroeder book."

[@miljenkoskreblin165]

It was renamed after Elysium Fire came out. Reynolds said it fits better in overall framework.