The Best Sci-Fi Haul I've Ever Gotten From One Bookstore

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[@LACaradoc]

One thing Bookpilled has done for me is to rekindle my love of reading. I see so many books in your videos that I want to read. Would that I have more time. Would that I had unlimited space and money to keep all the books. Thanks again, and mayhap I'll see you Sunday.

[@Bookpilled]

Great to hear, thank you

[@thenetisvast]

Definitely inspiring, with top tier suggestions for new books. I read Solaris and Roadside Picnic based on his videos - very on-point tips!

[@justApigeon.]

The amount of books I’ve added to my tbr because of this guy is astounding.

[@OmnivorousReader]

You and all of us... :)

[@matthewgriffin827]

I've been hitting a new used bookstore in town and found a couple of the big names that get mentioned on this channel often, and I looked in several stores on a trip up to Maine and found a couple of good ones. I have a new hobby. It's been a lot fun and the reading has been great. The stack grows

[@Unpotted]

Living in a small town without a bookstore or library, I will be eternally grateful for anyone selling out-of-print books online. The USPS and other carriers are my saviors. 😺✌️

[@cloudbloom]

Great book covers are one of those little joys in life that grabs you when you're young and holds on forever. So many awesome covers in this haul

[@sjorgen9122]

14:36 press for crow 👍

[@Bookpilled]

lol

[@casualmajestic9223]

This is one of the best comments I‘ve ever read

[@BrianFoudray-f1v]

@Bookpilled Thanks for the great videos and recommendations. I've been watching over the past year, and I very much enjoy your criticisms and opinions. I read Blindsight and Blood Music based on your recommendations. 10/10 on both accounts. Like you, I loved - fervently loved - the MorningLightMountain chapter of Pandora's Star and didn't care much for the rest; that said, there are some great ideas in that book. Speaking of books with lots of big ideas but poorly written, I don't totally agree with you on the 3 Body trilogy. It's a 5/10 for me. I was blown away by the direct and subtextual criticism of the Chinese system, particularly in book 1. And the use of the dark forest/fermi paradox ideology, specifically as applied to interplanetary warfare... I was in awe. I'm currently on A Fire Upon the Deep thanks to you. I enjoy it so far. Keep up the great commentary and videos!

[@WINGTV9]

I read William Morris' "The Hollow Land" in the short-lived reprint digest-sized magazine FORGOTTEN FANTASY, and I loved it. This was after Fritz Leiber almost dissuaded me from reading Morris by referring to his books as being dull but a good place to start when discussing the history of fantasy. They may be, but this story wasn't but any means. I've never read a story set in medieval times quite like it. It's probably in the top 3% of the fantasy I've read.

[@larrylambert1220]

I miss the bookshelf fireplace.

[@rajikkali2381]

Its proper name is the sci-fire place

[@larrylambert1220]

@@rajikkali2381 I like it.

[@chocolatemonk]

Cover for cover I find Panther has the best.

[@johncoffman1841]

The Tolkein, if memory serves, is a pretty rare translation by him. You scored!

[@SirStuckey]

Before you sell it i would read the intro to that Fury. Its basically C.L. Moore talking about their co-writing style and how Fury was mostly Kuttner's baby but she could recognize her portions. Interesting stuff

[@longboy5639]

I just finish reading solaris. Thanks You so mush

[@DKBiedron]

Yeah, I purchased a copy after the reviews! I’m reading Red Mars for now.

[@paulmanning4901]

Great channel. The only booktube I watch actually

[@CulainRuledByVenus]

16:50 That's the first time I've seen it spelled with I rather than O. My copy has it as Chronocules. I'm tempted to find the version you have there just for that unusual reason. Of course, the wonderfully weird cover art too.

[@vilstef6988]

A friend of mine who was a bookman sold Jakes the research material he used to write the Kents. Jakes even did a sword and sorcery pastiche called Mention My Name in Atlantis. It was published by DAW.

[@Bookpilled]

I have that edition in storage

[@michaelguzman5497]

Wow, when you held up GOG I nearly fell out of my chair! It's amazing and I cannot recommend it highly enough. PLEASE grab that one, and 'Stations of the Tide' by Michael Swanwick and read them, they are absolutely brainburstingly wackadelic. 😁🦄

[@emosongsandreadalongs]

That Tolkien near the end is two separate short stories/novelettes, and they're both great. Mildly humorous and whimsical fairy tale kind of stuff

[@nealepaterson3496]

That hardback Earthsea seems to be one of the very few editions that gets the skin colour right...

[@shawnlinnehan7349]

That’s the copy I have and read. Didn’t know it was rare. I get 85% of my books used and pay a dollar or two for one. I can usually find whatever I want eventually.

[@zkinak2107]

The ace double Jack Vance book containing the dragon masters you got is super cool! I picked up that same book but an older printing of it at a used bookstore while I was on my honeymoon to the Big Island in Hawaii alongside a stack of other early Jack Vance paperbacks. The bookstore owner was very pleased to see that stack go. They were concerned that they wouldn't sell!

[@bookjack]

I've found a few of those Lems in the wild. Always a rush

[@jasonclay4786]

Great vid as usual. You inspire me to read my large collection of SciFi that sits on my shelves looking pretty ( oh - and they do 😊). Keep it up, man. X

[@O.M.G.Puppies]

Dragon's Egg was being passed around and read by my friends at Caltech in the early '80s. As I recall, Forward was a serious engineer/scientist of some sort. Nice hard sci-fi. in the '90s, Greg Egen was similarly popular in the science community.

[@edgarclot3905]

It's kind of boring but a very respectable book

[@jnmortell66]

Kevin McDonald from Kids in the Hall? Is that you?

[@gon8go]

I have quite a few timescape books that I'll never read, just because I love them.

[@shannonm.townsend1232]

Same for me, also DAW and DelRey, spines look so good.

[@nathanparrish4342]

You’d love a small chain of bookstores that I go to all the time in North Carolina. It’s a huge warehouse of books called McKay’s and it’s an absolute gold mine. They have the biggest selection of books I’ve ever seen and they’re all somehow about a dollar. They somehow have just about every book I’ve ever wanted and I end up buying about 20 books each time I walk in and end up spending about 20-40 bucks. I’ve literally bought books there for a nickel

[@SlowDazzle11]

Great haul. I'm really envious of the Compton books!

[@michaelgarza8388]

Re: A. Merritt, The Moon Pool and Ship of Ishtar are the ones that everyone talks about, but The Face In The Abyss is my personal favorite and a good starting place if you want to get your feet wet…

[@chuckbridgeland6181]

Ophiuchi Hotline, yes that is Varley's first novel, set in his Eight Worlds milieu. (I remember a reviewer complaining it was confusing, with 3 separate copies of one character wandering around. I did not find it so.) The Wollheim "World's Best SF " anthologies I recall as being very good.

[@Terrak16]

That 'The Halfling' cover is a masterpiece. I don't blame you for holding onto that for life. (Excellent condition too)

[@paznewis107]

Im reading Jizzle just now, turned up at the bus stop book swap...

[@brettrobson5739]

On Jakes, he wrote the incredibly popular North & South (basically a civil war soap opera) series. Made into movies & mini-series. He had already given up SF by that time. I always thought he should have got a back hander for Escape from New York. Can't remember the name of the story, but he's definitely the inventor of Manhattan as a penal colony.

[@andrekuz]

The Daedalus series is wonderful, enjoyed it greatly as they were being published! Rarely see them in book shops, your getting all in one shot is a win, and I still have mine 😌

[@robertmalinowski6804]

You gotta create the "scifi archive"! The vast expansion of the original scifierplace. Kinda like the library in Foundation. Btw, i think the Delaney novels are in a slipcover/slipcase box. Also, if you're collecting Timescape books, the first few Star Trek Pocket books are Timescape.

[@grantross2609]

great haul and all those natty sleeves as a bonus !

[@robzs8388]

Just gonna tell you right now - A Perfect Vaccum IS amazing. I've not read all THAT much Lem, but APV is definitely my second favorite behind Solaris.

[@arthurweise2573]

All 60's maybe early 70's. Lost World and Radio Beasts are good. People by Zenna Henderson really good. Princess of Mars also great. Guess you're bound to get a few good books in a pile like that. But that's it. I already have those books.

[@josephd5879]

What an awesome book haul. I am going to start looking for books by Margaret St. Clair. She sounds very underrated.

[@alexp3462]

You know it's a good book haul vid when you have to clarify you aren't a nudist. Good luck to all in the auction, amazing stuff in there

[@dmjohnso]

Incredible haul! Looking forward to the auction, hoping for a few awoogas, a chode blaster or two, and a few beefcakes for good measure. Also, hope you checked for signatures...

[@b.a.7228]

THE SLEEPING EYE is also known as, better known as, THE CONTINUOUS KATHERINE MORTENHOE. Powerful, depressing, prescient novel.

[@outlawbookselleroriginal]

'The Unsleeping Eye' is the exact and correct US variant title of 'The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe', which was last published in the USA under its original title by NYRB Classics about a decade ago. The sequel - 'Windows' - is an interesting example of a Compton that is more common in the US than his native UK.

[@Bookwyrmskeep]

Amazing Book haul / Find ☺️❤ I miss book shopping lol. I'm still looking for Clifford d. Simak & Murray Leinster. I hardly ever find them xux .. theres more but that would be a list.

[@DKBiedron]

Way Station is my recommendation to Matt, City seemed a little too abstract. I found a leaderbound Easton a few years ago for about forty bucks after getting the Kindle version for 99¢. Before that I’d never read SF aside from PKD.

[@jerryfiore5818]

That copy of *FANE* (by David M. Alexander) that you showed is different than the one I had, in that my "Timescape" edition has the word "Timescape" in the center at the top, and not off to the right side, like yours. Maybe yours was a later printing?

[@darklingeraeld-ridge7946]

Envious of one still having The Lost World before them - must have read it half a dozen times as a kid/youth: much better than Verne imho. In the UK we used to have ‘runners’ who sold 2nd hand books between shops - how things have changed … and not.

[@mbrintys]

I read "Gray Matters" a looonng time ago as a teen (for probably the cover). I have no recollection of the plot, but I do remember liking it at the time.

[@johnwashburn6118]

Space Opera stuff, LOL! I had a blast reading the Tchaikovsky Architect Trilogy!

[@OXyShow]

You need to get that Sigma 18-50 for the ZV-E10 for crazy good autofocus and blure, just trying to help

[@texitoba]

I was just looking through some of my books and realized that I somehow have 2 copies of Shaw’s Fire Pattern…. Same cover as yours. Can’t count how many times I’ve done that type of thing… 😅

[@thescrewfly]

I seem to recall The Hole in the Zero as being particularly good (although it has been a very long time). Also, a number of collections there with Fredric Brown stories. He's a pretty good old-school writer in the vague overlap area between sf, horror and crime (and comedy) - if that makes any sense.

[@GrammaticusBooks]

Epic book haul! And I'm going to go out on a limb and predict you will not like Dragon's Egg....

[@LiminalSpaces03]

That is an incredible haul! Are you keeping "The Drowned World" by Ballard?

[@Bookpilled]

Yes, kept it

[@LiminalSpaces03]

@@Bookpilled Great choice!

[@danjameson1572]

"Well at the World's End" features an evil wizard named.....Gandolf. Spelled that way.

[@dalejones100]

Looking forward to being at the auction.

[@O.M.G.Puppies]

Helstrom's Hive and the Green Brain were Herbert's bug books. There's an interesting film loosely based on it called The Helstrom Chronicles, semi-fiction semi-documentary that argues insects will win. It's an expensive collectors item now, nobody seems to be streaming it, but you can easily find the whole movie on KZbin.

[@sarahcleary7332]

I have that copy of We Who Are About To! Great book and great edition. Still need to finish it but man is it dark lol

[@salty-walt]

John Jakes got his later in life fame from a series of historical novels that were set in the American Revolution and they coincided *nicely* with BiCentennial Fervor that swept the nation.

[@Bookpilled]

Them's the big bucks

[@salty-walt]

@@Bookpilled 🤣🤣 Dude! It Was! At least 2 TV " Mini Series" tie-ins! And they wuz the new thing!

[@PulpMortem]

I just reviewed Radio Beasts on my channel. It's a pulpy blast!

[@krjames203]

One hell of a haul! Just watched this and now I feel super-saturated with science-fictionyness.

[@b.a.7228]

GOG is genre-adjacent and very worth your time.

[@thekeywitness]

You spoke of Spinrad. Have you read Bug Jack Barron? I enjoyed it.

[@Bookpilled]

Haven't read it yet.

[@heathmotley9675]

I'm in the Philippines and was wondering what book store you could recommend.

[@Bookpilled]

I didn't really find any I liked in Manila or Cebu. Didn't look that hard in Manila though.

[@heathmotley9675]

@@Bookpilled Thank you.

[@calebcox4963]

21:16 I’m gonna start reading Poul Anderson even harder.

[@keithdixon6595]

You should get good prices on all the D.G. Compton books - they're rarely available anywhere (well, UK or France, anyway). I just checked Abebooks and Amazon . I read Compton's The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe recently (you have it there under an alternative title). Excellent writer. I also read Ballard's The Drowned World recently, in paperback. Not so hard to find, even in France. I'd like to buy from your auction but I daresay buying from France is going to be nuts on postage. 😢

[@Bookpilled]

Thanks Keith. International shipping through Whatnot is indeed steep.

[@Nerdthropic]

42 minutes eh? What a haul - I couldnt look away

[@cheifwhat]

Wonder what you think of Ste Sharp or Mick Farren?

[@Bookpilled]

Haven't read them yet

[@garymoraco3184]

I MISS BOOKPILLED'S WILD KINGDOM. ANY CRITTERS GET INTO YOUR LIVING SPACE WE CAN WATCH WHILE YOU GO THROUGH BOXES?

[@Bookpilled]

There may be cat cameos

[@MrVvulf]

Poul Anderson never gets credit for creating a sub-genre of Sci-Fi - specifically "Time Travel Enforcement". Perhaps it's too broad or obvious a direction for time travel stories to venture, but "obvious" is generally judged that way in hindsight. The "Time Patrol" series of stories he did, starting in the 1950s, were to my knowledge the first of their kind. Today there are hundreds if not thousands of stories involving some type of person or agency who are tasked with tracking down and eliminating threats to time continuums. Time Travel Enforcement is particularly popular in movies and television ("Time Cop", "Dr. Who", "El Ministerio Del Tiempo", "Travelers", etc.).

[@patrickocallaghan3429]

Asimov's "The End of Eternity" came out in 1955, the same year as Anderson's "Time Patrol". It was his first novel. Very good ideas but excruciating prose.

[@MrVvulf]

@@patrickocallaghan3429 There's a great deal of overlap in the concepts. It wouldn't surprise me if they'd had a conversation at a convention and both went home and wrote their own versions of the ideas they'd discussed.

[@circa1890]

Was watching this and ran over to my library to make sure my collection hadn't been stolen... so many of these I own and haven't found while browsing shops. Agreed, a great haul!

[@patrickocallaghan3429]

@@MrVvulf Certainly possible. I remember Arthur C. Clarke once mentioning that he and Anderson both came out with stories involving solar sails at the same time, but that the two of them had never discussed the concept. Some things just seem to be in the air.

[@shaihulud7316]

Tanith Lee was so imaginative

[@kategarb]

Nice! Big Yumbo said y'all finally got to meet - Fun.

[@Bookpilled]

Yes, he was with me

[@dragonsandwarts5644]

It would be a funny video to put everything in the keep pile and sell nothing !😂

[@louisblackforester]

This guy ⬆ inspires billions !

[@rajikkali2381]

Have you ever considered writing your own novel?

[@hdood]

I wonder if any of these are signed? Will you check before selling?

[@Bookpilled]

I haven’t checked but will on stream

[@nunyabizness6595]

Sadly it will never be Goodwill which is ashame since they are everywhere.😮😮😮

[@Bookpilled]

Have had some great Goodwill hauls.

[@eddiegolden6972]

There isn’t a lot of science fiction horror material in film? 🤨

[@unstopitable]

Holy shit. You're not kidding.

[@arthurweise2573]

Kutners dark world just ok, C.L.Moore wrote this with him.

[@b.a.7228]

Merritt has rare qualities, but irksome deficiencies; however, there are images in each of his works that will stay with you.

[@davea136]

_Dragon's Egg_ A very odd book. It is like Vinge's _A Deepness In The Sky_ in that I very quickly sympathised with the aliens, I think because their world was so completely and convincingly fleshed out. I liked the aliens so much that I immediately sought out _Starquake_.

[@johnwashburn6118]

Cool, I was starting to feel bad for your non Patreon members, LOL.

[@SciFiScavenger]

I don't get the excitement of spending 3hrs+ in a bookstore when you're intending to flip the vast majority of the books. It would make me sad, i think. It's actually a moot point, I'd want to keep them all! Great haul, and they look to be in great condition too. Good luck with the auction. 👍

[@Bookpilled]

In a world of unlimited space and unlimited money, I would keep them all.

[@SciFiScavenger]

@Bookpilled 100%, I know, I know. In a total contradiction of what I just said, been making some room on my shelves by selling a few dozen books myself! 🤷‍♂️

[@msopinion11]

Alot of the excitement comes from seeing these legendary books and authors on shelves when you spot a name or an author then you peer up to see its an early print or a hard cover or cover art you've only ever seen online and it's in great condition you wonder where it came from how it got here why you're the first to see it. You can tell he enjoys the genre foremost but alot of it is appreciating the times the art the ideas and he gets to share that with an audience and put another great book on his platform it'd be impossible to read each one but he may hope you might.

[@SciFiScavenger]

@msopinion11 yeah fair enough. Certainly I'd have been like a kid in a sweetshop in Matt's position. When a collection drops like that it is a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and there's a thrill in that for sure!

[@LACaradoc]

How do we find your discord?

[@Bookpilled]

discord.gg/AV3rR5p77P

[@LACaradoc]

Thank you!

[@Tetsujin-28]

HeroineB0b just had a birthday Wnot auction and made "Matt Rockstar Money" (known as MRM in the book community) with the SF Masterworks books she picked up. Always great to see new content.#ButtFace

[@Bookpilled]

That's awesome, she deserves it.

[@jpb10]

bp is giddy

[@shannonm.townsend1232]

This gave me a contact high

[@SillyGoose-ism]

Nudist Wiccan Flare. New band name. Called it!

[@MrBiff-ys8ff]

I could never be a patreon to someone who doesn't think "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is one of the best sci-fi books ever produced by Western culture....

[@bookjack]

Sorry but that book is trash

[@Unpotted]

@@bookjack One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. (I haven’t read it, though. 🤔)

[@mike-williams]

Many of the titles and covers are familiar to me in Australia, where we have been the beneficiary of both US and UK titles for generations. The illustrator of the Tolkien volume is Pauline Baynes who is most famous for illustrating C.S. Lewis' Narnia books , but she worked with Tolkien first. There is a website dedicated to her.

[@timyo6288]

I can't read

[@thedumbdog1964]

Salute

[@RileyWah]

You’re about to make yourself a lot of money sir, i will be damned if anyone out bids me on the books that I’m choosing

[@sethball2475]

I hope you GOG yourself one day…I mentioned it a while ago when recommending stuff to you after your experience with The Night Land. Votes, also, for spending time with: Rogue Moon, The Face in the Abyss, anything Margaret St. Clair (but you knew that already), and even Fire Pattern (which is actually an interesting novel to read, if one liked the structure of The Palace of Eternity, and one wants to experience something like that all over again, though perhaps with weaker results).

[@Bookpilled]

Gonna get GOGGED

[@Sticks_And_Glue]

bro is drinking a la croix

[@stephenmorton8017]

gad-ZOOKS!

[@disconnected22]

Well, I’m depressed

[@iain2298]

You are trying to take all my money Matthew, aren't you

[@zetectic7968]

An embarrassment of riches - easy to see how you spent over 3 hours in the book shop.

[@newyardleysinclair9960]

I like the book aspect. Just not the genre. Scifi is boring to me. For a genre without any rules its mighty predictable

[@arthurweise2573]

Books are scarce because no one wants to read them. Tanith Lee is boring. Leigh Brackett is good but the books you have not so much.

[@zachzackzak]

I don't think thrift flipping is inherently bad but the idea of buying up large portions of former collections to disperse them via auction makes me sad lol

[@thestorymerchant28]

Boo!

[@jupiter7x7]

Agree

[@TBRKyle]

The only type of flipping that makes me see a little red is when dudes go to library sales and grab up hundreds of books before anyone else can even look at them. If I see a book on an auction site has a library stamp, I pass on it. Why encourage that?

[@richardbloemenkamp8532]

It appears to me that he is doing a good thing. Buying many individual books as an expert, advertising them on internet so anyone can have a look and finally auctioning them starting very low, so that anyone can have a go. I think this way quite a few of these book may get read again instead of ending up in boxes, on shelfs or worse. If he can make some money off of it then I'm very happy for him and he deserves it.

[@zachzackzak]

​@@richardbloemenkamp8532 That's a really good point. Also saves them from being pulped

[@Dealwithit515]

Lord of Light is highly highly overrated.