Their Back Room Was Full Of Rare Science Fiction Books

[@joseelacasse3189]

Rules are made to be broken. Call me hedonistic, but when you have found a passion and are not hurting anyone, I say: go for it

[@chuck3379]

The green cover on Starship Troopers is my favorite one. I found almost 30 DAW books at an estate sale Friday for 75 cents each. I was pretty damn happy about that!

[@JackMyersPhotography]

That first copy of Zanzibar, what a neat looking book. I have a first edition hardback of dangerous visions which I definitely cherish. Nude beefcake had me totally rolling!

[@AllisonRoadWest]

Those Vonda books kicks azz - read ‘‘em and review ‘em. Another great haul thanks for sharing.

[@ChrisHoppe-wordmeme]

Dangerous Visions....what a find! Great & rare in paperback. As a recovering catholic, I recommend A Canticle For Leibowitz. Tone-perfect, fine in so many ways....

[@waltera13]

1- I *never* see Jack Vance in the wild. 2- Great Dick haul, and a lot are in that same (newer) series that you already have a few books in. Bonus! 3- Hiero's Journey is great, SF, AND really original. Seems like a keeper. (Although SFBC edition) 4- Spellsinger series is supposed to be great, a hidden gem. 5 - Uplift War books show up all the time in the churn. 6 - Anyone ( like yourself) who is on a journey to read widely across genre fiction and come to understand it should read one book from the GOR series, if only to prove to yourself that you need never touch another one ever again.

[@awabooks9886]

Another haul for the ages 🤗 ...and Blindsight by Watts is melting my brain! I have to keep putting it down so I can cope with the input overload. Zoiks!

[@waltera13]

FYI - most of the mass market paperback editions of Dangerous Visions were broken into multiple volumes b/c A) it'd be WAY too big and B) no publisher was giving you *that* many stories for the price of one paperback! If it says volume 1 it's probably not the whole book (ie: 34 stories, 2 forwards and an introduction) STILL, totally cool. Just figured you'd want to know.

[@Bookpilled]

It's long as hell and doesn't actually say volume one. Maybe it's the whole shebang

[@waltera13]

@@Bookpilled I hope so! That's why i gave you the contents count.😁

[@Catweazled]

Some absolute gems there.

[@immortal2u]

Matt, I really have to thank you again. Although I’ve always been a hardcore reader /book lover , it just never occurred to me to try selling books, sci-fi in particular. I don’t find a lot, but I am making fantastic money on what I am finding. Looking for vintage sci-fi is part of my weekly ritual now, thanks to you. High water mark so far - a stash of signed, first edition William Gibson hard backs..

[@Bookpilled]

Oh wow, what a find. Congrats on that and on finding success with selling.

[@forenichtreader]

Some great finds, particularly the vintage PKD. So many of his books can be hard to find in the wild, as they get bought really quickly when they appear. There were news stories a couple of years ago about a planned movie version of Vulcan's Hammer, but I don't know if anything came of it.

[@space_patrolman]

In love with that cover of The World Jones Made

[@terminalman1795]

I was about to comment that you must have a thousand dollar tab racked up before you got to the amended rules lol. Received the copy of City I bought in the last auction tonight... looks amazing on the shelf I love it. There was stiff competition but I was ready for a fight and I believed in myself and never gave up and managed to come out with a W. If anyone reading this hasn't joined a live auction yet I highly recommend it, they are tons of fun. Another insane haul, can't wait for the next auction. Thanks for doing these. All I ever find when I go out are 500 beat to shit copies of Enders Game and 1984 so I'm sure I also speak for others who enjoy battling over the deer carcasses.

[@Bookpilled]

I get a lot of roadkill myself. I am very stoked for this haul. I wish you good luck on the killing fields Monday.

[@MrDiego0000170796]

Memoirs found in a bathtub is maybe Lem at his most kafkaesque, not my favorite of his, but the prologue alone is worth those 5 bucks

[@cassfonnesbeck8057]

I'm so glad you changed your rules. Awesome finds!!!

[@LeonardoFox-e9s]

Good afternoon good to see you back with another fantastic book haul doing a good job!.

[@davidgifford8112]

I’ve watch several of your “book sale” hordes now. However it’s the first time my eyebrows raised. In all my decades as a SF reader that was the first copy of Dangerous Visions I had ever seen!

[@DavideMana]

The Hiero series is really good. And despite the naked guy on the orca, West of January is a very interesting concept, nicely developed, and Duncan was an excellent writer, who did mostly fantasy.

[@bilcal]

I read a hardback copy the Humanoids by Jack Williamson way back in junior high. One of my favorites. Surprised to see it in paperback.

[@salty-walt]

I'm pretty sure it was expanded from the short story version that's in the SF Hall of Fame Vol 1. Solid story / Golden Age thought experiment.

[@bilcal]

@@salty-walt Yes, it was titled: With Folded Hands. John Campbell encouraged Williamson to expand the story. I was glad that Williamson revisited the book with a sequel The Humanoid Touch several years ago. I liked it but it didn't have the same umph as reading the first volume 30 years before! 😉 I always wanted to see what Clay Forrester and Jane Carter would do in their perfected world out beyond the reach of the rhodomagnetic humanoids! 😀

[@ThePlumbum1]

Dave Duncan was great. Maybe a little too sword and sorcery for you. He passed away a few years ago.

[@jumpingjohnflash]

The only Dave Duncan series I've read was "The Great Game" - not really sword and sorcery at all - kind of a war/fantasy mix with a bit of SF thrown in for good measure ; I've not read anything else quite like it. although I did enjoy reading it. He's definitely easy to read (in a good way).

[@adamrichter9599]

“When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.” -- Erasmus. Sweet haul. I've gotten into Simak lately from watching your channel... recently read "All Flesh is Grass" (sentient plants from the multiverse with an agenda) and "Special Deliverance" (a talking slot machine transports a college professor to another world, with mysteries to be solved). I've mostly been getting ebooks recently, since I've found that a lot of vintage sci-fi is frequently on sale for a steal (often only 2 or 3 bucks), but I really like watching your hauls, and seeing the actual original physical copies and their covers.

[@wtk6069]

Simak has long been a favorite of mine. Besides "City", my favorites from him are "Way Station", "Cemetary World", and "Why Call Them Back From Heaven?", which is thematically timely these days.

[@sirvazo1633]

A very nice version of The Dying Earth. Never seen that cover before.

[@whiskeysunset4481]

Now you made me jealous of the copy of Ubik. Super great haul you've got a new subber

[@salty-walt]

Super Jelly!

[@sethball2475]

I think Vulcan’s Hammer has always been Vulcan’s Hammer. On the other hand, I am almost positive The Cosmic Rape and To Marry Medusa are the same book. Great line up of terrific books.

[@bradleyreed8876]

I'm not positive, but I think Jack Vance's Anome and The Faceless Man are the same book too.

[@localmo88]

Incredible haul, the pkd Jones cover is brilliant. Well done

[@CharlesBAJD]

"Hiero's Journey" and "The Unforsaken Hiero" are two of my favorites from back in the day. I still have my original copy of Journey that I bought in the mid 70s. Mr. Lanier never finished the planned third volume of the trilogy.

[@dylanho8608]

Love these 70s Sci-Fi covers, they don't make them like that anymore.

[@breenyoung4986]

Don't be fooled by the cover. West Of January is a great book! A fun read.

[@HiroProtagonistak]

I'm not a book collector because I travel so all my books are digital. I happen to go into an book store in Tennessee and picked up a box of 36 Lone Wolf books from the 80's. All 31 are there with a few dups 70% haven't been written. They're D&D style books from my past so I was really excited to find them. Those little towns with book stores can be the best.

[@peterm.fitzpatrick7735]

"Dangerous Visions" was perhaps the foundationally "new wave" collection in America, but I think it had already been established in London, with the Moorcock-Ballard- publications in magazine form already publishing "new wave" experimentalism in science fiction writing.

[@DamnableReverend]

Impressive. Especially impressed with all the Jack events titles. I haven't read it yet, might do later this year, but Emphyrio is supposedly one of his best standalone books.

[@RichardLaurence]

One thing that I’ve learned from collecting books and postal history is that you really, really need to protect books from light. Paperbacks were generally printed on cheap paper, so deteriorate rapidly in bright light. Even normal room light will fade spines. If possible, keep them in the dark!

[@boromirjonah5774]

I have read "practice effect" and "stand on zanzibar". Gordon R Dickson is one of my favorites. Wish these guys were still writing.

[@outlawbookselleroriginal]

Matt, you should retain 'Scop', it's a pretty uncommon book full stop - and that is JFK on the cover. You should also retain the Lem - those A format editions are prized among Lem nuts (like me) as most of his work has been in ugly trade paperbacks since then. Now, it's in handsome trades from MIT and some awful ones from HBJ. 'Vulcan's Hammer' is being made into a film currently, so hang onto it. It's minor, but fun. It's not a variant title as someone else below says. Kuttner is ace. 'The Humanoids' is seminal, but reads like a kids' book, but I like it. Very nice 'Superluminal', that, I covet it. Remember the rule that if I reckon you should keep it, you're allowed to! Look after yourself, man.

[@salty-walt]

My comment disappeared after I reported the porn spam. Now I'm sad. Still, a lot of books too sexy to sell cheap.

[@ernestschultz5065]

Empherio is probably Jack Vance's most "literary" novel. That DAW cover is striking but grossly inaccurate. He is without doubt my favorite author of any kind.

[@pieceofcake5314]

Good taste!

[@JS-to2ve]

Totally agree.

[@johnriley4320]

“Nightwings” is awesome.

[@polArtBear1]

FYI "To Marry Medusa" and "The Cosmic Rape" are the same book with different titles. Same for "Synthetic Man" which is also an alternative title to "The Dreaming Jewel". I can't wait to see you get into Sturgeon... from what I can tell of your taste I think you are going to love his work. Another brilliant voice from that era which is sadly rarely mentioned. For trivia he also wrote the best Star Trek episode 🖖

[@stephenwalker2924]

No. ' The City on the Edge of Forever' by Harlan Ellison is the best Star Trek episode, I think you'll find.

[@polArtBear1]

​@@stephenwalker2924 You are right, "The City..." is really good, but to each his own I guess. I personally really like "Amok Time". Of course many others think "Space seed" is the best... I guess we are spoilt for choice !

[@stephenwalker2924]

@@polArtBear1 Yeah. You are right. I really like Wolf in the Fold and Charlie X as well. And the one were they are all cowboys...Spectre of the Gun?

[@arekkrolak6320]

I also have this problem of buying too many books, but now I visit a local library and borrow books from there :)

[@mukthadirali6672]

Good afternoon good to see you back with another fantastic book haul doing a good job!.

[@sonic31century1]

Minute 3: 43 "I've gotten more _Dicks_ out of this Bookshop than I have anywhere else. " --Sounds like you had a really good time there if you are into that kind of thing.

[@chuckbridgeland6181]

That edition of Day of the Triffids was, I'm pretty sure, the first SF paperback I bought for myself, back around 1967. "Donald Kingsbury, who I don't recognize." -- long career, but very low output. Probably best known for the novel "Courtship Rite". (And for never finishing "Finger Pointing Solward".) Still alive, AFAIK, but in his 90s. Van Vogt -- an acquired taste. Once upon a time I read a lot of him. Note -- he tended to recycle a lot of stuff into fixit novels, so don't be surprised to see familiar material repeated.

[@BenjaminMarra]

Man. Those Vance editions.

[@pixilixy]

I found your channel via Shades of orange and love it!

[@Bookpilled]

Welcome. Did she mention me in a video?

[@benja6902]

The Real Story (first in the 5-part Gap Cycle) is not great, but the remaining books get really good after that.

[@AllisonRoadWest]

+1 - the rape themes and character arc are challenging but you are correct the world building and adventure is so good once it gets going. Not a series of books that could be written in today’s world…. But a worthy read.

[@greggjake]

Been watching your channel. Got some good recommendations. Liked that you did not like 3 Body Problem. I was wondering if you have read and would review Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan series...starts with "Shards of Honor" I'd be curious about what you think. Thanks

[@wordfullyyours]

I love those old books.

[@liberationtheurgywithdr.na831]

The Languages of Pao by Vance has an interesting premise.

[@pnptcn]

Buy books, read books. Maybe even sell some books. Forget about rules. Buy books, read books.

[@thecryptile]

Donald Kingsbury is someone you never hear about, grimdark sf along the lines of Donaldson. I've read three of his books. His own original Courtship Rite, and The Survivor and The Heroic Legend of Lt. Nora Argamentine set in Larry Niven's Man Kzin Wars. He didn't write a lot but it's great stuff.

[@myrarucker7953]

Ok! I heard the music! Haha haha 😛

[@myrarucker7953]

Oh! I read the two and half the 3 novel in the Vance book. I liked the first two. I’m going back and finish later. Promise!! Haha

[@peterpuleo2904]

Toward the end you showed an anthology including Algernon Blackwood as one of the authors. He is best known for supernatural horror. His two absolute best short stories are "The Wendigo" and "The Willows". Old school, creepy, elegant, but easy to read.

[@personmcpersonperson2893]

i find videos like these to be highly entertaining

[@elliotwalton6159]

These are books you just don't see in the Toronto area anymore. Some i haven't seen since the 1970s. the PKD's are a real find.

[@jumpingjohnflash]

When I was teenager I bought a UK collection of Henry Kuttner short stories called "The Proud Robot" - and laughed myself silly, the stories were so funny. I've kept that book and read it many times since. Alan Dean Foster's "Spellsinger" series is not "great literature" but it is good escapist reading with some humour too as the spellsinger literally sings song as spells and Foster gets some great moments out of the choices of then current pop/rock hits used and the sometimes unintended results they cause. I've not read Gordon R Dickson's non-Dorsai stories, but absolutely devoured that series as it came out. The Dorsai series is probably a forerunner of modern "military SF", but is far better than most of the jingoistic rubbish published under that rubric these days.

[@Parker307]

Watching these books being flipped around makes me curious about the edge treatments of books. It seem like there was a period where red or green page edges was very popular. I wonder is this a solely aesthetic thing(I"m guessing probably) or was there also some function to having that color on the edges. Maybe it allow them to use different paper or something.

[@Scottlp2]

Kuttner and Eric Frank Russell aren’t mentioned enough, but both are great.

[@SignorNessuno65]

Love seeing all the books without the UPC code!

[@chnlnine]

Ahhh!!! you found Ubik and you're keeping it!!! aaaaahhh!!! good man, I'm joking with the "aaahh's" ... I love that book so much and it was my first PKD .. I just had to spring for the Folio edition. So strange and beautiful. Please announce if you ever change your mind and end up selling it. I must now find me some Vance!

[@davidmicalizio824]

Have you read any William H. Keith Jr?

[@jamaicaigot9335]

Loved this video! are you on audea? most of my audio is consumed there and would appreciate the audio version of your content on that platform.

[@rolandoalvaradoflores]

Very good books on the first box. On the second not so good. I like that "Dangerous visions" edition

[@damobdaking]

Silly question - Have you read "The Complete Ballard of Halo Jones "? One of the best science fiction comics ever written, in MHO

[@jonswift6173]

Great haul. That will keep you busy!

[@tekrocker]

If you angle your light source slightly, that would eliminate the glare and your viewers could actually see what you're holding up to the camera!

[@sandubaciu5656]

Try to find Jacques Sadoul the SF History, the English edition. One of the best anthology from my reads, but was the French edition

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

I love that there’s galaxy-brain-level stipulations for your challenge now. 😂 But I like that you’re not foregoing the joy that collecting brings you! The only Jack Vance I’ve read is Bad Ronald, which was a horror thriller rather than sci-fi, but it was really good!

[@mauricemcley4743]

I would like to plug Robert A Heinlein. Starship Troopers good book BAD movie. But later I saw some good things in the movie, but only superficially the same plot. I recommend The Past Through the Future (a lot in it. Really enjoyed his predictions)

[@BooksForever]

Build yourself wall-to-wall floor-to-ceiling shelving and revel in the GROWTH of your personal library. That should be your “rule”… to rule over this realm of literature like the master of your own domain. Cheers.

[@thecryptile]

I have that Bantam edition of Canticle, nice haul

[@michaelgarza6735]

Keep all of the Jack Vance! The Faceless Man and The Anome are 2/3 of the Durdane trilogy. Maske: Thaery is one of my personal all-time favorites. Showboat World is set in the same world as Big Planet, but there are no characters in common. Showboat World has a lot of great Vance tropes. That copy of Dying Earth is the one I had growing up. Does it have a cigarette at bound in?

[@michaelgarza6735]

Cigarette advertisement

[@johnrobinson4445]

"The most significant anthology in SF history..." Now there is an argument-starter lol If you are talking about influence on other writers then Heinlein wins, hands down. If you are limiting it to anthologies then, fine, The Past Through Tomorrow. These stories are rewritten Heinlein classics that basically taught a whole generation to respect science fiction as serious fiction, which is why he was the first SF writer to appear in any mainstream literary magazine. Thus did he create a whole new generation of writers, readers, and scientists.

[@bobkeane7966]

I believe Dangerous Visions includes A Boy and His Dog

[@donaldb1]

_UBIK_ is phenomenal, absolutely my favourite of Dick's books.

[@E111SJ]

Awesome finds man. I never find Dick's books.

[@templemask43]

3:42

[@mcd3379]

Careful mate........this is how it starts. You rock up to buy a few books, and then before you know it, you are walking away with a couple of boxes full of books. Then you have rooms full of books, and are trying to explain to your girlfriend why you have multiple copies of the same book.....and then you're hooked.

[@jumperpoint]

Ora:cle wasn't a bad book. The problem and solution were slightly implausible, but it was a good story with some good world building.

[@HonkyBonky]

3:40 yoikes.

[@isaiahweaver159]

Phew, five bucks a pop? I might have to abstain from the next auction so I don’t take away too many $1 books from you this time :) But man that busted up Dream Master and the anthologies are calling my name!

[@katherinegarcia3256]

I want to get all of PKD books also Asimov's books I know thats alot alot of books. I can't believe you're paying $5 for used paperbacks. Where I live used paperbacks are 50 cents and hard backs are $1. Most of what I get looks brand new. Also love the videos

[@Bookpilled]

I usually don't spend that much on books but these were worth it

[@joncarroll2040]

I think all copies of the Dream Master are busted.... I have one in almost the exact same condition. Different cover though

[@apilgrim8715]

West of January is your winner there.

[@KeytarArgonian]

Can anyone give me any information on the Gorr books, saved a bunch of them from going to the dump from my wife’s uncle (who has a disgustingly awesome collection of books (including a pretty mint 1st Ed Silmarillion I’m hoping to buy off him) including I believe Beasts of Gorr I’ll have to double check what I have.

[@donaldb1]

I have not read _Vulcan's Hammer_ but I believe it is a less well regarded Dick book.

[@emsleywyatt3400]

Scop is about the JFK assassination, it is JFK on the cover.

[@senojor]

How did you get so lucky!

[@bookfantastic]

Vulcan's Hammer is not an alternate title. Read it now. Do not hesitate.

[@williamhenderson8638]

Love your channel you got me interested back into Sci fi. I like dystopian books so u said robert silverberg rhe world inside is awesome. It's on the way, but now I am hesitant because I am almost through book of skulls and either there is something i am not getting or understanding but the plot is awesome but I am almost to the end and Waiting for some payoff and I hope there is because I found most of the book just fill er, and what is with all the bad sex. Just not appealing so far. Have you read brian Evans on? IMMOBILITY AND LAST DAYS ARE VERY ORIGINAL.

[@donovanmedieval]

Why don't you call your channel "The Sci Fireplace"?

[@PalimpsestProd]

Ubik is the worst thing I've ever read by PK Dick, I have no idea why it's recommended so much.

[@doublestarships646]

How the hell do you find these hauls???

[@Bookpilled]

Cunning and panache

[@doublestarships646]

@@Bookpilled lol omg.