Vintage SF Paperback Hodgepodge:RGBIB 406

[@timmclain375]

Loved the covers on those editions of Pohl-Kornbluth from Ballantine. The artwork really jumped out at me from the newsstand and i bought them all. Inventive s-f that's fun to read even now.

[@Scottmbradfield]

Me too. I still have them all. I loved when Ballantine did this uniform sets...s

[@nickdolan3741]

Scott, long-time listener, first-time caller. I'm 2/3ds through Disch's The Priest on your enthusiastic recommendation in baths gone by. It's like if Ken Russell wrote novels. Wicked, campy in that delicious post-Wilde gay way, and palpably written by somebody brilliant. Happy for you that you got to know him, and grateful to you for sharing -- I don't mean just about Disch, but your own ample charms and intelligence, in video after video. Best wishes to Lucky and the Bradfields' soft, soft, ankles.

[@Scottmbradfield]

Thanks for stopping by, Nick! I love THE PRIEST, probably his most perfect novel. I loved THE SUB almost as much. Watching Tom evicerate the Catholic Church is almost too much fun. s

[@donaldkelly3983]

One of the first science fiction stories I read was "The Marching Morons" by Kornbluth. And now that you point it out, the line between him and Scheckley is clear. I discovered Brian Aldiss with a copy of Last Orders and read all his short fiction I could find. This addiction was only worsened by the movie AI, which got me reading Supertoys Last All Summer Long. Cryptozoic is on my read it soon list. Burgess wasn't a "novelist", just an often cranky Englishman with a lot of opinions. That's why I enjoy his non fiction and think his fiction is spotty.

[@Scottmbradfield]

Those long stories are great especially MORONS, one of the greatest long stories of all time. s

[@excelsiorathletic]

I love Greybeard

[@Scottmbradfield]

It's really good. NON STOP and HOTHOUSE are other faves.

[@larrycarr4562]

Bush wacking, and dry gulching are somewhat forgotten and ignored skills, it takes a hodgepodge episode to remind us of stories too often overlooked… that’s a roundabout (another 🛁 term) way to encourage WR Burnett and Ralph Dennis, on you and your readers. One famous but forgotten, the other totally unknown, but posthumously rediscovered (google RD), both deserving a new audience.

[@Scottmbradfield]

Yeah I'll take Burnett into the tub again soon... as I recall, the novels are a lot different than the movies based on them? s

[@larrycarr4562]

@@Scottmbradfield give It’s Always Four O’Clock a shot por favor… writing about jazz and musicians not easy… and he does it remarkably well… in addition to all the books and screenplays… he dabbled in songwriting as a hobby. His writing is very direct and to the point and authentic.