Heinlein Collection

[DeepThought]

Just thought I would share my meager R.A.H. collection with anyone who is interested..."

Ahhh, very envious! Heinlein is one of my favorite SF authors though I own only three of his novels...

Cheers, DeepThought

 

[Connavar]

Hehehe i own only two of his books so far and he is my favorit SF author

ST was a library book.

Next month i wont be worse than you


Wonder do you rate PKD as highly as RAH ? Saw they were your favorit sf authors in another thread.

 

[ghost8772]

well, my collection is mish mash, some old, some new, and a few anthologies. A number of paperbacks(which are in hiding right now till I can get a bookshelf set up) some hardbacks. just finished the "uncut" Stranger, though didn't see all that much difference. some extended conversations seemed about all. unless I'd gotten hold of an "uncut" and it wasn't published that way. suppose I ought to catalog what I've got these days. I THINK I still have copies of ST, have spacesuit, Rolling stones, The moon is a harsh Mistress ( a favorite), Friday, Job, number of the beast, I will fear no evil, Methusalah's children, maybe even the anthology of revolt in 2100 ( though maybe not) green hills of earth, and Time enough for love. I KNOW I have a hardback copy of Stranger ( listed as uncut) and a paperback copy which does not note if its uncut or not. I dunno maybe I'll go hunt down my books and organise them again. been getting hazy on what books I possess anymore and which were lost to chaos.

 

[DeepThought]

...Wonder do you rate PKD as highly as RAH ? Saw they were your favorit sf authors in another thread.

Indeed I do. I just find them...different from Asimov, Clark et al. (also two authors I like a lot) IMHO. Perhaps because they focus on political and philosophical matters more or it might be the controversial/taboo breaking nature of their work to the fact that their most famous novels tend to gravitate more towards being cult favorites than clear-cut mainstream SF, I just cant quite put my finger on it...but whatever the reason, I'm a huge fan of RAH & PKD.

Cheers, DeepThought

 

[Connavar]

Indeed I do. I just find them...different from Asimov, Clark et al. (also two authors I like a lot) IMHO. Perhaps because they focus on political and philosophical matters more or it might be the controversial/taboo breaking nature of their work to the fact that their most famous novels tend to gravitate more towards being cult favorites than clear-cut mainstream SF, I just cant quite put my finger on it...but whatever the reason, I'm a huge fan of RAH & PKD.

Cheers, DeepThought

Heh almost exactly why i rate them that high. Only Jack Vance can be near in my eyes and thats mostly cause i love the way he writes.

If you wanna make it simple RAH makes political SF more interesting than anyone and PKD philosiphical,social problems SF better than anyone.

I havent seen you write about PKD novels. Will be interesting to see which ones you find most interesting.

 

[DeepThought]

...RAH makes political SF more interesting than anyone and PKD philosiphical,social problems SF better than anyone.

Well put.

I havent seen you write about PKD novels. Will be interesting to see which ones you find most interesting.

Its been a long time since I've read these two but; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and A Scanner Darkly are two of my all time favorite PKD novels.

Cheers, DeepThought

 

[TTBRAHWTMG]

As you can see, I am a bit of a Heinlein fanatic. All of these are Heinlein. While there are obviously multiple printings of each work, almsot all of these are unique printings, with the exception of Job, which claims same printings but I found slight differences in cover art which I thought was interesting. These represent about 90% of my collection, the balance being actual duplicates. Sorry, can't seem to figure out how to resize picture. The bottom two shelves are two books deep. The top shelf are my favourites, with several first editions. I love the hard covers, but my favourite pieces have to be the Original Astoundings from early 1940s in the top left corner, and the original 'Worlds of If' from the 1960s also in the top left corner, including first printing of 'Moon Is a Harsh Mistress' spread over multiple volumes...December 1965, January, February, March, and April 1966).

 

[TTBRAHWTMG]

Sorry, can't seem to figure out how to resize picture.

Figured it out. Bit more reasonable size now.

 

[pdurrant]

If you has a spare $1800 ($1500 is you're in the US), you could always go for a new matched set, over at the virginaedition website. I would post a link, but I'm too new. It's the obvious one.

Tempting, but I'd really prefer an ebook collection. Of course, that I'd expect to pay less than $250 for a complete ebook collection, compared to $1800 for the leather hardbacks is also a consideration.

Sadly, no-one seems to have a complete set of his works available as ebooks yet.