Book Hauls!

[Culhwch]

The Locus Awards - 30 years of the best in SF and Fantasy in MMPB. Authors include Ted Chiang, Neil Gaiman, John Crowley, Gene Wolfe, Ursual K Le Guin, George RR Martin, James Tiptree Jr., Greg Egan, Johh Varley, Bruce Sterling, Octavia E. Butler, Lucius Sheppard and Connie Willis to name just a few. Read bits and pieces but plan to tackle these over the New Year.

I just recently picked this one up too, mainly for the Gaiman and the Martin. Haven't tackled it yet, though. Let me know what you think as you get through them, Gollum....

 

[GOLLUM]

I just recently picked this one up too, mainly for the Gaiman and the Martin. Haven't tackled it yet, though. Let me know what you think as you get through them, Gollum....

Shall do...

 

[Sea Princess]

Beyond the Dragon Sea by Melissa Lumley

 

[Sea Princess]

Okay, I confess......I cheated a bit there, ok may be a lot... Beyond the Dragon Sea is my own novel. But I did have to buy a copy myself so it really is the latest book I bought. I just hope that someone else other that my mother and I buy copies! It has received some really good reviews in the press and I even had an email from Elizabeth Emanuel about it, because the royalties go to charity. So here's hoping.

 

[Jay]

Daniel Abraham's A Shadow in Summer, the first book in The Long Price Quartet

 

[Rosemary]

Okay, I confess......I cheated a bit there, ok may be a lot... Beyond the Dragon Sea is my own novel. But I did have to buy a copy myself so it really is the latest book I bought. I just hope that someone else other that my mother and I buy copies! It has received some really good reviews in the press and I even had an email from Elizabeth Emanuel about it, because the royalties go to charity. So here's hoping.

Never mind about the cheating I am glad to hear you had some good reviews...I wonder if we shall see a copy of it over here?

 

[Jay]

Today I received:

Silver Screen by Justina Robson
Tides by Scott Mackay
Context by John Meaney

 

[rune]

Ive bought a couple of books

Vampire War and Vampire Destiny by Darren Shan

 

[the_faery_queen]

a book written (or edited) by angela carter, about adult fairy tales
and a dictonry. exciting stuff, but as you can see, i clearly NEED a dictionary!

 

[hedgeknight]

Went to the used book story on the 27th and found some dandy reads - Mark Anthony's Beyond the Pale, and the trade paperback edition of the Belgariad - by Eddings - both volumes like new! (I know you folks think Eddings is a hack of low-brow fantasy, but I loved it years ago and am glad to get the complete series in two large volumes! So there! Pffffftttt!)
Also picked up the second book of the new John Marco series (as a free books since I spent 10 bucks in the store!).
-g-

 

[nixie]

Nothing wrong with Eddings early works, they're fun and easy to read.The problem is he just recycled it into his later works.Mind you have to admit I'm determined to finish The Elder Gods even if it is complete tosh.

 

[nixie]

Couldn't resist pre-ordering R Scott Bakker's Thousandfold Thought,ordered from the States as it's out there about 3 weeks before here

 

[kaneda]

Just finished Anasi boys by gaiman and bought smoke and mirrors by him today (already broke my new year resolutions of not buying anymore books until I finished the ones on my shelf )

 

[GOLLUM]

Form another post...

Sticking to new books I swung by Borders again today to use another of my book vouchers and ended up with a copy of Selected (Short) Stories Of HG Wells (selected with notes by Ursula Le Guin).

This features 26 of the best short stories by HG Wells, which I'm betting the majority of people would'nt have read or may even know of. For me this book I just happened upon screamed TAKE ME HOME, so like what could I say especially with a free voucher on hand..

It's part of the Modern Library Classics and has a strikingly beautiful cover. The stories are divided by Le Guin into: Visionary Science Fiction, Technical and Predictive Science Fiction, Horror Stories, Fantasies, Fables and Psycho-Social Science Fiction.

I look very much forward to dipping into these stories over January let me tell you..

I've now picked up today in the local shopping center's book clearance sale Fantasy Masterworks No. 24: The Second Book Of Lankmahr by Fritz Leiber featuring further misadventures of that sword and sorcery odd couple Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser for $5. That's $5 Aussie = $3.75 in US dollars folks and that's for a near perfect condition unused copy.

 

[ravenus]

Had a nice little haul today during an official trip to Pune, a small city near Bombay. This was at a very low-key book sale (apparently they can't afford to advertise, I was the only person browsing there for more an hour and a half) and I got them for very cheap prices.

3-novel collection (Book of Skulls, Nightwings and Dying Inside) - Robert Silverberg
Hungry Moon- Ramsey Campbell
Cunning - Robert Bloch

Also got 3 books of the Elric series by Michael Moorcock (Sailor on the Seas of Fate, Bane of the Black Sword and Stormbringer). I normally stay clear of sword and sorcery and multi-volume sagas but got these for the following reasons:
1) JP has repeatedly recommended Moorcock (they better not turn out to be fairy stories or I'll have bloody vengeance )
2) The stories are short and supposedly self-contained so I don't have to fill in the gaps
3) these were really cheap.

 

[chrispenycate]

Had a nice little haul today during an official trip to Pune, a small city near Bombay. This was at a very low-key book sale (apparently they can't afford to advertise, I was the only person browsing there for more an hour and a half) and I got them for very cheap prices.

3-novel collection (Book of Skulls, Nightwings and Dying Inside) - Robert Silverberg
Hungry Moon- Ramsey Campbell
Cunning - Robert Bloch

Also got 3 books of the Elric series by Michael Moorcock (Sailor on the Seas of Fate, Bane of the Black Sword and Stormbringer). I normally stay clear of sword and sorcery and multi-volume sagas but got these for the following reasons:
1) JP has repeatedly recommended Moorcock (they better not turn out to be fairy stories or I'll have bloody vengeance )
2) The stories are short and supposedly self-contained so I don't have to fill in the gaps
3) these were really cheap.

I read the Elric of Menilboné books when they first came out, and still remember significant quantities of the plots, suggesting they must have had something going for them.The most significant point for me was that it wasn't a battle of good against evil, so that good could win at the end all cheer, surprise, surprise, but order against chaos, if either wins it's a catastrophe, death by stasis or death by instability, and while Elric represents both and is sort of a hero, what he really is is a fulcrum on which creation attempts to find a balance.

 

[Jay]

I recently received an anthology edited by Lou Anders, Future Shocks, that has stories by some of my favorites like Paul di Filippo, Adam Roberts, Chris Roberson, Robert Charles Wilson, Paul Melko, Resnick, and Robert J Sawyer among othedr, and something called Changelings, a new series by Anne Mccaffery and Elizabeth Scarborough.


I'm not one of those people that run out an buy a book that because an author I enjoy blurbs something positive about it, but Kelly Link was pimping a couple of books when I interviewed her and I'm figuring someone that talented as a writer, not to mention an editor/owner of a press that doesn't publish anything but quality, might know what the hell she is talking about so I scooped up these:


Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill (which Matt Cheney was also pimping)
Times Like These by Rahcel Ingalls
The Melancholy of Anatomy by Shelly Jackson
[SIZE=-1]Something to Write Home Aboutby Rachel Ingalls[/SIZE]

 

[Jay]

Elantris by Bradon Sanderson

Starship: Mutiny by Michael Resnick

Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint

 

[littlemissattitude]

I discovered a used book store about two blocks from my place here. While they mostly have mainstream novels, mysteries, and romance novels, they do have a nifty little SF/Fantasy section and a small non-fiction section. I came away with three books on my first visit:

The Crust of the Earth, edited by Samuel Rapport and Helen Wright. This is billed on the cover as "A popular introduction to geology". The thing is, it was published in 1955 and is, as far as I can tell, a first printing (it's a Signet paperback). So, it is completely out of date as regards facts, but I've always loved "period" science books. The best thing I've seen in it so far is an article by J.L.B. Smith (a reprint of a 1939 article), who first described the living coelacanth, in which he concludes by stating, completely seriously, that it is his opinion that the discovery of the coelecanth makes it more likely that there are sea serpents (he puts the term in quotes) lurking in the deep.

Citizen of the Galaxy, by Robert A. Heinlein. I first read this book when I was around 8 or 9 years old, so I had to pick it up.

The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe. To replace the copy I had to leave behind when I moved.

 

[Redactor]

The other day I picked up a first edition, hardcover, dustjacketed copy of Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates for six dollars.