Book Hauls!

[GOLLUM]

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

OH well done, that's a classic of the Genre and a first edition hardcover is a nice get indeed...

 

[polymorphikos]

I bought Elric of Melinibone' by Michael Moorcock, because people are always going-on about Elric and the cover-art was simple but gorgeous, and The City of the Beast by same because it had an exciting excerpt about the back about fighting the aforementioned beast, and promised Burroughesque Mars-based sojourning.

 

[rune]

Got Imperial Spy by Mark Robson

 

[Culhwch]

I picked up The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker in a bargain bin. Tried it before and I couldn't get into it, but I thought I might as well pick it up on the cheap to tackle again at my leisure. Also got Jeff VanderMeer's City of Saints and Madmen, also at a rock-bottom price. Looking forward to getting into that one.

 

[GOLLUM]

WOW! two excellent buys you've done very well there mate...

 

[Jay]

Engaging the Enemy by Elizabeth Moon
Shriek: an afterword by Jeff Vandermeer
Savage Messiah by Robert Newcomb (possibly the worst employed author in major publishing history)
Magic Seeds by V.S NaiPaul

 

[murphy]

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.


(snip)

Changelings is a contuation of a previous series by these 2 authors, Powers that Be, Power Lines and Power Plays. They were pretty good reads. I have Changelings in in TBR pile. Haven't gotten to it yet.

 

[littlemissattitude]

As always when I go to the library, I checked the "for sale" shelves. Found two, for twenty-five cents each. Not bad considering.

The First American: A Story of North American Archaeology, by C. W. Ceram (a hardback first edition, with original dust jacket, published 1971) - a popular account of archaeology in North America up until it was written. I had a paperback copy of this for years, then had to leave it behind when I moved, so I was really happy to find this for sale.

Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK?, by Mark Lane (paperback first edition 1992) - written by one of the best known of the conspiracy theorists. Don't know how credible he is, but I'm fascinated by books on the Kennedy assassination, so I had to have this one for my library.

 

[Jay]

Changelings is a contuation of a previous series by these 2 authors, Powers that Be, Power Lines and Power Plays. They were pretty good reads. I have Changelings in in TBR pile. Haven't gotten to it yet.

Thanks for the info, I have it in the slush pile!

 

[Allanon]

15 gemmel books

 

[Rane Longfox]

15 gemmel books

Wow..... why?

I haven't bought a book for nearly two months now. I'm so proud of myself...

 

[Jay]

Treason by Orson Scott Card

 

[Jay]

Last Week's Apocalypse by Douglas Lain
Geodesica by Sean williams and Shane Dix
Shadows in the Starlight by Elaine Cunningham
The Queen in Winter (collection includes Sarah Monette, Sharon Shinn, Lynn Kurland, and Claire Delacroix)

 

[Adasunshine]

I just got a bargain.

First Edition copy of Merlin by Robert Nye in good to fine condition (now out of print) for £1.99 on eBay! Doesn't get much better than that!!!

xx

 

[Jay]

Count Zero by William Gibson
The Sword of Straw by Amanda Hemingway
The Greenstone Grail by Amanda Hemingway
Resenting the Hero by Moira Moore
Sharper than a Serpents Tooth by Simon R. Green
Black Jade by David Zindell
Crown of Stars by kate Elliot
The Draco Tavern by Larry Niven

 

[GOLLUM]

Black Jade by David Zindell

So what is David Zindell like and who does he best compare to???

I've seen a lot of his books around new and second hand and wondered.

 

[Culhwch]

I picked up a hard-bound boxset of Tolkien's Maps of Middle Earth for twelve bucks, down from seventy odd, I believe. Love a bargain....

 

[direghost]

where do you buy books at? The best place I've found is Archives but they don't have bargains like that.

 

[Thunderchild]

for a bit of a change I got the war with hannibal By Livy - I find Stuff like this similar to fanticy in sime respects

 

[direghost]

Yeah Livy is good. Herodotus IS fantasy, and reads like early De Camp or something. And Livy actually began alternate history, when he wrote something like "It's too bad Alexander didn't come towards us, or we would have destroyed him"