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The Wide, Carnivorous Sky & Other Monstrous Geographies, by John Langan

I'm hoping to make that a near-future purchase. I really enjoyed the "On Skua Island" and "Mr. Gaunt" from his first collection -- the other 3 were less to my taste, at least at time of reading -- and I've read the title story to this and two others and they blew me away. Ditto his novel, House of Windows.

Randy M.
 
Yesterday's additions to my collection of Pre-ISBN Pan paperbacks. No SF but I was happy.
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Had my eye on this for a while now. Published by Harvard University Press out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. A survey of sf "using data from hundreds of questionnaires", sort of a book length ivy league AnLab. Should prove interesting.
 
Picked up Tolkien's Unfinished Tales yesterday, and am loving every one of them.
 
Just got my hands on a copy of Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. Should be fun.
 
Found POE: A LIFE CUT SHORT by Peter Ackroyd for a buck at the library March Madness book sale yesterday. One of his "Brief Lives" biographies.
 
Something to report... Ellison's From the Land of Fear... this looks like early Ellison; I'm interested.... I hope these are pretty much as originally published, not rewritten...
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Dale: As far as I know, these were not revised in any way; Ellison himself, in his introduction, indicates as much, as well as his ambivalence about reprinting them in the first place. I think the latter is a bit unnecessary, but I also think the bulk of the stories here are among his weaker ones, even from his earlier career. "Battle Without Banners" is an exception, as (in some ways) is "The Sky is Burning"; but what makes the collection interesting is the comparison of the original short story version of "Soldier" with the original screenplay for The Outer Limits (altered somewhat for the final shooting script), and his introduction, "Where the Stray Dreams Go", which is a very nice glimpse into some of those odd visions which either didn't come to fruition, or ended up taking a very long time (e.g., "The One Word People" became a part of the later "Try a Dull Knife")....
 
I just bought
Peter F. Hamilton's A Second Chance at Eden & Confederation Handbook
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
Consider Plebas, Player of Games & Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

Even though I am still in the middle of The Night's Dawn trilogy of Hamilton and actually still got Reynolds' Zima Blue unread.
 
A nice mixture of stuff in this haul:

Claudius the God - Robert Graves
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
A World at Arms -Gerhard Weinberg
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime - Judith Flanders
Black Wings 2 edited by S.T. Joshi
 
During a trip to eastern Mississippi to see an entomological museum, a lake with ancient bald cypress, and an area of preserved prairie, we stopped briefly at a used book store I picked up a copy of Free Live Free by Gene Wolfe.
 
Unburied this little treasure at the Goodwill today. Two bucks. Have a feeling it's going to be worth every penny.

 
Unbelievably a new thrift store opened up a half block away from my house! So naturally I wander over and check things out on weekends and found this for fifty cents last week:

 
Have just got "Miss Darkness" by Frederick Brown.
Well known for his S.F. stories ("Answer") and novels ("Martians Go Home!") he also wrote a good number of crime stories("Don't Look Behind You") and novels ("The Screaming Mimi", "The Lenient Beast" ect.).
This is a very large collection of his crime stories, which I look forward to dipping into when I have time.
 
I picked up Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. I've heard good things about the trilogy, and I enjoyed hearing him speak at our book festival over the weekend.
 

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