Book Hauls!

[Bick]

There appear to be no pages in the Fielding, Vince. Its a three quarter top view, so we should be able to see the pages at the bottom of the book - presuming its three dimensional - but all that appears to be visible is the surface the book is resting on. Can you solve this ghostly mystery for me?

 

[Vince W]

Bad photo and a bad photographer perchance? There is some warping to the book so that must be hiding the pages.

I don't have the book to hand, but when I do I'll try to take another photo that is more representative of its 3D nature to set your mind at ease Bick.

 

[Randy M.]

There I assumed it was just a Bowdlerized version turning a thick novel to flash fiction.


Randy M.

 

[Bick]

I'll try to take another photo that is more representative of its 3D nature to set your mind at ease Bick.

Much appreciated Vince. Until I see the those pages, my subconscious will be mildly troubled by a vague discombobulation.

 

[Vince W]

Much appreciated Vince. Until I see the those pages, my subconscious will be mildly troubled by a vague discombobulation.

Pages, pages, many, many pages!

I hope this soothes your subconscious Bick.

 

[Vince W]

I hope this image gets @Bick 's approval.

 

[dask]

Tomorrow And Tomorrow And The Fairy Chessmen by Henry Kuttner is a hard book to find and very expensive. Very pleased to find this, the first of two parts, for ten bucks at a local abnormally eclectic antique shop. Why this can't be reprinted in affordable paperback like just about everything else that originally appeared in SF's small press arena is beyond me.

 

[dask]

Extremely happy to find these Time magazine-sized Astoundings from Street & Smith, the Smith & Wesson of the Golden Age.

 

[Extollager]

Pages, pages, many, many pages!

I hope this soothes your subconscious Bick.

Whoa-ho! My dazzled eyes behold an orange-spine Penguin, surely. Yes?

Orange-spine Penguin English Library books

 

[Vince W]

Whoa-ho! My dazzled eyes behold an orange-spine Penguin, surely. Yes?

Orange-spine Penguin English Library books

I do believe you are correct. So do I have to go back and post a photo of the spine for your gratification as well?

 

[Extollager]

Vince W -- Well, while I'd relish the sight, I wouldn't want to inconvenience you, or to puzzle Chrons people who may feel that two photos of the book already are sufficient!

 

[Vince W]

Vince W -- Well, while I'd relish the sight, I wouldn't want to inconvenience you, or to puzzle Chrons people who may feel that two photos of the book already are sufficient!

Hope this helps @Extollager.

 

[Extollager]

Delectable! Let me guess -- a late 1970s or early 1980s printing.

 

[Vince W]

I don't have it to hand, but I'll take a look and let you know.

 

[Vince W]

Delectable! Let me guess -- a late 1970s or early 1980s printing.

Printed in 1983.

 

[hitmouse]

Hope this helps @Extollager.

There is a splendid 1960s film of this starring Albert Finney. It includes my favourite film dining scene:

A few years ago I ended up sitting next to Finney at a wedding dinner in Italy. Basically he had made so much money off the film of Tom Jones that he never really had to work again, and it was all just fun from there on. Very funny man. He drank all the wine on our table then pinched most of the wine on the next table.

 

[Vince W]

There is a splendid 1960s film of this starring Albert Finney. It includes my favourite film dining scene:

A few years ago I ended up sitting next to Finney at a wedding dinner in Italy. Basically he had made so much money off the film of Tom Jones that he never really had to work again, and it was all just fun from there on. Very funny man. He drank all the wine on our table then pinched most of the wine on the next table.

What a brilliant anecdote @hitmouse! Thanks for sharing. I could well imagine Finney drinking all the wine!

I also enjoyed the BBC adaptation immensely.

 

[Paul_C]

I've just picked up:
Sarah Canary - Karen Joy Fowler
Schismatrix Plus - Bruce Sterling
Jack Glass - Adam Roberts
Accelerando - Charles Stross
Cat's Cradle and The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
Downbelow Station - CJ Cherryh

Most of them s/h and all from Amazon, so the books cost me £5 and the postage was £20 . . .

 

[Extollager]

A couple of fellows, one in the Seattle area, one in Philadelphia, send me boxes of books to give away to students and friends (or to keep). Yesterday's mail brought a nifty batch of about 40 books, from which this morning I shipped off 15 science fiction volumes to a friend in California, including Damon Knight's anthology of sf of the 1930s, five van Vogts (The Wizard of Linn, The Beast, etc.), Anderson's Star Fox, Blish's Earthman, Come Home, etc., and including a late Gardner F. Fox novel I'd never heard of -- Conehead. Anyone ever hear of that?
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From the Seattle box I also set out about 17 books for our giveaway table on campus, including some literary classics and also a nice copy of The Hobbit, Eddison's Mistress of Mistresses and Fish Dinner in Memison (to which I added a battered copy of The Worm Ouroboros from my own spare copy collection), etc. So when students come back Monday perhaps a few will be interested in the new offerings.

I'm not sure exactly what I will keep for myself, but at the moment I've set aside a book of Leigh Brackett's Eric John Stark stories...

 

[Paul_C]

I've just picked up:
Sarah Canary - Karen Joy Fowler
Schismatrix Plus - Bruce Sterling
Jack Glass - Adam Roberts
Accelerando - Charles Stross
Cat's Cradle and The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
Downbelow Station - CJ Cherryh

Most of them s/h and all from Amazon, so the books cost me £5 and the postage was £20 . . .

I bought the above with the plan of adding them to what I have (taking the total on my Sci-Fi to-read list to 19) and working my way through the majority of them before buying a few more.

A plan which has resulted in me reading a novella (Bloodchild) and finishing off Wool (neither of them on the list) and acquiring another four books

This week the postie has brought me:

Proxima - Steven Baxter
The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
Gateway - Frederick Pohl
Who? - Algis Budrys

so once I've finished Wool I'll have plenty to choose from and no need to buy any more for a while . . .