Book Hauls!

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Grabbed a few things out of the stuff we got from a bookstore going out of business, through which we are sifting slowly.

Voyage of the Star Wolf by David Gerrold (1990)

Glory Season by David Brin (1993)

Clarion SF edited by Kate Wilhelm (1977) -- Fourth and last in the series from the famous workshop. Oddly, the others were Clarion, Clarion II, and Clarion III, so why this one isn't Clarion IV baffles me.

 

[Randy M.]

Using some discounts I was offered, picked up these:

Now to find time to read them ...

Randy M.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Grabbed a few things out of the stuff we got from a bookstore going out of business, through which we are sifting slowly.

Voyage of the Star Wolf by David Gerrold (1990)

Glory Season by David Brin (1993)

Clarion SF edited by Kate Wilhelm (1977) -- Fourth and last in the series from the famous workshop. Oddly, the others were Clarion, Clarion II, and Clarion III, so why this one isn't Clarion IV baffles me.

Others I forgot to mention that I found there:

Soldier of Arete by Gene Wolfe (1989), the sequel to Soldier of the Mist (1986) and followed later of Soldier of Sidon (2006), although I believe each can stand alone (unlike, say, the volumes in The Book of the New Sun.)

The Remaking of Sigmund Freud by Barry Malzberg (1985), a fix-up novel incorporating four stories plus other material.

Plain Murder by C. S. Forester (1930), a crime novel by the author of the famous Hornblower series. I've read his 1926 crime novel Payment Deferred and it was quite good.

The Hercules Text by Jack McDevitt (1986), one of the New Ace Science Fiction Specials edited by Terry Carr, all of which were first novels.

Come Along With Me by Shirley Jackson (1968), a posthumous collection of stories, essays, and part of an incomplete novel.

There are probably some others I have yet to recall.

 

[J-Sun]

The Hercules Text by Jack McDevitt (1986), one of the New Ace Science Fiction Specials edited by Terry Carr, all of which were first novels.

This is a really good novel. There are two versions and I've only read the recent revised version but I enjoyed it so much I didn't hesitate to get the original, too, when I finally stumbled across it. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

 

[dask]

Using some discounts I was offered, picked up these:

Now to find time to read them ...

Randy M.

Didn't even know The Big Book of Hammett existed. 28 stories and 2 novels? Wow! The edition I read last summer:

had only seven stories. All good, though.

 

[Randy M.]

Didn't even know The Big Book of Hammett existed. 28 stories and 2 novels? Wow! The edition I read last summer:View attachment 42125 had only seven stories. All good, though.

Yup. I have that one, too, along with The Big Knockover. The Big Book of the Continental Op just came out either late November or earlier this month. I hadn't heard about it but when I saw it in a bookstore knew I was going to get it sooner than later.

Randy M.

 

[hitmouse]

Father Christmas bought me 3 volumes of The Broken Earth by NK Jemisin.
I havent heard of these but the first 2 won Hugos, so they should have some merit.

 

[dask]

Got A CHRISTMAS CAROL by you know who this morning and already started it. Better than the movie of course. If they ever remake this classic they need to put in the locomotive on the staircase!

 

[J-Sun]

Christmas was very good to my bookshelves. I got the other two-thirds of the Cixin Liu trilogy and Carol Emshwiller's Collected Stories, Vol.2.

 

[Extollager]

Very happy to have the revised version of Scull and Hammond's Companion and Guide to Tolkien -- three volumes, now, rather than two. I'd read the Chronology of Tolkien's busy life in the earlier edition -- about 800 pages -- over a few years.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008214549/?tag=brite-21

I knew this was coming my way for Christmas, so I've donated the 2006 two-volume edition to a local high school. May some young people with the potential to become Tolkienists get hold of it.

 

[J-Sun]

Wow, those are some snazzy books, Extollager.

Addition: I forgot to post about a big (magazine) haul earlier this December.

 

[AE35Unit]

Got this for Christmas. There's a nice Martin pull out section.

 

[dask]

Pretty darn cool!

 

[dask]

Addition: I forgot to post about a big (magazine) haul earlier this December.

Could this possibly be the fabled and long sought "best Christmas present ever"?

 

[J-Sun]

Could this possibly be the fabled and long sought "best Christmas present ever"?

Could be. It's a pretty good one, at least. I tell ya, when I saw them, I had the full bug-eyed drop-jawed heart-pounding gasping effect.

 

[Mouse]

I got this for Christmas: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1847083153/?tag=brite-21 The guy who wrote it did in one summer what I've been trying to do for the past few years.

 

[hitmouse]

Wow, those are some snazzy books, Extollager.

Addition: I forgot to post about a big (magazine) haul earlier this December.

Lovely, lovely. I have a few of these. Most notably the Analog 4th along in the top row second pic, which has the first part of James Blish's Cities in Flight. My collection of Amazing SF is sadly rather thin.

 

[dask]

Never giving too much attention to butterflies myself this has the look and overall feel of a really good book. (Forgot to quote and don't know how to fix it but you can figure out the book I'm referring to.)

 

[Mouse]

Never giving too much attention to butterflies myself this has the look and overall feel of a really good book. (Forgot to quote and don't know how to fix it but you can figure out the book I'm referring to.)

Yep, looking forward to reading it.

 

[dask]

This Christmas well on the way to making 2018 a great year:

Both volumes well over 700 pages.

Also got this for myself, a sort of post holiday gift, 99¢ e-book from Amazon:

Question: Early in the first volume Dr. Doyle says: "no one in Great of the Britain thought seriously of a war with Germany before 1902." The phrase "Great of the Britain" sounds strange. Why not just Great Britain?