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I just found Bad Moon Rising at a church sale for a quarter! Mint condition, too! It’s on my TBR for October since it takes place around Halloween according to the back cover. 🎃
@@Tiffany-bl4ly I just was looking at that one and dead man’s song. Bad moon is part 3 of the pine deep trilogy and dead man’s is part 2. Part 1 is ghost road blues. I’m not sure if they can be read as stand alone but just wanted to give you the heads up.
funny that han solo book had a sticker stuck inside. that be an interesting topic is remembering all the books you found used that had random things hidden in them.
Both Alien books by Tim Lebbon you showed go together, they’re both part of the Rage War Trilogy. If you want to read the Alien books in chronological order in their respective timeline, you would have to read those at the end. If I remember it correctly, they’re set over 100 years after the events of the movies. But you don’t have to … the universe hasn’t changed much, the Colonial Marines have some new gadgets and there are jump gates throughout the universe. I think Lebbon had to put this story far into the future because some ideas might have interfered with the movie continuations.
@@Emily-Whitfield I had been looking for the fungus forever and had a copy of death spore and didn’t realize they were the same for quite a while! I like it better too!! His other book Slimer is great also.
as harry adam knight he wrote 4 horror novels, slimer, carnosaur, the fungus and bedlam. three were made into films, slimer as proteus, carnosaur as carnosaur and bedlam as beyond bedlam. surprising for paperback original horror novels!
I’ve only read slimer and death spore from him and they’ve both been enjoyable. I will have to go check out all the movies now! I was thinking while reading slimer that it would be perfect for a cheesy b movie!
@@sfwordsofwonder awesome thank you for the feedback! I’ll have to give that one a read!! I just finished city from Simak so maybe I’ll start that one next!
Uh, that version of Paradox Men is on my wishlist for quite some time … I love that particular cover design. Speaking of design … that Gladiator book you showed at the beginning? Just google for Burt Reynolds and Navajo Joe and you might find the inspiration for that cover! … And I haven’t read a Pournelle yet (not even Lucifers Hammer, although I have it since my teenage years), but I started hunting down his Falkenbergs Legion books. Also a cooperation though, this time with S. M. Stirling, and it’s about space mercenaries, so I thought those might be cool …
Every time you show a Larry Niven book i think of Lucifers Hammer, i loved that book! Read it years ago and wish i still had a copy. That's one of those books thats really stuck with me. It was so cool. Love the movie Braveheart too, Mel Gibson was brilliant in that, and looked pretty good too 😍😬
I think your love for Zombie stuff is similar to my love for everything Cyberpunk. It started when I first saw an add for a Shadowrun pen and paper game in a german computer magazine. Nerds like us might know that feeling … you see a picture, you know nothing about it, but something inside you klicks. I just love the retro futurism of those stories, the now outdated types of computers that are somehow capable to do things we could only dream about, the neon drenched cities, human like androids and augmentations… all that stuff. It’s a future I was always hoping for and that never happened. It’s a shame … As for Redshirts … it’s absolutely a reference to Star Trek. In the classic show, security personal was wearing red uniforms, and whenever they had to beam down to a unknown planet, the landing party included a few Redshirts for their protection. As it went, those Redshirts were the Expendables of Star Trek, since (for obvious reasons) none of the main cast characters could die. So whenever you see some guys in red uniforms enter a transporter, chances are high they won’t return. That became some kind of an inside joke like the lack of marksmanship of the stormtroopers.
The RU-vid Top Ten List of SF Books of All Time is usually pretty 💩Dune is way overhyped and was a juggernaut of mediocrity. Neuromancer I read in college in the 90s for my SF fiction class. I gave it 3 outta 5 stars. So wasn't blown away. I find frequently that other people's expectations color my mood going into a book and then I'm usually let down. And think I might've mentioned it before, but if you like the gritty, horror of Cipher with the random hole in the ground, try the comedic horror of a random hole in the ground in Dale Bailey's Subterranean Season.
Agreed about the top 10s. They are usually close to the same as everyone else or seem like they’re taken directly from asking google. I will definitely look into subterranean season! Thank you for the recommendation!!
Thanks! When I first finished it last year I didn’t like it at all but I’ve found certain part have grown on me or stuck around a bit. It was very dry and boring for most of it.
@@thevintageviking4752 Are you going to make a horror story called the vintage Viking or something Because with your sweet I'm sure you can come up with something like a Viking Who pillages and raids And rapes all villages. all the villages, he rated And One Night as the village is s working in their fields, doing whatever people do in the medieval days Boats hurdle in army swarming the seas dog. their ships grab their axes and start chopping down every man women and child they see. Even the Dark Shepherd is aware of this so. she starts to curse the land, the gold and every. thereafter. And then the land is cursed of Vikings sold. souls are forever trapped in that area, and people who set on that land will be murdered and executed by Vikings. No one can build on that land because it is now protected by the Vikings, of which the Dark Shepherd had cursed And their souls will never be free. But yeah, you do whatever you want with the story. Man, I want to Read your book
Peirs Anthony i always see tons at stores but dont really know much about his work outside of the Xanth series and his horror book firefly and ironically enough the other day one of the stores near me had 2 copies of firefly. i think the main reason why people say its a bad book is because it has a super gross and disturbing scene that is worse than THE SCENE from IT but thats just from what iv heard as i was curious about the reputation it has. altered carbon is one i hope to read someday as it sounds great. i would be interested in the RE books but i already spend way too much recently so no worries if someone else wants them.
You are insane with your hauls my friend! 😃"Little bookstores", that is the size of our only proper store in a hundred miles. You are so fortunate. Verbatim's Books looks so awesome, the graffiti is crazy. Love the covers and edges!
i love different colored text blocks as well in fact i have a vol of vampire hunter D where it has a purple text block just like that. that one book store looks really awesome with the amount of artwork. very cool to see a hardcover of the ruins
That Verbatim bookstore is beautiful! I was in Boston almost two decades ago, and I went into a small bookstore in the cellar of one of those typical brownstones there. It was cramped with comics and obscure stuff, and I bought a handful of Dave McKean comics there. He is the artist who inspired me to become a graphic designer. His stuff is just so good … Oh, and you got yourself a copy of RUN!!! Let me know what you think if it. I hope you‘ll love it! But we’ll always have Altered Carbon 😂
How bizarre… She understands that she can buy books to restock with the money she’s making off you, right? I feel like I would have just walked out and not bought anything at that point. I am jealous you found a thrift store that sold hardcover for $.11!
Yeah I debated leaving but there was quite a few books I wanted from what was already on the counter so I had to just stick through it. I was so shocked at the .11 cent one as well!
I knew there were quite a few movie novelizations, but not to the extent you just showed - this was awesome. My Holy Grail novelization I would kill to get my hands on is one you didn't have - The Butterfly Effect by James Swan, it's super rare!
Great Haul! Still need to read David Moody. I am reading Clown In A Cornfield this Halloween. Would love to find another copy of The Bachman Books. Might look out for some of those zombie books next year. The Rising is possibly my favorite Zombie read, so original.
And another evening with my favorite RU-vidr … Man, I would beg you to send me the signed copy of Angel Station, BUT … I do own this amazing cover as a well preserved hardcover edition. Not signed unfortunately, but it looks so good that I don’t need the paperback too … And I don’t know why I didn’t think of it sooner, but here are some very good Zombie novels I can recommend: the Z-Burbia series by Jake Bible, Dead Team Alpha (also Jake Bible), Zombie Rules by David Achord, the Bleeding Kansas books by L. Roy Aiken, 900 Miles and 900 Minutes by Johnathan Davis, The last blade of grass and Barren Fields by Robert Brown, Brutal Planet by Sean P. Murphy, Survival Instinct by Kristal Stittle, Tooth and Nail by Craig Dilouie and last but not least (and also by Craig Dilouie) the Retreat series. Happy Hunting 😉
