I Cleaned Out A Library Book Sale - Vintage Science Fiction and Fantasy Scores 

I’ll take whatever content schedule you’re able to fit into your life. You got a lot on the go, so I appreciate whatever it is your able to produce. Even the Bigfoot stuff.

You remind me of a guy I knew in college in the early-1980s. He had a massive collection of paperback, pulp science fiction books...thousands of them. He always had one in his hand and would be reading it...on the way to class, walking away from class...endlessly....even while eating. The weirder the story, the more he seemed to like it. I'd love to know where he his today.

I like the omnibus review videos, keep doing them.

Big Lizard in my Backyard by The Dead Milkmen is great.

Amazing finds!!! Love finding Black Sparrow Press in the wild. Also, notable improvement in visibility/clarity of book covers shown on camera! Kudos.

I too don''t quite understand why Pohl's _Gateway_ gets so much love. But I am willing to give it another chance sometime. _Black Star Rising_ is a late work and quite interesting. The best Pohl I know of is _The Space Merchants,_ a satire on advertising which he wrote with Cyril Kornbluth, and _Starburst,_ which is a satisfyingly strange story that I can't really describe with spoiling, but it's a story about a first ever interplanatery mission, which then goes off in an unusual direction.

Found your channel through Moid. Instant fan of your content and subbed as well!

Raymond Chandler and Dasheill Hammett are some of my favorites. Man that makes me want to read some next. When I was living in LA reading Chandler was like a comfortable blanket at night, looking out my window at the purple sky, yellow street lights, and hearing the traffic and street people and music coming from other apartment windows... it was like the perfect soundtrack to his books. Along with Chandler I also recommend The Day of The Locust by Nathaniel West, for more LA horror. If you have lived and loved in LA, but escaped, those books are for you.

Reading and enjoying Heinlein depends on how old you were when you started reading his novels. I started reading him in 1958. So his juvenile novels filled my mind with space adventures in a world where we were just playing with the X15. If you started reading him now it would not be the same. Then he went off the rails with his later books and I turned to other authors. He published every story and novel he ever wrote starting in Amazing Stories. Kind of like E. E. DOC SMITH. Great novels long ago but dated now.

Keep going. Love these book videos. Your viewership continues to grow.

CJ Cherryh - Heavy Time. Don't let the slightly cartoon cover fool you. Book is intense and spectacular. Part of the alliance / Union company wars universe but they're pretty much all standalone books and she designed them that way so it's a perfect way to dive in. It's all the mining / belter/ aspects of the Expanse (before the expanse existed) - without the aliens and bigger set pieces..... Much more of a man versus the system - dark psychological paranoia drama with conspiracy theories. She is excellent at sentence structure and flow does a really good job with dialogue and claustrophobia. Not a fun read because of how stressed everybody is - but it's absolutely not to be missed. Great find! Definitely definitely read it if that sounds interesting to you. Once again great video - cheers from Seattle Washington

I wish I could see why people love Neuromancer so damn much. I DNF’d it three times and I want to love it but it just doesn’t compute. I’m glad you’re enjoying it and wish you the best per usual BP.

My all time favorite cover artist is still Frank Frazzeta for his work on the Barsoom series.

Really glad you started this channel, You seem to really enjoy it! The only Science Fiction I had read was Dune and some Phillip K. Dick up until 2 years ago. I happened upon More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon and got hooked. Got some excellent recs from you so far, keep it up!

I love your videos. I've read a few of your recommendations and enjoyed them. So thanks for that. Currently reading Blind Sight and loving it.

bradbury and asimov were my copies as a youth, from the scholastic book services at school. i took "greatest living SF writer' seriously. so i was reading in the big leagues now. i love the ending.

A lot of great finds. I'm looking forward to Schismatrix Plus as well. Its a collection of the novel and short stories that take place in the same universe and was an influence on Alastair Reynolds. The Worm Ouroboros sounds interesting too! Don't think I've come across that book or author before.

William Morris was a writer from the 1800s (and I think he was an artist). I have a bunch of his books but haven't read them yet. The cover artist is Gervasio Gallardo who did the covers for Xiccarph, Poseidonis, and Hyperborea by Clark Ashton Smith, Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn, Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, and lots of other books in Ballantine's Adult Fantasy Series. Great stuff.

I have the boxed set of the Foundation trilogy with those covers. I must have bought it back in the 1970s.

Adding my 2¢ worth, Cherryh is my favorite so yes I recommend her stuff. The Retief books are mostly collections of short stories with many carryovers between books. I don't care for most of Heinlein's later works but I loved his juvenile's as a juvenile. Orphan's Of The Sky and The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress are favs that are more adult. I went to an estate sale last weekend because they advertised a lot of vintage SF. There were hundreds, I had to control myself and ended up with 7 books for $2. Highlighted by The Stainless Steel Rat by Harrison and Cage A Man by Busby. I'm sure you would have found dozens to buy.

Small nitpick here. 5:17 Krazy Kat is by no means "Outsider Art" ! It's one of the most formative newspaper comic strips of the 20th century, ran in newspapers all across the country in the pre-war era and the work of none other than George Harriman, one of the most important comic artists ever. Kind of one of the first "highbrow" comics artists that infused cartoon characters with what I guess you might call pathos. (William Randolph Hearst was a huge fan.) He influenced everyone from Robert Crumb to Charles Schulz. Harriman was far from outsider. I have a feeling that calendar is worth good money dude.

Didn’t know you had another channel, subscribed! Love the content, dude

Quite a pile of books! I read a lot of them (I stayed away from most of the Fantasy though), some good ones there, but nothing really outstanding except for a couple. Gibson's best was Neuromancer and a couple of short stories.

I had to get myself a copy of Brian Aldiss' Hothouse based on your recommendation in the last video. Will get around to reading it soon!

If you want to know why Heinlein was highly rated (yes, it is a big if) you would probably want to try his short stories and his YA (used to be called 'Juvenile') novels. I think there four or five - Orphans in the Sky is one of them. As someone noted in the comments somewhere, his novels, especially the later/longer ones, tended to be padded out with much pontification on issues close to his heart and/or loins. If pressed, I'd admit I enjoyed some of his earlier work (when I was earlier too) and recommend collections of shorter stories (40s/50s and mostly from his so-called Future History series) like Revolt in 2100, The Menace from Earth or "A" Robert Heinlein Omnibus (not to be confused with "The" Robert Heinlein Omnibus, which consists of three novels). No, seriously, it is too easy to bounce off the prejudiced, self-important dirty old man he was later to become.

Short Stories are the HEART of SF. Wm Gibson has a collection called "Burning Chrome" that (IMHO) are better than Neuromancer. Neuromancer always read like 3 short stories that share a climax to save the author work, and kinda fizzle out. He works hard building a momentum with the choppy prose (sometimes rendering scenes hard to picture) and then at the climax he sorta drains all that energy out -like shutting the machine down. Not as often mentioned, you'll find a LOT of proto Cyberpunk in the 1950's short stories of PKD! In fact, some of them read very 80's Punk! Likewise, I think you've got a better chance of finding gems in Heinlein's short stories. I remember really liking the beginning of Stranger in a Strange Land as a teenager - I felt he was really onto something trying to portray an alien's state of mind in human terms through a human who experienced it. But, I never finished it, never went back and most attempts have been punished by his bombastic opinionizing. I haven't made it through enough RH to be sure, but I feel as though SiaSL was the watershed novel where he went from Short SF novellas to door stopper opinion pieces where he gets to write about justifying whatever gets him off. However, in my Covid reads of the "SF Hall of Fame" volumes I found myself confronted with Heinlein stories worth reading: "The Roads Must Roll" is SO "On Brand" that it reads like a parody of everything we find so wearisome in RH - A Libertarian Corporate/Fascist Utopia that reads like a dystopia where problems are solved by engineers and square jawed men. Unintentionally hilarious at times. The other, "Orphans of the Sky" (alt title "Universe") on the other hand is what I always wished 50's SF (and RH) would be. A good idea, adventure , "Muties" -Like a Space Opera edited down to a novella. Just plain satisfying.

It’s cool that you and moid are in contact.

Awesome book finds! We have our library book sale tomorrow and I am never able to crush through the nerdy old bald guys to get to the tiny area of sci-fi. The couple of times I did it was mostly 100 different covers of Star Trek. Geesh 🙄.You have a great eye for stuff, I've never been a big sci-fi person (that would be my nerdy balding but adorable husband!), but books have always been a thing for me. As an architectural historian I gravitate towards those big bulky 500 page architecture times but people seem to have a huge hard on for a dude named Frank (Lloyd Wright) and after working in his residential archive let's just say the love affair is a bit old. Love the videos, the eyes omg 🥰, and the nerdy husband in explaining something bad to me the other day called it an "ass brand". I think you're making your mark lol!

I have just written a great fictional book and want to sell it to an Author as a ghost writer.

Wow,the smile on your face when this starts, made my heart race

Gee you get some great books. I have to travel to far and distant lands to get the cool stuff that you get. I happened to be in one of those lands last weekend and picked up a bunch of Marion Zimmer-Bradley books for cheap and for some reason bought all but 4 and I've been mad at myself all week for not grabbing those too 🙄

I’m glad you picked up the Eddison and Morris Fantasy books. I actually have not read those particular William Morris novels, but have been curious about them for ages, having read and enjoyed The Glittering Plain (Fantasy), and News From Nowhere (proto-SF).

Can’t go wrong with The Martian Chronicles

Glad to hear you liked neuromancer.Unlike some of the other comments you've heard on Gibson's books, i like them all.The ones i have in paperback are well-worn from reading several times.The way he writes really appeals to me.

I checked out Verbatim this weekend! Such a cool bookstore

I would also suggest you buy a copy of Hancer's price guide. Prices aren't right but it will give you an idea of relative values.

William Morris is one of my favourite authors. Writing way before any other fantasy author you mention. The worm ouroburus is also a firm favourite.... Highly recommended

Gateway rocks, man

Hothouse just arrived after last video recommendation and will be reading next.

Retief Unbound is the first in the Retief series

I like Mishima (there's a video about him in the 'Outsider Literature' playlist on my channel, with references to a certain rock band and my friendship with his Uk publisher) and Bowles, great stuff. That's the same edition of 'A Case of Conscience' I bought in 1983- Moid was in Hay a few days after my last visit (3 clips about it on my channel), I've been going there since 1985. Prefer 'Eye of the Queen' by Mann myself, but running jokes MUST be kept running....good fun vid.

The Foundation copies you bought are the copies i read. Vintage mid century covers. Darkwalker on Moonshae is actually the very first Forgotten Realms novel printed.

Black Sparrow books are usually pretty valuable.

You might want to read Journey to Ixtlan. It is very much a fantasy book.

A stranger in a strange land is my next boook!

I thought of you today; got a call on Sunday to pick up books from an estate and 70% are science fiction/fantasy My car was packed back to front Doing the initial sort right now; they are vintage

Dude you are totally the guy in the Kakie costume from the hotel Transylvania 2 movie!😂

If you wanna blow your mind with some early ass proto cyberpunk, Dr Adder by K W Jeter. If you want good fantasy that also blows out orifices and isn't typical, Jurgen by Cabell, Lilith by George MacDonald, and the Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter. As for an early science fantasy masterpiece, A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay. One of my favorite books of all time. Thanks for the awesome content dude.

CJ Cherryh is verbose, but entirely worth the price of admission. I am entirely jealous of the copy of Fahrenheit 451. That was the first science fiction book I fell in love with. His love letter to the written word.

Want the best fantasy book ever? “Name of the Wind”

Hi! I’m new to your vlog. My ears perked up when you said opera cd/dvd? I’m 73 this year and my mother was a coloratura soprano who sang in the metropolitan opera from 1935-47. If you ever come across something with her name I’d so appreciate a heads up. Her name was Josephine Antoine. She’s on Google and RU-vid. I’m not asking you to go out of your way but should you see her name. ✌🏻🤠

If you like Neuromancer, check out George Alec Effinger’s Marid Audran Trilogy and Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash.

Metaphysical Graffiti by Dead Milkmen is one of the best albums, if only for the hidden tracks, but it's all good in their weird way. The tracks from it I've found on yt are incomplete. Wish I still had my copy. Can't afford another rn. Still, not for everybody.

I stopped at a used book store in the area a picked up a 4 books. if I wasn't an Alan Dean Foster collector I would be sending Moid "Dark Star" because of the cover art. I did pick up "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" despite the God-awful 80's cover art. See you on the next video.

...mean to add I struggle with Heinlein too, apart from 'Orphans of the Sky', 'The Puppet Masters' and 'Starship Troopers'. Pohl? People seem to love 'Gateway' but I found it dull. 'Man Plus' is the one to go for, take yr head off!

A lot of modern stuff. If you ever run across any Andre Norton let me know. By the Andre died in 2005. I have always said that C.J. Cherryh is the next Andre Norton. Take from an old man who has been reading SF/Fantasy for 60 years that is high praise.

What libraries do you go to for these sales?? Also where are they advertised?

Paul Bowles just happens to be a distant relative of mine

Id love to hear your comments on the sun eater series. I think you would like it!

Make sure you listen to that Dead Milkmen CD* before you sell it. It's a disturbing, obnoxious Reagan-era classic. *Big Lizard

I was looking for a book vid last night & You Tube musta lied when I checked my subscriptions. Unjust. Fun Haul. Those early fantasies are historical pieces that were part of the Tolkien craze 'rush to publish anything to cash in.' Only downside (to a modern reader) is that they are written by 19th C minds - Trying to conjure an earlier epoch. . . romantically. As a connoisseur of old things, you must know that William Morris was a spearhead to the English Arts & Crafts movement; A Pre-Raphaelite and Romantic, you've seen his textile and wall paper designs on fancy journals. Check out books on his house. Very anti -industrialist ; clearly sets the stage for Tolkien's worldview.

The Bradbury is terrific

The Etsy link to shop/Bookpilled is not working... "Uh Oh! Sorry, the page you were looking for was not found."

I love your content, because you remind me of me 30 years ago, discovering many of the same books for the first time. That said, you have to figure out the auto-focus thing. It's very difficult to watch. Maybe just turn off the auto-focus altogether and lock it on you? That way you can hold the book up next to your head and you know it's in focus.

there was a periodical called new

How do you go about finding library sales?

Do you still have a store on Etsy?

your Etsy page is not working

Nice haul. #LFLR "VBW"

Worm Ouroboros is a fantastic book. I actually have that edition myself. Be warned though that it is a very, very, very difficult read. Like a lot of pre-Tolkien fantasy its written in a deliberately archaic style. Definitely NOT the best place to start though it is worth it if you can penetrate the way its written.

Marion Zimmer-Bradley did some really heinous things to her children, just an FYI.

i I''m sorry I was going to say i have lots of a periodical called new worlds from the nineteen sixties which had lots of sci fi short stories but i want to keep them. sorry.

@17:58 "Like your mum" #LFLR "VBW"

I'm confused, didn't you just show most of this on your other thrift channel?

You need to subscribe to Gary Levosi's channel. You have a lot to learn and struggle to identify what's collectable.

"Schismatrix Plus" is Schismatrix (the novel) and the rest of the Mechanist/Shaper stories. Yes, read. Heinlein -- last read Stranger in high school, in the '70s. Tried to re-read a couple years ago, and stalled about a third of the way in. My tastes have changed. One old Heinlein I did like quite a bit recently was the novella "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag", in an omnibus volume of his fantasies. Do, read Raymond Chandler. A window in to a world that's passed. Maybe not that ancient paperback copy though. Read the Worm Ouroboros in HS, no desire to repeat.

Oh my fucking god. Kim Stanley Robinson is the most important living SF writer. You should wash your mouth out with soap for comparing him to Tom Clancey. I have the Blish in the original PB cover by Powers.