I Found Someone's Huge Vintage Sci-Fi Paperback Collection At A Thrift Store 

You should do a video on Bruce Pennington’s sci-fi cover art def has some of my fav illustrations of all time like his cover for the book of Frank Herbert or his love craft vol 2

Just in case you don’t know, Day After Judgement is a sequel to Blish’s Black Easter, which is incredible. I just bought DAJ after having been looking for it for years. Can’t wait to read it.

Bob Shaw's How to Write Science Fiction, great 'nuts n bolts' guide.

Ellison notes: He wrote in different stiles with different goals. Horror, SF, Comedy, Schmaltz, TV, Op-Ed pieces, Essays, Experimental Language pieces. Before you get soured by his larger than life mouth / reputation try a little of each. I love that when he puts together a collection it's not just ' Ten previously published stories in a book.' He truly curated them; carefully considered *which* stories went in *which* collection, what order and what theme made them flow or juxtapose and wrote a unique introduction to cement each in place. I think his voice comes through in his introductions and essays. Not everyone likes his voice. It was an honest voice. Like that of a New Yorker who's world is turning against him and you're stuck in an elevator with him. I understand if that does not shine to a guy from San Diego, but to this New Yorker it was like finding out you are not alone. Harlan Lived there. Proof in the story : "Emissary From Hamelin." Stories: You read "No mouth" so you need to read "Soldier" to complete the "Two stories Cameron OBVIOUSLY used to make Terminator" series. That story was for the TV show The Outer Limits as was Ellison's "Demon With a Glass Hand." And I think they both won awards Back in the day. In fact, add "Demon" to the previous series for a "Terminator Trifecta." More famous , back in the day, before the James Cameron lawsuit his biggest counter culture work was "Repent Harlequin! Said The Ticktockman" it's still just what it needs to be. "Jefty is Five" is like a poisoned bon-bon of nostalgia. You've got a couple of lighter pieces in "Strange Wine" perhaps you'll like them. From another collection I'd recommend "Ecotopia"- he bamboozled me wondering wtf? . . . then I laughed out loud. I always loved his stories that packed a punch. His stories are *sometimes* so powerful you have to put the book down & step away to know the world is still there & if you have a place in it. Try " The Wimper of Whipped Dogs" and " The Function of Dreramsleep." Oh and don't forget the introductory essay that informs 'Dreamsleep' "The Wind Took Your Answer Away" which serves as the opener for the book "Angry Candy." I want to leave you with hope, but I'm trying to remember a more OK, That Dune Encyclopedia is the SEXIEST ones ever!, proto-cyberpunk , futurist piece, for you and Moid- about a guy who's trying to stay clean, but is addicted to a drug that makes you sexually attracted/addicted to machines and everytime he's jonesing he dreams of "smooth metal surfaces." Don't miss one of my favorite's, a more mature piece from later in life called "The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore." Hit or miss, 30 years later I *still* hear his his words in my head, These apropos expressions offer me comfort and sometimes. . . answers. . . . . unbidden. "Lonely Women are the Vessels of Time" "Asleep, With Still Hands" "Hitler Painted Roses" "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich.

Also: "A Man is Sitting On a Chair and the Chair is Biting His Leg" and "Repent, Harlequin! Said the Tick-Tock Man". I would also recommend a collection of short story collaborations with a whole bunch of other SF authors underwhelmingly entitled "Partners in Wonder". Ellison is a standout example of the old adage not to conflate the artist and their work. Too often one is wondrous and the other disappointing.

Okay, do you recall a scrap of plot?

Incredible

Yeah I had non-buyer's remorse, went back to try to find some of those and got about half of them. A few of the tastier ones were gone. I got the Callahan's book but not Pangborn.

"A Mirror for Observers" is great too.

And sorry for the gaff inside the quotation marks. Please omit 'is'. Oye.

Oh shit, I got a shoutout from Moid?

@@Bookpilled yup on his latest book haul video 👍

@@Bookpilled Fuck yeah

same...our cult leader showed us the way

@Bookpilled I found you on my own, cause I'm sad like that, but noticed you gave a shout to Moid, and then he gave one to you. We should start a circle of Love as soon as I've got time to make Vids

Me too, I'm sad that I read all of it, he was impeccable, really creative and perennial thinker, really prescient

Mine does have a coffee stain on the bottom page edges. It's high on my TBR list.

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Haha! It always amazes me how bloated newer SF books are- pages and pages with nothing to say.

Weber is one of those authors who hovers on the peripheries of my attention. Something about those Baen books with the bad artwork just makes me not want to invest the time.

I've never heard of that, seems like a good system. I do regret not buying all of them but it would have been like $150.

You didn't already ask it, and no, I've not heard of it. I'll keep an eye out for it.

@@Bookpilled For some reason, I think you'd like it. Dark.

I will look out for it.

I second that opinion. Also "All Flesh is Grass".

Is the movie Lifeforce? I read a story collection from Sturgeon recently that I found middling, what from him do you recommend? I may circle back around to that thrift soon and see if there's a couple of those left.

@@Bookpilled Okay, full disclosure; Theodore Sturgeon is so difficult to find that I only have two of his books, and I only read one, and some short stories. He gets universally recommended by writers from all over the SF spectrum. Harlan's writer bio for him in Dangerous Visions is so humble and outstanding, that it put me on notice. I either read "Venus Plus X" or "More Than Human" 30yrs ago & don't recall. Used to find those two all over at used book stores. I haven't heard of the one you saw. But he is usually rated above Blish and Brunner so I thought I'd speak up. I haven't tried too much Blish yet - What I did was hit or miss- but what isn't from this time period? I think I was unfair to him because his name was all over the Star Trek adaptations. I was a savvy & judgemental 9 year old. I wish I had a more concrete recommendation for you.

@@Bookpilled Yes! That was the name I couldn't remember! Colin Wilson was a bit iconoclastic- he did a lot of research, wrote a lot of nonfiction, was always getting interviewed by the BBC in the 60s. . . Aaaaaand wrote stuff like Space Vampires

@@salty-walt Would be funny to review Space Vampires as "hard sci-fi" then.

@@salty-walt I actually associate Sturgeon with Star Trek, and have the same ashy taste in my mouth from it. He wrote a lot of the TOS scripts. Didn't know his books were rare though, if I run into him again I'll grab him.

Heinlein is probably the most overrated SF author ever.

@@laggyluke5700 his later stuff was bad, but his early stuff is good.

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@@Bookpilled Interesting. I just stumbled upon your channel recently. If I may give my two-cents: your specific book reviews are excellent and, IMHO, far more interesting than the book hauls. Keep rocking!

I've only read futurological congress, which I had mixed feelings about. But I love kafka so this does seem up my alley

Starburst, a short short story collection, is solid, with some quality short stories. Half of them I'd recommend.

@@carlosx1237 I think I have that. Don't remember anything about the stories, though...