IMMENSE Book Haul, SCI-FI a-plenty. 

Some delights indeed - love the shelf browsing as part of the story telling

The original Cluster trilogy by Piers Anthony was great. Loved the concept of how humans and aliens travel throughout the galaxy.

Smythe is under-exposed, I'd say- 'The Machine' is one of the best SF novels of this century, very D G Compton. 'The Explorer' was interesting, but didn't come off for me, but I decided recently to try it again soon, funnily enough. 'The Philosopher's Stone' is superb, covered it in my 'Mindwired' video a while back, been a favourite of mine for decades- love Wilson, I've read 70 books by him. Adam Roberts is easily Britain's best genre SF writer these days- because he focuses on singletons and knows the genre inside out. Jack Williamson actually coined the term 'Terraforming'. Total Golden Age legend. Big haul that, Jon!

Survival Game is a great novel. Hope you enjoy!

Evening's Empires is in the same universe as The Quiet War trilogy, coming after, but is a stand alone book. You do not need to read the other 3 first. I know because I read Evening's Empires first without knowing it was a 4th book. I have read all four, and Evening's Empires is my favorite and one of the best books I've ever read being post-cyberpunk in space. Bit of biopunk too, and almost all hard science fiction. I too loved The Revenger series. Keep up the good work.

Should have picked up the scavenger crow from Skoob! Nice pickups!

Caught you by surprise with the date in that Jack Williamson, eh? Yeah, Terraforming Earth is late LATE gold by an author I just kept buying and reading, good books and bad, as long as he kept writing; Williamson was the first author I read regularly starting from when I was about 12, and gosh did I stay loyal. I think Terraforming Earth started life as an award-winning (or nominated?) short work, and then got turned into that novel. I also think his last book was not long after - The Stonehenge Gate and I don't think there was anything after that, and I would say he went out with a bit of a disappointing book. But Terraforming Earth was pretty darn good. I don't know if it was Aldiss/Wingrove in Billion Year Spree, or someone else assessing Jack Williamson, but I agree with the quote, wherever I read it, along the lines of "Jack Williamson is a veteran SF writer who continues to put out surprisingly good work, overall, in his later years".

I loved the machine gunners when I was at school too jon . Read many historical war books for many years as well . Bump that Colin Wilson up your list mate it’s a good un👍🏻

I hated To Say Nothing of the Dog when I read it. I didn't know it was part of a series at the time but I'm not sure how much it matters to the story. i have since picked up The Doomsday Book second hand and will give Willis another shot at some point.

Hey! Quite an interesting haul. And I want to give Piers Anthony a try now. Never read anything by him so far. C.L. Moore´s Jirel of Joiry is on my TBD list for a veeeeery long time (at least two-and-a-half decades). I really have to find a copy of it. I like the premise. Also I didn´t know Moore did write SF too. Jack Williamson´s Terraforming Earth is something I did read. Did buy it for an euro about twenty years ago (was a damaged paperback) and thought it was some of his earlier works. I was shocked, like you, to learn that he was very well alive back then. The cover told me something about this was his final book - it wasn´t, he did write another one after that. Starts out like some kind of children´s book and I nearly dropped it - but it´s worthwhile to continue!

Nice haul, Jon! You must be a very speedy reader, to be able to cope with so many books! Either that, or you've cracked the secret of immortality and are stocking up reading material for the next few centuries... Not familiar with the post-90's authors except for Annalee Newitz, who I believe used to run the io9 site. Used to like It a lot, until It was overrun by a pack of rabid feminists, who would gang up on anyone with an XY chromosome.

"Agh! Shiver me astero-barnacles!" ;P You have some freakin' top class charity shops, I volunteer in a cancer research and we do not get that wealth of SF in our shop, or the various rivals in town. :(

A few random thoughts. There are a number of those Golden Age Masterworks, I have several for sale in my shop at less than half price each brand new. "Survival Game" is book two of a duology, the first one is called "Extinction Game" and they are indeed about parallel worlds, the initial book having the twist that the only worlds they can access are ones that have suffered various types of apocalyptic events. I hope that you've already got "The Anubis Gates" and that's why you passed over it as it is a superb novel. If you're pruning your Pern books, I'd keep the series up to "The White Dragon" and discard the rest as superfluous.

Devolution is quite good actually, it's a bit sci-fi-ish. About Big Foot basically. Its a quick read, not quite as good as World War Z but I still really enjoyed it. Great Video

I'm currently reading Deep Range, the first time in decades. 😮 Very enjoyable, doesn't seem aged at all. Certainly because Clarke was handling the trauma experienced by Franklin delicately and with nuanced sensitivity, and I'll admit, I really liked the protagonist and empathized with him as soon as I got half way through the book. I also suffer from acrophobia and vertigo, just not badly enough to fly, thankfully. I can't imagine the psychological suffering Franklin has had to endure. 😭. Certainly one of Clarke's best main characters. 😉. Of course the romance between Indra and Walt is awkwardly and badly written...on par for Clarke. 🙄🐶 I'm thinking of taking a crack at Shogun, an ebook I had bought a few years back. (Obviously because of the new miniseries on streaming, which I am liking very much) I had read the hard copy back in high school, back when the first tv miniseries came out. I enjoyed the first miniseries greatly, so I bought it in ebook format. I should have a different perspective now that I'm older. 🐶😛

Machine Guns is a children's book?

Addiction Syndrome 👍

I watched a video here (youtube) claiming that Piers Anthony was "grooming material". I take rhetoric like that with a heart stopping amount of salt and I can't really say one way or another since A Spell for Chameleon is the only book of his I've read.

The Sky Lords by John Brosnan is a great novel. There are two sequels wich are good, but not as good. Still, very good trilogy. Gary Gibson's Survival Game is the second book in the trilogy, first beign The Extinction Game (by far the best of the lot), and Doomsday Game the final and the weakest of the three. Mcauley's books range from brilliant (The Secret of Life), to excellent ( Something Coming Through), very Good (Evening Empires), to decent ( In the Mouth of The Whale. The last two are set in The Quiet War universe but are stand alone narratives. P.S. I see you didn't go back to pick up Brendan Dubois's Resurrection Day. Shame on you. Just kidding, of course. Great video, as usual.

I read and loved Wilson's "Philosopher's Stone" (based on a recommendation by @outlawbookselleroriginal ) on a single train ride to NYC (5 ish hours) while the return trip reading was an issue of Fortean Times. Also, I liked Max Brooks' "WWZ" quite a bit. His "Devolution," however, I found to be a dud. Based on your rec, I just added Glenn Cook's "A Matter of Time" and Gary Gibson's "Survival Game" to my Seek-and-Read list. Thnx! 👍P.S.- If you do a shelf audit/cull...film it!