Well, I can't hear the word "quark" without hearing the Hawkwind song, so here goes ... The outlaw was a handsome fellow His best friends never called him out He had a Gollancz SF collection it was yellow I do believe he never had them all One thing he missed out in his theory Of the Pan lozenge and Panther oblate Is what a book lover looks for in a cover Is the Rangoon that the aubergine ate !
Hi Stephen. It's amazing the number of booktubers who cite John Wyndham as their earliest influence. When I started reading SF as a kid in the early 60s Penguin SF was all that I could find. H.G. Wells piqued my interest but it was Wyndham who affirmed it. Other Penguin regulars like Fred Hoyle played a big part too. Congrats on the Quarks. As you said the proverbial hens' teeth these days. And that Frazetta cover for The Secret People is one of my favourites of all time. Nice work.
Hey Kenny- I think for us in the UK, Wyndham was naturally our big guy due to his popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, when of course he was a mainstream bestseller read by anyone who bought fiction full stop. Wells came after Wyndham for me too. Yeah, I was happy with this little haul, great stuff- lovely to hear from you as ever, mate.
I guess I'm old, because remember Mr Silverberg being referred to as uncle Bob. :) Also a coincidence, as I started Eric Brown's The Time-Lapsed Man this Sunday.
I'd be happy with the 'Berg being my uncle anytime. I was chatting with Steven Jones, editor of Best New Horror, at a bookfair earlier this year and he asked me if I was going to the Worldcon in Glasgow this August as he was meeting up with Silverbob there- I almost changed my mind about going, but work commitments, the hundreds of quid it would cost and the super-wokery of cons these days put me off- I'd love to talk to RS properly, did meet him once briefly long ago.... I like Eric Brown, not front rank, but a superb entertainer with a warm storytelling heart.
I’ve had Foul Play Suspected by Wyndham on my to read list for a while. Must admit I’ve been waiting for a cheaper copy as over £15 for a slim paperback feels a bit steep - although good that it’s been reprinted.
Still love that fan made logo, EXcellent. It's perfect! I wanted to say on your book sale video, which seems to be gone, you better get a real good price for that diamond age, because I can see you regretting it in future videos already!
Nah, I won't be sorry, Neal was a great guy when we met but his work doesn't resonate with me. Chris Badenoch who watches here made the logo, he's a good guy. Hope you are well, Walt, I've been catching up with Mike Moorcock in emails, which is nice...
@@outlawbookselleroriginal It's wonderful news. Best to engage Mike while we can. From the folk singing side of my life, a friend of mine just passed the other day; do you remember Heather Wood of the Young Tradition? She was Brilliant. Kooky, but brilliant. So get those praises in conversations in while you can.
Richard Lupoff (1935-2020) was known to me as a comics historian, having edited the important collection of essays All in Color for a Dime (1970). His work was among the earliest of the fan writing to be collected by big publishers in hardcover and trade paperback, as opposed to very small press fanzines of the era. In Lupoff's case the subject was Golden Age comic books in the U.S.
hi, steve. it's always a treat to see one of your videos. my tbr list and/or pile just gets higher every time i see one of your videos. as you like to say, it is what it is. ;) i'm not a fan of anthologies because, like rabbits, it can get out of hand. having said that, i must admit that those quark ones got my interest. never heard of them. i do like delany especially because i met him once back in the 80s and got him to sign my copy of stars in my pocket. he was quite gracious. the names of contributors for quark is very impressive so will have to track some down if i can just fyi: i recently picked up a very nice copy of sometime, never from 1957 which had wyndham's consider her ways. enjoyed that and the peake story in it as well. didn't care too much for the golding but, of course, others might disagree. how we respond to literature is very personal after all i've never read any malzberg though i recall seeing his work on store shelves. i love grim and bleak so will have to give him a look. in fact, i did a quick search for the men inside and many reviews seem put off by it which only adds to its appeal for me. will look forward to the michael coney video and hope you get around to it sooner rather than later. if only we didn't have day jobs! as always, take care cheers
I struggle with Golding too - I basically feel he's very overrated. Malzberg is very grim, bleak and darkly comic, most people hate him. He's a REAL SF writer in that he upsets the expectations of the sheep out there and delights the goats. Yes, I must do the Coney, love his stuff.
I found the entire quartet recently at the august Other Skies in St. Paul, MN, in reasonably good condition. Chip discusses them on his Facebook, but I don't recall what he exactly had to say.
That’s the second time today I’ve admired the men inside ,what a lovely cover , ira atSF words of wonder showed that very book today . The SF gods must be telling me to buy that one liking the malzberg a lot these days , a beautiful coney as well . My buys of the week must be a lovely copy of Fury by kuttner and a pristine A E Van Vogt The world of null A . Cheers Steve
PLEASE READ BEFORE COMMENTING: Yes, I KNOW the '11' in 'New Dimensions 11' looks like Roman Numerals and hence an easy mistake to make, but the Bookseller, used to attending to characters in detail in order to track down elusive titles for customers is particularly aligned to spotting such things. No need to add your 'ayes' to the Roman Numeral theory...thanks.
..because the jackets are artworks by people who couldn't cut corners they way they can today by using technology, as that technology used on covers today didn't exist in the past. Yes, it's easier and cheaper, but as SF writer Emma Newman wrote in her novel 'After Atlas', "..with convenience, something was lost."
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Yes. Very "deliberate." I hope, when you eventually get to reading them and telling us about them you can shed some light on it.
Of course I read them- watch more of the channel for more comments about book collecting. As a bookseller and collector with forty years experience in the industry, I can read a book and leave no mark on it easily.
