An Amazing, an Astounding, a Fantastic Science Fiction Magazine Haul!

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Жыл бұрын

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Apologies if you watched this shortly after it was uploaded. I didn’t realize the HD hadn’t processed yet
If you're interested in vintage SF magazines and want to hear someone who actually knows their stuff talk about them, I highly recommend Gary's channel: ‪@garylovisi357‬ as well as Shawn's: ‪@ShawnDStandfast‬
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@GraphicManComics 5 ай бұрын

Great stuff. Thanks for showing them.

@kittykatkid2885 Жыл бұрын

I'm watching this just beaming with pride and happiness. So glad we met and so happy to see my previous collection in a new "forever home" where they will be loved and appreciated. Wow..what a library you have ! I don't know if you have ever done it but I think a "tour" of your collection would be a good watch. And you even have closed captioning and a transcript ! Congrsts on your quality, your effort shows and pays off. I will definitely be checking out some of your other vids. Best to you...Larry

@sciencefictionreads Жыл бұрын

It was great meeting you! I actually have done two tour videos, I'd recommend the far more recent one as its more up to date but I suspect I'll do them every year or so as the shelves are always changing! Thanks again!

@fiberartsyreads Жыл бұрын

Wow you totally scored with all these! So many amazing covers.

@sciencefictionreads Жыл бұрын

Definitely one of my best book hauls, probably the best since joining Booktube!

@danieldelvalle5004 Жыл бұрын

Great score! The cover art is amazing. I wish we had those SF magazines still publishing today.

@8020Alive Жыл бұрын

Kick azz - just got home watching the whole thing. Thank you for sharing with the world. Also gratz on all the great comments you always get from your community. Lots of love from Seattle 💕

@sciencefictionreads Жыл бұрын

Thanks J.T, I can always count on great comments from you.

@sethball2475 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was fun. Thanks for going through all of them. I try and read one short story in between each novel or nonfiction book I read. And I try and have three short story collections going, at any one time, for that purpose - usually representing three different genres. Chiefly, I bounce between Horror, SF, and Crime/Mystery collections. If I had grabbed up all those magazines like you did, they would keep me busy for ages! And, apparently, I would discover many new authors I have not heard of. I do like Randall Garrett, so we’ll see if one day you get to anything by him. And it was cool to see Charles G. Finney’s name on one of the last few covers you held up - I am a big fan of his short novel The Circus of Dr. Lao. It seemed like Fantastic Magazine went through about a year where they thought it was a great idea to put a scantily-clad woman on the cover, and we had a fair bit of that on the Amazing covers. It was also interesting to see the title font/design change over the years. That first Astounding issue (green background cover with two weird guys) looked almost like Brian Bolland art, but I don’t think that could be possible. Anyway, I’m not surprised you could not find any cover artist credit; sadly, I think that was the norm, but you might spot some signatures or initials on the art. Thanks again. I was curious to see what author names popped up - but yes, I really wanted a look at all the art. And it was worth it.

@sciencefictionreads Жыл бұрын

Hey Seth, that's a great idea. Reading a short story between novels is something I just might try, specifically with these in mind as it'll take forever to get through them. I think like i said, I'll discover a lot of authors i otherwise wouldn't (and hopefully cover artists too). Randall Garrett and Charles G. Finney are two I don't think I've heard of. And you know, based on your goodreads profile pictures I half expected you to mention the little model that has appeared as of this video on the shelf behind me 😄, but no doubt the low 360p quality of the video at the time you watched it didn't help it stand out at all .

@sciencefictionreads Жыл бұрын

Also, I checked that Astounding cover art. Its Kelly Freas.

@sethball2475 Жыл бұрын

@@sciencefictionreads As someone who, for the longest time, preferred to read one book at a time, and finish it in a few days, I actually had to train myself to have all these partially-finished short story collections going for weeks because I only went to them between each book. Now, I’m fine with taking a while to get a short story collection done - weeks or months. I still rack up tons of novels finished every year, and I just let the short story books take as long as they take. That said, I sometimes do two short stories per visit - and if I have three or less stories left in one book and am anxious to get a new collection started, I will knock those off all at once. That’s the thing, I’m always eyeing the next book impatiently, including the short story books. Ha, I thought maybe I missed a miniature Blorgulax sitting on your shelf - but you have the ship! One of my favourite spaceships. Meanwhile, I googled Blorgulax, to get a picture of him, and did see a few actual Blorgulax statuettes. I only recently saw ‘Murder on the the Planet Express’ episode and fell in love with it. All Hail the Hypnotoad.

@sciencefictionreads Жыл бұрын

@@sethball2475 Yeah I imagine my experience would be the same at first. I often dislike the idea of reading something that I can’t tick off on goodreads immediately. As if it means anything lol. But I think I’ll give your technique a try as I really don’t want these magazines to sit around unread. Now I’m off to enjoy a good book and a can of Slurm.

@waltera13 Жыл бұрын

Those are just gorgeous! What art! Nice, flat, clean- Frameable!

@sciencefictionreads Жыл бұрын

I do in fact have an Analog from the 70's framed with a Niven story illustrated on the cover!

@rickkearn7100 Жыл бұрын

Great to see your enthusiasm for the Amazing (and other publications) cover art, SFR! It jump-started the imagination so that delving into the stories was all the better. Their cover art is exceptional in so many ways, and part of the allure. Amazing had the best art, to my eye. The only three mags I have from 1956; Feb-Mar-Apr, with Heinlein's "Double Star" in three parts, in Astounding Science Fiction. The novel was published same year and won the Hugo. I picked them up at a yard sale for 25 cents each! I thoroughly enjoyed this tour of some great publications. Enjoy your perusal of them. Love your channel sir. Cheers.

@sciencefictionreads Жыл бұрын

Thanks Rick! Much appreciated! Half the reason I bought them was for the cover art. I also really love the art from Analog in the 60's and 70's.

@mibelloaleman 5 ай бұрын

This collection totally blew my mind! I so love the pulp sci fi magazines! The cover art works are exquiste! So much so that I bought a 1960 Fantastic Stories mag with Gordon R. Dickson's story called The seats of Hell. It is so beautiful and alien-like that I commisioned an online seller to custom make me a cross stitch (a form of needlework) pattern. It's exquisite and it will take me about 4 to 5 years to stitch, but it will be SO WORTH IT! The art work then (not to mention the stories) were so amazingly beautiful. It's ashame that many of the paintings were destroyed, thrown in the thrash, and now the few existing ones are worth hundreds of thousands of $. Image owning a Frank Paul painting like War of the Worlds! Please keep showing any other mags you continue to buy. Love your channel and pardon the long comment.🛸🚀🛸🚀🛸🛸🙂

@sciencefictionreads 5 ай бұрын

That is an awesome idea! I can think of a few cover art pieces that I'd love to have as a cross stitch. Thanks for the comment and thankyou for watching!

@mibelloaleman 5 ай бұрын

@@sciencefictionreads You are very welcome! 😀🚀 Yep, I adore the art of this era, so making a cross stitch finished piece will be like owning a museum tapestry, a painting (costly to frame but worth it!). I already started another sci-fi cross stitch: The Howling Stones by Alan Dean Foster (please check it out - the alien!). And I plan to start The Martian Chronocles by Ray Bradbury (exquisite painting!). I may not live long enough to completes these projects but I will work on them because the end game is so worth it! I also make bookmarks and I just started one on Perry Rhodan (are you familiar with these books?) Again, please pardon my long comment, but I share my ideas so that others maybe will want to do the same. LOVE YOUR CHANNEL! 🚀🛸📚🛸🚀🛰🛸🚀🍵😀

@LiamsLyceum Жыл бұрын

Holy 😍 I have one pulp, and 1940 Weird Tales issue. I’m hoping to get more pulps, for sure the first issue of Unknown with a Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story, and some Planet Stories with the Black Amazon of Mars cover from 51 would be sweet

@sciencefictionreads Жыл бұрын

Those are nice choices, I'd really like the 1939 July issue of Astounding with the cover art for A.E Van Vogt's Black Destroyer.

@sciencefictionreads Жыл бұрын

I also look forward to reading the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories sometime!

@rickcroucher Жыл бұрын

Great collection!!

@tbritz13 Жыл бұрын

Ivar Jorgenson was a pseudonym of Robert Silverberg. There were two spellings of Jorgenson with an O and another with an E. The O version was Robert Silverberg. The Jorgensen with the E was Paul W. Fairman. That is an excellent haul. Enjoy. The Creator is very early Simak! Published in a fanzine back in 1935! It was highly controversial for the time.

@8020Alive Жыл бұрын

Didn’t even know that. Thank you for sharing.

@sciencefictionreads Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info! Such a bizarre concept today. To hide the authors identity lol. Your the second person to point out 'The Creator', i shall have to read that one soon!

@thelibraryladder Жыл бұрын

That's a tremendous haul! And they're in great condition, too. Congratulations on finding such a trove. FYI, Ivar Jorgensen was a house name used by several different authors (including Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Randall Garrett, and others) when they were slumming in lower tier magazines, or when they had more than one story in the same magazine issue. A lot of the author names that appeared frequently in the pulps at that time, but aren't recognizable today, were actually aliases, often used by the magazine editor to hide the fact that he was engaged in self-dealing by putting his own stories in the magazine.

@sciencefictionreads Жыл бұрын

Thanks Bridger! That makes sense. There were plenty of names I didn't recognize but it did start to seem strange I hadn't heard of this one considering it appeared in quite a lot of issues.