"Earth Abides" is truly timeless.

"New Bookpilled just dropped!" *drops everything to watch*

"That's gotta be a rare book" *throws it carelessly back into the box* So jealous of your finds, looking forward to the Roadside Picnic review, one of my favourites.

Keep your eyes pealed for Mick Farren, especially The DNA Cowboys trilogy.

Robert Silverberg is SO underrated. He always delivers.

I'm so jealous man, I live in Germany and I have to order all the vintage scifi books over ebay so I can enjoy them here... Only great books you show us!!!

A World Out of Time is one of my favorite Niven novels.

Damn, what a haul. Cordwainer Smith is a write I wish more readers would investigate. THE INSTRUMENTALITY hardcover is one of my most precious possessions. He had a VISION--that's what I love in a writer, a unique look at the world. Ellison...Leiber...AH! Enjoy your reading, man, good stuff coming you way.

Roadside Picnic is so freakin rad. When I saw the previews for Annihilation, I couldn't help but think it was a nearly direct ripoff of Roadside...ultimately this detracted from the movie because I couldn't separate the two in my head. Still a great movie on its own, but it makes me want a new adaptation of Roadside. If you haven't seen the Tarkovsky adaptation Stalker, I highly recommend. It's a very moody and dark film, but it definitely captures the essence of Roadside.

Neverness - 1st of the series and good place to start. The one you got is it’s beautiful original paperback. Slow psychological and philosophical character drama. Series ramps up in pace as the books go on. Save that and read it asap. 🎉

H G Wells…..When the Sleeper Awakes…….loved it

Those books would be my dream collection! I have some of them, but most I have never read. Have you heard of the "12 Planets of the Intergalactic Map" series? Book 3 called "The Vandekirians" was just released. It's main plot is: "What happens when 12 civilizations from different planets meet for the very first time? Will their common origin unite them? Or will they destroy each other?" The world-building alone is so imaginative and creative to behold, and the character-driven and grand mythos of this universe the author has created is very engaging and mesmerizing.

The Peirs Anthony book must be scarce because I never saw that one back in the day when I was collecting sf paperbacks. I can paint these covers in acrylic. I show my paintings around and people who know nothing about SF also like them, both men and women. The cover art is part of the reason these books sold when they were new. And they sold lots of them.

Your videos give me a sense of enormous wellbeing

This immortal has been at the top of my tbr for awhile now. The cover on it is fantastic!

I read wizard of the pidgeons a long time ago, thought it was pretty good at the time, cant remember much about the plot now. Great haul of books though.

Holy shit Neverness! My uncle recommended it to me as a kid and it was the very first hard sci fi book i ever read! It was my intro to the whole genre and what kept me in it!! Its a good book and im so surprised it isnt talked about more

That pebble in sky book is awesome. Great finds man!

DAMN! I just stumbled upon "Warlord of Ghandor" in a Library sale today (and NEVER before in my life!)

I haven't read that Mike McQuay Robot Series book, but his Mathew Swain series of pulpy, sci-fi, noir fiction novels is absolutely awesome. McQuay wrote a good bunch of stuff on his own, a load of pulpy series material (like the Robot Series and Mack Bolan books), and a collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke called Richter 10. I'd suggest the Swaim series as a beginning and if you were a fan of Escape from New York (the movie) he wrote that novelization.

Fabulous cover art on so many of those beauties

I read Neverness earlier this year and loved it. Excited to hear your eventual review.

New favorite word unlocked: “Gryffincake”

Excellent videos. Your knowledge of genre literature is admirable. My new binge watch channel.

"Lord of Light" is one of the five I'd take to a desert island with me.

Inferno by Niven and Pournelle is a fun to read version of Dante-Lite

I'm vicariously living my reader's life through you! Great haul. I'm just finishing Solaris today. Babel-17 next.

That’s a great haul of books, looking forward to the next sale. I’d bet the bidding on the Wolfe book will be savage.

For your information : Gérard Klein is a French author.

On and off for about 6 months, I've been trying to remember the name of a book I read long ago. As soon as I saw it, I knew it was Niven's A world out of Time. Thanks, its been killing me. Shockwave Rider! I love that book.

Richard McKenna is underrated. You made a GREAT haul this time.

Really like your channel! I moved to the San Diego area about a year and have been meaning to check out an SF bookshop called Mysterious Galaxy

I think I remember a Gilliland as an illustrator for Locus and other fanzines back in the day. Don't know if his first name was Alex though.

A bunch of things while I try and keep my envy at bay... Neverness is absolutely great - think Dune but on an ice planet, with LOTS of ideas and speculation, and beautifully written. Also, Janet Morris is quite good, and the Silistra series (that is SF despite the covers) is absolutely unique. Ron Goulart can be hit or miss, but at his best he was brilliant. And both Ansen Dibell and Jo Clayton are just smart and lots of fun; they are SF, not fantasy (and pretty rare, AFAIK).

I read Hellstrom's Hive by Frank Herbert after seeing your enthusiasm and it's FANTASTIC! Please read it if you have not got around to it.

Hi Matt! Good to hear you're doing good on Whatnot. I just signed up for it and maybe if I can figure it out I'll join the crowd to watch (or buy) some great SF Books from you.

The Gregg Turkington of sci-fi books

Would love to see some of the front book art

I went to a public library book sale this week and found lots of vintage books. I even found copies of a book I've been looking for but forgot the author's name. "The Baker's Boy" by J. V. Jones, and the second book in that trilogy also. Plus lots of obscure 80s women writers in fantasy/sci-fi, and some Star Trek books.

Fantastic beefcake already at 5 seconds into the video. This is going to be good.

The Skylark Three cover is indeed Chris Foss....he did all the Panther Doc Smith books in the early 70's. The cover on The Einstein Intersection is by the late great Peter Elson who painted several Delany covers for Sphere....the cover he did for Babel-17 is sensational.

You might want to try Nunquam by Lawrence Durrell, my favorite robot book along with Caves of Steel. Usually ignored because it is the second of a pair of book and the first, Tunc, is not sf, but both are stylistic masterpieces.

Rozinante, Don Quixote's squeeze. Oops! Wrong, that was the Don's horse. Dulcinea was his romantic interest.

I don't go to Goodwill very often, but every time I do, I take a look at their book selection, and would have to say, they do have some great books.

Great site: brilliantly captures the opiate excitement of plunging into charity shops for paperback trove, then the whole is garnished with incisive critical commentary and then he sells them to you! Have you tried the page 99 test? it works on the theory that al all writers try very hard at the beginning and end of the book to make their prose sing, if you want to see what the big book will sound like when they're in the midst of it look at page 99 and try to engage with the quality of their prose from there: it works!

Excited to hear what you think about Roadside Picnic, it’s one of my all time favourites

You DO find unusual quantities of rare books. . . and the sexiest editions

The New York Times just ran an article on how to get into Phillip K Dick (like breaking down his most canonic books and why you’d like them if you like something else) and featured some awesome vintage covers. Love them.

Fun video. They always are. The gems, as far as I’m concerned: Neverness by Zindell (I hope you keep it; anyway, someone is gonna love that one.) The Wizard of the Pigeons by Lindholm (yeah, it’s good! that’s a bit of a find, too - not common; somewhat of a well-respected, now forgotten novel…someone who knows about it will want it.) The Phoenix and the Mirror by Davidson (I focused on that as my first book by Davidson simply because it was on an old “100 Best Fantasy” novels, and it’s great. Recommended.) Boy, someone went to town on getting tons of Colin Kapp. My perception is that he is one of the least well-reviewed SF authors out there. Like, hackwork incarnate - which might be fun!)

Idk if it is rare or not, but the Cluster books are fun and two of the aliens got included in Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials. The series has an interesting conceit: the further from a center of development a colony is, the less technology can be sustained there--so instead of having the frontier colonies be sleek Star Trek style outposts, they are literally in the stone age.

I think you should keep & read Elizabeth A. Lynn's A Different Light; it is excellent, v much has an early Delany vibe. All of her work is excellent, but mostly fantasy; she only wrote one other SF novel, The Sardonyx Net - which comes with puffs by Varley, Jeff Frane, Piercy, McIntyre. Jo Clayton's Diadem series (what she is best known for) is v definitely SF, despite that cover. The Edward Llewellyn books are pretty-good-for-their-time space opera.

''Expedition to Earth'' is a great title, and a short story that, with ''The Sentinel'', would become ''2001: A Space Odyssey''.

Gerard Klein is a french author. So unless there is an author with the same name, Mote in time's eye is probably a translation.

Star by C.I Defontenay has been on my radar forever. Its a sort of space opera first published in 1854.

roadside is one of my top favs

Just started reading Blood Music (at your recommendation). I am liking it right off the bat (but then I like Greg Bear generally)

The Rosinante series is pretty good.

I really want to read Blood Music after hearing you talk about it.

I found that same copy of Cyberiad at a local used bookstore and they were asking for $25! I NEVER see that book in shops

I wonder if the Edward Llewellyn books you keep finding, if he's somehow related to the author of the yearly planting books, sun & lunar Cycle books & all the books related to mysticism? You wouldn't think that a very common name 🤔

Meghan Lindholm is Robin Hobb's old pen name.

Brunner is good. SHOCKWAVE RIDER a proto-cyberpunk. Like you, I love Bear's BLOOD MUSIC. Cordwainer Smith and Stanislaw Lem are great auto-acquisitions. The awards volumes always make for good reading. Fritz Leiber's surname is pronounced Lie-ber, not Lee-ber. The Zelazny, LORD OF LIGHT, is really good. Spinrad is oft excellent, but I've not read that specific title. Love Vance. THIS IMMORTAL is good Zelazny. It tied with DUNE for best Hugo novel in '66. L'Engle is pronounced like the apostrophe isn't there. French in origin but anglicized. LENG-el. WIZARD OF THE PIGEONS is wonderful urban fantasy. Love Avram Davidson. I'm not as enamored of his SF, but his Fantasy/Weird stuff is great. THE PHOENIX AND THE MIRROR is great, but also hard to come by. I've never come across that edition in the wild. You're right on the Ron Goulart pronunciation. Ghoul-art. Incredibly prolific, infamous for writing the William Shatner TEKWAR books. HAAKON, not MAAKON. Quasi-historical fantasies centered around Vikings. More sword and sorcery adjacent than true sword and sorcery. Aye, Lumely wrote the NECROSCOPE series. Tiptree was, and remains, a favorite. Gérard Klein, not Gerald. French SF author. His short work, especially the early short work, is his best. The novel isn't related to Nivel and Pournelle. It's just that both titles are playing off of a Biblical episode. Gosh how Thomas Burnett Swann's profile has fallen. THE INTEGRAL TREES is Hard SF. It doesn't begin realistically like BLOOD MUSIC, but it ramps up to heights of awe and jaw-dropping invention like BLOOD MUSIC. Fafhrd is to rhyme with proffered. Strugatskys are good. COSMIC RAPE has also been published as TO MARRY MEDUSA. I love Sturgeon, and liked it when I read it, but upon refection it isn't one of his stronger novels. Delany is great; as is Wolfe. I believe, though I could be misremembering, that Hubbard's ghostwriter came late into his life. ORBIT series is great.

gahhh selfishly im mad youre not selling those Lem's! im just now getting into his work, and while i didn't love Solaris, im obsessed with somr of his other novels like His Masters Voice and The Invincible

I prefer Lem's funnier books, and I think The Cyberiad is his best/funniest. Girl Who Was Plugged In is brilliant! You picked some real winners...

A World Out of Time is my favorite Niven novel. It’s not great, sure; but is almost Simakian in mood, and I up my ardor in acknowledgement of the James Branch Cabell references.

Unlike Robots in Time, Asimov lent his name to the series Robot City when he was still alive. If you have any interest or experience in live theater, you should read Christopher Stasheff's A Company of Stars. It's first sequel was We Open on Venus (actually set on a planet called New Venus). I can't rememeber the name of the third in the series, but as far as I know, that was the last of the series, but a much longer series seemed to be promised.

Love Lem’s The Invincible

New subscriber here! That's a LOT of books! Do you really intend to read all of them? And I concur, Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser is one of the most important series in the fantasy genre. Top 5 in my humble opinion. Very surprised to see Where Were You On Last Pluterday by Paul Van Herck pop up there at the end. I didn't even know it had been published in the US. I highly recommend this weird, nonsensical, and very fun novel if you get tired of reading the same old-same old, and want to try something very different. Don't let go of it before you read it!

Read a description on Wikipedia of Lem’s The Invincible…. Oh my, grubby little hands indeed.

If you took the suggestive book cover from "Prelude to Space" and hooked it up with the suggestive book cover from "The Flight of the Horse, what would you get? Booklets!

Wizard of the Pigeons, by Lindholm is a very good contemporary fantasy book. Highly recommended for anyone who thinks the synopsis on the back cover sounds vaguely interesting.

I have been recently searching for my Shockwave Rider and cannot locate. Blood Music was surprisingly good.

Griffin-cake made me hungry

Sent you that book today finally Matt. I have 'Neverness', it was big back in the 80s. The Chilson is quite uncommon. That 'Neuromancer' isn't a first paperback - the World First is the Ace Terry Carr special, which predates the UK Gollancz hardcover (this is how it won the PKD award, which is for paperback originals only). It looks like a pbk of the Ace tenth anniversary to me, but I may be wrong there. A fun haul as ever!

I have a few titles in the Diadem of the Stars series, but not that one.

Non-English language SF that I noticed: Stanislaw Lem (Polish) The Strugatsky Brothers (Russian) Géard Klein (French) Paul van Herck (Belgian)

NEVERNESS!!! So dark and creepy and cold and....

"Dean Koontz, somehow" (He wrote some SF for the magazines, early, as I recall. I remember reading him in F&SF). Simak, "Why Call Them Back From Heaven" -- part of the Ace Science Fiction Specials series, which was mostly really good stuff. "Inferno" -- excellent. (The sequel, not so much. IMHO&YMMV.) "As the Curtain Falls" -- swashbuckling adventure in the absolute twilight of the world. SF, not S&S. Colin Capp mostly published in John Campbell's Analog. Potboiler stuff, nothing outstanding that I recall. Arsen Darney is also a name from that era, ditto. Delaney did juveniles? Now there's a scary thought. And a whole bunch of names I have no recollection at all of.

I remember that Jo Clayton book being more scifi than fantasy

me: *freezes video at 11:51

I think "dangerous visions" has the same style cover art as the Foundation books of the same era. Plus, i think there is a similar cover style for "pebble in the sky" and "earth is room enough".

Sword and Sorcerer falls into some fun 80's cheese. Rather than read the book or watch the movie I recommend watching with Mystery Science Theater 3000 (rebranded to Rifftrax?) after a couple adult sodas or edibles... depending on your preference. 😂

Where can you find book stores that sell these type of boxes?

I never find this much stuff around where I live.

if you like don maitz's art (shadow), rereading wolfe podcast has an episode with him as a guest. you can find it on youtube. recommend it ^.^

Gérard Klein, that means translated from french.

Ah, "The City of Gold and Lead", that is one I read. But I always have to Google the author.

You haven't read Inferno? It's brilliant. And there's a sequel too.

I'm almost 70 and have read SF since I was 14 or so and have never, ever heard of "Edward LLewelyn". Let us know your reaction to him.

I'm still having problems signing into Discord so pass this along to Moid if you could. Moid I hope you know when you bring those classics that are hard to come by to "charity' that they probably use the pages for something other than reading...Seriously. Do you actually think someone in poverty gives a rat's ass about reading science fiction?

BP: can you suggest a one-stop source all about SF cover art? I've not searched extensively yet to find one but, if anybody knew of a source I figured it would be you. Great haul BTW. Cheers.

Have you ever come across copies of "The Saga of Pliocene exile" by Julian May? They're amazing sci fi combining a bit of European mythology written by a woman in the 1980's.Millions of copies were sold globally. I think that they're very under rated and you never hear much about then anymore which I find strange. She was a fantastic, inventive story who created a complex story with many fascinating characters that encompasses the Earth as it was 6 million years ago to a galaxy spanning multi species civilisation that was watching and waiting for humanity to mature to a certain level for 60,000 years! First in the series is "The many coloured land" 1981

As you made no comment on it I assume you have not read "the shockwave rider" by John Brunner. It was interesting in 1975 when I first read it and remains my favorite SF to this day.

I just read Solaris by Lem. I liked some things about it but also found it kind of boring. Are there better titles to try by him?

Have you ever come across "Titan", or the Titan series by Varley, I think? Very different.

How do you identify first editions?

“Griffoncake”

Joining the discord server sounds like something I'd like to do. But the link there is showing as invalid!

I try so hard to read one before I buy one, but it's a sickness, isn't it?

If Hubbard had a ghostwriter, ti was definitely much later on. Maybe an almost literal "ghostwriter" since there is more than a suggestion that his cult hid the fact that he was dead for a while there. So it seems entirely possible that some of the Mission Earth stuff in particular, he didn't actually write. But I think he was always a con. i've just been reading Jack Williamson's autobiography for podcast researcha nd he talks about one of heinlein's parties where Hubbard attended and told everyone war stories yet couldn't reveal key bits of info because "government hush-hush, you know". Williamson describes his eyes and how it always looked like he was testing his audience to see how much they would believe.