ISAAC ASIMOV & GREG BEAR- Completing My Hardcover Collecting Goals

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ISAAC ASIMOV & GREG BEAR- Completing My Hardcover Collecting Goals

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Steve cleans up with the final additions to his Asimov and Bear collections with some lovely hardcover books from the 1980s work of Severn House and Granada/Grafton....
Music: The Occupier (c)

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@GrumpyScotsman 4 ай бұрын

Your collection is a joy to behold.

@outlawbookselleroriginal 4 ай бұрын

I try, but the limits will be reached before too long. A collection is like a work of art, never finished, only abandoned as a work in progress.

@GrumpyScotsman 4 ай бұрын

@@outlawbookselleroriginal Never has a truer statement been said about a true passion.

@salty-walt 4 ай бұрын

One of your most personal in a long time. It's good to keep track. Thank you for sharing.

@outlawbookselleroriginal 4 ай бұрын

Yes, I guess so- who knows what will be next?

@athoszubiaur2144 4 ай бұрын

thanks for sharing, steve. the asimov books look amazing. i'm on my own quest for some of greg bear's books and getting there little by little. please keep sharing!

@outlawbookselleroriginal 4 ай бұрын

Keep the head down, stay dogged, you'll get there. Persistence is key.

@JulesBurt 4 ай бұрын

Great to see these Steve and I value your advice with regards the Asimov reading order. Fantastic 👍

@outlawbookselleroriginal 4 ай бұрын

Thanks mate. Robots, Empire and Foundation gives you the correct internal chronology- but it does make for stylistic unevenness. I'll be talking about this issue when I do the Moorcock videos...

@paulcampbell6003 4 ай бұрын

My own, modest, final library has also taken a step closer to completion. Ten years younger than yourself, Steve, I first discovered the works of *Harlan Ellison* NOT on the page, but on the small screen. In the late '80s I saw the reboot of _The Twilight Zone._ I would have been in my late teens. Three of Ellison's short stories were adapted for Season 1: "Shatterday" "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" "Paladin of the Lost Hour" In the early '90s (I would have been twenty) I borrowed from my local library the 1992 UK Warner Books trade paperback of _New Stories from the Twilight Zone_ edited by Martin H. Greenberg and with a terrific 16 page introduction by Alan Brennert. Amongst many other fine stories which had been adapted to the show, were reprints of the three Ellisons mentioned above. This week I acquired the 1991 US Avon trade paperback original of said anthology in near fine condition (same cover illustration and typography as the later UK edition). 🤗😌

@outlawbookselleroriginal 4 ай бұрын

Nice!

@secretfirebooks7894 4 ай бұрын

Steve over here, making the rest of us collectors self conscious. Gorgeous hardcovers, good sir. 👍

@outlawbookselleroriginal 4 ай бұрын

Make your own collecting rules: you don't have to go mad.

@conradledebuhr1765 3 ай бұрын

Congrats on the new additions! My favorite Asimov novel (although I've not read all of the Foundation/Empire works) has to be End of Eternity, which grabbed me in a way that Asmiov usually can't. ISFDB tells me it was never published in Granada/Grafton hardcover, which is a shame since it is tangentially part of this future history. Either way, another good entry in the Outlaw Bookseller canon; cheers!

@outlawbookselleroriginal 3 ай бұрын

Yes, I have it but not read it yet- and as you say, it wasn't published in hardcover by that house. I'm pleased to have 'completed' Ike for my needs.

@rickkearn7100 4 ай бұрын

An enviable slice of early SF royalty, OB! I've many an anthology by Asimov, a few novels in PB and one in hardcover: The Robots Of Dawn, Doubleday, 1st/1st in fair to good nick and I consider THAT to be a formidible sampling. Would that it were. I do not have, shamefully, any Greg Bear but considering I stopped seriously acquiring SF during my age of discovery in any format sometime in the late 1970's it speaks for itself. Very excellent and absorbing presentation and I feel fortunate to have the perspective of arguably The Oracle in this genre. Cheers!

@outlawbookselleroriginal 4 ай бұрын

I wouldn't worry about not having any Bear, Rick- he's good, but often quite workmanlike in style, though a read of 'Blood Music' at some point is worth doing.

@SciFiScavenger 4 ай бұрын

Hi Steve, the paperbacks of that era of asimov were among the books upon which i cut my sf teeth, i have em all. I do have a few of the hbs, two of the galactic empire books and one or two of the later foundation books. Those are all fabulous Steve. Thou shalt not covet thy neigbours hardbacks. I have a few of the Bears as well, I'd like more. Lovely stuff....

@outlawbookselleroriginal 4 ай бұрын

Hey Jon, good to hear from you as ever. It was a tough job getting all these and it took some years, I must say! I'm currently shedding books and considering how close to the 'Final Library' I am...we'll have to see....thanks for the view, chum.

@themojocorpse1290 4 ай бұрын

Same story for me read all things Asimov at a very young age and then moved on to read vast swathes of SF there after. A great starting point was caves of steel and loved his short stories also really got me into the genre.I Have a soft spot for Asimov for this reason . I must reread in the recommended order I read them a bit scattered shot back in the day.

@outlawbookselleroriginal 4 ай бұрын

@@themojocorpse1290 'The Caves of Steel' was a breakthrough book for me - his earlier stuff I found unreadable, but he stepped up there and as a result, I love the Robot novels- I can feel Asimov's influence in Silverberg and Dick when I read them now.

@PitchSkullBlack Ай бұрын

Fantastic collection.

@outlawbookselleroriginal Ай бұрын

Plenty more to see here like this on the channel.

@reynoldsmathey 4 ай бұрын

When civilization collapses, Stephen Andrews will be there to rebuild it, with books.

@outlawbookselleroriginal 4 ай бұрын

I am fighting a constant rearguard action against the downfall of civilisation daily for the last 4 decades, with books as you say.

@rickkearn7100 4 ай бұрын

Nicely said, old chap.

@OXyShow 4 ай бұрын

O love this videos

@outlawbookselleroriginal 4 ай бұрын

Thanks ace.

@RodneyAllanPoe 4 ай бұрын

I chipped a brain tooth or three on EON. To me it's a reaction to RENDEVOUZ WITH RAMA, which is a tease because nothing really happens. EON perhaps goes too far the other way to the point of decoherence, but I'm glad I read it...more of an experience or a trip. Though I don't recommend it for the Endless Commute.

@outlawbookselleroriginal 4 ай бұрын

'Eon' bored me rigid after around 200 pages, so that was it- I never get on with BDO books, they're too big and too dumb.

@camo_for_cocktails 4 ай бұрын

Can’t help but notice a few missing Bears, like Eternity,Legacy, Heads,Wind(which is a different collection than Tangents) and the like. Is that a hardcovers only thing? Tried and abandoned a reread of Childhoods End last year; it used to be a favourite. Hope to fair better with Clarke’s City and the Stars for the first time; looking forward to your opinion if a reading is in the future.Cheers!

@outlawbookselleroriginal 4 ай бұрын

As I said, my aim with Bear was the collect the early UK hardcovers I once used to sell stopping with 'Eon'- I mentioned that the others I own were just random buys as I like the jackets. 'Heads' (a Legend Novella) came after 'Eon' as did 'Eternity', of course and 'Wind From A Burning Woman' was- I seem to recall- an Arkham House hardcover. I've never really got on with Clarke aside from '2001' (which I read and re-read as a kid and I now find it unreadable) and 'Childhood's' which, apart from the very dull 'A Fall of Moondust', is the only of his novels I didn't DNF.

@thekeywitness 4 ай бұрын

You mentioned romantasy undermining SF publishing. Do you think that’s because young women and girls are dominating the readership and publishing industry?

@outlawbookselleroriginal 4 ай бұрын

I published a video tangential to this some months back. But in short, it's not the readership, it is the way the budgets for fantasy and sf come out of the same pot at major publishers, when they are very different things with different readerships much of the time. However, I can confirm from long boots on the ground experience that men are under-represented in publishing and bookselling and that it has been this way for a very long time.

@louishenderson4516 4 ай бұрын

I have about 40 Asimov most grafton on panther but all paper back. Hardbacks take up too much space for me 😂

@outlawbookselleroriginal 4 ай бұрын

I have around 20 odd paperbacks of Ike's work as well, mostly Panther/Granada/Grafton.

@tylerscott6182 4 ай бұрын

The it's supposedly damp in here, it's not damp in here comments make me lol every time.

@leakybootpress9699 4 ай бұрын

Asimov never held me as a reader, like Clarke, I think both are better short story writers than novelists. I do, however have fond memories of reading the Susan Calvin novels when I was about fourteen, which is probably about the right age to read Asimov. I have very few of his books now and none that I consider part of my core collection. On Greg Bear, your missing The Wind From a Burning Woman (great title), but it's short stories so may not matter to you too much. I think he was a pretty good writer early in his career, but, as you say, tried too hard to write bestsellers with later books.

@outlawbookselleroriginal 4 ай бұрын

I have 'Tangents', which is a variant of 'Wind', I thought..slightly different contents? Also, I was thinking UK firsts early works, wasn't that Arkham House in hardcover....? I have a paperback somewhere. Asimov has done more for me than Clarke in recent years- I enjoyed the late Robot and Foundation novels, but Clarke I cannot get past a few sentences of now, though I'm planning a re-read of 'Childhood's End' later this year....

@rickkearn7100 4 ай бұрын

@@outlawbookselleroriginal His only keeper, IMHO, Stephen. I just read it again this winter (for the 5th or 6th time), a semi-decadal pilgrimage like a dozen or so other authors' best works.