I don’t know you. But it makes me happy when you are happy about finding good books.

Truly astounding, this solidifies your position as the second best KZread bookhauler in the multiverse.

@Nick-yk4pq

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah Mike has some good hauls!

@ZamWeazle

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nick-yk4pq 😂

Dude, the smile on your face when you pick up some of the books and look at them, right before you hold them up, is just fricken adorable.

Had to pause to say “of course i’m watching “

I think the Star Wars novelisation was written by Alan Dean Foster. He wrote (at least) another Star Wars book in his own name, _Splinter of the Mind's Eye._ I think Star Wars was the first "adult" (long paragraphs, sparse dialogue, no illustrations (apart from movie stills in the middle)) book I ever had. At the age of seven, long before home video, I found it difficult but rewarding. I used to have a couple of the Brian Wossname Han Solo books as well. All gone now!

That copy of God Emperor of Dune floored me 😂

That's it! I'm going to set some time aside to read again. Your enthusiasm is contagious. It reminded me how much I love and miss using my imagination. Thanks! Keep the vids coming!

Hi. Interesting video. Star Wars was ghost written by Alan Dean Foster. My number one want/need is Larry Niven's Ringworld 1st Edition as it has Luis Wu travelling the wrong way around the world in the first chapter (making his birthday last as long as possible using matter transfer booths). Happy hauling 😎

I was deep deep into Dickson's Childe Cycle in my younger days. Also, on the subject of Zelazny, If you have all the Amber Chronicles, you need to read them. The Dragon and the George is quite good.

@jumperpoint

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I was too, but it seemed to take forever for the next one to come out. Now I know what waiting really feels like. On Zelazny, the Francis Sandow books are my favorite. I like Doorways in the Sand too. But Amber endures.

I find it hilarious that The Thing was the book you wanted the most but didn’t know that Star Wars was written by the same author (ADF). 😃 Great haul though.

@skooter6235

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Alan Dean Foster, I was thinking the same thing.

When you pulled out the Harry Harrison book you mentioned he wrote Steel Rat, but his most famous book is Make Room! Make Room! Which was turned into the movie Soilent Green. Just thought I’d mention it incase you weren’t aware of the book, it’s an incredible read. Some amazing finds there, quite a few novels and authors I wasn’t even aware of.

I had that edition of Jack of Shadows when I was a wee lad. Enjoyed it as I did all the Stainless Steel Rat series.

Saw Roger Zelazny on top and had to watch it. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I was 14 and getting to chat with him and he was so inspirational and he is still my favorite writer of all time.

Covers from the 70's and early 80's on paper backs were the best. Many Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo & Michael Whelan covers back then and others in their style. I have the entire set of John Carter of Mars books with the Micheal Whelan covers all painted from a scene from each of the books. The front and back of the books including the spines were all one painting.

This channel just takes me way back to a time of my obsession with SF around 1970....you mention some authors & I think my god yeh !

Great haul I went to the Goodwill bins one day and found someone dumped their science fiction collection I left with over 400 books, two carts full. As for finding editions of books you can figure out if it is the book club edition if there is no price on the inside dust cover. I also love going to estate sales.

That "The Thing", I got a huge rush just seeing you holding it! Congrats! Look forward to your review! What a haul!!

Wow, Matt. This is awesome. You’ve got my attention with all these books. Rock on, fellow bibliophile!

Great haul, those books are beautiful. Cherryh is still alive and writing.

You’re such a natural talking about books. Bravo!

Thank you man - you inspire me to deep dive second hand bookstores in my country to find hidden gems

out of the Zelazny books, you got 4 of the 10 books in the Amber series. This series is my favorite Zelazny books if not my third or fourth favorite book series of all time.

@routex1

2 жыл бұрын

Same here.. love Zelazny and love the Chronicles of Amber!

Best haul ever! I'm into Asimov's 'The Caves of Steel' now, but I clearly need to try a Roger Zelazny. Your excitement is contagious dude!!

When you find those hard/soft cover books like Orwell, I believe they were early Book of the Month Club editions. My neighbor was an avid reader and many of the books he shared with us back in the day were in similar format. DNK if it makes a difference in value esp with overrun classics but they are nice to read.

Glorious haul! Thanks for sharing!

Why is this not called, "Haul of Fame?" Amazing haul! I see the truck of a bigfoot hunting tour company almost every time I go to Wal-Mart, I try not to take it personally.

@kjlovestoski9335

2 жыл бұрын

Cool Bigfoot book....All of these would be great Christmas presents....

When you find a set of books like this at a Goodwill or a used bookstore, it usually means a brother or sister SF fan has died, and their collection has been gotten rid of by their relatives. While reveling in your good fortune coming across these books, spend a moment in respect for another one of us is that is gone.

I just found this video. Amazing, absolutely amazing 90% of these books are in my library. Oh my God. It brings back so many memories and I need to go back and read a lot of stuff. Thanks for this.

Dancer from Atlantis. Yeah that's a Frazetta cover. Nice score.

Wow, that’s one hell of a collection, especially the hardcovers! The cover art is museum-worthy. Never knew Gordon Dickson wrote so many books. These editions of the Van Vogts are awesome too, I’m jealous! Greetings from Holland. - Rob

One thing you might have learned since you made this video and said you had the entire library of Roger Zelazny is that none of the books you showed are the original Amber series. These books are: Nine Princes in Amber The Guns of Avalon The Sign of the Unicorn The Hand of Oberon The Courts of Chaos It also seems you’re missing another fun book of his called Roadmarks And I think another gap is the Dilvish the Damned novels There are quite a few more

"Sentient dinosaurs, I presume. " I don't know why but I found that pretty funny. This is amazing. I've read so much sci-fi but i realized I've only scratched the surface. I whis I could just read every one of these. I usually listen to audio books these days because i drive for work. But i really have to check out vintage scifi. Thanks for bringing all these treasures to my attention. I can imagine opening one of those books and sticking my nose in to smell it lol. I love the smell of old books.

Oh my. Another huge Sci fi haul! The universe is smiling on you!

Tactics of Mistake is wonderful -- the best of the Dorsai books in my opinion.

Van Vogt is the best of all time. He inspired X-men and Alien the Ridley Scott film.

If I may,two books ~ Dicksons ‘Time Storm’ and more fun with ‘Venus on the HalfShell’ (Kilgore Trout aka Kurt Vonnegut) ..yeah..do appreciate your enthusiastic renderings,wonderings,offerings ~ Cheers

I love everything about Red Dwarf. I bought the omnibus years ago and it was so awesome to read all the stories in one volume

Doomfarers is one of my favorites from back in the day. Fun, fun read!

Star Wars!!!! Amazing. Have to tell you that the view of the rebel base is actually Tikal, Guatemala when my husband did archaeology. I was with him.one season. I've Bern at the Rebel Base!

Wow. This is fantastic. Fun video to watch.

Love it when you get lucky like that!

I came back to re-watch this one! You truly have *no idea* just how many of those books I owned - especially prior to August 1988 when I moved and most of my books went into storage. I kept my books in immaculate condition! I'm more of a Fantasy guy, but have read plenty of SF in my life. I get sentimental & choked-up thinking back to the kid I was (17 to 24 years old = 1981 to 1988) reading all those books. Mind you: I worked, went to school and had a social life, too, BUT I MADE TIME TO READ! I love to read and since the 7th grade (beginning 08/76), I prioritized my time, so I could read *DAILY* ! BTW, from 19 to 24 years old, I functioned on 3 or 4 hours sleep a day, usually 6 days a week! I wish I'd known you when I was needing to "get rid of" my books due to moving (space constraints) or health issues!

Wow great haul. You make me want to get back in to reading. I lost the passion after my son was born but now that he’s older would love to pick it up again.

That cover at 19:16 was a bit suggestive! 😮😂

Exceptional. Thank you.

Just wow!

I think I have got Empower of Dune in hard cover and more. Great series! I envy you this pick up!

Spectacular haul! I wish I could have seen your face when they brought that box out from the back. The artwork alone is worth it, but you got some amazing reads as a bonus!

OMG I had a few of those Lone Wolf books when I was a kid. That takes me back

@ramahpalmer7089

2 жыл бұрын

As did I. I actually won first prize, a Spectrum+ computer, from a competition that was printed in the back of the UK edition of the fifth book. I had dozens of Fighting Fantasy books and The Way of the Tiger books (my personal favourites) and they all just disappeared. I think my parents must have given them to charity or something. :(

Wonderful video.watched it from start to finish

Spider Robinson! I loved discovering his novels in the 90s. I had them all.

Most of those HC were SFBC editions (Science Fiction Book Club). I had hundreds of them before my stroke in 2016; sold most off to Half Price Books in 2017.

Dang, this makes me want to go out every Saturday and Sunday morning and hit the garage sale circuit!

Yep, you found a horde while the dragon was sleeping. Now I understand your comment to me from last week. "The Magic Goes Away" and "Dragon and the George" cover art are by Boris Vallejo who was prolific, to say the least, during the 80s and 90s. Definitely hang onto "The Dancer from Atlantis", if for nothing else than that great cover art by Frank Frazetta. Congrats on finding "The Thing".

@Bookpilled

2 жыл бұрын

Nice, didn't realize it was a Frazetta cover.

I remember Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny even-tho it was 50 years ago when I was reading at least a book a week. Really good book. Wikipedia says the title charterer was named in honor of Jack Vance.

If memory serves the movie 'The Thing' was inspired originally by a short story/novella. Read it many years ago (well before you were born). Can't remember who wrote it off the top of my head.

@ronsterm7076

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"Who Goes There" by John W. Campbell was the basis for "The Thing". Great novella and a great movie.

It's always fun finding special bigfoot items at the thrift store

Love the new backdrop, and the hat (matches the the eyes).

You have quite a few collectors editions in your haul. Very, very impressive. Tactics of Mistake by Dickson is the first of his Dorsai books, Cherryh is alive and the Faded Sun Trilogy is somewhat different than Dune. You're missing a few Amber novels by Zelazny plus I didn't see Damnation Alley which was made into a very bad high budget movie that bombed losing out to Star Wars a New Hope. Practice Effect is a humorous book. Fred Saberhagen also wrote the Dracula Tapes (the first book in his Dracula series), and the Frankenstein Papers. I need to drive down to San Diego instead of searching the Bay Area. Great haul!

Disch certainly _is_ special. _Camp concentration_ is superb.

Those covers are terrific! I collect vintage sci-fi paperbacks, most not in as good condition as yours here, and the covers are just a treat. CJ Cherryh is one of my favorite sci-fi authors, can't find better xenocultural/political sci-fi, The Chanur Saga is the best imo.

@richardcreurer2935

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Chanur Saga is darn good but the Foreigner series explores this genre to a much greater extent. But she wrote a couple standalone novels that took the xenocultural sci-fi genre to another level altogether. Kind of heavy reading to start where she developed the world building stages, then the stories just grabs ahold to takes you on a very wild ride to the conclusion. I think the novels are part of the Alliance Space novel collection called Cuckoos Egg and Serpents Reach.

Deus Irae is one of my favorite Dick books besides The Maze of Death! Amazing copy!

@routex1

2 жыл бұрын

I just found a hardcover edition, so excited!

Damon Knight was married to Kate Wilhelm, an outstanding SF/fantasy writer in her own right. They were a true science fiction power couple, and lived in Eugene, Oregon for many years.

@bilcal

2 жыл бұрын

Knight's Rule Golden has been a favorite of mine.

New to your channel, just looking at some of your back catalogue. What's amazing to me is how pristine they all look. Hard to find clean copies of vintage, especially paperbacks. Exciting haul!

Carolyn Janice Cherry is very much alive. Heck, she _married_ less than a decade ago! 😀 _The Faded Sun Trilogy_ does have some superficial similarity to _Dune_ (mostly in desert plante setting), but i certainly wouldn't call is a "ripoff".

I have that same Masters of Everon

I have issues with suspension of disbelief, but I am intrigued by these titles. The cover art alone draws me in. The books are relatively short, so maybe I should take the plunge.

The Null A books are great. That cover was by Paul Lehr.

CJ Cherryh is still alive and still publishing books. She is stuck in the Foreigner series that I haven't followed after the first one. The Faded Sun trilogy is possibly her finest work - definitely NOT in any way shape or form a rip off of Dune. I don't read her current books because she needs an editor since she got famous.

Wow! You hit it rich! I am.impressed and am drooling! I read many of these when they first came out in paperbsck! Zelazny such a great author! The first sci-fi book I read was Needle by Hal Clement, not necessarily a great book because it has a child has the main character along with the alien. Really very good. I have to read some Zelazny. So glad to meet another over of the genre. I have the original Astounding Science Fiction mags I think itnis, in the original, but I put them in the proverbial safe place and can't find them!!!

@emsleywyatt3400

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The book "This Immortal" got me into Zelazny.

Speaking of Holy Grails of Sci-Fi, have you heard of the Lensman Series, by Edward Elmer "Doc" Smith, Ph. D? This is a classic space opera series of six novels published from 1948 to 1954. In 1966 this series won a second place Hugo award (after the Foundation Series) for best all-time Sci-Fi series. The Green Lantern Corp in DC comics is vary similar to the Lensen, although DC comics denies ripping it off.

Have you done a video yet where you do a quick BOLO for authors or what to look for in vintage books or books that are worth reselling? If not, I would love to see it. Do you have any luck finding books at goodwill outlet? Thank you for doing what you do.

A Lot of fun stuff in there! Hiero's Journey is probably the secret score. Great post apocalypse read. Appendix N. I used to have several of those same SFBC editions you got there! Great score! Sounds like a real good time!

@salty-walt

2 жыл бұрын

Uh, *Akshuallee* that's "Unforsaken Hiero" . . . the sequel. . . .

Great haul, there's been a few times I've stumbled on someone's entire collection having been donated. I can definitely relate to standing amongst the bookshelves literally shaking in excitement lol!

@PugetBill

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I had a similar experience a couple of years ago in a big Manhattan bookstore where I came across a dozen or more early Isaac Asimov NON-FICTION paperbacks. I've always enjoyed Asimov's science fiction but I'm an even bigger fan of his non-fiction and have spent years slowly searching for hardcover (if possible) copies of his best early non-fiction books. The Asimov paperback books in this shop were well worn and several had some internal markings and even book reviews cut from newspapers and pasted (!) or taped onto the inside covers. But they were fairly inexpensive and included a few titles that I had never been able to find elsewhere so I was ecstatic at the lucky find and was happy to overlook the poor condition and pasted-in newspaper clippings. I bought ten or twelve of those books that day. But who pastes book review clippings into paperback books anyway??? Weird. Must have been a really big Asimov fan I guessed. When checking out I mentioned to the cashier that I was imagining some poor Asimov fan must have recently passed away and these books were from that person's collection. The cashier said, Oh yes, Asimov's widow had recently passed and these books came from her estate.

@sciencefictionreads

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@@PugetBill Thats incredible! I would cherish those books! And speaking of non fiction by the greats, just yesterday I found Clarkes “How the world was one” in hardcover at a charity shop. Stuff like that from Clarke and Asimov is hard to find and always exciting when you do come across them.

"If anyone had donated their entire collection.." That I believe as SF fans notoriously keep their collections until death. I have been to several goodwill and if they have SF, it's usually very little or only star trek/star wars.

Very nice haul, obviously the person was a fan of Zelazny. Met some old friends in there that I haven't seen in decades. Might I suggest that you keep an eye out for a book by John Myers Myers, Silverlock. Though it does have a reputation of disappearing from collections, which happened to my copies twice. Probably ended up in L- space. Asked the Librarian about it and all he said was "Oook".

I was laughing so hard at the title of that Zelazny book "To die in Italbar". For context in Hungarian that means to die in a pub. Edit: I just got to the end, I have the Thing, too! Obviously a Hungarian edition. I have it since I was 12 🤭

Reminds me of the time I found a copy of The Dune Encyclopedia for $5 in a half-price bookstore!

i was waiting for the Weapon Shops of Isher to appear. the Null-A series were memorable. i found Deus Irae in the corner box last spring and enjoyed it. keep that one. i also expected to see World of Ptavvs. or Macroscope.

Great haul!

What great finds! I once found an autographed first edition of Stand on Zanzibar at a used book store for, I don’t remember, probably a quarter or so, in the sixties.

@Bookpilled

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Amazing find

Holy hell what a haul! I bet you looked like a kid in a candy store when they brought out that box of books haha

Speaking of Harry Harrison & humanoid dinosaurs -- Harrison's West of Eden (and the sequel) is a fantastic alternate timeline sci-fi read.

Gordon R. Dickson's Childe Cycle - 'Tactics of Mistake' and other "Dorsai" novels and stories - is a pretty good read. It's a shame that he wasn't able to finish the series. I think that's the biggest reason why it doesn't get the same exposure as the Dune, Foundation, or other classic Sci-Fi series. BTW- Alan Dean Foster was the writer of the Star Wars novel. So your last 2 books were written by the same person.

IMO, the Two Star Wars hardcovers were the best…the Han Solo one you found is the only one of the 3 that I need…when I saw it, I said..oh I want to find that! Great haul my man!

FYI: "Star Wars" by "George Lucas" was actually written by Alan Dean Foster. Foster is the "Dean of Adaptations," having done many classic sci-fi movies like Alien(s), The Last Starfighter, Outland, etc.

I'm guessing that somebody died. I'm sure he would be glad that the books fell into the hands of someone who will appreciate them.

You have to read Zelazny. He's amazing.

I used to read a bunch of Van Vogt, not because I thought he was a great writer but because 14-16 year old me found him so weird to the extent that I sometimes could not quite grasp what he was saying, or perhaps more what his attitude was... I later discovered that he was more or less the co-founder of Dianetics but jumped ship (no, not literally) when Hubbard was advised to turn the "movement" into a church for tax purposes and changed the name to Scientology. So it was essentially the brain child of two SF authors, one pretty good and one pretty awful.

Really enjoying your channel. It just showed up in my feed three days ago. Seems like it's kind of taking off.

Re: bigfoot - nobody is perfect 😀 Very nice haul. Some of those I never heard of, and have read perhaps 10%. Most of those are difficult to find in e-book format, even pirated.

On the inside flap of the dust jacket, If there is no price listed it's likely a book club edition.

Looks like a lot of Science Fiction Book Club editions. I have a lot of the books you showed in my library. Then again, I have been collecting since the 1970s.

That pressing of Star Wars looks short. I recall that being a thick book with tons of weird details not in any of the movies

For great book hauls, SF Library stock sell off ... soo many great books I had to mail them home, second best perfect paperbacks from a random bookshop in Zimbabwe that also required the books to be shipped!

You seem much more passionate for books than clothing which is more likely a good thing

fantastic haul ....don't sell any until you read them , if you can👍👍..... the Jack Vane story was fist published as ''Gateway to Strangeness'' back in 62....i always enjoy Vance ....i would read the phone book if Vance 😜

Your town must have the greatest goodwill stores on the planet.

@patrickt6642

2 жыл бұрын

Ain't that the truth.15 years ago I could find good stuff like that,not anymore.

C.J. Cherryh is very much alive. Nothing she writes is a ripoff of Dune, or anything else. Anyway, I'm an old man, so most of the "vintage" books you have were written well after I was born, and I've read almost all of them. I still remember going to our public library to get a new armful of science fiction books, and being incredibly sad when I realized I'd read every one the library had. I'd finished the fantasy books before that, so finding anything new to read was a trial. My wife and I downsized after all the kids were gone, and I have to get rid of almost five thousand books. Just no room for so many in the new place. Novels, collections, and anthologies like your haul fill me with wonderful memories of my youth. Sadly, I'm not as fond of most new science fiction. The worst thing that ever happened in the field was when all the readers grew up and became writers. But they forgot that, as some SF writer put it, "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve." He was right. It's fine to write SF for adults, but unless it's written in a way that thrills twelve year old readers, it simply isn't going to be a very large and active genre. But I still re-read many of the old novels and short stories. I can't say Harry Harrison was my favorite SF writer, but he was in the top ten, and no one could write description the way he did, and many of his stories were as good as it gets. I think you've inspired me to head to the library and check out a bunch of the SF writer of my youth.

Hiero's Journey is the sequel to Unforsaken Hiero and they are sci- fi! Both are among my favorites!