Once in a Lifetime Science Fiction Book Haul
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
- I cannot express the high I had for days after finding all of this.
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I miss this feeling. I would absolutely hang onto any Joanna Russ books you find. Almost impossible to find in the wild. Female Man is her most well-known book. I'm reading her right now and she's an amazing writer. I would also personally keep Dr. Adder and the Lafferty books. He's also hard to find.
We miss you and your hauls! I will keep the Female Man, and one of the Lafferty's. I actually already had a copy of Dr. Adder, which is how I knew it was valuable, so the new one is getting auctioned
I am very happy for your haul, i totally get your excitement. Obviously I'm also consumed with jealousy! Great set of books. I could never resell like you do, I'd want to keep EVERYTHING.😀📚👍
My house would be on Hoarders if I did that. At least if I sell them, I can say I am a keeper until they find their new forever home, and won't end up buried Alive. TBF it is really really hard to let some go when they sell.
@@B0BsBooks hmmmm now you mention it, my home office lair (where my SF library lives) is beginning to resemble a Hoarders episode...
What a great haul! Earth Abides by George R. Stewart is a classic story of people struggling to survive some sort of apocalypse. You should give it a try.
I had already listed it, and it had bids, before enough of y'all said I should keep. I know there are some duplicates, so maybe I will be double lucky, but if not and I come across it again, I will keep it to read.
@@B0BsBooks I suspect you'll find a copy. It was pretty popular at one time. Stewart is a good writer. He wrote a nonfiction book about the Donner Party, and a novel in the 1950s that presaged the dangers of climate change.
Earth Abides is my favorite book, I would recommend keeping and reading it.
If no one wins it then it gets to stay with me.
I read it for the first time 2 years ago and was blown away by how good it is. Also has some of the saddest moments I've ever read in a fictional story that I know will stay with me for the rest of my life.
It certainly is in my list of top ten books.
The Causal Angel is the third book in the Jean le Flambeur trilogy. The first book is called The Quantum Thief. It combines weird post-singularity sci-fi ideas with a fairly straightforward mystery plot. I highly recommend it.
crazy massive lot!!! such a great haul! makes me reminiscent of my finds :) Totes jelly :) hope you have been well :)
I hope the same for you! Though I watch your tiktoks ;)
@B0BsBooks I'm sorry for your eyes haha 😝😁
Wow!! Congratulations 🎉
I was shaking so hard in the store and then for like two hours after, so that's why Strangeways with you guys was an amazing end to the day!
Please consider keeping the Joanna Russ books! I've been thrifting for a decade and never come across hers, and they are truly worth a read imo. Great haul!
I am Keeping the Female Man, but the rest will go up for auction.
So many awesome books in there! Excited for the following video(s)!
Thank you!
Oh wow Bob I don’t know how I missed this video and your Whatnot sale. Super cool haul I’m grinning ear to ear watching how excited you are. Looking forward to more on this book haul 😊❤️💐👏
Glad you enjoyed it, I am so happy!
Nothing is better than a happy Bob amongst books! I have not seen that dinosaur book before! Sounds awesome!
You and Dinosaurs are like Peanut Butter and Jelly
@@B0BsBooks They are in, on or around everything I own lol that and Star Trek
@@B0BsBooks i prebid on the dino book (had star trek dnd tonight.. hope it sold well!)
It did. I'm sorry you didn't get it.
@@B0BsBooks no worries :)
So good. Congratulations! I think some of these books will have bidding wars. I know Lafferty’s books tend to hold value.
Thank you! Truly shocked to find so many rare pieces all together.
You and I are in synch. I walked into a thrift shop yesterday and a science fiction collection had arrived. I bought 67 books. Yes, Frankenstein Unbound, but also an Elric book, a couple of PKDs, Le Guins, Disch, Solaris, etc. Even a Robert E. Howard I was missing from my collection. I felt like you did.
I’m so happy to hear that the luck lightning struck for more than myself! Sounds like you were just as giddy and found a lot of amazing pieces for your collection.
I am so happy that you found all these great books while searching "out in the wild." I have given away many of my old SF titles and I hope someone out there felt as you do when they acquired some of my former treasures. Love your enthusiasm! Keep a keen eye for more great finds!
Books always bring me great joy. This still has me amped, because I keep getting comments and others sharing how much they love some of the titles or others to look out for. It's one of my favorite things about booktube. I hope your SF titles went into loving homes, and will continue to be shared for many years to come.
@@B0BsBooks Your tracking down great bargains is indeed a special Super Power! You've even got me looking for books without barcodes even though, as I said earlier, I have already given away quite a few titles. Regards from NE Ohio!
Wow great find on Hothouse, I had a lot of trouble finding that! Also I've heard very good things about The Female Man. I'm actually currently reading and very much enjoying one of her short stories
I agree about Hothouse. Matt made that book very hard to find, because everyone wanted to read it after his review. I am keeping The Female Man.
I'm a little late to the party but I'd keep/read The Earth Abides. It's a classic that's on many lists of best sci-fi must reads.
This was an overwhelming opinion. I unfortunately already sold it, but the next one I come across I am keeping and have it in my notes app.
Love that trippy looking Tau Zero cover.
Same! If I didn't have a hard cover already I'd be very tempted to keep it.
I have that Simak "City" cover and "Excession" by Banks. I got them at the "FAX machine number that has been crossed out" store.
. Great haul. Looking forward to Friday and future content .
This comment made me LOL. I'm glad the fax machine comment made an impression.
Toward the end of his career Disch had a series of "profession" novels including The M.D. (amazingly wild book) and I think there was The Businessman. The Priest is probably one of those
Anyway don't mind me just frantically learning how to prebid on auctions. But also I agree with the hold suggestions on Russ and Lafferty. They may not be "keep forever" suggestions but are at least "keep for now".
LOL. I'll make sure to ping you when I unbox the Bunch your eagle eyes found in the photo.
Russ's The Female Man is famous. Recommended Mid 70s feminist sf. Christopher Priest is an interesting writer, but I haven't read the one you found. Walter M. Miller is best known for A canticle for Leibowitz. Almost anything by Tom Disch is worth reading. Kin Stanley Robinson's The Memory of Whiteness is wonderful. A touring orchestra in the asteroid belt. R. A. Laferty is really good, and really collectable. A. E. van Vogt, pronounced close to somewhere between Voe and Vote, (as in election).
I will keep the female man. I was close to doing so already. I’m really excited and am so grateful to have so many amazing pieces at once!
I am gonna to 👍👍👍👍 The Memory of Whiteness.
That must be the greatest book haul of all time! Love these books, read a lot of them. Definity read 900 grandmothers by lafferty, the title story alone. It's go or sell with lafferty.
I'm so envy about these finds. Hope they will go into good hands :)
Me too, though if they don't sell then they get to stay with me lol.
Keep the Joanna Russ ones. Her books usually never show up in the wild. She's a key figure in 70s SF and is about to become much more widely known (and likely much more sought-after) because Library of America will be publishing a volume of her books later this year.
That's very exciting! Hopefully that will bring her to a whole new audience of readers.
Man, I'm jealous of those Banks finds. Fearsum Endjinn and Against a Dark Background are his only two sci-fi books I don't have. And that copy of State of the Art has a much cooler cover than the one I have.
They will be up for sale so they could be yours.
@@B0BsBooks would love that but sadly Whatnot shipping rates to Canada are prohibitively expensive! (at least the last time I checked)
Its my understanding that the black masterworks were the first release, numbered too, and then the yellow releases took over. I cant recall if they are numbered or not. you can still buy the yellow releases new in stores. at least here in Australia you can. Last year I got a hard cover yellow release new of Starship Troopers.
Thank you for letting me know! You're such a font of nerdy book knowledge.
Great haul. Usually, in a haul that size, there is a lot of dross, but this was almost all good. I'm sure you won't have any difficulty in moving the ones you showed.
Your reaction was even better. It put a smile on my face. Thank you.
Of the authors you don't know. Lafferty is a genius - arch, humorous, and extremely right wing. Not to everybody's taste. You should at least try Kage Baker. Like the Yarbro/Daniels/Rice vampire in the past stories, these use a one-way time travelling android as a device to set speculative stories in history. They're a lot of fun. The two Joanna Russ books you showed are generally considered the height of feminist SF.
I hope you are correct. Books have always been the best of friends to me, and I genuinely love them. I am so grateful to have discovered Science Fiction recently, and to have a whole new genre to explore.
This video made me happy 😁
Love your name. This massive find gave me a book high for weeks after.
Amazing haul! The Use of Weapons by Iain. M. Banks is perhaps my favourite of his Culture novels, though they are all brilliant. The Joanna Russ books are a rare find, they are really hard to find.
Y'all are making me feel like I did even better. I know there are a couple more Russ books somewhere in the other boxes. Do you have the read the Culture Novels Sequentially?
Wow! Bonanza! Such a thrill!
Truly is!
Got one of these (all fantasy) once. Cost me the equivalent of a clean $80US.
Was about 5 boxes that size stuffed to the brim.
That’s an amazing deal!
Felicitations on your find. Amazing how a good haul ameliorates your face colour. Who needs blush when you can get rosy cheeks for free, eh?
I love all the SAT words. Scratches my brain just right.
Yay books!!!
Exactly what I was screaming internally for like 3 hours.
Christopher Priest, nice.
Thank you 💕
Hi Bob...AMAZING book haul. Where did you find all these? Did I miss that info?
I didn’t share it 😉 dm me on insta and I’ll tell you.
Lafferty is very good, but I don't think you'll like them, so you should send them directly to me!
If you win them at auction I could do just that ;)
The ones to consider keeping and reading, before giving in to any thought of selling them…
The Female Man, by Joanna Russ
The Malacia Tapestry, by Brian Aldiss
Holy Fire, by Bruce Sterling
New York 2140, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Dr Adder, by K. W. Jeter (well, we knew that)
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (the last gasp when it comes to turning a corner and liking a Heinlein book)
Fourth Mansions, by R. A. Lafferty
The Haul is sublime (what we’ve seen…)!
I kept the female man and the fourth mansions. I actually already have a copy of Dr. Adder. Since you gave me the Crowley Omnibus The Deep was actually easy to let move on even with the signature. The rest I’m selling because I got a cute kitty to feed as well as myself. 💕. I also have three more boxes of temptations so we’ll see how many in total end up staying with me.
I'm french and.. well, live in France. But I only read Science Fiction in english, because I don't like traductions and french is, in my opinion, not a good language for that kind of writing. Maybe it's just me.. Anyways, you can't imagine how difficult it is to find older copies of english SF here.. it's depressing to have to get everything off from Ebay and Amazon.. And the shipping fees from the UK and US are ridiculous on Ebay.
Gene wolf is a writer i want to get into.
Same. I am still hunting for the Claw of the Conciliator.
@@B0BsBooks nice yeah thats on my look out list as well. i recently got Castleview just have not read it yet but i plan on it this year
All the Nebula winners? So you'll be reading Lois McMaster Bujold's "Vorkosigan Safa", then?
All the Novel Nebula Winners. I have read some Novellas and I will read other books in the series if the Novel Winner is part of one. But not every Nebula winner ever. Some of that saga is a Nebula Winner but I haven’t tackled any of her works yet that won.
@@B0BsBooks Sorry, I tend to think that everyone is as enthusiastic about that series as I am.
@@RamBam3000 no need to apologize. It's quite the saga, so it is a lot just to read the ones in it. When I get to those novels if I find myself loving it, I may end up reading the rest of the Saga.
Well, a vast collection of modern trash, being anything from the point where editors began demanding trilogies and more. There is very little that is any good after that. A few classics. Maybe whoever dumped the books kept all the good ones?
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and I was quite happy with the books from this haul I got to keep and with how the auctions went.
@@B0BsBooks I'm not saying they are not popular. Just rather blandly predictable with loads of shoe leather and dialogishness. I mean nothing astonishing. The pulp "Astounding" was called that for a reason. A collection of Roger Zelazny's short stories is a more modern example I guess. The silly styles from fantasy have crossed over into the science fiction octologies and we get soap operas. I can't get past the first chapter of so many. And then we get the most predictable derivative books like Ender's Game elevated to required reading in the high schools! Now THAT is Astounding. Oh well, read the Justina Robson 4 book set. It is astounding.