Macbeth is my fave S. Lord of Death has awesome cover. 1919!!!! I’d buy that Fu Manchu. I have a bunch in that Akers (Drey Prescott) series but haven’t read any yet. All these books are fun. Oh, I just picked up another version of Andromeda that has both books in it.
The out of print-ness of the Fu Manchu books makes me want to pick them all up when I can. Obscurity makes the heart grow fonder. I’m curious about that double Andromeda book. I assume you haven’t had a chance to read any of it yet.
Thnks Grammaticus. Those Dray Prescott/Scorpio books were ubiquitous at one point in my sci fi hunting youth…i can’t even remember which one (s) i may have read back then.
With paperbacks from 50s or 60s, here, sometimes i find reasonable prices, other times very high prices , and not because of their good condition. There's no standard, it seems.
Howdy stranger, long time no see! :) Poor Hoyle, pretty funny his insult became scientific lingo. Getting organized here. Pretty tired from all this moving. Hope to see you soon. M
Hello distant cousin to Gore Vidal. I feel for you on that move! Yikes. Yeah Fred Hoyle is amusing footnote n science history, but he was also a very good science popularizer in his day and I think also made some significant discoveries or conceptual advances in other areas of astronomy. But he'll forever be remembered for the Big Bang, heh.
I'm a big fan of books about criminal masterminds and have many old Fu Manchu paperbacks. The white man's burden/noblesse oblige theme that ran through a lot of adventure fiction is not as overbearing as it could've been; I think it was just an attitude that was assumed more than spelled out. Rohmer (real name Ward) helped create the aesthetics and morality of the Mysterious East that maintained throughout the pulps and comics that followed, to the point where "opium dens" were created as tourist traps for a class of enchanted, ignorant white travelers. Fu Manchu is a fantasy, but it is a rich one, with great imagery that feels to me more like Flash Gordon than crime fiction. The early Fu Manchu adventures owe a lot to the Sherlock Holmes series, with Petrie very much a Watson to Nayland Smith's Holmes. Rohmer created a female Fu Manchu for radio named Sumuru, which appeared in only a few novels that I've yet to read, though I got interested by way of an insane psychedelic 60's movie called the Girl from Rio by cult director Jess Franco. Sumuru has a perverted all-woman army in a hidden super-scientific kingdom where she plots to conquer the world.
Great to hear your thoughts…making me eager to read my Fu Manchu novel! I wonder if there was any influence from the French Fantomas…I think the first of those novels was a bit earlier…
@@SleepyBookReader-666 Oddly, I just this week discovered that an omnibus of the first five Fantomas adventures in English was recently released; I immediately ordered it from Thrift Books and should get it soon. Fantomas was an early silent movie serial in France, so Rohmer had more of a chance to be aware of it. I have to strongly recommend the Yesterday's Faces series of books, six volumes by Robert Sampson. Book Three is a history of the great pulp villains, including Fu Manchu and Fantomas.
I can vouch for the titular story of the Heinlein collection, "The Man Who Sold the Moon", that it is a fun read. What are the other three stories in the collection? Is one of them "The Roads Must Roll"?
Yes, the Roads Must Roll is included. Also "Let there Be Light" and Requiem. They also include the timeline chart for his future history . I think this paperback is a partial reprint of a larger collection of his. In this edition's fine print it mentions omitting Lifeline and Blowups Happen...and an introduction by John W Campbell. I'm assuming that was just to keep the paperback thin and cheap ...?
@@SleepyBookReader-666 cool that "The Roads Must Roll" is one of them, I remember really enjoying that short story too. Don't remember "Let There Be Light" and "Requiem"... would be cool to see a follow-up video of you some time if you decide to read this collection, whether they are good. Do remember "Lifeline" that is excluded as being good... CZcams Red even produced a tv show of that (which can now only be watched with Premium I think, except that the 1st episode is free).
Sweet haul Mr. Sleepy! I would love to read most of these books an d the place you are at looks very nice😄😄
It was a surprisingly nice place! My wife definitely topped herself this time. Cheers MG
Macbeth is my fave S. Lord of Death has awesome cover. 1919!!!! I’d buy that Fu Manchu. I have a bunch in that Akers (Drey Prescott) series but haven’t read any yet. All these books are fun. Oh, I just picked up another version of Andromeda that has both books in it.
The out of print-ness of the Fu Manchu books makes me want to pick them all up when I can. Obscurity makes the heart grow fonder. I’m curious about that double Andromeda book. I assume you haven’t had a chance to read any of it yet.
I have a couple of the Scorpio books...but have yet to read them! Maybe for Garbaugust? Nice book haul Sleepy!
Thnks Grammaticus. Those Dray Prescott/Scorpio books were ubiquitous at one point in my sci fi hunting youth…i can’t even remember which one (s) i may have read back then.
Those look great. We also have an English book exchange out here in Amsterdam. But the books there are a bit pricey.
With paperbacks from 50s or 60s, here, sometimes i find reasonable prices, other times very high prices , and not because of their good condition. There's no standard, it seems.
Howdy stranger, long time no see! :)
Poor Hoyle, pretty funny his insult became scientific lingo.
Getting organized here. Pretty tired from all this moving.
Hope to see you soon. M
We were just discussing Fantomas, and here you are.
@@russworks2882 Mystery of science:)
Hello distant cousin to Gore Vidal. I feel for you on that move! Yikes.
Yeah Fred Hoyle is amusing footnote n science history, but he was also a very good science popularizer in his day and I think also made some significant discoveries or conceptual advances in other areas of astronomy. But he'll forever be remembered for the Big Bang, heh.
I'm a big fan of books about criminal masterminds and have many old Fu Manchu paperbacks. The white man's burden/noblesse oblige theme that ran through a lot of adventure fiction is not as overbearing as it could've been; I think it was just an attitude that was assumed more than spelled out. Rohmer (real name Ward) helped create the aesthetics and morality of the Mysterious East that maintained throughout the pulps and comics that followed, to the point where "opium dens" were created as tourist traps for a class of enchanted, ignorant white travelers. Fu Manchu is a fantasy, but it is a rich one, with great imagery that feels to me more like Flash Gordon than crime fiction.
The early Fu Manchu adventures owe a lot to the Sherlock Holmes series, with Petrie very much a Watson to Nayland Smith's Holmes. Rohmer created a female Fu Manchu for radio named Sumuru, which appeared in only a few novels that I've yet to read, though I got interested by way of an insane psychedelic 60's movie called the Girl from Rio by cult director Jess Franco. Sumuru has a perverted all-woman army in a hidden super-scientific kingdom where she plots to conquer the world.
Great to hear your thoughts…making me eager to read my Fu Manchu novel! I wonder if there was any influence from the French Fantomas…I think the first of those novels was a bit earlier…
@@SleepyBookReader-666 Oddly, I just this week discovered that an omnibus of the first five Fantomas adventures in English was recently released; I immediately ordered it from Thrift Books and should get it soon. Fantomas was an early silent movie serial in France, so Rohmer had more of a chance to be aware of it. I have to strongly recommend the Yesterday's Faces series of books, six volumes by Robert Sampson. Book Three is a history of the great pulp villains, including Fu Manchu and Fantomas.
@@russworks2882 That’s good news…when I read the first Fantomas novel a decade ago it was the only one I could locate in English.
These comments are so informative. Thank you.
I can vouch for the titular story of the Heinlein collection, "The Man Who Sold the Moon", that it is a fun read. What are the other three stories in the collection? Is one of them "The Roads Must Roll"?
Yes, the Roads Must Roll is included. Also "Let there Be Light" and Requiem. They also include the timeline chart for his future history . I think this paperback is a partial reprint of a larger collection of his. In this edition's fine print it mentions omitting Lifeline and Blowups Happen...and an introduction by John W Campbell. I'm assuming that was just to keep the paperback thin and cheap ...?
@@SleepyBookReader-666 cool that "The Roads Must Roll" is one of them, I remember really enjoying that short story too. Don't remember "Let There Be Light" and "Requiem"... would be cool to see a follow-up video of you some time if you decide to read this collection, whether they are good. Do remember "Lifeline" that is excluded as being good... CZcams Red even produced a tv show of that (which can now only be watched with Premium I think, except that the 1st episode is free).