Substantial BOOK HAUL (New, Not Used Ones!): SF, Contemporary, Non-Fiction
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Steve receives a Long Service Award from his employers and guess what: it's FREE BOOKS TIME! All new titles in this video (with one exception) encompassing SF, Horror/New Weird, Contemporary Fiction, Non-Fiction, this clip has it all.... - Zábava
What an exciting late night surprise! I look just like your Thumbnail!
YES! 😍 Best Outlaw Bookseller thumbnail _ever!_ 🤣
Hi Steve, Congratulations on the award. I have to laugh hearing you say, "I've got to cut back," because I've been telling myself that for months as well and failing miserably. Damn! But, book collecting really is a Heroin substitute. Good to see a Woolrich reissue. The cover appropriately uninspired for today's mainstream publishers.
Uninspired is today's standard, Mark, as you have clearly already noticed! Hope you are well, mate.
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I have the same problem. I always want to get more books even if I don't have room anymore. Wisdom, wisdom, where art thou? Wisdom comes with age but not in every domain, ha-ha-ha.
That's a great haul, Steve. I look forward to seeing your videos on the Buzzati book and Ellison story collection. I'm reading The Singularity right now, and enjoying it.
Excellent update. Nothing beats watching one of your videos while enjoying my morning coffee.
Glad you liked it!
Don't get me wrong, I'm here for the books and your knowledge about them.
With that out of the way, I'd love to get a look at all of your Hawkwind stuff. I imagine that's a nice collection of its own. Such a great and important band.
Take a look at my Hawkwind videos here on this channel for a start: there is a Hawkwind playlist in which I analyse some of the albums and unbox other bits and pieces.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal excellent, I should have known, thanks for all the great content
Cornell Woolrich sounds interesting thanks! As do the rest of these books. If only there were more hours in the day.
"Dispatches" by Michael Herr is another excellent book on Vietnam.
He was advising Coppola with Apocalypse Now, right?
@@holydissolution85 I don't know, it would make sense though.
@@garryrickenbacker i think I readit somewhere
He wrote Willard's narration for 'Apocalypse..' though the screenplay was basically by John Milius of 'Conan The Barbarian' fame.
I read this decades ago and didn't get on with it, though I am thinking of a revisit.
I enjoyed Caim by Saramago, and am looking forward to reading 'The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis'. Blindness was a decent concept novel, and some people rave about The Cave. The Double looks good too as you say
Thanks for sharing! I was selfishly hoping to see Wrong Way by Joanne McNeil in the mix. It looks like an interesting book, but I have such a backlog of books at the moment that it will probably be a while until I get to it.
Yes, I would like to read that one.
Great vid again (of course). Interstice of hyper-interest. The Gribbin book looks the bomb. Thanks. 👌
That's a crazy thumbnail 😂
Best thumbnail ever, you nailed it
Thanks!
"Got to cut back" yeah right pull the other one, it's got bells on! 😂
Great thumbnail, the irony is the algo might like it...
That' what I was thinking, Jon! I may produce even more parodic ones than this, we'll see!
@@outlawbookselleroriginalI think you are BOTH 'pulling the other one' when it comes to cutting back on the book buying! 🤣🤣🤣
An interesting selection of books. I can feel my wallet screaming if I buy even half of these.
I like the look of the Penguin short stories & the HE greatest hits but I have to wait for a certain online shop to have it in stock as it is much cheaper there than other shops.
Thanks for the video
Great set of books. I love that particular imprint of Ballard books, so I’ll probably transfer all of my Ballard vintage ones into that series eventually, but I have loads from that imprint too. Saramago is fantastic, glad to see you’re delving into him. Not enough people talk about him. Sleep Donation looks good! Cornell Woolrich is someone I’ve just started getting books by, so it’s interesting that he appeared on here too. Ellison is poorly represented over here so it’s great that they’ve released the Greatest Hits book. I’ll be reviewing it too on my channel as I’ve talked about Ellison a lot on my channel. Great haul and nice to see you go through them.
In the sacred square
Hewn of books
The wizened sage sits ...
A great vid which had me hurriedly jotting stuff down in my trusty notebook (always a good sign). There'll be one or two things I'll be purchasing myself. And it's probably the only time I've ever seen anybody wearing a yellow Hawkwind t-shirt !
...which means you need to watch more of my videos, in which I wear this t-shirt again and other ones. Also, there are around ten videos about Hawkwind releases on the channel in my 'Hawkwind' playlist.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal I have seen some of the Hawkwind vids but I'll have to check out the rest. I used to be a big fan, not so much now, though I still love the Robert Calvert lps, especially Astounding Sounds Amazing Music. I first heard it when I was about 11 and I was way too young to understand it but now I consider it a minor masterpiece.
That thumbnail 🤣🤣🤣. Either way, I know there are always good stuff in these videos
Just a satircal comment on Booktube....ha ha!
This is wonderful! Many options from authors I haven't heard of before, and quite a few non-SFF to boot.
I'm always pulling out writers people don't know: that is often where the meat is.
Lou Reed's Blue Mask is quite an uneven album. The trigger warnings on the Ellison drive me crazy too, but JMS explained that the publisher insisted and it provided a way for the book to get into school libraries. We live in dark times, let's hope they don't get darker.
The Dangerous Visions books have been reissued too, sans TWs, in anticipation of the Last one coming up, but I think the younger gen would have been better served with a reissue of Angry Candy or numerous others. I would really like a handy, comprehensive anthology of his non fiction.
I agree re 'Blue Mask'. Same here on the trig. School libraries are always 'banning' things in the States anyway, **** them, I say. I have LDV on advance order, but I feel you're right. I suspect there may be more Herald Ellison to come- I'm thinking they'll do 'Blood's A Rover' and include all the Vic & Blood stories, but a selected essays would be very welcome, I agree.
Ellison did some GREAT 'albums': I would _love_ to see reissues of _Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled, Strange Wine, Shatterday_ and - as you suggest - _Angry Candy._ Not for me, per se (I'm 52 and lucky enough to have bought all these decades ago) but for newer generations... 🤞
Congrats! Thanks for all you do on this channel and your other one too.
You're being very kind again, as I said before, ST is the lifeblood of this channel due to the small number of views I get relative to output. Thanks!!!!
Bloody hilarious thumbnail like a good send up Steve . Some really interesting stuff there mate nice selection . Got a nice bunch of Bob shaw and Harlen Ellison books this week myself, not read enough of these guys got hold all the Bob shaw you recommended ,having already read other days and loving it. And all the sounds of fear as well as picking up dangerous visions 1 and2 Plus climbers by m John Harrison very much looking forward to reading these books and more great recommendations and more crazy thumbnails of course🥴😱👍🏻
Someone fully 'gets' the thumbnail! Joy. You're reading the great stuff!
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. John Logie Baird was the television I think.
You're right, how did I fluff that? Oh I know, I shot the video immediately after a full day at the coalface....my bad!
Congratulations on the award!
You got quite the bounty 🤩
Thanks Rose- yeah, I did ok!
A great pile of books there, Steve. I'll order the Ellison, even though, like you, I'm sure you have everything in it. On "A Boy and His Dog," I think you've forgotten "Blood's a Rover", published by Subterranean Press a few years ago. It has that story all the related stuff in it. I'm sure you have a copy. Although it's out of print, the material may still he under contract..
I know I've said it before, but I wish you'd add Nagouib Mahfouz to your list of authors to read.
Yes, I did think about the Subterranean, which I have....as you say, it may be a copyright issue. Mahfouz is on my longer list, but it's very, very long indeed....
Excellence. Keep up the good work. Getting into Bob shaw and Brian aldiss more since you reviewed them. Great stuff.
Good news, great writers overall.
@@outlawbookselleroriginalYes, Shaw and Aldiss _rock._ 🤗
Great haul comrade and a very well earned long service award!
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An amazing haul great stuff it has to be said 😁
Yes and I still have around £65 retail value to spend, but I'm holding out for a couple of new things which are not yet published.
Great haul! I must track down the Gribben as I've just read "Timescape." I would supplement the Gribben with James Gleick's "Time Travel" which does a similar thing to Gribben, though Gleick mixes Sf writers like Heinlein with films and mainstream writers like Banville. I can't remember if I've re-read "Timescape" but it was on my shelves. I like to think - in the spirit of "Timescape"- that my 1980s self has sent a message to me in the future, telling me to read/re-read the book!
SlowDazzle? A John Cale reference I'm hoping?
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Yes!
@@SlowDazzle11 I'm a huge fan, tons of the music, seen him live 6 times.
Very happy you're touching on non-fiction.
I've read Gribbin's Simplicity, I find his writing very accessible.
Lovely video, thank you very, very much indeed..
That Hawkwind tee is the bomb, Stephen. I got a good-natured chuckle out of your comment regarding the pronunciation of Ursula K's last name. "I'm going to say 'Le Gan' because I'm Welsh...". On a Buzzati note, I do remember seeing your Capri episode where you talked about him and I'm curious, who translated all of his work I wonder? All of your choices here were nicely characterized, in good taste and, a little heavy on the female authors I thought. Was that by chance or intentional on the female authors? Regardless, great episode as usual sir. Thanks much and, Cheers!
I'll discuss translators of Buzzati when I review 'Th Singularity', which will be later this month. I am reading more young female writers currently, finding that they're producing novels which I'm attracted to currently.
Have the PS Publishing first edition of _The Witnesses Are Gone_ which I bought at its Fantasycon launch in 2009 and got Joel Lane to sign. Very good, very ambiguous. All about the journey rather than any kind of plot orientated resolution. 👍
Have Jonathan Carroll's _The Land of Laughs_ in the Fantasy Masterworks edition, but have yet to read it.
Re crime: recently acquired, 'in the wild', lovely condition hardback copies of four Zomba Books Black Box Thrillers omnibuses from the early '80s: Fredric Brown, Cornell Woolrich, David Goodis and Horace McCoy! 🤗
Those Zombas were a great series. I haven't read Carroll for decades but am looking forward to the new one. How I missed Lane until late last year is beyond me. Good to hear from you as always, Paul.
Quality!!!
If you fancy a spot of quirky, proto post modern Portuguese style, I recommend The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa. I think it'll be your jam, mate.
Thanks, but having been a bookseller for forty years, I read the most famous Portugeuse novel decades ago - but a good shout.
Looking for the review of the premier book. I have read The Things they Carried. Great book.
Yes, genius.
Congratulations on the award!
Great book haul.
Cheers!
I have been curious about that very Joyce Carol Oates collection myself - I look forward to the review!
Moorcock LOVED Mr. Breakfast! One of the vest books he's read in YEARS! (He said.)
Ach! Don't get me **started** on Gollancz! All the youtube kids loving their matching livery and all I can see is a publisher overcharging for a bunch of books by dead authors they don't have to pay anyone for! Criminal!
Ellison: I can understand a warning on Ellison for today's world; better that meddling, so I let it go.
- The change strikes me as JMS. Printers don't want to put that strip in, & what do new readers know about punch tape? So he printed the translation . It bugs me a bit, but I can listen to an argument.
- Wait till you get to the introduction by Cassandra Khaw, it was going along well until she displayed such unearned and overweening ignorance and privilege to tell Harlan to "Do Better."
Congratulations for the Meritorious Award of Distinction and Endurance!
I read that intro and thought 'Who the hell is she?'. I think the punch tape thing probably was a cost issue, but I'm not happy about it. Will discuss this in depth when I review. Distinction? Of course. Endurance- the most essential quality required in long distance bookselling! Thanks my friend.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Here's what Moorcock *actually* said about Mr, Breakfast, apologies for my mis-remembering:
"Reading Jonathan Carroll's new fantasy. All his own, as usual. Typically, a well-drawn world and characters in a completely original and unpredictable setting. PUT 'MR BREAKFAST' ON YOUR HOLIDAY reading list. It's perfect for the season! I'm very much enjoying it. I DON'T KNOW a more enjoyable or intelligent writer of his kind!"
You forgot to mention that Woolrich also wrote under a pen name William Irish. I Married A Dead Man is very good. I read it in LOA edition that also featured some other crime novels. Jonathan Carroll is fantastic and criminally underappreciated author. When I recomened him to people I always say think Neil Gaiman, but much better.
That's because I'd completely forgotten that pseudonym! Yes, Carroll is great, much better than Gaiman I'd say.
I like the old stuff. I have about 500 SF/Fantasy hardcovers from the 1970's going back to the 1870's, a roomful of SF/Fantasy paperbacks, magazines and early pulps going from the 1980's to the 1920's. I was happy in my self-contained world. Until I started watching your presentations. Now I'm in real danger of buying a new book from a contemporary writer. Something I haven't done since 1988. And it's all your fault....
Don't worry, there aren't that many worth reading, so you won't break the bank!
Interesting selection, as always.
Have you read Flicker by Theodore Roszak? It's about this mysterious director who has hidden subliminal messages in his films; the book's main character becomes obsessed with him and discovers many fascinating things.
No, but I've been meaning to for years. It's popped up a few times recently on booktube actually, it always sounds interesting.
Yep, bought my copy of *Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits* the other day - _very_ handsome paperback! 😍 In fact, I bought TWO copies in the city of Glasgow, one from the book chain's Argyll Street branch and one from their Sauchiehall Street branch. BOTH shops had seven copies on display. Interestingly, one branch had them displayed on their 'Essential Horror' table and the other on their 'Essential Fantasy' table! 🤣 Either way, it doesn't matter: both shops are arranged in such a way that the science fiction, fantasy and horror sections all bleed into one another, meaning you can't get to one section without seeing a display table for the other.
Curiously, the Argyll Street branch separates their Fantasy and Science Fiction. The Sauchiehall Street branch doesn't. I assume, despite being a book chain, that each branch has a certain amount of autonomy.
Anyway, *why two copies?* One to keep pristine and one to read! 😁
The book is classified as Horror on their system, but of course those more in the know will pop it into SFF. Delighted to her Argyll separate thier SFF in two, that's how I always used to do it.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal As I was saying to my mate Danny, can't begin to express the JOY of being able to walk into an actual bricks 'n' mortar bookshop and buy a brand new Ellison compilation! 🤗 Especially when Amazon is _still_ showing a release date of 25 June! 🤣
@@paulcampbell6003 Yes, I noticed they were weeks behind too...
Jonathan Carroll is weird fiction that doesn’t lean on horror, and even your mother might like it. I am surprised he hasn’t caught on more in modern day, as so many tv shows and movies have the same kind of mild magical/SF flavor. It’s mainstream now.
(I only read two Carrolls so maybe I’m wrong, but I’ll just assume I’m right. I like being right.)
I wouldn't say Carroll is 'Weird Fiction' in the way that say Lovecraft meant the term to be used. He is weird though, but more surreal and whimsical I find, though not in an annoying manner. I haven't read any for decades so we'll see!
I read Mr Breakfast in hardback. I thought it was wonderful.
I'm looking forward to it, it's been so long since I've read him. It may be my next read....
Didion wrote five novels. Democracy is a great one.
Yeah, I know there are five. I have a feeling that most of them are currently unavailable in the UK- I've been selling her non-fiction (and reading it on and off) for 40 years, but the novels have less profile here.
I laughed out loud because of that thumbnail. I really hate the booktubers who do that. Attention seekers, nothing more.
Yeah, well to be fair if you don't get attention on a visual medium, you may as well not bother- but I was making a parodic comment via that thumbnail about the 'I'm just like you, but I know about books, you can trust me as I buy loads of 'em' implications of the typical cliched Booktube thumb, as you clearly noticed immediately. Who knows, I may take this further! Thanks!
Re the Ellison anthology, trigger warnings are an insult to the reader. It sounds as if some censorship went on too? Shameful.
This is already being discussed in Ellisonian circles and I'll be covering it when I review. HE himself would be outraged, I feel.
Nice crime writing... Benjamin Black,
Pierre LeMaitre?
I've trried Banville (Black) but he's never done it for me, same with LeMaitre. French crime authors I like include Jean-Claude Izzo and Jean-Patrick Manchette.
Say what you will about the thumbnail, but it did make me click. Albeit in a 'Is Steve Okay?' Sort of way.
Time for a parodic reflection of Booktube, I thought!
Hannah Barnes's book is brilliant and shocking. I read it as soon as it came out. I'm hoping a journalist somewhere - perhaps Barnes herself - is making notes about the responses to the Cass Review, because that will also be a fascinating book to read, equally shocking, I expect; and then there's a serious book to be written about how all of this has been treated by the SNP and the NHS north of the border, where insanity truly reigns. I've yet to read it, but I have been to a book launch and listened to many podcast interviews, and will get around to it soon: Gareth Roberts' 'Gay Shame', a book about the civil war within the gay 'community' as it splits over approaches to the T within the 'LGBT'. Also supposed to be very funny. Roberts used to write for Dr Who and Coronation Street.
Yes, I'm reading the Barnes currently, best book I've read on the whole Trans phenomenon since I read Helen Joyce's book. What I'm particularly enjoying about the Barnes are the individual stories, which show a wide range of experience pre and post transition. It's clear that Social Media influence has played a huge part in the sudden surge of 'I'm Trans,' claims- especially from young women. After all, Transexual people have always existed, even though they are genuinely far rarer than we're currently being led to believe. The trouble I find is that people don't want to read something that might change their mind either way- I think you have to read from all angles personally and weigh the evidence. And yes, something(s) on the Cass review would be very welcome.
I'm also a Joel Lane and a Gareth E Rees fan. I've been collecting their books for some years. You will enjoy Rees's Stone Tide - there's a lot of self-deprecating autobiography in there. I have two copies, one HB, and both signed. If you haven't already, do get a copy of Rees's 'Car Park Life'. Brilliant psychogeography. I'm also a Saramago fan, but I haven't read The Double, so I'll have to add that to my want list. 'Blindness' and 'Seeing' are classics.
@@carltaylor6452 Yes, I sell 'Car Park Life' from my shelves at work. I mentioned it on the channel about two years ago.
Love the thumbnail 😂
Glad you liked it. I felt the whole booktube thing needed lampooning.