Book Hauls!

[HoopyFrood]

Well, thanks to the delight that has been this weekend at FantasyCon, I have a large haul to report! (FantasyCon was awesome by the way!)

Bought:
Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
The Machineries of Joy - Ray Bradbury
Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
The Lurking Fear - H.P Lovecraft
Dagon - H.P Lovecraft
Lord Valentine's Castle - Robert Silverberg (A recommendation by Pyan and in return I made him buy a Stephen King book )
And the best one: A first edition NEL paperack version of The Shining - Stephen King.

And how much did I pay for all of these lovely books? £2.33!!

Freebies:
Full Moon Rising - Keri Arthur (in the welcome bag)
Coldheart Canyon - Clive Barker
And a uncorrected bound proof of The Twilight Herald - Tom Lloyd. These were both on my chair at the banquet earlier today...everyone was given two free books.
A signed limited copy of Impossible Stories - Zoran Zivkovic, which was picked from a selection of books which were offered to all those that were FantasyCon newbs

Woo hoo!!

[Addy]

I'm sorry, God, I'm sorry, I can't control myself...

Fritz Leiber - Gather, Darkness!
Michael Moorcock - The Ice Schooner
Philip K. Dick - A Maze of Death
Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Philip K. Dick - Dr. Bloodmoney
Philip K. Dick - The Turning Wheel and Other Stories
Philip K. Dick - The Unteleported Man
Philip K. Dick - Zap Gun

[Who's Wee Dug]

Won in the FantasyCon raffle,

Centenary Edition The Complete Chronicles of Connan Signed by Steve Jones Editor and Les Edwards the Artist who did the illustrations,which also has a pen sketch of Conan half page size in blue biro next to the signatures done by Les.

Happy or what I nearly bought a copy last month as well.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Who's Wee Dug

Won in the FantasyCon raffle,

Centenary Edition The Complete Chronicles of Connan Signed by Steve Jones Editor and Les Edwards the Artist who did the illustrations,which also has a pen sketch of Conan half page size in blue biro next to the signatures done by Les.

Happy or what I nearly bought a copy last month as well.

OH lucky you you CON junkie....

[GOLLUM]

Bauchelain & Korbal Broach - Collected Novellas - VOL I - Steven Erikson
Years Best Fantasy 2007
A Fortress In Shadow: Dread Empire Omnibus - Glenn Cook

[Who's Wee Dug]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

OH lucky you you CON junkie....

Well you have got to have a Hobby,beer,books and good company does it for me.

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by Addy

I'm sorry, God, I'm sorry, I can't control myself...

Fritz Leiber - Gather, Darkness!
Michael Moorcock - The Ice Schooner
Philip K. Dick - A Maze of Death
Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Philip K. Dick - Dr. Bloodmoney
Philip K. Dick - The Turning Wheel and Other Stories
Philip K. Dick - The Unteleported Man
Philip K. Dick - Zap Gun

Sheesh so many of Dick that it makes me drool

Will be interesting to see what you think of them. I have planned to get more of his books but dont know which of his lesser known ones are better than others.

Those stories i didnt know even existed except Android.

[Addy]

Originally Posted by Connavar of Rigante

Sheesh so many of Dick that it makes me drool

Will be interesting to see what you think of them. I have planned to get more of his books but dont know which of his lesser known ones are better than others.

Those stories i didnt know even existed except Android.

I only read a few of his works, but I loved Now Wait For Last Year. I'm going to read Our Friends From Frolix 8 next. There's plenty to choose from, as he was quite prolific, and I doubt (from what I hear) you'll find a bad PKD book.

[Connavar]

Have you read already Android? Its classic of the genre and prolly his most famous work. It made me a fan.

Will be interesting to see what you think of it.

I saw in the bookstore a collection of his. Mostly i wanna read Minority Report. I loved the idea of the movie and will be interesting to read the story.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Who's Wee Dug

Well you have got to have a Hobby,beer,books and good company does it for me.

Yeh, it's a shame we didn't get to meet up at WorldCon.... I'm possibly going to WorldCon 2009 in canada, you have any plans of attending that one?

[Lenny]

Me happy.

Just ordered thirteen books, coming to a total of £88 (£93 with 5% off using my UCAS card):

Hobb - Farseer Trilogy, Liveship Traders Trilogy, Tawny Man Trilogy, Soldier Son Trilogy
Pratchett - Making Money

I can't wait until Friday!

[Addy]

Originally Posted by Connavar of Rigante

Have you read already Android? Its classic of the genre and prolly his most famous work. It made me a fan.

Will be interesting to see what you think of it.

I saw in the bookstore a collection of his. Mostly i wanna read Minority Report. I loved the idea of the movie and will be interesting to read the story.

Haven't read the book, but I saw the movie.
Minority Report (the movie) was interesting too. Did you see A Scanner Darkly? That was a cool adaptation. I quite liked it.

[Connavar]

Planet of Adventure (Omnibus) - Jack Vance
The Mammoth Book of Future Cops edited by Maxim Jakubowski and M. Christian, bought it mostly caust it contains A Scanner Darkly by PKD
The Man with The Getaway Face - Richard Stark
Die Trying - Lee Child
Sacred - Dennis Lehane
Knights of Dark Renown - David Gemmell



Planet of Adventure i didnt even know that series existed even the minute before i saw it on the shelf. Bought it cause i saw the blurb started with :Stranded on the distant planet Tschai, young Adam Reith..., that plus Jack Vance's name was enough for My last Jack Vance story was Emphiriyo which i loved from the start to the finish. I thought it would be great to read another mostly SF like JV story again.

[Who's Wee Dug]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

Yeh, it's a shame we didn't get to meet up at WorldCon.... I'm possibly going to WorldCon 2009 in canada, you have any plans of attending that one?

The two friends I was with have booked up but I have to wait and see if I still have a job this time next year if so it is a good possiblity.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Who's Wee Dug

The two friends I was with have booked up but I have to wait and see if I still have a job this time next year if so it is a good possiblity.

Fingers crossed.

Sorry folks I'm a bit off topic here, time to get back to those ever growing book hauls. Actualy I still have over 400 books at home in my TBR pile....

Maybe I can get some hired help from Ravenus and his mates.....