Book Hauls!

[Allegra]

Just ordered:

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. I guess one of the reasons I didn't enjoy Prefect very much is that I didn't have a proper warm-up with his universe. So to start from the beginning may help.

The Ghost: A Novel by Robert Harris. Hope it'll live up what USA Today claimed -"one of the most politically informed novels of the year."

[Diggler]

Hothouse by Brian Aldiss

The Stand by Stephen King. Haven't read this in years. So felt like making a return.

Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm

Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison.

Dawn's Uncertain Light by Neal Barrett Jr. Tried to get Through Darkest America couple of weeks back. Will hold onto this till I can get the first one.

The Drought by J G Ballard

Star Man's Son by Andre Norton. It's PA so I'm willing to give it a go. Though I'm not really into fantasy style novels.

[Diggler]

I also bought

5 To 12 by Edmund Cooper

Glimmering a Novel by Elizabeth Hand

Z For Zachariah by Robert C O'brien. Read this as a kid (as most people my age). It definitely helped expand my fascination with PA Fiction.

The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber

[blacknorth]

Great haul there, Diggler - I'm a particular fan of Edmund Cooper.

Yesterday found a lovely Gollancz Yellowback of Robert Silverberg's Shadrach In The Furnace, and an attractive reprint (by Sedgewick & Jackson) of Arthur C Clarke's Earthlight.

Still trying to track down some of Keith Robert's more obscure works - many of them seem to have appeared only in hardback and, as they are now out of print, are rather too expensive for my pocket.

[Rodders]

I just got a few

The Last watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
The Temporal Void, Peter F. Hamilton
The Ravenor omnibus, Dan Abnett
Daemon, Daniel Suarez

I hadn't heard anything on the last one, but the blurb on the back made it look quite promising. Apparently it is to novels what the Matrix was to movies. I'll be reading this once i finish on Battle Royale. Watch this space.

[Diggler]

Originally Posted by blacknorth

Great haul there, Diggler - I'm a particular fan of Edmund Cooper.

Yesterday found a lovely Gollancz Yellowback of Robert Silverberg's Shadrach In The Furnace, and an attractive reprint (by Sedgewick & Jackson) of Arthur C Clarke's Earthlight.

Still trying to track down some of Keith Robert's more obscure works - many of them seem to have appeared only in hardback and, as they are now out of print, are rather too expensive for my pocket.

Thanks mate, I'm looking forward to reading them

Have you tried Books & Collectibles online bookstore and search engine for rare, out of print, antique and used books, maps and prints - Australia for Keith Roberts? They are an Australian secondhand search site, though they have booksellers from all over the world on there.

[Diggler]

I got Journey's With Gelignite Jack by Evan Green. Not a sci-fi, fantasy or anything like that. It's about these guys that take a Morris Mini and an Austin 1800 (and I think a couple of Morris 1100's) on a 12000 mile trek through the roughest terrain Australia had to offer in 1966. I loved this book as a kid and have grown up around Morris and Austin vehicles. So this a real score for me

[dask]

Originally Posted by Diggler

Z For Zachariah by Robert C O'brien. Read this as a kid (as most people my age). It definitely helped expand my fascination with PA Fiction.

Read it as an adult and really enjoyed it.

[Hypnos164]

Bit of a post holiday re-stock:

Ink and Steel (Promethean Age) - Elizabeth Bear
Stamping Butterflies - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days- Alastair Reynolds
Galactic North - Alastair Reynolds
Kitty Goes to Washington - Carrie Vaughn
Neuropath - Scott Bakker
Hard Revolution - George Pelecanos
The Magdalen Martyrs - Ken Bruen
Practical Demonkeeping - Christopher Moore
The Company - K.J. Parker
The Judging Eye - R.Scott Bakker
Blood Bound - Patricia Briggs
Bloodsucking Fiends - Christopher Moore

[Thadlerian]

Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett!

[citri]

I bought a bunch of non scifi/fantasy books

I Claudius
Claudius the God
Plainsong
We Were the Mulvaneys
The War of the Worlds
After Hannibal
Gilead
The Human Stain
Another Roadside Attraction
Terrorist
Steppenwolf
Middlesex
All the King's Men
Remembering the Bones
The Remains of the Day
The Martian Chronicles
Crime and Punishment
Sole Survivor
mystic river
snow falling on cedars
2001 a space odyssey, the city and the stars, the deep range, a fall of moondust, rendezvous with rama all in a collection of arthur c. clarke books
articles of war
and half to feel smart, a harvard classics thing of John Milton which I'll probably never read

[Thufir]

Page 270! Lesser forums would ban this thread.

My pennys are pretty tight right now too so I shouldn't really be getting any new books but...

...having just seen all five Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy books in Waterstones with shiny new 30th anniversary covers, including a “DON’T PANIC” Do It Yourself Sticker Cover for the first title, I'm beginning to think that a haul may be in order... You may think I'm fickle desiring exactly the same books in simply a new cover but I've pretty much decided to donate my current H2G2 volumes to the nearest charity shop and go buy these newer versions before they sell out. I'm justifying it by saying these are for 'The Collection' - and its one of my favorite stories - and it will bring me joy for years. All thats true for the copies I've already got though.

What do you think, good or bad idea?

[Rodders]

Keep the old ones and get the new ones too. Just for posterity, you know?

[citri]

I think you should donate your old ones, buy the new ones, and donate those. What better way to express your love of the books than sharing that love with others? If you don't want to do that I'd say to just keep the old ones since you've already read the series and a new cover isn't all that important. All they'd do would be gather dust on your shelves. I don't think seeing those covers on your shelves every day would give you as much happiness as the lunches you could buy with the same money.

[murphy]

On its way to me:

My Dead Body by Charlie Huston
Imager's Challenge by L. E. Modesitt
Canticle by Ken Scholes