Book Hauls!

[nomadman]

Originally Posted by Fried Egg

Well, what do you know, I received for my birthday:

"Occultation and Other Stories" by Laird Barron
"Tempting Providence and Other Stories" by Jonathan Thomas

I can't wait to tuck into those...

Happy Belated Birthday. My 30th was last week and I helped myself to a couple of items that I'd been eyeing:

The Humanoids - Jack Williamson
The Long Tomorrow - Leigh Brackett
The Return of the Sorcerer - Clark Ashton Smith
Shadow and Claw - Gene Wolfe
Sword and Citadel - Gene Wolfe
Elric: The Stealer of Souls (new illustrated version) - Michael Moorcock
Jack Faust - Michael Swanwick
Black Snow - Mikhail Bulgakov

Occultation looks awesome. The Imago Sequence was one of the best weird tales collections I've read in a long while, and the reviews I've read make this one look at least as good, if not better.

[Fried Egg]

Thanks, that haul you've god looks pretty good too.

"The Humanoids" I've been considering for a long while now myself...

[Triceratops]

Found Neal Asher's "The Skinner" in an obscure little corner of a Dollar Store way out in the Alabama Forbidden Zone. Fifteen pages into it, I'm loving its originality and world-building.

Chris

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by Fried Egg

Thanks, that haul you've god looks pretty good too.

"The Humanoids" I've been considering for a long while now myself...

Happy Belated Birthday Simon

"The Humanoids" is one of the better early humans vs machine stories. I need to read more of his SF!

[Randy M.]

Originally Posted by Fried Egg

Well, what do you know, I received for my birthday:

"Occultation and Other Stories" by Laird Barron
"Tempting Providence and Other Stories" by Jonathan Thomas

I can't wait to tuck into those...

Another belated happy birthday, Fried Egg.

Both of those look interesting. I haven't really dived into Barron's work, but his new novel, The Croning, is coming out in May, I believe, so it's getting to be about time.

My own recent buys,
Hide Me Among the Graves by Tim Powers
Black Wings of Cthulhu ed. by S. T. Joshi


Randy M.

[Rodders]

The Age of Zues and The Age of Odin by James Lovegrove. (I just finished the Age of Ra and found it an enjoyable read.)

The Founding by Dan Abnett (I have a yen to reread all the Gaunts Ghosts novels again.)

[yaxomoxay]

Just got
- "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman (I heard good things about it)
- "The Alien Shore" by C.S. Friedman (any opinion?)

[j. d. worthington]

Received in the mail today: Medusa's Coil and Others: The Annotated Revisions and Collaborations of H. P. Lovecraft, Vol. 2. It was ordered a while back, but has only now seen print. My one regret about this one is that the Lovecraft-Price collaboration, "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" is not included, as a good annotated edition of that would be very worthwhile, in my opinion... and, given the nature of the appendices to these volumes, it would also be handy to have Price's original version, which HPL revised, "The Lord of Illusion", available again as well....

Otherwise, this looks to be of the same high quality as Larry Roberts' other projects, which is saying considerable; a lovely book, built to last, and a very handsome addition to anyone's library....

[Diggler]

Went and hit the second hand book sale. I managed to collect some classics and some pulpy goodness too.

Conquest of Earth by Manly Banister
The Jewels of Aptor by Samuel Delany / Second Ending by James White (Ace Double)
The Duplicated Man by James Blish and Robert Lowndes
Sleeping Planet by William R. Burkett
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur c. Clarke
Lords of Atlantis by Wallace West
Day of the Giants by Lester Del Rey
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
Invaders From Rigel by Fletcher Pratt
Spaced Out edited by Michel Parry
Earth's Other Shadow by Robert Silverberg
The Eyes of Heisenberg by Frank Herbert
Chariots of the Gods by Erich Van Daniken (loved the doco)
Decision at Doona by Anne McCaffrey
Ringworld by Larry Niven
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
Between Planets by Robert Heinlein
Farnham's Freehold by Robert Heinlein
Waldo + Magic Inc. by Robert Heinlein
Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
Asimov's Mysteries by Asimov
Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser
Forgotten Life by Brian Aldiss
20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (lovely old retro HC from 1960)
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

[Grunkins]

Picked up a few omnibi:
the last two of Michael J Sullivan's Ryeria omnibi
Jack Vance's Alastor omnibus
and Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem omnibus.

[Extollager]

Originally Posted by Diggler

Went and hit the second hand book sale. I managed to collect some classics and some pulpy goodness too.

Wow! It seems they know how to have a used book sale in NSW.

[Diggler]

They definitely do in this piddly little town near the QLD border. I would've gotten more, but I would have then suffered "The Wrath of Wife" :P

[dask]

Went to Goodwill to come down from 5.5 hours overtime today (my day off):

[K. Riehl]

Picked up Banner of the Damned by Sherwood Smith- same world as the Inda series/ 400 years later.
2 Astoundings- September and October of 1944
And finally a hardcover 1st edition of Bunnicula by Howe for my wife's children's theater to put up as a raffle item.

[dask]

Originally Posted by K. Riehl

Picked up Banner of the Damned by Sherwood Smith- same world as the Inda series/ 400 years later.
2 Astoundings- September and October of 1944
And finally a hardcover 1st edition of Bunnicula by Howe for my wife's children's theater to put up as a raffle item.

Just curious where you found your Astoundings: used bookstore, antique shop, flea market? Anything good (you know, noteworthy) in them? I am jealous by the way.