I absolutely loved “Davy.” It’s by turns sweet and sad, and the sadness is all Pangborn. The edition with the Boris cover is my favorite, love that art. I have been singing the praises of Chris Neville since I found him in the 90s. And I’ve only ever read some of his stories and I really like them. It’s good old fashion science-fiction. I remembered also, when I found the book “Illuminatus trilogy,” by RAW and Shea, I was about 18 it was the same summer that I read Carlos Castaneda for the first time, and I got all of my friends to read the trilogy. And it really blew all of our minds. We had a good time with that one. That was back when conspiracy theories were fun, as opposed to the crazy that they are now.
@erikpaterson1404
2 ай бұрын
Enjoyed the video immensely - some wonderful recommendations , I'll be looking for on my travels - thank you!
@joelstainer65
11 ай бұрын
I DNFed my first attempt at Snow Crash this year as well. May attempt it again down the road but I've never connected well with that particular genre. Enjoyed Seveneves more.
@MaidhcOD
11 ай бұрын
Who cares how it comes together, thrown or gently placed! Always unsightful, always tempting us to seek out the most interesting of SF. Regards and hope yourself and the video widow are feeling better in short order ✌
@KCreading-Writing
11 ай бұрын
As a native Massachusettsite, who's attended a few BosKones, I appreciated hearing you mention the NESFA. After the review of With Stars in My Eyes, I am heading to the NESFA Press website to order it. Your talk of the origins of fandom in the 1970s and 80s, especially the fanzines, took me back. Being a fan then, speaking from a nerdy New Englander's POV, was more akin to SF Hermeneutics. Fanzines were the science fiction illuminated apocrypha assembled by monks and nuns from the Order of Van Vogt.
@leemason6897
11 ай бұрын
Another great video. Love those "Illuminatus" editions, I have the Sphere editions I bought 40 or so years ago. I really must read them again soon after my current Talbot Munday phase. Like you I used to have that edition of "Viriconium" and for some reason now I don't - maybe mine will somehow make its way back to me too in some kind of slipstream metatextural way. Speaking of metatexts, "Lavinia" definitely isn't a historical novel as the title character (not really a spoiler I assure you) is well aware that she is a character in a poem by Virgil, with whose shade she sometimes converses.
@willp2877
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for putting me on to Moderan. Finished it this morning and thoroughly enjoyed it.
@outlawbookselleroriginal
11 ай бұрын
Glad you like it. Very special stuff- always had the acclaim, rarely gets the attention it deserves, but that's SF for you- a lot of the best stuff stays fairly underground. That's why I bring these things up, who needs another Dune video? Have a cool day.
@willp2877
11 ай бұрын
@@outlawbookselleroriginal enjoy your day as well. Yes, that's why i watch your videos because you bring out the diamonds in the ruff!
@robertjbroadhurst3860
10 ай бұрын
Just finished the Hercules Text, after your heads up, and it didn't disappoint.
@outlawbookselleroriginal
10 ай бұрын
Glad you liked it. I thought it was a refreshing change to the usual Clarke-like 'First Contact' style narrative.
@glockensig
11 ай бұрын
Time to Spare? Go by Air!!! I am reading Earth Abides now...an Ace Star edition with lots of typos.😑
@holydissolution85
11 ай бұрын
Great turn of events with Viriconium book ! 😂😂😂
@allanlloyd3676
11 ай бұрын
I used to own the Illuminatus books back in the day, but only read a few bits of them, and ended up moving them on. Then, in the last few months, I've managed to find all three Sphere editions in nice nick, and mean to give them another try. I'm very fond of the Peter Weston book. I used to subsribe to Zenith/Speculation, Peter's sercon zine (all the old slang is coming back to me) and it really was very good. Peter was an old school Heinlein fan, but Speculation ran right through the New Wave, and he gave equal space to the Old and New fans to argue and fight about it all.. I remember Priest and Moorcock becoming very irate about the lack of literary sophistication of the Old School fans. Speculation is available to read online. I used to own most of the issues but would you believe that I sold my copies back to Peter a few years before he died. I wonder where they are now.
@unstopitable
11 ай бұрын
I've never been able to finish Foundation. But I understand (I think) its structure--to convey/dump as much info. as possible through dialog. The traditional way (of doing it through conflict, from the POV of a fish out of water, whose learning is the reader's learning), in my opinion, would have been like carving a tunnel through Olympus Mons with a plastic spork. In Cinema, I think it's easier--thanks to the (dreaded) voice-over. But I think Asimov deserves credit and praise for pulling it off; I was just bored out of my mind. (Deep down, I'm just little kid begging to be told a story.) That's why I like Silverberg. You get emotional complexity, literate prose, but above all else, a good story. Look at Dostoevsky. Almost all dialog, physical descriptions kept to a minimum, but piercing on multiples, and truly human characters who are profoundly conflicted--and a great story. That's what interests me--the human heart, no matter the genre. (And, yes, I'm aware that the SF author has the challenge of "world-building," in a way the mainstream writer doesn't.) The other day, I threw a Best of SF anthology across the room, because the main character was a sentient boat. And yet that story he wrote (you know the one) that opens with a little girl playing hide-and-seek with her robot, now that moved me. It had heart. La vida de Lazarillo Tormes is considered the first picaresque novel; it's quite hilarious. And the roles between Sancho and Don Q. (in Don Q) flip throughout the novel. It is the first modern novel and the first work of metafiction, all in one (as they read about themselves). Next to the Magic Mountain, it's one of my all-time favorites. Again, I ramble. Sorry. Great, info.-packed video, as always.
@outlawbookselleroriginal
11 ай бұрын
yes, I've read the Tormes, it's in the Picaresque collection I mentioned, though it's been decades. Agree re Silverberg and FD. I'd have thrown that anthology too...
@sylvanyoung
11 ай бұрын
Reposting . My first McDevitt were " Ancient Shores " and " The Engines Of God " both have that sense of " whats happening " wonder and yes there is a mystery . Stephenson " Read " The Diamond Age " and "Zodiac " tried " Crytonomicon" and now it sits on my dnf list along with the good doctor " The Gods Themselves " .Why do i feel so guilty about list . " Davy " hooked me with its opening line . " Davy " reminds me of Daviď R Palmers " Emergene " Thanks for the video .
@outlawbookselleroriginal
11 ай бұрын
'Emergence' - now that's a book you never see around these days.
@vintagesf
11 ай бұрын
Used to read some McDevitt in the 1990s but I can't remember his novels. Have to give The Hercules Text a try. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban was a tough but worthwhile read. Will look for Davy by Edgar Pangborn. Interested to hear your take on The Lincoln Hunters. Right now reading the 11th novel in the first series of Ace Science Fiction Specials, A Torrent of Faces by James Blish and Norman L. Knight. Old style info dumping to the Nth degree. May call it sci-fi-splaining.
@outlawbookselleroriginal
11 ай бұрын
I've been trying to find the Blish and Knight in Ace, as I've wanted to read it for ages, but I think I'm going to have to go for a UK edition. I enjoyed 'Davy' first time around, so perhaps it was my mood this time.
@vintagesf
11 ай бұрын
@@outlawbookselleroriginal I wish international postage wasn’t such an imposing cost. We truly have a worldwide bookstore available to us, at a price. Hope you get along better than I am with A Torrent of Faces. I’m about 1/2 way and quite bored with the style of writing, which is strange considering the grandeur of vision and catastrophic events presented.
@outlawbookselleroriginal
11 ай бұрын
@@vintagesf -Yes, Postage doubled in cost across the atlantic both ways a few years back and really has put a lot of collectors off buying. Now and then I just have to do it though. As for Blish, I blow hot and cold- I find him incredibly inconsistent.
@SciFiScavenger
11 ай бұрын
Must be the same Peter Weston that edited the 3 Andromeda anthologies? Also, how funny to pick up a signed inscription that was actually to you! What goes around comes around.
@outlawbookselleroriginal
11 ай бұрын
Yes it is- he covers 'Andromeda' in the book.
@tjonas1986
11 ай бұрын
With you re. Foundation. I read them all in my early teens, only finished because the books were there and I was voracious. But even as a 13 year old, I found it clunky, boring, and - frankly - a bit silly. It must have been fab at the time, and maybe I’ll persuade my children to read it (in ten years or so!) … maybe.
@salty-walt
11 ай бұрын
Those are *THE* editions to get of the Illuminati Trilogy! Those are the covers.
@Joe-lb8qn
8 ай бұрын
Read a lot of mcdevitt but hercules text doesn't ring any bells so i should search this out. He has a couple (from memory) of sets of novels set in the same universe with same lead characters but not sequels.
@chocolatemonk
11 ай бұрын
I don't mind the end of Foundation as much. The ideas presented seem to feed me more through the clunkyness. I tried reading Snow Crash twice as I was in my own mind a cyberpunk. I DNF'ed both times. To me it thinks it is way too clever for it's own good and not nearly as smart
@angusmckeogh659
11 ай бұрын
Ancients of Mu...the mythical people of Atlantis...or the 90s hit song "3 am Eternal" by the KLF.
@outlawbookselleroriginal
11 ай бұрын
Yeah, as I think I implied....great records, too.
@wmeisel
11 ай бұрын
I’ll be curious to hear your thoughts when you reread the Illuminatus trilogy. I was a big RAW fan in the day, but have been less impressed when I have revisited his stuff. I wonder if you have to be of a certain age to appreciate him…
@outlawbookselleroriginal
11 ай бұрын
I think you do. I never took it that seriously, though some did!
@themojocorpse1290
11 ай бұрын
Most enjoyable as always the Hercules text caught my eye straight off the bat like the sound of that. But Davy and the moustache in particular jumped out at me . Please let us know if the moustache is worth a read . Lots of interesting books there . What are chances of getting your m John Harrison book back great story . Hope you are both on the mend 👍🏻
@bookdork
11 ай бұрын
They're justified and they're ancient. Ancients of MuMu. Now it's in my head.
@outlawbookselleroriginal
11 ай бұрын
It's been earworming me ever since I made the video....
@bookdork
11 ай бұрын
@@outlawbookselleroriginal I still have the 7 inch from when it came out
@tragicslip
11 ай бұрын
do you have any videos on Charles Harness? the aliterate future is here, to spite hashtag references.
@outlawbookselleroriginal
11 ай бұрын
No, but I have mentioned him a few times...and shown three different copies of 'The Rose'. But at some point, more CH...
@tragicslip
11 ай бұрын
@@outlawbookselleroriginal cheers. reading a pb copy of the rose from panther and have read redworld. enjoying/ enjoyed both immensely.
@leakybootpress9699
11 ай бұрын
It's good to see Peter Weston's book fluttered about. His prose plods, but there's a lot of interesting stuff in the book. Neal Stephenson leaves me cold, I've read four of his books and the only one which repaid my investment of time was "The Diamond Age", which I enjoyed. I think he tries too hard to be clever and his verbosity is straight from the Stephen King book "Teach Yourself to Write Badly".
@outlawbookselleroriginal
11 ай бұрын
'Diamond Age' is better, agreed. Heck of a nice guy, mind you.
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