I just bought...

[Hobbit]

I'm thinking I may have to start saying yes for that gift.

I would if you could Fitz, but it does depend on your capital availability (and your willingness for a subscription!). The signed ones are great.

For years I've been trying to get them in the UK and only been able to buy the odd book here and there. I've recently found that they will ship to the UK (which was new to me) and so should be getting some lovely signed copies soon. They are books for keeps.

For example: On the way to me, one a month I think, (I gather) are signed copies of:

Broken Angels Richard Morgan
Forty Signs of Rain Kim Stanley Robinson
Deadlines Greg Bear
Camouflage Joe Haldeman
Marque and Reprisal Elizabeth Moon
Polaris Jack McDevitt
Pandora’s Star Peter F. Hamilton
White Devils Paul McAuley
Cusp Robert Metzger
Coyote Rising Allen Steele
The Sunborn Gregory Benford

which should keep me going for a while. There's also the unsigned ones too of lots of old classics.

I just hope the postage isn't a killer......

Hobbit

 

[Kamakhya]

By Sf Collector days seem to be over. I just can't justify the expense in an increasingly tightened budget. Sigh. Maybe when I'm old and grey like Hobbit!

I did pick up a few used books the other day:

Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard
Frameshift by Robert Sawyer
The Syndic by C.M. Kornbluth
Jennifer Government by Max Barry

 

[Hobbit]

Maybe when I'm old and grey like Hobbit!

Thank you, Kam!

I should've also said that I was bought for my birthday (note the subtle link there) Coyote by Allen Steele and the two Scott Westerfeld's (Risen Empire and The Killing of Worlds); they are a little delayed though - on the way when they're published here in the UK soon - next week, I think.

Hobbit

 

[FicusFan]

Well I am lucky that I am immune to the lure of Hardcovers, even signed, limited editions, with fancy covers (or not). But if they float your boat then, enjoy.


I got a shipment in from the UK, and I picked up some books that have just been published:

Incompetence by Rob Grant, from the UK and I think it is a PB
Glass Dragons by Sean McMullen, PB
Angel-Seeker by Sharon Shinn, PB
Slaves Unchained by Susan Wright, PB
Moonrise Mitchell Smith, PB

Of course the day after my discussion group I got another book in from the UK:

Cartomancy by Mary Gentle, PB

So it will probably have to wait the 2 weeks til the next meeting to be picked up.

 

[intensityxx]

I know there must be those of you out there who remember 1981's delicious
Silver Metal Lover,
a sentimental favorite to many. Two decades later, the sequel is now out,
Metallic Love. By Tanith Lee.

I also got a few Silverbergs.
--- used (oop or not available)
Dying Inside
Up the Line
A Time of Changes
Downward to the Earth
The Book of Skulls
--- new
Lord Valentine's Castle
Tower of Glass
The Man in the Maze
Nightwings
The World Inside

 

[Kleronomas]

Picked up Past Master by R.A. Lafferty. Used MMPB '68.

I'm keen to try some stuff by this author. Anyone have any opinions regarding him and/or this novel?

 

[intensityxx]

I was trying to buy all the pb's in Kage Baker's The Company Series, and was flummoxed by the ridiculously high price for Mendoza in Hollywood, used. What gives? Anyone know?

 

[Erfael]

I was trying to buy all the pb's in Kage Baker's The Company Series, and was flummoxed by the ridiculously high price for Mendoza in Hollywood, used. What gives? Anyone know?

That usually happens when something is out of print, rare, and in high demand. I had a similar issue trying to get a copies of Tim Power's On Stranger Tides and John Crowley's Aegypt.....

I eventually found a signed first edition of the Powers ($80 value) at a library sale for $4. And I found a copy of the Crowley in TP ($45 usually) for $4 at a local used book store. So sometimes patience and persistance in looking around can get you a good value.

 

[intensityxx]

I'm hoping there's a story to why it's so rare, so in demand, etc. compared to the others in the series.

 

[FicusFan]

I finally got to pick up my UK book:

Cartomancy by MAry Gentle, PB

I also got :

Cities in Flight by James Blish, TP
a reissue of the classic.

The Collected Short Fiction of CJ Cherryh by CJ Cherryh, TP (not sure who edited it)

Newton's Wake by Ken MacLeod, PB

 

[intensityxx]

I finally got to pick up my UK book:
Cartomancy by MAry Gentle, PB
I also got :
Cities in Flight by James Blish, TP
a reissue of the classic.
The Collected Short Fiction of CJ Cherryh by CJ Cherryh, TP (not sure who edited it)
Newton's Wake by Ken MacLeod, PB

Someone was just telling me about Cities in Flight a couple months ago. Have you read it before?

As for intensityxx, someone has got to stop this woman! (either that, or come help her assemble yet another Costco bookcase)

In the Garden of Iden, Kage Baker
Sky Coyote, Kage Baker
-- donations accepted for Mendoza in Hollywood someday--
The Graveyard Game, Kage Baker
Black Projects, White Knights, Kage Baker
The Life of the World to Come, Kage Baker

Quarantine, Greg Egan - because I'm looking forward to upcoming Spin, Robert Charles Wilson, who begins with the same basic premise.

Miles Errant, Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles, Mystery & Mayhem, Lois McMaster Bujold
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card - my 3rd copy since I keep giving them away

 

[FicusFan]

Someone was just telling me about Cities in Flight a couple months ago. Have you read it before?

As for intensityxx, someone has got to stop this woman! (either that, or come help her assemble yet another Costco bookcase)

In the Garden of Iden, Kage Baker
Sky Coyote, Kage Baker
-- donations accepted for Mendoza in Hollywood someday--
The Graveyard Game, Kage Baker
Black Projects, White Knights, Kage Baker
The Life of the World to Come, Kage Baker

Quarantine, Greg Egan - because I'm looking forward to upcoming Spin, Robert Charles Wilson, who begins with the same basic premise.

Miles Errant, Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles, Mystery & Mayhem, Lois McMaster Bujold
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card - my 3rd copy since I keep giving them away

No I haven't read Cities .... before. I think it was on here, and I saw it too. It looked interesting and when I saw it was being reissued as a TP, I picked it up.

Quarantine has a good idea and even starts out well, but then Egan loses the narrative to his love of physics I think. It may be my only Egan book

 

[emohawk]

No I haven't read Cities .... before. I think it was on here, and I saw it too. It looked interesting and when I saw it was being reissued as a TP, I picked it up.

Cities in Flight is really good. A little dated in places but definately one that all serious SF fans should check out.

 

[Archren]

Quarantine has a good idea and even starts out well, but then Egan loses the narrative to his love of physics I think. It may be my only Egan book

Don't entirely give up on Egan until you've read "Schild's Ladder." I've found that his writing has gotten better over time and that one is my favorite of his. However, if you still don't like him then, I'll understand.

 

[NoneShallPass]

I just bought a book containing Plato's The Republic
A manga that is all in Japanese and I have no way of knowing what is being said.
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
Shakespear's Julius Ceaser and The Tempest
Swift's Gulliver's Travels
I wish there was a ton more SF on that list but I do most of my book buying at the bookstore in my local library and sometimes they do not have any SF worth bothering with.

 

[NoneShallPass]

I bought an awesome SF book today.
The Man In A High Castle by Phillip K. Dick.
the other book i bought isnt SF, but its cool anyway.
The Odyssey by Homer

 

[FicusFan]

I had an Amazon order come in, and I picked up some books at the local Barnes and Noble, and Borders:

The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld, PB
Cagebird by Karin Lowachee, PB
We Who Are About To... by Joanna Russ, TP
Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow, TP
Frek and the Elixir by Rudy Rucker, TP

 

[Great Zamfir]

I found a second-hand copy of Resurrection Ark by Alastair Reynolds in a 3-books-for-2,50 basket, among books of at least thirty years old. Not a good sign for mister Reynolds!

 

[kater]

Shadow of the Giant by OSC - probably and sadly his last book in the Bean/Enderverse and if so a fitting end to one of if not my all time favourite series.

 

[NoneShallPass]

A few days ago I bought Isaac Asimov's The Complete Stories Volume 2 for 50 cents. I LOVE THE LIBRARY BOOKSTORE.