9/20/23 Open 6-9p. No open food/drink containers, please.
This book is a beater but still a treasure. That's the way it goes, sometimes. I may keep it. Sci-fi by authors you might not expect, plus known entities of the genre and then some!
This is truly one of my favorite sf books, I hope you kept it. A paperback-sized cute-af hardcover edited by the king of sf anthologies, Groff Conklin. Seriously, when are you likely to come across another story by A. Rowley Hilliard?
The great science fiction writer Leigh Brackett was #BOTD
The “Queen of Space Opera” wrote SF/F for the pulps of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1944 she wrote her first mystery novel, which came to the attention of legendary director Howard Hawks. When Hawks needed help on an adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s ‘The Big Sleep’…
...he told his secretary to "get this guy Brackett." She then left for Hollywood, leaving a half-finished tale for Planet Stories 'Lorelei of the Red Mist'. She asked her emerging writer friend to complete it for her, which Ray Bradbury did seamlessly. Her husband was another SF/F writer of the era, Edmond Hamilton.
But instead of heading to Hollywood after the end of the pulps, Edmond ended his long career at DC Comics. She died from cancer in 1978, but not before turning in the first draft script for what would become “The Empire Strikes Back!” Although her script was rewritten by others, many key elements remain.
#Bookmail from the lovely people at Valancourt who truly do the world a service by reprinting some fabulous and sometimes long OOP books.
These are the two newest #PaperbacksFromHell from Thomas Tessier and they look fantastic. Should be able to get to them in November (hopefully, haaaa) but for now they look right at home amongst my other vintage paperbacks and PFH.
Today in Writing History September 10, 1960: Alison Bechdel, American author and illustrator was born. She is most famous for her “Dykes to Watch Out For,” comic strip. And for her “Bechdel Test,” originally intended as a joke in one of her comics, but which has since become a routine metric used by critics as an indicator for the active presence of women in a film.
@bookstodon Am I the only one who dislikes dust jackets and can't wait to get rid of them only to be sad that the actual #books are not decorated pretty?
Going through my #bookshelf this week has revealed a pattern. Mayhaps that is why I tend to buy paperbacks? But then I also dislike how flimsy they are.
It's all relative. I will be the first to take the DJ off a new book and toss it on a high shelf while I am reading it. OTOH as someone who loves and collects old books, when you find a favorite author's book with a lovely vintage DJ still intact, it's a beautiful thing and something to treasure. The same with paperbacks.
I have very faint memories of a book I read in the 80's. It's not that it was terribly good, but I think I was amused by it and it's been nagging me that I can't remember what book it was.
All I remember is that there were Orcs running around in Berkeley and the protagonist was a young man.
It was your typical #FSS 80's paperback, possibly Del Rey.
It's obviously an extremely long shot, but does this ring any bells?
Join in #13Books to know me because getting to know people by the books they hold close to their heart is great,
The Tombs of Atuan - Le Guin
Frankenstein - Shelley
Hunger Games - Collins
Last Unicorn - Beagle
The House of Spirits - Allende
The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood
The Left Hand of Darkness - Le Guin
Annihilation - VanderMeer
Three Times Lucky - Turnage
Good Omens - Pratchett Gaiman
Jane Eyre - Brontë
Pet Sematary - King
Howl's Moving Castle - Wynne Jones
This is torturous, but... #13Books (not necessarily novels)
Frankenstein - Shelly
Poetry/Tales - Poe
Ghost Stories/Antiquary - James
The Martian Chronicles - Bradbury
More Than Human - Sturgeon
We Have Always Lived In the Castle - Jackson
Two-Handed Engine - Kuttner & Moore
Dangerous Visions - Ellison
Earthsea (series) - Le Guin
The Norton Book of SF - Le Guin/Attebery
The Dark Descent - Hartwell
Tales of the Flat Earth (series) - Tanith Lee
The Weird - VanderMeer