Science Fiction Paperbacks
Today I attended the sale of the late Åke E.B. Jonsson's science fiction library. I didn't know the man, but he clearly loved to read sf paperbacks, and he seems to have been very open-minded about their level of literary pretention. SEK 50 (€5, $7, £4) bought me eleven paperbacks. Lots more can be had from the Swedish SF Society to which Jonsson bequeathed the books.
I got four of David G. Hartwell's excellent anthologies, two Fritz Leiber, Heinlein's Harsh Mistress, Howard & Carter's King Kull, Keyes's Flowers, Spinrad's Iron Dream and Aldiss's Saliva Tree. With a Michael Allen and the new LeGuin on their way to my mailbox, I look forward to my summer reading with confidence.
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I got four of David G. Hartwell's excellent anthologies, two Fritz Leiber, Heinlein's Harsh Mistress, Howard & Carter's King Kull, Keyes's Flowers, Spinrad's Iron Dream and Aldiss's Saliva Tree. With a Michael Allen and the new LeGuin on their way to my mailbox, I look forward to my summer reading with confidence.
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posted by Martin at 22:15
9 Comments:
There was an 'Iron Dream' there?
And I missed it?
Grrr...
/Akhôrahil
(I was very pleased to find the rare and hilarious Dune Encyclopedia, though.
/A)
Damned, if I lived in Stockholm i would have bought some books
Vitnir
Akkie baby, you can have the Spinrad when I'm done with it.
Actually, Carolina trumped you in my biblioenvy by finding herself the full Tanith Lee "Death's Master/Night's Master/Illusion Master/Something else-master" series.
/A
Right on!
Is it just me or is the cover art often far superior on some of the older editions?
I just scored a 1953 copy of Sturgeon's "More Than Human" and the cover could have been drawn by Raymond Pettibone!
Happy reading!
Thanks!
The weird thing about genre fiction is that the covers are uniformly awful regardless of the contents. Highbrow or hackwork, they all look like crap.
I know of what you speak---some of that post-modern stuff is just plain stupid.
Have you seen the Vintage reissue of PKD's "Man in the High Castle"?
Call me unenlightened, but I've yet to fathom what the HELL the cover artist is trying to convey or what relevance it has to the book...
A lot of really crappy cover art is bought on the cheap from artists who knew nothing about the book whose cover it would "grace" when they committed it. A famous case is the first Lord of the Rings paperback in the 60s that had something looking like a psychedelic pink fleshy Christmas tree on its cover.
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