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Which can only mean vol. 2 is coming up next!
Being cool.
Via Vintage Paperback Books FB page.
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Im waiting now for the final book in the #TheVinylDetective series to be included in Kobo Plus. Really enjoyed them all so far. In the mean time Iāve started this one.
Andrew Cartmelās other crime series, this time centered around the world of paperback book collecting. A theme that runs through the vinyl novels too, and set in the same universe.
The downside is my collectors (and addiction inclined) brain is now starting to formulate a planā¦.. #AndrewCartmel #Paperbacks
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Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLIII (Philip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny, Chuck Rothman, Philip JosƩ Farmer, and an anthology on Future Love)
Which books/covers/authors intrigue you? Which have you read? Disliked? Enjoyed?
1. Deus Irae, Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny (1976)
From the back cover: āOne their own, they have written landmarks works that have added whole new dimensions of wonder to the field of science fiction. Now, in Deus Irae, they have created what ALA Booklist calls āthe most successful collaboration in years!āāset in in bizarre world where you will encounterā¦
A bunch of backwoods farmers who happen to be lizardsā¦
A tribe of foul-mouthed giant bugs who worship a dead VW sedanā¦
An automated factory that canāt decide whether to serve its customersāor kill them.
Across this nightmare landscapeāpursued by an avenging angel on a bicycleāone man makes a painful pilgrimage in search of the one who changed the world so drasticallyāthe legendary, by very, God of Wrathā¦ā
Initial Thoughts: Iāve heard that this co-written book by Dick and Zelazny is far from their respective best. Iām still curious!
2. Staroamerās Fate, Chuck Rothman (1986)
From the back cover: āQUARNIAN DOW. Space salvager, planet tamer, dreamstone thief, revolutionaryāQuarnian was a woman with a destiny, a gold star syron gifted with the ability to āknowā the future and to see into the hearts and minds of others. But the very talent that let her bend others to her will was the curse that made her a lone adventurer, called by some inner voice to world after world, challenge after challenge.
Now the destiny was again calling Quarnian⦠this time to a rendezvous with a long-lost legendāand a journey of discovery that could change the fate of all who roamed the skiesā¦ā
Initial Thoughts: I acquired this one as it contains a generation ship. I am an aficionado of the generation ship. Hereās a list Iāve compiled on the topic with links to those Iāve reviewed. I assume the novel will be poor despite the theme.
3. Flesh, Philip JosƩ Farmer (1960)
From the back cover: āHE WAS THE SUNHERO. STUD-GOD TO A MILLION ADORING FEMALES.
After 800 years of exploring the stars Space Commander Stagg had expected a heroās welcomeābut this was awesome. First, they grafted real antlers on his head. Then they invested him with the pure sex power of 50 bulls and turned him loose on a screaming frenzy of fire-up virgins. Now he was on an ecstatic public fertility tour that took in every available femaleāand could soon take his lifeā¦ā
Initial Thoughts: In January, I acquired the 1st edition of Farmerās Flesh. He revised the novel for all the post-1968 printings. If rewrites occur within my date ranges, Iām always interested in the nature of revision especially as the early 1960s vs. late 1960s were radically different in the allowed content. Perhaps the revisions reflect this. We shall see!
4. Future Love: A Science Fiction Triad, ed. Roger Elwood (1977)
Contents: Anne McCaffreyās āThe Greatest Loveā (1977), Joan Hunter Hollyās āPsi Cloneā (1977), and Jeffrey A. Carverās āLove Rogoā (1977).
From the back cover: āAnne McCaffrey, who is probably well known to most readers of this book, examines in her story a mother love that goes beyond the physical, in a new and different sense of that phrase; a sense, in fact, not possible until present-day medical technology gave us the means of realizing it. That particular gift of Anne McCaffrey is that she can infuse such an intense human light and warmth into a hitherto-unknown, laboratory-cold subject that it takes on the familiar, common quality of everyday readerly lives.
Joan Holly, who has also been writing SF successfully for years, deals with a different kind of parent-child pattern. Again there is a love situation emerging out of a relationship which would have been impossible before present-day science gave it to us as something that could happen. But here again, through Joan Hollyās creativity, we have an intense, swift-running story, like a landslide channeled between canyon walls so deep they almost shut out the light.
Jeffrey Carver goes one step beyond the interaction of ordinary human love. He plunges the reader into a small whirlpool of individual lives, carried along with the rushing current of power, plunging ever more swiftly toward the bring of a waterfall. Here, the love is not between human and human, but between human and something elseāa love that in the end betrays.ā
Initial Thoughts: I have not read any work by Holly or Carver. As for McCaffrey, she was an adored author of my childhoodāI read and reread and reread her Pern novels (and the endless prequels and side-series and volumes written with her son). I suspect sheās an author that would lose a bit of the luster if I returned to my nostalgic favorites.
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I recently checked out a copy of Simone Carotiās scholarly The Generation Starship In Science Fiction: A Critical History, 1934-2001 (2011) (amazon link) from my library ā its appendix contains a wā¦
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