Unboxing My First and Still Best Sci-Fi Book Hoard

UK flopper, excellent book.

If you like Children of Time, this book is, to my memory, better than that one and pretty similar.

I don't really like it so much.

I did go back to this and reread it and it holds up. It holds up better than this does, but these are two incredibly important books to me.

excellent book of essays about art appreciation.

got this at a thrift store and I think I read that in one sitting, too. Good book.

This is probably along with Expedition my all-time favorite art project in science fiction or fantasy. This is him painting hell as if hell were a science fiction planet... I think this is Barlowe's best work.

his memoir written in the 2000s at some point. I'm a fan. I like ICP a lot. I listen to their music. I think it's a lot better than people give it a chance to be.

Big Planet Jack Vance with the Defeat cover, excellent.

These are not only two of my favorite aesthetic paperbacks, two of my favorite books.

great social realist novel.

Phenomenal book.

a sort of a so-so book, short story collection by Silverberg, although there is an interesting essay in here where he's talking about how much he hates science fiction... The rest of it I think is pretty forgettable.

I tried reading this. It's terrible. but very nostalgic for this because I played the computer game when I was a kid.

I think this is the copy that I that I read. We had a handful of science fiction books kind of floating around. This was one of them. Have not gone back to it and read it since. It's another formative book.

This is book I think three that I ever reviewed on the channel. It's Anthony's first book. It took him 20 years to write and I think he tried pretty hard to be literary a serious literary guy. not sure how successfully he was, but it's a wild-ass book.

cannot recommend that book. Tried it.

Great book, not a great cover.

The first Death World is great. Other two, not so much, but this is a book that I reviewed.

Fantastic book. This is my favorite Silverberg.

I read it and reviewed it. It's pretty middling. Some of them are good, some of them not so good... Dodkin's Job and Gift of Gab are great... Gift of Gab is the best one.

it is good. It is not my favorite Silverberg, but it is good.

I've been reading my way through that, and it's amazing.

One of my all-time favorite science fiction books. If you can find a copy of this for under 100 bucks, I think I would grab it. Talked about it a lot.

one of my all-timers. And Compton has continued has sustained himself in my esteem... this was and is, I think, probably still my favorite. Crazy grim book about a prison colony on Mars.

Hawksbill Station by Silverberg, another early book that I read along with this one actually... Hawksbill Station, also good.

All this, all this, decent book.

excellent book. Still one of my favorite Ballards.

This is another book that I read in one sitting... Great book. This is a book about a starving, literally on the brink of death, starving essayist who is completely delusional about his own abilities and his own talents as a writer... Gripping. Such a good book to my memory.

nothing I think can ever diminish my esteem for this particular book. This is one of the most important, most elucidating science fiction books that I have ever read. I think this should be required reading... It's a great book. It's a genuinely great book.

Very important book to me.

This is actually my favorite George Orwell book about a delusional failed son trying to make it as an artist.

This is a fantastic book. I've not read his other stuff, but found that very resonant.

followed by Marooned in Real Time, solid like techno-thriller stuff about big domes that trap people inside in time. So, it's sort of like a time travel thing, dystopian thing. it's good.

This is the second book I ever reviewed. Includes With These Hands by C.M. Kornbluth, which is still one of my favorite short stories ever.

The first of those is the better. Interesting book. I like Smith's short stories more than Norstrilia at this point.

My copy of Nova, Reddit reviewed it, important space opera.

This is a decent book, decent space opera. that in retrospect I think maybe borrowed a little bit from Lucius Shepard.

got it in a free pile at a local bookstore, very good.

questionable fella, but very good book.

This was, at the time, probably the funniest thing I'd ever seen in my life in middle school... it's very funny still.

I really loved this book early on. I don't know if I'd have the same reaction to it now. I remember this very fondly.

This was my number one pick on one of those top 15 videos. Still great. Want to reread it. Want to read the other Strugatskys that I haven't read, but want to reread this one to verify. What a book.

really fascinating stuff, especially the section about Athenian slavery. All of it puts into contrast just how severe and how evil American chattel slavery was and it was something basically without historical precedent.

I was mixed on it. Skewing positive when I read it. Probably wouldn't like it as much now.

this ended up being one of the most important books I ever read... I said it was better than Lord of the Rings. I don't think that holds up. I don't think I believe that anymore... It is better than Fellowship of the Ring. It's not better than the whole Lord of the Rings.

I read most of this. It is as bleak, as grim as it looks.

This is not a very good book but see what the stories are pretty decent.

Fantastic book. This is on a par with the Dying Earth books. This might be my favorite ever Jack Vance book and it's high fantasy ala Song of Ice and Fire.

this is one of the better Vance standalones.

Book of Skulls, Silverberg, pretty good book.

Can recommend with a couple of caveats.

Don't really like this book very much.

Very good book. My favorite still of this Lazny's

man, two extremely formative books.

Final Circle of Paradise by the Strugatskys, love this book.

I read about half of it and it was just too much. It was too intense. It's poems about death, little fables about death and dying. unbelievably good... I intend to go back to that soon and reread it.

Excellent, excellent, excellent book. much better than other Disches that I have gone on to read... incredibly bleak book, incredibly violent. It's about an alien conquest of Earth that is utterly hopeless.

Gray Prince, not a good book.

These I'm sort of lukewarm on.

I read The Moon Pool. It was bad.

The first book I ever reviewed on YouTube was this book, and I'm sure if I went back to it, I would probably not like it nearly as much. I'm really not a Niven or a Purnell fan at all. but important book to me.

Good book. I soured on Bob Shaw a little bit... but that's a great book. That's one of my favorite ever space operas.

I really like this book, actually. I think the real-time books are at least on a par with the Zones of Thought books, which are much more famous. and he wrote these earlier. This is book 1, followed by Marooned in Real Time, solid like techno-thriller stuff about big domes that trap people inside in time... it's good.

Read this before I knew that it was PewDiePie's favorite book. but we like Mishima despite everything.

Another one that I just absolutely tore through. I think I read it in two sittings. you don't need me to tell you about how good that book is.

I actually read this recently. It's not very good, but super rare book.

This is a history of mnemonics... fascinating subject to look into.

this is largely responsible for me getting into books in the way that I have.

These are not only two of my favorite aesthetic paperbacks, two of my favorite books.

This is excellent. That is fantastic and the Women's Press edition with the zebra stripe spine.

important fantasy property. I believe the premise is what if there was math in a fantasy world, which sounds pretty exciting. Can recommend this.

Excellent book.

I did read this. This is very good.

this is also an excellent book. This is lit fic.

I did read this. It's sort of so-so. Weird time-hopping space opera thing.

I did read that one and review it as well. I was sort of mixed on it.

It's so-so. Fairly well-known book from him.

This was a gift from a friend. I actually read it, thought it was decent.

which is sort of middling, but kind of interesting. This was a gift from my father, actually.

Also decent, pretty middling.

Wind Whales of Ishmael, terrible book.

another favorite, all-timer favorite. This was a gift from a friend of mine. knocked it out of the park with that. Recommend.

read it on a flight in one sitting. And it's another book that helped hook me on science fiction.

This is a good book, though.

Don't really like the book very much.

Not a good book, great cover, and it's got the Avon Blish font.

underrated book. I really like this book. It's a satire of quack science and it's a coming-of-age story... It's a great book.

I was pretty underwhelmed by this. I read it in Vietnam, actually, on Kindle.

I found this same book in Chiang Mai when I was traveling and read it and overall pretty good. It includes The Genocides, which is the best in this collection.

one of the most important of his works, True Names True Names and Other Dangers. This is a short story about artificial intelligence from the 1980s, I think, that was really influential.

Read it, reviewed it. but it's good to have that.

This is another absolute all-timer. One of the best things I've ever read in my life. Probably still my favorite Russ... It is simply so good.

I read it when I was a kid and I liked it because I was a big fan of the Carpenter movie... I went back to this and reread it and it just did not have nearly the same effect. I actually don't hold this book in all that high of esteem anymore, unfortunately.

Great cover, not that great of a book.