mrwoogieman Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Here’s a couple compilations that are in the queue. Get Marwood & I, Yorick and Surfing Alien 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrwoogieman Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 One more Surfing Alien, OtherEric and Get Marwood & I 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted February 10 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 10 A couple in today, the Ubik is courtesy @Surfing Alien: Get Marwood & I, alecholland, Yorick and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Number 6 Posted February 11 Popular Post Share Posted February 11 I picked this up last year. My understanding is that it’s the first hardcover release of this title but it was published several decades after the paperback original was released. As such, it wasn’t super expensive for a “first” hardcover. OtherEric, Surfing Alien, johnenock and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted February 13 Author Share Posted February 13 A couple of pulps with PKD stories. I should try and put together a list of how many actual pulps have PKD stories, most of his stuff was in digests since the pulps were dying near the start of his career: Get Marwood & I and Surfing Alien 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 On 2/11/2024 at 5:43 PM, Number 6 said: I picked this up last year. My understanding is that it’s the first hardcover release of this title but it was published several decades after the paperback original was released. As such, it wasn’t super expensive for a “first” hardcover. High grade first PB, it's relatively new but pretty well sought after because it is PKD and an early DAW, which has collectors of their own Number 6, Get Marwood & I, Pat Calhoun and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Get Marwood & I Posted February 16 Popular Post Share Posted February 16 On 2/13/2024 at 8:51 PM, Surfing Alien said: High grade first PB, it's relatively new but pretty well sought after because it is PKD and an early DAW, which has collectors of their own Snap! I think I mentioned earlier in the thread that I used to own a nice, full run of PKD books and that I regretted letting most of them go. Inspired by Eric's thread, I've decided to add a nice book once a month to what remains of my small collection. I'm hoping to read them too, and that will be for the first time in 30 or so years. I thought I'd start with this one, which came today. I like the way the spine dispenses with Philip and K, and just proclaims the remainder in vivid red. Quite appropriate really. It's getting quite hard to find new comics to buy lately, so it will be nice to reopen another old avenue of collecting. See you in a month! johnenock, jimjum12, mrwoogieman and 3 others 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Get Marwood & I Posted February 19 Popular Post Share Posted February 19 I know I said I was going to pick one up each month but I couldn't resist this one because it has a Thorpe & Porter price sticker on it: Two of my favourite things - PKD books and T&P distribution evidence OtherEric, mrwoogieman, Book Guy and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 On 2/19/2024 at 8:08 AM, Get Marwood & I said: I know I said I was going to pick one up each month but I couldn't resist this one This is a symptom of something Get Marwood & I 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted February 22 Author Share Posted February 22 On 2/21/2024 at 7:01 PM, Surfing Alien said: This is a symptom of something At least we’re at a point where you can plan to pick up one each month. In the 80’s I considered myself lucky to find 2-3 PKD books in a year. Surfing Alien 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 I used to visit secondhand bookstores in every town I'd travel through (and record stores. and comic book stores). I'd be scouring for my authors and hoping to find new books to add to my huntlist from the "also by this author" pages as I picked them up. And paying near cover price for used books all the day long. People talk about the death of the second hand bookstores, and I get it, but damn if I don't like to hop on the internet, easily find a full bibliography, and get 90% of the books I want within minutes. 5 bucks for a used modern paperback shipped to my house?? How booksellers can operate on those margins, I do not know, but I don't think it's the "shop local" booksellers I'm ordering from - And even being able to find vintage and first editions is amazing. Sure, I'd get good books recommended to me booksellers, but it's not like I didn't get a lot of bad ones recommended, too Anyways, the life of the modern bookworm OtherEric, Surfing Alien and mrwoogieman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted February 22 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 22 Two in today, both firsts: Surfing Alien, Get Marwood & I, Book Guy and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Surfing Alien Posted February 23 Popular Post Share Posted February 23 I'm sure you all can imagine I'd be scouring the interwebs for a decent copy of "A Handful of Darkness" since @OtherEric posted his find and today is the day it arrived. Grateful for you pointing it out pal, one of the few holes in my PKD pb shelf. It's pretty nice but just scruffy enough that I don't fear reading the tales within OtherEric, Book Guy, Get Marwood & I and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 On 2/23/2024 at 1:26 PM, Surfing Alien said: I'm sure you all can imagine I'd be scouring the interwebs for a decent copy of "A Handful of Darkness" since @OtherEric posted his find and today is the day it arrived. Grateful for you pointing it out pal, one of the few holes in my PKD pb shelf. It's pretty nice but just scruffy enough that I don't fear reading the tales within Always a good day when I set a fellow board member off on the hunt! Surfing Alien 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted March 8 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 8 I got in a nice handful of reader grade digests with PKD stories in a few weeks ago, I've been remiss in actually getting them posted. Amazing Stories has "The Commuter", Fantastic Universe has "Souvenir". More over the next few days. Pat Calhoun, Get Marwood & I, Book Guy and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 The digest project has expanded to include "some I found in boxes once I started looking" and "stuff I got at the local bookstore yesterday" and maybe even other sources. But still sticking to a couple a day. The Amazing Stories has "Stand-By", the Astounding has "Imposter". Somewhat surprisingly, this is the only issue of Astounding with a PKD story that I know of: Pat Calhoun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted March 9 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 9 (edited) I know I said one post a day, but wanted to share the issue I just got in from @PopKulture's sales thread. This one has "Breakfast at Twilight", which is a marvelous title: Edited March 9 by OtherEric Surfing Alien, mrwoogieman, Pat Calhoun and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted March 10 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 10 Beyond has "The King of the Elves", which apparently Disney was trying to turn into a movie for a while several years ago. The idea of Disney doing a PKD adaptation is mind-boggling. Fantastic Universe has "A Surface Raid". Pat Calhoun, Darwination, johnenock and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnenock Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Can you believe his name only appears as a cover headliner a handful of times? Are his earlier works not up to par with his later work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 On 3/10/2024 at 3:36 PM, johnenock said: Can you believe his name only appears as a cover headliner a handful of times? Are his earlier works not up to par with his later work? Like most new writers, it took him a little while to become the creator we know and love. Of the 34 magazines I have that I've scanned the covers of, PKD makes the cover 10 times. Two of the issues don't list any creators, and 14 of them only list one or two. Two of those, PKD is the only creator listed. I would say he probably got his name on the cover as much as all but a few creators. Other than Heinlein and maybe Asimov, I can't think of any creators who ever reached the point where they got cover credit every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
