I’ll be sending a new Lame Excuse Books catalog of science fiction, fantasy, and horror first editions out via email later this week. Email me at lperson1@austin.rr.com if you want to receive a copy.
Category: Books
I participated in a Mind Meld over at SF Signal
On the best SF books and movies I enjoyed this year. Sadly, almost none of those actually came out this year…
Two Things Dwight Might Like
I mentioned one of these to Dwight at the Saturday Dining Conspiracy and chanced across the other. Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York by William Grimes. This got a very favorable review in National Review (the print edition; alas, the review does not seem to be online). Shackleton – The Greatest Survival Story… Continue reading Two Things Dwight Might Like
Books Read: Bruce Sterling’s The Caryatids
Bruce Sterling’s The Caryatids: How much you’ll enjoy reading The Caryatids depends on how much you’d enjoy listening to Bruce Sterling talk to himself. Because that’s basically what The Caryatids is about. (This is not necessarily selling it short; Bruce’s monologues are endlessly fascinating, both in person and on the printed page.) It’s certainly an… Continue reading Books Read: Bruce Sterling’s The Caryatids
The Top Ten Books on my “Books Wanted” List
I may have mentioned that I have a large library. I started out collecting “hypermodern” (which in my case meant “post-Neuromancer“) science fiction (with some fantasy and horror works and authors thrown in for good measure), and once I had collected everything I wanted there, I started going after every important post-World War II SF… Continue reading The Top Ten Books on my “Books Wanted” List
In the Mail: Michael Shea Gets His Cthulhu Mythos On
Added the following to my library (and copies are also available through Lame Excuse Books): Shea, Michael (S.T. Joshi, editor). Copping Squid and Other Mythos Tales. Perilous Press, 2009. First edition hardback, one of only 750 hardback trade copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new, still in shrink wrap. All the Cthulhu… Continue reading In the Mail: Michael Shea Gets His Cthulhu Mythos On
Books I added to my library this week
And now some book geeking, for those interested in same. All first edition hardbacks: Howard, Robert E. Conan the Barbarian. Gnome Press, 1954. Fine copy in a Fine- dj with very slight fading to spine. Bought from a book dealer off the Internet. King, Stephen. Under the Dome. Simon & Schuster, 2009. Signed/limited edition (which… Continue reading Books I added to my library this week
The Economics of Writing (sucks)
John Scalzi on a writer’s income, or rather lack thereof. Most of these are more true than not. I’m probably in a better position than most, because: I have a day job, and have had a day job of one sort or another (with occasional gaps as long as nine months) for the entirety of… Continue reading The Economics of Writing (sucks)
Books Read: John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces
I thought it was time for some modern literature to come around on the guitar, and John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces is one of the Pulitzer Prize winners I had in my Nearly Infinite Library. (Others in there that I considered (and the reasons for not reading them just now) were Michael Chabon’s… Continue reading Books Read: John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces
I don’t have to do this yet
Emphasis on the yet: Stairway bookcase.