What book did you buy today, part 2.

[Roquefort Raider]

Les meilleurs récits de Weird Tales II (1933-37) ed. by Jacques Sadoul. Some of these stories I haven't seen collected in English so I went ahead and bought this collection of translations. Famous WT writers like Clark Ashton Smith, REH, Seabury Quinn, and Robert Bloch are represented, and this should be a fun way to practise reading in French.

Ooooooh, one of my favorite books growing up! That's where I read my first Conan prose story, The scarlet citadel! Great find, b-d!,!!!

I've been meaning to ask: have all the Perry Rhodan books been translated into English? I remember seeing them around a lot in the 70s but the covers and the name never really caught my imagination. But after seeing you mention them here a few times and reading a recent article I'm starting to get interested.

No, Forest J. Ackerman did a good job with translations of the first few cycles of Perry Rhodan, plus an attempted revival in the mid to late 90s, but apparently the market wasn't there.
Let's be honest: Perry Rhodan isn't good literature; not even good SF literature. But it often has a demential enthusiasm and a non-apologetic FUN way of presenting its ongoing saga full of space empires, mutants, robots, other dimensions and everything that can fit the kitchen sink. The Borg from Star trek were ripped from the pages of Perry Rhodan, all the way to the cubic ships. And few series lasted long enough to present thousands of years of adventure.

What would be cool would be to translate the Silberbaende books that collect and compress several weekly pamphlets (and get rid of the fill-in material that sometimes comes up). They focus on the important parts of the several Perry Rhodan story arcs and would allow readers to skip decades of back story!

[Roquefort Raider]

I'm french and I didn't heard of Jacques Sadoul until today !
What I've heard of and read a lot is books from the edition "J'ai lu" paperbacks, which he was the editor during 30 years !
Those paperbacks opened the magic of Science-Fiction for a lot of people in France with author as Matheson, Spinrad, Van Vogt, Pratchett, Dick, Gibson, Asimov, Clarke... and some french authors too !
Thank you berk, I certainly will buy his biography now and his cycle of novels featuring a bad-ass lesbian heroine !

Rawhide Kid, don't miss out on all the collections of tales from America's great age of the pulps (Les meilleurs récits de Amazing stories, Unknown, Weird Tales 1, 2 and 3, Astouding, etc...) all edited by Sadoul. Great stuff! They should be fairly easy to find among the bouquinistes de l'hexagone.

[berk]

I'm french and I didn't heard of Jacques Sadoul until today !
What I've heard of and read a lot is books from the edition "J'ai lu" paperbacks, which he was the editor during 30 years !
Those paperbacks opened the magic of Science-Fiction for a lot of people in France with author as Matheson, Spinrad, Van Vogt, Pratchett, Dick, Gibson, Asimov, Clarke... and some french authors too !
Thank you berk, I certainly will buy his biography now and his cycle of novels featuring a bad-ass lesbian heroine !

Now that sounds interesting ... I had to look up Sadoul on wiki to find out the name of the series you're talking about - the carol Evans series, is it? Might have to give it a try myself.

No, Forest J. Ackerman did a good job with translations of the first few cycles of Perry Rhodan, plus an attempted revival in the mid to late 90s, but apparently the market wasn't there.
Let's be honest: Perry Rhodan isn't good literature; not even good SF literature. But it often has a demential enthusiasm and a non-apologetic FUN way of presenting its ongoing saga full of space empires, mutants, robots, other dimensions and everything that can fit the kitchen sink. The Borg from Star trek were ripped from the pages of Perry Rhodan, all the way to the cubic ships. And few series lasted long enough to present thousands of years of adventure.

What would be cool would be to translate the Silberbaende books that collect and compress several weekly pamphlets (and get rid of the fill-in material that sometimes comes up). They focus on the important parts of the several Perry Rhodan story arcs and would allow readers to skip decades of back story!

The Silberbaende books sound like they'd be perfect for a latecomer like me, who probably is not going to have the time to read the entire series. If only I read German ...

[Serik]

The Limits to Growth, by Meadows, Meadows, Randers, & Behrens, who were a group of MIT scientists. I've heard about this for years, but it was only after reading about the original book and a proposed update or sequel from the same authors in New Scientist a few weeks ago that I decided to keep an eye out for it. Glad to find a nice Signet PPB from 1972. Now I have to decide if I'm going to read it before the new one comes out.

Meadows et al released several updates already (here's the most recent). Did the New Scientist article say they're working on another update?

After reading it, you might be interested in this paper by Graham Turner at Australia's CSIRO; it compares the original study's predictions with several decades of real world data.

[doolbnoom]

i recently bought:
- the rise and fall of the third reich by william l. shirer
- the art of war by sun tzu
- battle cry of freedom by james m. mcpherson
- conan the indomitable by steve perry
and, of course, some more bargain comics- actually found stuff i needed!:)

[berk]

Meadows et al released several updates already (here's the most recent). Did the New Scientist article say they're working on another update?

Looking back at the article, I mis-remembered that bit. It dis mention the most recent update, but also said one of them, Randers, is editing a book titeled 'The Next Forty Years'. Not sure if any of the others are involved.

[Libaax]

The Dark World by Henry Kuttner
Robot Have No Tails by Henry Kuttner

Two paperbacks who are 131 pages and 115 pages they costed more in swedish money than their page numbers heh!

[Professor Moriarty]

the last books i bought were The Millennium Trilogy off of ebay, The Girl With The Dragoon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest.

i did that because i saw the movie last December and i couldn't wait to see what happens to these characters.

i just finished The Girl With The Dragoon Tattoo last night and i have to say, even though i knew what was going to happen in the story it still was a great read.

[RolandJP]

Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York
By Richard Zacks

[berk]

Found a cheap PPB of Susan Cooper's Over Sea, Under Stone, first of her series, The Dark Is Rising. I've been interested in the series since hearing about it a few years ago, but this is the first time I've seen a copy with decent cover artwork. All the other editions I've ever come across have had some of the worst cover paintings I've ever seen, and I never bothered picking one up. So I'll be keeping an eye out for editions of the other books in the series with the same cover artist, Michael Heslop.

[dan bailey]

Robot Have No Tails by Henry Kuttner

Read that a loooooooooooooong time ago, during my first flush of sf fandom ... probably at least 3 1/2 decades. Pretty darned fun, memory tells me.

[dan bailey]

An Amazon shipment of mostly comics-related stuff should be arriving at my house today; the exception is Lyle Blackburn's The Beast of Boggy Creek: The True Story of the Fouke Monster. Fouke is about 30 minutes from my hometown, & the alleged encounters that inspired the movie The Legend of Boggy Creek were in the newspaper headlines while I was in 7th grade, with the film coming out when I was in the 8th. (The movie's director I knew as "Mayor Chuckles" from an after-school TV cartoon show; the narrator of the film was that station's weatherman.) Looking forward to this one, needless to say.

[Serik]

A View of the River by Luna Leopold

[CromagnonMan]

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, without knowing much about it, other than its about some guy 'who managed to stop the motor of the world'.

i was looking for some thoughtful fiction, it was either this or Hard Times by Charles Dickens

[dan bailey]

I got probably 40 percent of the way way into Atlas Shrugged back in the mid-'80s. Never had any desire to go back.\

Or maybe it was The Fountainhead.

Either way, a waste of time & brain cells. Pity that Rand survived childhood, really.