Once again at the Library Sale

 Once Again at the Library Sale

Yep, time once again last week to make for the twice-yearly Library Sale. As always, I was able to pick up some worthwhile titles for really affordable prices. 

Quite a few Science Fiction Book Club entrants, from the 1970s. 

'Epoch' is a hefty tome, of 623 pages, from November 1975. I am sure that more than a few of the stories in the collection are duds, but that's how it was, with those 'all original' anthologies. Sometimes the contributors just grabbed something off their 'return' pile and mailed it in.

I'm not a huge fan of Thomas Disch, but 'Triplicity', an omnibus of of 'Echo Round His Bones', 'The Genocides', and 'The Puppies of Terra', was only two bucks. So if it turns out badly, not a big outlay of my personal finances.

'Whetted Bronze' is the second volume in the so-called "Odan the Half-God" trilogy. 'Manning Norvil' was the pen name of the prolific UK author Kenneth Bulmer. I'm not all that excited about those of his other novels that I've read, but maybe I'll give 'Whetted' a try.

I also came away with some 'Orbit' anthologies from 1972 - 1973, and their offerings of unadulterated New Wave goodness........

Rounding out my acquisitions were two classics of 1970s trash / pulp fiction............!

'Thunder la Boom' (January 1975) is one of several pulp fiction novels authored by Anne Steinhardt. 'Thunder' is about the girls at 'Obie's Topless, Bottomless Bar', which, the back cover blurb tells us, is the 'wildest, raunchiest watering place in California'.

'The Queen of America' (May, 1973) was one of a number of crime / suspense novels authored by Russell Greenan. 'Queen' is about Betsy, a chick who doesn't take any shit from anybody hanging out in the downtown Boston hippie world of the early 1970s. 

All of Greenan's books are long out of print, and have pretty steep asking prices, so I was lucky to find this somewhat battered copy. 

All in all, a good outcome from this April's Library Sale..........