Sapiens
By Yuval Noah Harari Obviously I didn’t buy this for the cover unlike most of the books I buy; though you could argue it is appropriately subdued for a history book. My friend forced me…
The Lost Worlds of 2001
By Arthur C. Clarke I bought this for a couple of bucks at a used book store on the coast, thinking it contained the original published 2001 plus additional material. This was an attempt to…
The Green Brain
By Frank Herbert You can’t beat a yellowed and brittle paperback for $3.00 with no shipping and handling. Thanks Bob’s Books. This story first appeared as a novelette called Greensleeves, in 1965 for Amazing Stories,…
3001: The Final Odyssey
By Arthur C. Clarke $3.50 and badly bent as if it had spent a decade with half of its body on top of another paperback and half below yet another; I tried to bend it…
Transfigurations
By Michael Bishop This was a random find at Goodwill for $3.99, hardcover. The first section is from a short Novella called “Death & Designation Among the Asadi.” The Novella described an anthropologist eye view…
2061: Odyssey 3
By Arthur C. Clark $3.99 at Goodwill, possibly from the same deceased person’s collection from which I aquired 2010. Sadly however, I could not find a copy of the first book in the series, nor…
2010: Odyssey Two
By Arthur C. Clarke I can’t remember where I got this. I have been toting it around, unread, for years. It cost 50 cents so maybe I bought it at the Salvation Army. I have…
Eye
By Frank Herbert This collection by the ‘World Famous Author of Dune,” was a steal at Goodwill coming in at $1.99 and selling at $3.49 back in 1985. Eye contains various short pieces by Herbert…
Big Sur
By Jack Kerouac I bought this on Amazon, which is what I usually do when I know what I want to read and am impatient to get it. I was pleasantly surprised by the presentation.…
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings
By Thomas De Quincey I stumbled upon this after a YouTube binge on all things Beat Generation. Someone somewhere said something about this being an influence on somebody. Of course because of poor research practices…