Jack of Shadows
By Roger Zelazny This came to me free along with a tattered copy of C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra, from my sister sometime nearer the beginning of the pandemic rather than it’s end, which still seems nowhere…
I Am Legend
By Richard Matheson Like many Gen-X’ers I saw the film first (with Will Smith). It reminded me of a fantasy I had when I was 9 or 10. I dreamed of being the last person…
The Call of Cthulhu, and Other Weird Stories
By H. P. Lovecraft I bought this book from Barnes & Noble using a gift certificate just before the massive shutdowns at the beginning of the pandemic crisis. I bought this particular copy because of…
The Wedding Feast War
The Final Tragedy of the Xhosa People By Keith Smith The Wedding Feast War by Keith Smith describes the 9th and final frontier war between the Cape Colony and the various chiefdoms that made up…
The Illustrated Man
By Ray Bradbury I bought this along with a bunch of others from H.P Lovecraft, Asimov, and Heinlein with a gift certificated from Barnes & Noble, so it was basically free, which I like because…
Cage A Man
By: F. M. Busby This was $4.99 at the local thrift store. I bought it purely for its killer cover and the pulpy description on the back and inside jacket. What I got for my…
The Great Boer War
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Boer in Afrikaans is a farmer. This is a collection of war correspondence penned by the author of Sherlock Holmes detailing the British war against the Dutch speaking republics…
2001: A Space Odyssey
By Arthur C. Clarke I had to buy this at retail price from Amazon, because I couldn’t find it in the thrift stores or used book shops. 2001: A Space Odyssey is clearly the best…
The Lost World
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I bought this in a thrift store for $1.99. Later, upon closer inspection of the front cover, I realized I could a have bought this new at Walmart for 1/4…
Stranger in a Strange Land
By Robert A. Heinlein I didn’t buy this for it’s book cover. It’s ratty and has a mushroom cloud shaped tear up the front. I bought it partly because of I discovered what my parent’s…