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…
Happy Robot Invasion Day (Part 6)
“Mr. Robot says, after research on captive test subjects, the robot invaders where able to fortify the nutritive cakes with everything a body needs but with all the yummy flavors that everybody likes,” said Poppa.…
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.…