Booksplosion!
Sep. 15th, 2010 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6And what's more, a Canadian booksplosion!
But first, comics:
This week I got:
New Mutants #17 (still fairly enjoyable, and it had better be, being the only comic left I buy)
But in the used bookstore I found a nice selection in the really-discount bin and bought the following:
Northern Lights: The New Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction ($1), Tesseracts (Canadian Short story collection) ($1), Tesseracts 3 ($1), Tesseracts 4 ($1), Tesseracts 5 ($1), Tesseracts 6 ($1), Tesseracts 7 ($1), Tesseracts 8 ($1), A World Out of Time (Larry Niven) ($0.50), City of Diamond (Jane Emerson) ($1), and The Temporal Void, by Peter F. Hamilton ($4.99, so not out of the discount bin)
Edit: Holy crap, I just happened to open the first Tesseracts...
It's signed by the editor. Judith freaking Merrill. I suppose there's no way to prove it's not a fake signature by the late Merrill, but still, woot!
I also broke, since I was near a Future Shop, and bought some X-Box Live points so I could by Dead Rising: Case Zero, and also The Passing for L4D2. Will probably buy The Sacrifice for L4D2 when it comes out too, have some left over.
Since I had a heavy bagful of books, I decided to take the subway home and they were doing their "Buy a slice of pizza on the platform for $1, for charity," so I bought a couple of those too.
I think they made them smaller and less cheesy than in previous years. Economy hits everyone, I guess. Still, for $1 and charity, not bad.
But first, comics:
This week I got:
New Mutants #17 (still fairly enjoyable, and it had better be, being the only comic left I buy)
But in the used bookstore I found a nice selection in the really-discount bin and bought the following:
Northern Lights: The New Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction ($1), Tesseracts (Canadian Short story collection) ($1), Tesseracts 3 ($1), Tesseracts 4 ($1), Tesseracts 5 ($1), Tesseracts 6 ($1), Tesseracts 7 ($1), Tesseracts 8 ($1), A World Out of Time (Larry Niven) ($0.50), City of Diamond (Jane Emerson) ($1), and The Temporal Void, by Peter F. Hamilton ($4.99, so not out of the discount bin)
Edit: Holy crap, I just happened to open the first Tesseracts...
It's signed by the editor. Judith freaking Merrill. I suppose there's no way to prove it's not a fake signature by the late Merrill, but still, woot!
I also broke, since I was near a Future Shop, and bought some X-Box Live points so I could by Dead Rising: Case Zero, and also The Passing for L4D2. Will probably buy The Sacrifice for L4D2 when it comes out too, have some left over.
Since I had a heavy bagful of books, I decided to take the subway home and they were doing their "Buy a slice of pizza on the platform for $1, for charity," so I bought a couple of those too.
I think they made them smaller and less cheesy than in previous years. Economy hits everyone, I guess. Still, for $1 and charity, not bad.
