Free Book Giveaway
I have several thousand books that I have either read or have decided not to read. I bought a huge collection last summer at a garage sale of books from the 1950s. My brother bought me about 150 hard cover books at another garage sale. I also bought about 500 books at eBay big lot auctions. I have many duplicates and many more that I have read and won’t read again.
I’ve decided to give away some books. I am doing this to 1) make room on my shelves and 2) get more readers to my blog and web pages. Although I intend to sell some books on eBay, it is fun to give a few away, as well. I will try to pick a variety of sub-genres each week to accommodate different tastes.
The rules are:
- One entry per email and street. Please don’t try to get more than one book at a time.
- You are limited to one book a month unless nobody else wants a book.
- I pay the cheapest postage available. If you live outside the US, I will not pay more than $5. (And I don’t want to pay that.) Media Mail takes up to two weeks in the US. Surface mail can take more than a month to Europe or Australia.
- If you want express, airmail, or anything other than Media Mail or cheap surface mail, you can send me the difference via paypal.
- I am using old used shipping envelopes. I do not pay for delivery confirmation.
- All books are in used as-is condition. All books are read, some have spent time in my pocket, some may have pizza sauce stains. On the other hand, some of these books are more than 50 years old. Conditions varies from pretty good to just readable.
- No substitutions, returns or complaints. If you don’t like the book, pass it on to someone else.
- Allergies: I have 7 cats – there WILL be cat hair.
- In return for a a book I would appreciate a back-link to my blog or one of my pages, or a comment on another blog with a reference, or you can email three friends about the site. (One of the reasons for the giveaway is to increase readership.)
- All these conditions will be met or Erica will place a Black Irish Curse on you, and you don’t want that!
I will manually edit the results and get rid of spam and duplicates. The program will then randomly pick three winners. I will then email you to check that everything is right before I ship. If the email bounces, I’ll try again with someone else.
Please check off one of the books and put your email and snail mail address below. I will email everyone with the results, other than that, I won’t spam you.
This weeks book giveaway is over. I’ll announce the winners Monday March 15.
The next contest starts as soon as I take the pictures of the books.
6 Comments
Yeay! A contest with meaningful results!
Are they good stories?
Do the actions of the characters make sence?
Do the stories take place in the futuristic time of “1999, after the 4th world war”
Did they violate logic or were they filled with cliches?
Is there a scene where the heros meet a race of anthropmorphic rabbit men?
I just gotta’ know more about these books! :)
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Brain Wave is one of the best books that I’ve ever read. Poul Anderson is a personal favorite and I’m only giving this up because I have two of them.
The Helmsman was good enough that I read two more books in the series. It is pretty standard military SF, but it rings true. If you like action adventure, this is the right book.
I read the Anthony book 35 years ago and I wasn’t that excited by it. It was a good read, though, even if I don’t remember much about it. Piers Anthony is mostly known for fantasy now, but these early SF books are his better work.
They all sound much better than the cruddy, unpublishable fanfiction that I've been getting a hold of. (If you notice, a lot of the new entries on the sci-fi cliché list were submitted from me.)
Although, I wish I had picked “Brain Wave,” since you describe it as being the best of the three. Oh, well.
Well, anyway. You said that these books were published in the 1950's? Do they suffer from relying on since-proven-wrong events as plot devices? I mean, are characters' behaviors based on Freudian ideas, do the characters get “mutant powers” from frolicking threw a toxic waste dump, that only brilliant writers with original script ideas make it in Hollywood, or anything like that?
I want to know if the life lessens that these stories are based around still hold true today.
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Brain wave is about the earth going through a region of space that makes everyone smart. It was written in the early 1950s so there are bound to be anachronisms. Since I was born in the early 1950s, I don’t notice.
The Helmsman is fairly modern, written in the 1980s and takes place in the far future.
The Rings of Ice was written in 1974, but it is not hard SF at all. I takes place in the future. I read it was Anthony’s first book, published after he had written Sos the Rope and other stories established him as an important writer.
The books that I will be giving away here will all be older “classic” books that most SF people should read. I will try to mix up the genres with some fantasy and there are one or two horror books in the boxes somewhere.
I like these old classics and I haven’t read very many. I wouldn;t mind some of these as long as they’re not book 3/3 type thing or broken trillogies. I just opened up a Paypall account, I’m just waiting for PP verafication.