January, 2022

Our neighbours also gave me some J.G. Ballard. I haven’t read Ballard for years and then only a couple of novels. I’m probably going to read this slipcase of three sixties novels next – The Wind from Nowhere, The Drowned World and The Drought and a short story collection, The Terminal Beach.

Kind neighbour across the road has given me a pile of old SF novels by Ballard, Bradbury and Moorcock. Some of the covers are hideous but remind me of buying cheap books when I was a child. Some of the blurb on the backs of the Moorcocks is nuts!

Among my haul from the local Oxfam bookshop was this book which puts Priestley’s writing in cultural context. I’ve grown incredibly fond of Priestley over the last few years as I’ve found out much more about his life and thinking.

I paid £15 for the complete run of Providence by Moore and Burrows. Very pleased. It’s one of my favourite comics and, I believe, one of the most significant published in the last decade. Maybe even the best thing Moore’s written. I already have Providence in various collections but not in floppies. There’s a few variants in there that I’ll replace with the regular covers.

Mignola’s and Johnson-Cadwell’s Victorian vampire romp, Falconspeare, is super enjoyable. Another volume added to the bookcase full of BPRD/Hellboy/Baltimore/Witchfider collections.