My current project is a lot more troublesome - collecting all 29 editions of Gardner Dozois's doorstopping Year's Best Science Fiction anthology series from St. Martin's Press. I've got 18 so far (5,7,9,11,12,14,16,17,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29) but the majority of them were acquired via point-and-click ordering off Amazon. Anything pre-20 was acquired through used book store browsing or as a gift. While I'm sure I could go crazy on Powell's or Alibris and complete my collection, I'm loathe to do so. It just seems like throwing money at it would eliminate the thrill of the chase (something only collector's would understand).
Should I give in? Or hold out hope that the e-copies will make the print books somewhat more acquirable?
Regardless, look for a few million words of quality SF hitting e-stores this fall.
Congrats on the Masterwork collection! I myself have some odd collecting habits, and was even going for the masterworks too at one point, until I realized they were reprinting older ones in the series with new covers and I was getting confused on which came out first, etc... (I'm a sucker for trying to get everything - even in this case reprints - in first of whatever). Since then, I have been collecting the SFBC's 50th Anniversary Collection. Which actually works better for me, since I like hardcovers anyway. Though the Masterwork collection has an admittedly better selection.
ReplyDeleteI say keep going for the paper editions of the Dozoi anthologies! They look much nicer on the shelf :-)
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