I’m posting the Mieville List — the fifty-book list that I am planning to slowly work my way through over the next couple of years — mostly to note that some of these books are going to be pretty damned hard to get my hands on in Korea, seeing that they’re either out of print and the kind of thing you mostly only find in used book stores. Yes, this is a kind of appeal to the kindness of strangers, but not a loud one. After all, with the degree of traveling I’ve been doing, in some ways I have a feeling the 16-odd books on this list that I can’t get in Korea, I could probably pick up in one way or another, given enough patience. Still, since I have some friends who occasionally look around for books that might amuse me, I’m posting the list in the extended section of this post, with markings to indicate what I cannot get for myself, within the country, without a credit card.
I’m going to use several different markings. Bolded means I cannot get the book in Korea. Italicized means it’s possible to order the book, though only as a new book. Finally, strikethrough (like this) means that I already have the book in my possession, either here or in a box in my mother’s garage in Saskatoon, and that it’s therefore unnecessary for me to get any.
If anyone sees anything in bolded format, I’d love if you remembered me and nabbed it.
Iain M. Banks—Use of Weapons (1990)
Edward Bellamy—Looking Backward, 2000–1887 (1888)
Alexander Bogdanov—The Red Star: A Utopia (1908; trans. 1984)
Emma Bull & Steven Brust—Freedom & Necessity (1997)
Mikhail Bulgakov—The Master and Margarita (1938; trans. 1967)
Katherine Burdekin (aka “Murray Constantine
I don’t see any bold.
Ha, it was a post I accidentally posted in mid-draft, and then didn’t post again when I finished it. You caught it modway to being finished. :)
Did you try ebay?
I don’t have a credit card, so no… I’d probably try the Amazon used book suppliers before I would the ebay route. but that shall have to wait till I get me a credit card. I was told I’d been approved but on Wednesday discovered that it was a lie, a lie, a terrible terrible lie. Or something.
I have a bunch of them for you, will e-mail you details soon.
Whee! Wonderful, thank you Julia!
And, I am embarrassed to say I still have these books on my shelf, waiting for me to read them. I’ve picked up a few more, and I imagine it shouldn’t be hard to get the remaining ones… if I want to read them. That said, a friend of mine suggested he thought the list was in part designed to get a rise out of people… when he handed me Mary Gentle’s Rats and Gargoyles, he said, “There’s no reason you would want to read this, really…”
Perhaps his comments put me off the list. But I think I’ll try read a few of these this year… those I haven’t yet read, anyway.