The Peace Machine, Panther Paperback

So, the second item bought from eBay has arrived. The Panther paperback edition of The Peace Machine. The Peace Machine itself being an update of Ground Zero Man.

I was convinced I had this paperback already, mainly due to the cover being very very familiar. While moving some books around I did notice that it was not there. I thought I had lost it then checked my book database and realised that I never had it.

Cheapest edition bought from eBay and a fine copy it is too.

The book itself is a bloody good thriller, whichever version is read. And to be honest the revisions were only to bring it up to date and give it a quick polish.

Coincidentally, adding this to my book database now gives me exactly 70 Bob Shaw books. He didn’t write seventy books obviously. I have all his books in hard back and all of them in paperback, some paperbacks being duplicated with different editions, such as British edition and American edition, or by publisher.

Bosh had a few British publishers, and I have editions of his paperbacks from Pather, Orbit, Pan, Corgi, NEL and Gollancz, or VGSF as they call themselves.

Still got some collecting to do, but that is mainly unread stories from magazines.