{"id":277,"date":"2020-07-01T16:26:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T16:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/?p=277"},"modified":"2022-08-23T11:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T11:22:47","slug":"i-got-a-letter-from-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"I got a letter from Bob"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pretty quiet with things lately, the collapse of civilization and the end of the world taking precedence over normal matters. However I did purchase a couple of items from ebay re BoSh, one I thought I had which turned out I didn’t, and an impulse buy which I came across during semi regular searches for Bob Shaw stuff. Under a tenner for both items too.<\/p>\n

Today the first item arrived; a letter from Bob to a friend called Don, also a writer.<\/p>\n

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March 1977. I was still at school and had no inkling of Bob Shaw and not too much about Science Fiction, being into Robert E Howard a lot. Although I’m pretty sure I saw the movie Logan’s Run around this time, perhaps the Doc Savage movie too: UK generally being behind US in film releases then.<\/p>\n

Bob states he had just rushed off his latest novel to the publishers, which was late.<\/p>\n

Shadow of Heaven<\/a>,\u00a0Ship of Strangers<\/a> and Vertigo<\/a> came out in 1978, a year later so I’m wondering which one it was that was late? Vertigo I would suspect, Ship of Strangers being a patch up of short stories. Vertigo came from the one short story. Shadow of Heaven came out as a paperback in 1978 and is just a reprint of the earlier issue as far as I’m aware: although ISFBD does note<\/a> that it was “Not “abridged”, but not “revised” either. Significantly longer than the earlier British NEL editions that were “abridged.””<\/p>\n

With the wonders of modern technology the address can be looked up. Door numbering on Google Street View isn’t clear but it shows a pub at the corner of the street and an ambulance station across from the houses. Not sure if either were there in the 70s. The houses themselves are pretty ornate, a little old fashioned and traditional compared to your modern terraced property. It’s probably a ten minute walk from there to Market Street, which Bob Shaw can be seen walking down in Encounter with a Madman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I also came across the item below on ebay, being sold by his son.<\/p>\n

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Not of too much interest to me as a big Bob Shaw fan and I’m nowhere near enough to collect in person anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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