{"id":286,"date":"2020-07-04T12:36:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T12:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/?p=286"},"modified":"2020-07-04T12:36:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T12:36:54","slug":"the-peace-machine-panther-paperback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"The Peace Machine, Panther Paperback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the second item bought from eBay has arrived. The Panther paperback edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/?p=207\">The Peace Machine<\/a>. The Peace Machine itself being an update of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/?p=206\">Ground Zero Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Cheapest edition bought from eBay and a fine copy it is too.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, adding this to my book database now gives me exactly 70 Bob Shaw books. He didn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Still got some collecting to do, but that is mainly unread stories from magazines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pm-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pm-188x300.jpg 188w, http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pm-643x1024.jpg 643w, http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pm-768x1223.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pm-964x1536.jpg 964w, http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pm-1286x2048.jpg 1286w, http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pm.jpg 1317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7WoTV-4C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}