{"id":22301,"date":"2023-06-26T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=22301"},"modified":"2024-02-05T11:55:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T17:55:27","slug":"library-addition-hb-first-of-h-beam-pipers-lord-kalvan-of-otherwhen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=22301","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: HB First of H. Beam Piper’s Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read this a few years ago, and liked it so much I decided to pick up the hardback first.<\/p>\n

Piper, H. Beam. Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen<\/b>. Garland Publishing, 1975. First hardback edition, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Novel of a modern day state trooper accidentally sucked into an alternate timeline where he uses his knowledge of military tactics and technology (such as the composition of gunpowder) to topple a corrupt theocracy. Part of the Garland Library of Science Fiction, reprinted from slightly blown-up pages from the Ace paperback original. Supplements a PBO first. Bought for \u00a368 plus shipping from a UK seller. <\/p>\n

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I read this a few years ago, and liked it so much I decided to pick up the hardback first. Piper, H. Beam. Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. Garland Publishing, 1975. First hardback edition, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Novel of a modern day state trooper accidentally sucked into an alternate timeline where… Continue reading Library Addition: HB First of H. Beam Piper’s Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,1806,2651,1970],"class_list":["post-22301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-garland-press","tag-h-beam-piper","tag-science-fiction","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23110,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22301\/revisions\/23110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}