{"id":23493,"date":"2024-06-21T11:36:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T16:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=23493"},"modified":"2024-06-25T10:01:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T15:01:41","slug":"library-additions-two-anthology-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=23493","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Two Anthology Firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve tended to pick up fewer and fewer anthologies, mainly because I haven&#8217;t been reading them as much, and they&#8217;re almost always available in nice condition on the used market for considerably less than cover price. Such as these two anthologies, which I considered picking up when they came out but ultimately didn&#8217;t. These are the last two hardback books for my own library from that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=23458\">estate purchase<\/a>. <\/p>\n<li>Kessel, John, Mark L. Van Name and Richard Butner, editors. <b>Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology<\/b>. Tor, 1996. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with faint haze rubbing. Original anthology of Sycamore Hill participants, including Bruce Sterling&#8217;s award-winning &#8220;Bicycle Repairman.&#8221;\n<li>Rucker, Rudy, Peter Lamborn Wilson and Robert Anton Wilson, editors. <b>Semiotext(e) SF<\/b>. Autonomedia, 1989. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine- copy with slight bump to front corner. Anthology with both a lot of recognizable SF names (William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Lewis Shiner, Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Sheckley, etc.) and a lot of counterculture figures (William S. Burroughs, Ivan Stang, Kerry Thornley, etc.) Part of that Autonomedia\/RE:Search\/Fringeware axis of post-punk SF that flourished in the late 80s and early 90s. If you don&#8217;t own a copy of <i>Modern Stories<\/i> #1 (I do), this is the only place to find Gibson&#8217;s &#8220;Hippie Hat Brain Parasite.&#8221;\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve tended to pick up fewer and fewer anthologies, mainly because I haven&#8217;t been reading them as much, and they&#8217;re almost always available in nice condition on the used market for considerably less than cover price. Such as these two anthologies, which I considered picking up when they came out but ultimately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[494,1973,18,2716,726,1970,152],"class_list":["post-23493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-anthology","tag-books","tag-bruce-sterling","tag-robert-anton-wilson","tag-rudy-rucker","tag-science-fiction","tag-william-gibson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23493","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=23493"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23537,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23493\/revisions\/23537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}