{"id":691,"date":"2010-01-20T12:59:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T18:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2022-01-02T14:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T20:22:36","slug":"library-additions-december-1-through-january-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: December 1, 2009\u2014January 14, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a big-ass post on my trip up to Archer City and the Dallas\/Ft. Worth Metroplex coming up, so I thought it was high time to engage in some preliminary bookgeeking by listing all the books I&#8217;ve picked up since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=595\">my ginormous post on my library<\/a>. This may be of very limited interest to people who aren&#8217;t book collectors or science fiction fans, but it it will help me document my library on an ongoing basis, making it much more likely that I&#8217;ll finally be able to compile a detailed, comprehensive list of what I actually have. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asimov, Isaac. <b>Cal<\/b>. Doubleday, 1990. TPO short story chapbook given out as a freebie to Isaac Asimov Collection subscribers.\n<li>Boyett, Steven R. <b>Elegy Beach<\/b>. Ace, 2009. Sequel to <b>Ariel<\/b>, which only came out a quarter-century ago&#8230;\n<li>Brookmyre, Christopher. <b>A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away<\/b>. Little Brown, 2001.\n<li>Brunner, John. <b>The Great Steamboat Race<\/b>. Ballantine, 1983. Proof of the TPO first edition. (Unlike Mike Berro, who collects all manner of proofs, I only try to pick them up: A.) When the first edition was a TPO or PBO, B.) I&#8217;ve been sent them free as a review copy of a book I want to read, or C.) There has been some sort of change between the proof and the finished book, such as a title change (David Brin&#8217;s <b>The Tides of Kithrup<\/b> became <b>Startide Rising<\/b>), a publisher change (Random House canceling publication of Sherry Jones\u2019 <b>The Jewel of Medina<\/b> after the proof had been published), or a significant textual change (such a story dropped or added from a collection).)\n<li>Cadigan, Pat. <b>Synners<\/b>. Bantam, 1991. PBO. Replaces an inscribed copy I managed to misplace at an Armadillocon. (I also have the UK hardback.)\n<li>Dick, Philip K. <b>In Milton Lumky Territory<\/b>. Dragon Press, 1985.\n<li>(Dick, Philip K.) Patricia S. Warrick. <b>Mind in Motion: The Fiction of Philip K. Dick<\/b>. Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.\n<li>Harter, Christopher, Anthony Tedeschi, and Jodine Perkins. <b>Places of the Imagination: A Celebration of Worlds, Islands and Realms<\/b>. The Lilly Library, 2006. Library exhibition catalog, with some color photos of notable first editions. TPO\n<li>Heinlein, Robert A. <b>Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master<\/b>. Tor, 1992.\n<li>King, Stephen. <b>Song of Susanna<\/b>. Donald M. Grant, 2004.\n<li>Lethem, Jonathan. <b>You Don&#8217;t Love Me Yet<\/b>. Doubleday, 2007.\n<li>Martin, George R. R., ed. <b>Wild Cards Volume 9: Jokertown Shuffle<\/b>. Bantam, 1991. PBO.\n<li>McCarthy, Cormac. <b>No Country for Old Men<\/b>. Knopf, 2005.\n<li>Reynolds, Alastair. <b>House of Suns<\/b>. Gollancz, 2008.\n<li>Scalzi, John. <b>God Engines<\/b>. Subterranean Press, 2009 (actually not shipped until 2010). First edition trade hardback.\n<li>Scalzi, John. <b>God Engines<\/b>. Subterranean Press, 2009 (actually not shipped until 2010). Signed\/limited edition. (Yeah, I&#8217;ve started picking up both the trade and limited editions of certain books when I can pick them up with my dealer discount. It&#8217;s a sickness&#8230;)\n<li>Shaara, Michael. <b>The Killer Angels<\/b>. McKay 1974. Later hardback printing.\n<li>Sladek, John <b>Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek<\/b>. Big Engine, 2002. TPO.\n<li>Watts, Peter. <b>Behemoth B-Max<\/b>. Tor, 2004.\n<li>Willis, Connie. <b>Firewatch<\/b>. Bluejay, 1984. Fine in a Near Fine+, slightly rubbed dj.\n<li>Zelazny, Roger. <b>The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny Volume 5: Nine Black Doves<\/b>. NESFA Press, 2009.\n<li>Zelazny, Roger. <b>The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny Volume 6: The Road to Amber<\/b>. NESFA Press, 2009.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a big-ass post on my trip up to Archer City and the Dallas\/Ft. Worth Metroplex coming up, so I thought it was high time to engage in some preliminary bookgeeking by listing all the books I&#8217;ve picked up since my ginormous post on my library. This may be of very limited interest to [&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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,48,166,86,163,1970],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-first-editions","tag-john-scalzi","tag-philip-k-dick","tag-roger-zelazny","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20633,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/20633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}