{"id":2666,"date":"2014-08-11T22:02:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T20:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2014-08-11T22:23:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T20:23:18","slug":"bob-shaw-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2014\/08\/11\/bob-shaw-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Shaw collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juist in time (well, maybe) for <a href=\"http:\/\/loncon3.org\/\">Worldcon<\/a>, and after having talked about it for literally decades<sup>*<\/sup>, I am finally <em>starting<\/em> to put together a catalogue of my <a href=\"\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/bosh\/\">Bob Shaw collection<\/a>. I&#8217;m at the point where, apart from translated editions, there are only minimal gaps in my collection of his novels. It would be annoying to find myself face-to-face with a shelf of books in the dealers&#8217; room at Worldcon and not know which ones I should be targeting<sup>**<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;For the truly compulsive hobbyist, there comes a time when a collection gathers weight \u2014 metaphysical, existential weight. It becomes as much a source of anxiety as of joy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/10\/magazine\/the-brazilian-bus-magnate-whos-buying-up-all-the-worlds-vinyl-records.html?_r=1\">The Brazilian Bus Magnate Who\u2019s Buying Up All the World\u2019s Vinyl Records<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, sensible advice from <a href=\"http:\/\/blackphoebe.com\/msjen\/\">Jen<\/a>, &#8220;If you don&#8217;t do anything with it, it&#8217;s just hoarding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup> <small><a href=\"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2003\/01\/10\/john-sandfords-web-site\/\">two<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<sup>**<\/sup> <small><em>Again<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juist in time (well, maybe) for Worldcon, and after having talked about it for literally decades*, I am finally starting to put together a catalogue of my Bob Shaw collection. I&#8217;m at the point where, apart from translated editions, there are only minimal gaps in my collection of his novels. It would be annoying to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2014\/08\/11\/bob-shaw-collection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bob Shaw collection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}