{"id":492,"date":"2009-03-14T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T10:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/books\/?p=492"},"modified":"2009-03-14T06:31:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T10:31:33","slug":"my-treasures-let-me-show-you-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/2009\/03\/my-treasures-let-me-show-you-them\/","title":{"rendered":"My treasures, let me show you them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWhat good is a booklog if you cannot permit yourself a small gloat over newly acquired treasures every now and then? I struck a rich new vein of fantasy and science fiction books last Monday and would like to show them off to you now:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite>Sweet Silver Blues<\/cite> &#8211; Glen Cook<\/li>\n<li><cite>Dread Brass Shadows<\/cite> &#8211; Glen Cook<\/li>\n<li><cite>Old Tin Sorrows<\/cite> &#8211; Glen Cook<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Game Players of Titan<\/cite> &#8211; Philip K. Dick<\/li>\n<li><cite>Counter-Clock World<\/cite> &#8211; Philip K. Dick<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Man Who Japed<\/cite> &#8211; Phlip K. Dick<\/li>\n<li><cite>Strange Seas and Shores<\/cite> &#8211; Avram Davidson<\/li>\n<li><cite>Or All the Seas with Oysters<\/cite> &#8211; Avram Davidson<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World<\/cite> &#8211; Harlan Ellison<\/li>\n<li><cite>Flandry of Terra<\/cite> &#8211; Poul Anderson<\/li>\n<li><cite>Can you Feel Anything When I Do This?<\/cite> &#8211; Robert Sheckley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nAll of these, except Anderson, are authors whose books are rare to find secondhand here. The Glen Cook novels you can find are usually <cite>Black Company<\/cite> ones, all of which I already have. Ellison is rare as hen&#8217;s teeth, the Dicks are usually marked up because too many booksellers know they&#8217;re supposed to be rare and Avram Davidson and Robert Sheckley are such acquired tastes few Dutch sf fans seemed to have bothered with them&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What good is a booklog if you cannot permit yourself a small gloat over newly acquired treasures every now and then? I struck a rich new vein of fantasy and science fiction books last Monday and would like to show them off to you now: Sweet Silver Blues &#8211; Glen Cook Dread Brass Shadows &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,44,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-hype","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}