{"id":642,"date":"2006-02-09T05:51:07","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T21:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2006\/02\/09\/two-handed-engine-for-the-masses\/"},"modified":"2006-02-27T13:44:53","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T05:44:53","slug":"two-handed-engine-for-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2006\/02\/09\/two-handed-engine-for-the-masses\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Handed Engine for the masses…"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are any number of good reasons for joining The Science Fiction Book Club<\/a>. You get access to all kinds of cool books for very reasonable prices, they do their own nifty omnibuses and hardcover first editions, and they even do anthologies by people like me. However, this morning I heard one of the best reasons to join up yet.<\/p>\n

Last year the good folk at Centipede Press produced an enormous retrospective of the best short fiction of Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore, Two-Handed Engine: Selected Stories<\/a>. It was a great book, beautifully produced, finely crafted and full of top-notch stories. The only drawbacks were that the book was a little pricey and that the edition was fairly small. Well, apparently the SFBC has just reached an agreement to reprint Two-Handed Engine<\/a> in a nicely affordable edition this May. If you can’t think of any other reason to join up, this is it. The book is wonderful, and this is probably the most accessible edition likely to be published for some time. Oh, and if you like beautiful books, check out the Centipede site because they still might have a copy or two of the first edition left.<\/p>\n

PS: To follow on from something in the comments, if you’re not in the U.S. you can’t join the SFBC. You can, however, usually find SFBC editions of books on amazon.com with little difficulty.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are any number of good reasons for joining The Science Fiction Book Club. You get access to all kinds of cool books for very reasonable prices, they do their own nifty omnibuses and hardcover first editions, and they even do anthologies by people like me. However, this morning I heard one of the best … Continue reading Two-Handed Engine for the masses…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}