503 downloads since release date: 30 June 2020
Last updated 31 December 2020 10:30If you enjoy any of the free ebooks on this site, a donation to TAFF is a fine way to express your appreciation:
The Full Glass Bushel
All the Hyphen Articles, and More
Bob Shaw
ISBN 978-1-913451-69-1
Bob Shaw’s column “The Glass Bushel” in the legendary fanzine Hyphen has never until now been collected in full. Thirteen of these columns – selected by Bob himself – were brought together as the printed booklet The Best of the Bushel (1979) edited by Rob Jackson, introduced by Walt Willis and illustrated by Jim Barker – who has recreated his cover illustration for this ebook. A different though partly overlapping selection of fourteen columns appeared as 14 Bob the Bushel (1995) edited by Bruce Pelz.
The Full Glass Bushel includes the entire text of The Best of the Bushel and adds the remaining nineteen “Bushel” instalments from Hyphen, plus seven non-Bushel pieces that Bob Shaw also published in Hyphen and two further columns from Science Fiction Review, where “The Glass Bushel” was briefly revived in 1984. All in all, it’s a huge feast of wit, wisdom and autobiography by one of our greatest fanwriters.
This collection complements The Serious Scientific Talks, issued as a TAFF ebook in November 2019. A third and even larger ebook of Bob Shaw’s other fanzine writings was added to the TAFF ebook library in August 2020 and is titled Slow Pint Glass.
The Full Glass Bushel was first published as an Ansible Editions ebook for the TAFF site on 30 June 2020. New cover art and layout by Jim Barker, plus selected interior art by Jim from The Best of the Bushel. Edited by Rob Jackson (who has contributed a new introduction) and David Langford. 81,000 words. Updated July 2020 with additional material: now 84,500 words. Contents list here.
