{"id":29700,"date":"2018-05-19T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=29700"},"modified":"2018-05-19T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T17:30:09","slug":"book-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/19\/book-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cheap in Kindle format right now:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00SM1MEHG\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00SM1MEHG&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=3bb986314009993a95a79ad8485c00b3\">Robert Heinlein&#8217;s Expanded Universe: Volume One<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00SM1MEHG\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Heinlein personally selected each story or essay for inclusion in this collection, which is ordered chronologically, starting with his first sale in 1939 of \u201cLife-Line\u201d to Astounding (for seventy dollars).This remarkable collection highlights the development of Heinlein\u2019s writing style and his philosophy on life throughout his career. <\/p>\n<p>More importantly, this collection is as close to an autobiography as anything Heinlein wrote during his life. Heinlein was an extremely private person who never wrote much about himself. In this exclusive collection, he offers forewords to most of his stories and essays (and an occasional afterword), giving readers a rare glimpse into the inner mind of the master.<\/p>\n<p>Expanded Universe is a must-have for any Heinlein enthusiast and any fan of science fiction. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Get <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0081KYXQ8\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0081KYXQ8&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=07c1f61bb4d39cef23fa4f4494ba3c78\">Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel (George Smiley Novels Book 1)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B0081KYXQ8\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> if you feel like starting (or restarting) the Smiley Series, a story about happier times when Russian Spies were Russian Spies, and so were the British Spies.  It is the first in the Smiley series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheap in Kindle format right now: Robert Heinlein&#8217;s Expanded Universe: Volume One Heinlein personally selected each story or essay for inclusion in this collection, which is ordered chronologically, starting with his first sale in 1939 of \u201cLife-Line\u201d to Astounding (for seventy dollars).This remarkable collection highlights the development of Heinlein\u2019s writing style and his philosophy on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/19\/book-deals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Deals<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5044],"tags":[1038],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/cheap_books_greg_laden_blog.jpg?fit=678%2C381&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-7J2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29701,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29700\/revisions\/29701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}