The Peace Machine
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Overview:
- Title: The Peace Machine
- Author: Bob Shaw
- Year: 1987
- ISBN-10: 0586069917
- Publisher: Grafton
- Price: £2.50
- Pages: 187
- Binding: Paperback
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Peace Machine
- Notes:
- The copyright page states "First published in Great Britain by Transworld Publishers Ltd. 1976 as Ground Zero Man. This revised edition first published by Victor Gollanz Ltd. 1985."
- "Front cover illustration by Tim White" on back cover; no visible signature
- A scan of Ground Zero Man (GZM) and The Peace Machine (TPM) finds that Chapter 17 of GZM is not included in TPM. Ground Zero Man has 18 chapters plus an epilogue and The Peace Machine has 17 chapters plus the epilogue.
- A specific reference to “John and Yoko” in Chapter 3 of Ground Zero Man has been changed to “Some pop singer” in The Peace Machine, possibly because John Lennon was assassinated by the time The Peace Machine was published.
- The Peace Machine is set in 1988 rather than 1978, and several dates and timespans have been changed accordingly.
- Perhaps due to inflation, several things are more expensive, and Lucas Hutchman carries around more cash, in The Peace Machine.
- On page 18 of TPM is a typo "You're fired six dozen arrows..." and in the GZM it's "You've fired six dozen arrows..."
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