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Serious Scientific Talks: 1982-1984 by Bob Shaw (The Shaw Fund, 1984, no ISBN, 24pp, ph, co)
Given as Serious Science on the cover.

3 · Beyond Cosmos · Bob Shaw · ar; illustrated by Jim Barker
delivered as a speech at Channelcon, Easter 1982.

10 · Conning Your Way · Bob Shaw · ar; illustrated by Jim Barker
delivered as a speech at Albacon II, Easter 1983.

18 · Ten Years, but Not Decayed · Bob Shaw · ar; illustrated by Jim Barker
delivered as a speech at Seacon ’84, Easter 1984.

Slow Pint Glass by Bob Shaw (Ansible Editions, August 2020, 978-1-913451-71-4, free, 462pp, tp, co)

fc. · [front cover] · Jim Barker · cv Tyne Capsule ed. Rob Jackson, Tynecon III, 2015

· Introduction · David Langford · in

· The 1950s

· The Fansmanship Lectures I · Bob Shaw · ar Slant #5, Spring 1951

· I Remember · Bob Shaw · ar Phantasmagoria #2, Spring 1951

· The Moon Will Be Hell · Bob Shaw · ar Phantasmagoria #3, Summer 1951

· The Fansmanship Lectures II · Bob Shaw · ar Slant #6, Winter 1951/1952

· 1961: Extrapolated · Bob Shaw · ar Slant #6, Winter 1951/1952

· The Fansmanship Lectures III · Bob Shaw · ar Slant #7, Winter 1952/1953

· An Inexpensive Fanzine Printing Press · Bob Shaw & Vince Clarke · hu Slant #7, Winter 1952/1953

· Crud and Punishment · Bob Shaw · ar Bem #3, September 1954

· The Modern Mariner · Bob Shaw · ar Alpha #13, Winter 1955/1956

· Wholly Berry · Bob Shaw · ar Grue #29, April 1956

· Goon Abroad This Year? · Bob Shaw · ar Retribution #4, October 1956

· The Top of the Turnip · Bob Shaw · ar À Bas #9, November 1956

· A Chance of a Ghost · Bob Shaw · ar Retribution #7, 1957

· I Refuse to Budgie · Bob Shaw · ar Veritas #4, June 1957

· Greener on the Other Side · Bob Shaw · gp (r)

_63 · [letters] · Bob Shaw · lt Oopsla #22, September 1957

_64 · [letters] · Bob Shaw · lt Oopsla #25, July 1958

· None but the Loony Heart · Bob Shaw · ar The Compleat Faan December 1958

· Filthy Looker · Bob Shaw · ar Retribution #13, May 1959

· The 1960s

· Lesion of the Damned · Bob Shaw · ar Retribution #16, January 1961

· Where There’s a Willis There’s a Waysgoose · Bob Shaw · ar Void #23, January 1961

· Purple Writers of the Sage · Bob Shaw · ar Retribution #17, July 1961

· Dragnit · Bob Shaw · ar The Scarr #1, April 1963

· A Funny Thing Happened to Me on My Way to the Typewriter · Bob Shaw · ar The Scarr #3, January 1964

· Take Me to Your Leader · Bob Shaw · ar The Scarr #4, April 1964

· Discourse on Metaphysics · Bob Shaw · ar The Scarr #6, November 1964

· Slobland Revisited · Bob Shaw · ar The Scarr #8, June 1965

· Air on a Harp String · Bob Shaw · ar The Scarr #120, May 1967

· The Cosy Universe · Bob Shaw · ar Warhoon #24, August 1968

· The Mortal Gael I · Bob Shaw · ar Warhoon #25, November 1968

· The Mortal Gael II · Bob Shaw · ar Warhoon #26, February 1969

· The 1970s

· The Jaundiced Goggle · Bob Shaw · ar Scottishe #55, March 1970

· Speculations on Fan Mortality · Bob Shaw · ar Science Fiction Review #36, 1970

· The Mortal Gael III · Bob Shaw · ar Warhoon #27, September 1970

· BoSh Tosh I · Bob Shaw · ar Focal Point September 14 1970

· BoSh Tosh II: How I Saved Winston Churchill’s Life · Bob Shaw · ar Focal Point December 21 1970

· BoSh Tosh III · Bob Shaw · ar Focal Point January 4 1971

· The Extraordinary Behaviour of Ordinary Materials · Bob Shaw · ar Energumen #7, July 1971

· BoSh Tosh IV · Bob Shaw · ar Focal Point August 17 1971

· By a Specious Correspondent · Bob Shaw · ar Egoboo #13, October 8 1971

· James White · Bob Shaw · ar Novacon Programme Book ed. Dave Langford, Birmingham Science Fiction Group, 1971

· This Is…Uh…He Publishes…Er… · Bob Shaw · ar Warm Heart Pastry #1, 1972

· The Jig Is Up · Bob Shaw · ar Rats! #14, January 1972

· Never Respond to a Review · Bob Shaw · gp (r)

_ · [letter] · Bob Shaw · lt Algol #18, May 1972

_ · [letter] · Bob Shaw · lt Algol #20, May 1973

· BoSh Tosh V · Bob Shaw · ar Tandem #1, January 1973

· Two Recipes · Bob Shaw · gp (r)

_ · Deadline Stew · Bob Shaw · ms Cooking Out of This World ed. Anne McCaffrey, Ballantine, 1973

_ · Martian Madness · Bob Shaw · ms Cooking Out of This World ed. Anne McCaffrey, Ballantine, 1973

· All Our Chester Days · Bob Shaw · ar Blazon #1, April 1974

· Bicycle to Betelgeuse · Bob Shaw · ar Tynecon ’74 Programme Book ed. Rob Jackson, Tynecon, 1974

· Billion Year Esprit de Corps · Bob Shaw · br Cypher #11, May 1974 [Ref. Brian W. Aldiss]

· Hi, Fen! · Bob Shaw · ar Random #6, February 1975

· Once Upon a Tyne · Bob Shaw · ar Maya #7, 1975

· Allies in Sunderland · Bob Shaw · ar Prevert #1, March 1975

· Beyond Apollo · Bob Shaw · br Foundation #7/8, March 1975 [Ref. Barry Malzberg]

· Bringing Them Out of Their Shells · Bob Shaw · ar MOTA #11, July 1975

· Beer · Bob Shaw · ar Mimosa #19, November 1996

· Prediction or Predilection? · Bob Shaw · ar Diaspar #17, November 1975

· Income Taxi · Bob Shaw · ar Maya #10, March 1976

· Escape to Infinity · Bob Shaw · ar Foundation #10, June 1976

· Irish Rose · Bob Shaw · br Foundation #10, June 1976 [Ref. Patrick Wyatt]

· Introduction to “The Exorcists of IF” · Bob Shaw · is Algol Fall 1976/Winter 1977

· The Writer’s Year · Bob Shaw · ar BSFA Yearbook ed. Dave Lewis, BSFA, 1977

· The Two-Year Warning · Bob Shaw · ar Seacon ’79 Bid Progress Report #3, April 1977

· Tango Time · Bob Shaw · br The New Statesman April 15 1977 [Ref. Michael Moorcock]; review of The Condition of Muzak.

· Wetfoot in the Head · Bob Shaw · ar Maya #14, July 1977

· How Short Is “Short”? · Bob Shaw · ar Rigel Magazine #60, December 1977

· Talking a Lot of Bilge · Bob Shaw · ar MOTA #24, March 1978

· PRO and Con · Bob Shaw · ar Maya #15, June 1978

· The Game of Dog and Crab · Bob Shaw · ar MOTA #26, November 1978

· The View from Serendip · Bob Shaw · br Vector #90, November/December 1978 [Ref. Arthur C. Clarke]

· Auld Slang Sayings · Bob Shaw · ar DNQ #16, April 1979

· Pro Lapse · Bob Shaw · ar Matrix #23, April 1979

· What Is Science Fiction? My View · Bob Shaw · ar The Science Fiction Book Club News Summer 1979

· Confessions of a Philistine · Bob Shaw · ar Inca #1, 1979

· Dreams of Empire · Bob Shaw · ar Seacon ’79 Programme Book ed. Graham Charnock, Seacon, 1979; contribution to symposium.

· Tiles of Horror · Bob Shaw · ar Seacon ’79 Programme Book ed. Graham Charnock, Seacon, 1979

· Coming Apart at the Themes · Bob Shaw · ar Science Fiction Review #35, May 1980

· BoSh of Arabia · Bob Shaw · ar Energumen #16, September 1981

· Has-to-Ride Belt, or A Streetcar Named Bizarre · Bob Shaw · ar Anvil #22, July 1982

· When Fandoms Collide · Bob Shaw · ar Zine That Has No Name #3, November 1982

· BoShcon Non-Speech · Bob Shaw · ar Anvil #27, May 1983

· Private Passions · Bob Shaw · ar New Internationalist December 1982

· James White, An Appreciation · Bob Shaw · ar Albacon II Programme Book ed. Frances Jane Nelson & Dave Ellis, Albacon II, 1983 [Ref. James White]

· Comparative Fizzyology · Bob Shaw · ar Australian Fan Funds’ Newsletter #1, December 1983

· Murphan’s Law · Bob Shaw · ar Microwave #7, February 1984

· You Don’t Really Mean That · Bob Shaw · ar Ron’s Raygun #2, September 1984

· A Word in Your Beer · Bob Shaw · ar Mainstream #10, October 1984

· V: Plumbing the Depths · Bob Shaw · mr Starburst #75, November 1984

· Seducers with Staples · Bob Shaw · ar Focus #10, February 1985

· How to Be Sick…and Live to Tell About It · Bob Shaw · ar Anvil #36, June 1985

· Aussiecon Two After-Dinner Speech · Bob Shaw · ar Matrix #61, October 1985, as “My Life and Space/Times”; illustrated by Jim Barker; this is a slightly revised extract that was published in Thyme #49, January 1986.
delivered as a speech at Aussiecon Two, August 1985.

· Aussiecon Two Fan Natter · Bob Shaw · ar Thyme #49, January 1986
delivered as a speech at Aussiecon Two, August 1985.

· Foreword to PsiFi: Psychological Theories and Science Fictions · Bob Shaw · fw PsiFi: Psychological Theories and Science Fictions ed. Jim Ridgway & Michele Benjamin, The British Psychological Society, 1987

· Bob Shaw’s Patented Ever-Fail Get-Rich-Quick Schemes · Bob Shaw · ar ConFederation Program Book ed. Charlotte Proctor, Worldcon Atlanta, Inc., 1986

· The Extra Dimension · Bob Shaw · ar Vector #134, October/November 1986

· Silverberg and Slow Glass · Bob Shaw · ex from “Comment on Two of Silverberg’s Worlds of Wonder”, Foundation #38, Winter 1986/1987

· Escaping from a Monster of the Mind · Bob Shaw · ar The Independent May 26 1987

· Friends on a Train · Bob Shaw · ar Empties #9, September 1988

· Merry Christmas · Bob Shaw · ar Anvil #49, May 1989

· The 1990s

· Perspex Parrot · Bob Shaw · ar Perspex Parrot #1, 1990

· DeepSouthCon 28 Speech · Bob Shaw · ar Anvil #52, October 1990

· Life Is but a Raffle · Bob Shaw · ar Anvil #52, October 1990

· Mickey Mouse Works · Bob Shaw · ar Sticky Quarters #20, December 1990

· Play Mystic for Me · Bob Shaw · ar Trap Door #10, January 1991

· Seasonal Greetings · Bob Shaw · ar Anvil #53, April 1991

· Twenty Years of Novacon · Bob Shaw · hu Novacon 21 Programme Book ed. Alice & Steve Lawson, Birmingham Science Fiction Group, 1991, as ““I Have Missed Only Two Novacons””

· Key Bored · Bob Shaw · ar Nexus #2, Spring 1992

· Bargaining Up the Wrong Tree · Bob Shaw · ar Anvil #54, July 1992

· The Half-Life of Brian · Bob Shaw · ar Novacon 25 Progress Report One ed. Martin Tudor, Birmingham Science Fiction Group, 1994 [Ref. Brian W. Aldiss]

· An Introduction to “The Mercenary Mirage” · Bob Shaw · is String #2, Summer 1991

· Appendix: Quotes and Nuggets; most of these are from published letters of comment, the originals usually being untitled.

· Fan File · Bob Shaw · ms Quandry #13, August 1951

· Stunned Speculation on the Manchester Mushroom · Bob Shaw · ar Slant #6, Winter 1951/1952

· Pun Primer · Bob Shaw · ms Bem #2, June 1954

· Absent-Minded Astronauts · Bob Shaw · lt Nebula Science Fiction #13, 1955, as “[letter]”

· Fan Chess · Bob Shaw · ms Fanac #12, December 1958

· An Old Fan and Tired? · Bob Shaw · ms Hyphen #22, March 1959

· A Word from the Co-Author · Bob Shaw · in 1962
from the introduction to the second edition The Enchanted Duplicator (August 1962).

· A Presentation to Terry Carr · Bob Shaw · ms Innuendo #12, May 1990

· Advice to a Beginning Writer · Bob Shaw · ms SF Writer’s Bulletin #5, July 1970; contribution to Q&A symposium.

· The Bun Is the Lowest Form of Wheat · Bob Shaw · ms Focal Point July 6 1970

· The Rustle-Bedspring Diagram · Bob Shaw · lt Maya #9, November 1975, as “[letter]”

· The House on the Borderland · Bob Shaw · ms Checkpoint #78, January 1977

· Ming the Mercenary · Bob Shaw · ms Quark #14, April 1977

· You Can B. Shaw · Bob Shaw · ms True Rat #9, April 1977

· Writing Funny · Bob Shaw · ms MOTA #28, June 1979

· Practical Joke · Bob Shaw · ms Ansible #6, February 1980

· Law of the Jungle · Bob Shaw · ms Holier Than Thou #9, January 1981

· Hugos There? · Bob Shaw · ms Boonfark #5, August 1981

· First Visit to the South · Bob Shaw · ms TriContinental One-Shot August 1981

· TED Author Credits · Bob Shaw · ms Boonfark #6, Spring 1982

· On Perfectionism · Bob Shaw · ms Pong #33/34, April 19 1982

· Correction · Bob Shaw · ms File 770 #71, December 1987

· Swelling and Skating · Bob Shaw · ms Sikander #15, March 1989

· Interzone Newsflash · Bob Shaw · lt Interzone #34, March/April 1990, as “[letter]”

· How Do They Say It? · Bob Shaw · pm Anvil #55, April 1993

· Certificate · Bob Shaw · ms (r); undated; personalised copies given at various times to various fans.

· Original Appearances · David Langford · bi

Blood on the Curb by Joseph T. Shaw (Dodge Publishing Company, April 1936, 297pp, hc, n.)

Blood on the Curb by Joseph T. Shaw (Black Mask, July 3, 2020, 978-1-61827-476-2, $19.95, 264pp, tp, n.)
Reprint (Dodge 1936) novel.
Details taken from publisher website.

It Happened at the Lake by Joseph T. Shaw (Dodd, Mead & Company, January 1937, 289pp, hc, n.)

It Happened at the Lake by Joseph T. Shaw (Black Mask, August 4, 2022, 978-1-61827-661-2, $24.95, 284pp, tp, n.)
Reprint (Dodd, Mead 1937) novel.
Details taken from publisher website.

The Hard-Boiled Omnibus ed. Joseph Thompson Shaw (Simon & Schuster, October 1946, $3.00, 468pp, hc, an)
Early Stories from Black Mask.

v · Introduction · Joseph Thompson Shaw · in

3 · The Devil Suit [Jack McGuire] · J.-J. des Ormeaux · nv Black Mask July 1932

54 · Taking His Time · Reuben Jennings Shay · vi Black Mask January 1931

59 · Fly Paper [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · nv Black Mask August 1929

97 · Death in the Pasig [Jo Gar] · Ramon Decolta · ss Black Mask March 1930

112 · The Man Who Liked Dogs [Carmady] · Raymond Chandler · nv Black Mask March 1936

157 · Red Goose [Ben Shaley] · Norbert Davis · ss Black Mask February 1934

181 · Murder Mixup [Jack “Flashgun” Casey] · George Harmon Coxe · nv Black Mask May 1936

225 · Red 71 · Paul Cain · ss Black Mask December 1932

255 · Inside Job · Raoul Whitfield · nv Black Mask February 1932

300 · Sail [Oscar Sail] · Lester Dent · nv Black Mask October 1936

338 · Sister Act · Charles G. Booth · ss Black Mask February 1933

360 · Best Man · Thomas Walsh · nv Black Mask October 1934

387 · Kick-Back [Francis St. Xavier Harrigan] · Ed Lybeck · ss Black Mask January 1932

415 · Clean Sweep [Dal Prentice] · Roger Torrey · ss Black Mask February 1934

445 · South Wind [Jerry Tracy] · Theodore Tinsley · ss Black Mask November 1932

The Hard-Boiled Omnibus (var. 1) ed. Joseph Thompson Shaw (Pocket, May 1952, 875, 25¢, 324pp, pb, an)
Twelve stories from the Simon & Schuster 1946 edition.

v · Introduction · Joseph Thompson Shaw · in The Hard-Boiled Omnibus ed. Joseph Thompson Shaw, Simon & Schuster, 1946

1 · Sail [Oscar Sail] · Lester Dent · nv Black Mask October 1936

37 · Taking His Time · Reuben Jennings Shay · vi Black Mask January 1931

42 · Death in the Pasig [Jo Gar] · Ramon Decolta · ss Black Mask March 1930

56 · The Man Who Liked Dogs [Carmady] · Raymond Chandler · nv Black Mask March 1936

97 · Fly Paper [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · nv Black Mask August 1929

133 · Inside Job · Raoul Whitfield · nv Black Mask February 1932

175 · Red Goose [Ben Shaley] · Norbert Davis · ss Black Mask February 1934

197 · Red 71 · Paul Cain · ss Black Mask December 1932

225 · Best Man · Thomas Walsh · nv Black Mask October 1934

251 · Kick-Back [Francis St. Xavier Harrigan] · Ed Lybeck · ss Black Mask January 1932

277 · Clean Sweep [Dal Prentice] · Roger Torrey · ss Black Mask February 1934

305 · South Wind [Jerry Tracy] · Theodore Tinsley · ss Black Mask November 1932

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