{"id":752,"date":"2023-02-06T13:38:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/?p=752"},"modified":"2023-02-06T13:38:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:38:29","slug":"astrobiology-illustrated-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/astrobiology-illustrated-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrobiology Illustrated Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/astrobiology-editions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/astrobiology-editions-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Astrobiology book editions\" class=\"wp-image-750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/astrobiology-editions-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/astrobiology-editions-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/astrobiology-editions-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/astrobiology-editions-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/astrobiology-editions-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Icon Books have just brought out a new edition of my <a href=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/out-now-astrobiology\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Astrobiology<\/a> book, originally published in their series of \u2018Hot Science\u2019 paperbacks. This is a double first for me \u2013 the first time any of my books has made it to a genuine \u2018second edition\u2019 (for the same market as the original, as opposed to translations for other markets) and my first ever hardback book. It looks really great \u2013 packed with informative graphics and colourful photographs. I had very little to do with this, which was all done by the book-packaging professionals at UniPress. My only input was to update the text in a few places and offer suggestions for some of the image captions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book shown in the above photo is the \u2018British and Commonwealth\u2019 edition published by Icon Books, which is out now \u2013 details <a href=\"https:\/\/iconbooks.com\/ib-title\/astrobiology-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. I believe UniPress are also doing a separate North American edition, which should be out in May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icon Books have just brought out a new edition of my Astrobiology book, originally published in their series of \u2018Hot Science\u2019 paperbacks. This is a double first for me \u2013 the first time any of my books has made it to a genuine \u2018second edition\u2019 (for the same market as the original, as opposed to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/astrobiology-illustrated-edition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Astrobiology Illustrated Edition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,21,39],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-astrobiology","tag-my-books","tag-popular-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}