{"id":727,"date":"2012-02-21T11:21:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T16:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=727"},"modified":"2013-02-11T06:11:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T11:11:13","slug":"great-news-several-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/great-news-several-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Great News! for Several Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>First, <\/strong>hearty congratulations to all my friends who garnered Nebula Award nominations! Several of the stories I nominated made the ballot (this was the first time I&#8217;ve been able to nominate, having recently upgraded my SFWA membership), and everyone on the list deserves a round of applause.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/2012\/02\/2011-nebula-awards-nominees-announced\/\">The complete list is linked here<\/a>, but I&#8217;m happiest for the folks I&#8217;ve gotten to know on-line or in-person &#8212; some very recently and some with whom I&#8217;ve been friends for several years &#8212; namely,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mary Robinette Kowal, nominated for &#8220;Kiss Me Twice&#8221; (novella)<\/li>\n<li>Kij Johnson, nominated for &#8220;The Man Who Bridged the Mist&#8221; (novella)<\/li>\n<li>Ken Liu, nominated for &#8220;The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary&#8221; (novella) and  &#8220;The Paper Menagerie&#8221; (short story)<\/li>\n<li>Rachel Swirsky, nominated for &#8220;Fields of Gold&#8221; (novelette)<\/li>\n<li>Brad R. Torgersen, nominated for &#8220;Ray of Light&#8221; (novelette)<\/li>\n<li>Ferrett Steinmetz, nominated for &#8220;Sauerkraut Station&#8221; (novelette)<\/li>\n<li>Katherine Sparrow, nominated for &#8220;The Migratory Pattern of Dancers&#8221; (novelette)<\/li>\n<li>Jake Kerr, nominated for &#8220;The Old Equations&#8221; (novelette)<\/li>\n<li>Tom Crosshill, nominated for &#8220;Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son&#8221; (short story)<\/li>\n<li>Aliette de Bodard, nominated for &#8220;Shipbirth&#8221; (short story)<\/li>\n<li>Nancy Fulda, nominated for &#8220;Movement&#8221; (short story)<\/li>\n<li>David W. Goldman, nominated for &#8220;The Axiom of Choice&#8221; (short story)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nNow, of course, I have to figure out who I&#8217;m going to vote for. Along those lines, I&#8217;ll resurrect the line from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wuJ7aeJJhP4\">&#8220;Playing Politics&#8221;<\/a> song: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how much they&#8217;ll bribe me, I&#8217;ll just have to wait and see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second,<\/strong> congratulations to my friend Jeff LaSala on the release of his <em>Foreshadows<\/em> project. (Full disclosure: Jeff and I are both slimy contractors for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/\">Baen Books<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/foreshadows.net\/artists\/talon\/talonart1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Sample of Talon Dunning&#8217;s art for Foreshadows, from the Foreshadows web site.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Foreshadows: The Ghost of Zero<\/em> is an ambitious multi-media project combining original music, original fiction, and original artwork. Jeff, his brother, and several others collaborated on it, and the end result is very impressive.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read many of the stories yet, but I&#8217;ve listened to all the music and it&#8217;s very evocative. (I admit that I&#8217;m not a big fan of &#8220;techno&#8221; and much of this music is of that style, but in terms of conveying the emotional undertones of the stories I think it works well.) My favorite of the songs is &#8220;Made in Brazil | Living in Japan.&#8221; The artwork, too, is extremely well done.  <\/p>\n<p>Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/foreshadows.net\/\">http:\/\/foreshadows.net\/<\/a>!<\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.grayrinehart.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F727&#038;t=Great%20News%21%20for%20Several%20Friends&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.grayrinehart.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F727&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=http%3A%2F%2Fforeshadows.net%2Fartists%2Ftalon%2Ftalonart1.jpg&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Great%20News%21%20for%20Several%20Friends\" style=\"font-size: 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Several of the stories I nominated made the ballot (this was the first time I&#8217;ve been able to nominate, having recently upgraded my SFWA membership), and everyone on the list deserves a round of applause. The complete list \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/great-news-several-friends\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[164,172],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-writing","tag-fantasy","tag-sfwa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}