{"id":101,"date":"2008-02-15T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=101"},"modified":"2011-07-14T05:51:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T13:51:42","slug":"the-green-spine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"The Green Spine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/BSTPspine-714173.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/BSTPspine-714168.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>So the trade paperback edition of <em>Blindsight<\/em> showed up in my mailbox yesterday.  Not bad, I guess.  You&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/a1055.g.akamai.net\/f\/1055\/1401\/5h\/images.barnesandnoble.com\/images\/24830000\/24835252.jpg\">seen it<\/a> before:  they truncated the teaser text on the back, but that left room for more blurbage (which, I&#8217;m pleased to note, was actually about <em>Blindsight<\/em> this time around).   I&#8217;m a bit doubtful about the presence of that virtually incomprehensible quote from John Clute inside the front cover (seriously, guys, what <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">is<\/span> &#8220;a great, granulated, anfractuous rat king of shrikes&#8221;, and would <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">you<\/span> pay good money to have it goose your midbrain?), but okay.  No big surprises on the front cover: catchy title font, way better than on the hardcover, and they lost that lurid red border, but \u2014 oh wait a minute, what&#8217;s this on the spine&#8230;.?<\/p>\n<p>Ah.  Lurid <em>green<\/em> border this time.  Perhaps it is meant as a symbol of growth and rebirth, a signal that the bloody days of the revolution are past and now it is time to rebuild.  Or something.   Wish I knew what it was with these guys and borders.  But at least they kept it off the front panel.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s some good news about the paperback, especially for those who read <em>Blindsight<\/em> for free online and now want a hard copy for their very own, but  don&#8217;t want to spit on the very soul of the Creative Commons by actually <em>paying<\/em> for it.   Patrick St-Denis, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com\/\">Pat&#8217;s Fantasy Hotlist<\/a> \u2014 the guy who brought you the infamous &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/peter-watts-interview.html\">Angry Man Interview<\/a>&#8221; \u2014 is <a href=\"http:\/\/fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/win-copy-of-peter-watts-blindsight.html\">giving away<\/a> three copies of the paperback, just as he did with the hardcover when it came out.  Go over there, check it out, give him your hits.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and according to Leonard Nimoy on <em>The Colbert Report<\/em> last night, poor body-images in today&#8217;s teen girls are causing them to opt for oral sex over the intercoursal kind, because blow jobs don&#8217;t require them to be seen naked.  I&#8217;m not really sure what that has to do with anything, but I thought I should pass it along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the trade paperback edition of Blindsight showed up in my mailbox yesterday. Not bad, I guess. You&#8217;ve seen it before: they truncated the teaser text on the back, but that left room for more blurbage (which, I&#8217;m pleased to note, was actually about Blindsight this time around). I&#8217;m a bit doubtful about the presence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}