{"id":186,"date":"2008-10-10T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=186"},"modified":"2008-10-10T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T03:53:00","slug":"fear-and-the-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Fear and the French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gone back and posted a coda at the end of Wednesday&#8217;s fear and religion entry; the recent hysteria at Republican rallies is chillingly consistent with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/real\/articles\/Science_Oxley_et_al_2008.pdf\">Oxley <i>et al<\/i>&#8216;s findings<\/a> that Conservative=Fearful.  But let&#8217;s move on to fear and horror of a more existential sort, the kind you might find in the shadow of a black supergiant half a half lightyear into the Oort:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/BSFrenchComposite-755676.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/BSFrenchComposite-755657.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>These are a couple of cover concept sketches for the upcoming French translation of <i>Blindsight<\/i> (tentatively scheduled for release in April 2009).  The artist goes by the name Sparth:  whether that&#8217;s a Christian name, a surname, or merely an online handle I do not know, but I really like the work (more of which can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparth.com\/\">here<\/a>).  I&#8217;m tending more to the green iteration, since it conveys a greater sense of creepy dread and alien surveillance.  OTOH, <i>Theseus<\/i> looks especially beautiful in the blue treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.  The illos are, of course, also archived in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/real\/gallery.htm\">Gallery<\/a> for easy long-term access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gone back and posted a coda at the end of Wednesday&#8217;s fear and religion entry; the recent hysteria at Republican rallies is chillingly consistent with Oxley et al&#8216;s findings that Conservative=Fearful. But let&#8217;s move on to fear and horror of a more existential sort, the kind you might find in the shadow of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}