{"id":24,"date":"2007-05-31T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=24"},"modified":"2007-05-31T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T17:07:00","slug":"not-the-soup-the-award-not-that-award-the-other-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Not the Soup. The Award. Not that Award; the Other Award."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Okay, I got this via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/whatever\/005153.html\">Scalzi&#8217;s blog<\/a>, which linked in turn to <a href=\"http:\/\/sfscope.com\/2007\/05\/john-w-campbell-novel-award-no.html\">this official-looking site<\/a>, so I guess it&#8217;s on the level even though I&#8217;ve received no official notification.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>But it looks like <i><i>Blindsight<\/i><\/i> made the finals for the John W. Campbell Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It&#8217;s in there with the usual worthy suspects from the Hugos and the Nebs, and lots more besides because \u2014 hey, <i><i>thirteen<\/i><\/i> finalists? Is that normal?<span style=\"\">  <\/span>Well, whether it is or not, I&#8217;m especially gratified to see Karl Schroeder&#8217;s <i><i>Sun of Suns<\/i><\/i> in there, because that really is an incredibly fun book with some glorious Technicolor worldbuilding.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>I wish I&#8217;d written it.<u><o:p><\/o:p><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><u><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p><\/o:p><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I got this via Scalzi&#8217;s blog, which linked in turn to this official-looking site, so I guess it&#8217;s on the level even though I&#8217;ve received no official notification. But it looks like Blindsight made the finals for the John W. Campbell Award. It&#8217;s in there with the usual worthy suspects from the Hugos and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fellow-liars","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","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=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}