{"id":28,"date":"2007-06-10T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=28"},"modified":"2007-06-10T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-10T19:50:00","slug":"three-times-the-scabbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Three Times the Scabbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Today&#8217;s edition of the Vancouver Province carries a piece by Peter Darbyshire on online fiction giveaways, focusing on three of us Creative Commoners:<span style=\"\">  <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.craphound.com\/\">Cory Doctorow,<\/a><span style=\"\">  <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brokentype.com\/davidwellington\/\">David Wellington<\/a>, and me.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>The layout in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/real\/articles\/Darbyshire_Freefiction.pdf\">dead tree edition<\/a> is quite pleasing to the eye, showing one of <i>Blindsight<\/i>&#8216;s alternate covers without comment (I <i>love<\/i> it when that happens, when reviewers just act as though the original jacket didn&#8217;t even exist&#8230;).  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/theprovince\/news\/unwind\/story.html?id=d1e0ee64-7390-4711-84f7-4b78f3bc4f6c&#038;p=2\">online edition<\/a> contains the same text, but no snazzy graphics.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>And the longer, <a href=\"http:\/\/communities.canada.com\/theprovince\/blogs\/readthis\/pages\/brave-new-world-of-free-fiction-full-story.aspx\">director&#8217;s cut<\/a> is over on Darbyshire&#8217;s blog; it contains never-before-seen quotage of me being grumpy and pessimistic (and yet another alternate cover!).<span style=\"\">  It&#8217;s probably just as well that none of thes<\/span>e versions include my take on NIN&#8217;s <i>This is the Year Zero<\/i> as a new example of multiformat novel-scale storytelling.<span style=\"\">  (<\/span>By the way, am I the only one who wonders if the last line on that album is meant to suggest that the whole story was a computer simulation?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s edition of the Vancouver Province carries a piece by Peter Darbyshire on online fiction giveaways, focusing on three of us Creative Commoners: Cory Doctorow, David Wellington, and me. The layout in the dead tree edition is quite pleasing to the eye, showing one of Blindsight&#8216;s alternate covers without comment (I love it when that [&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-28","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\/28","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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}