{"id":38,"date":"2007-07-13T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=38"},"modified":"2007-07-13T10:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T18:17:00","slug":"were-number-three-were-number-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"We’re Number Three! We’re Number Three!"},"content":{"rendered":"

…”We”, of course, being Jo Walton and myself, who (as you all must know by now even though I’m only getting around to posting it now) tied for third on the Campbells<\/a>. <\/span>We came in just behind Morrow’s The Last Witchfinder<\/i><\/i> in second place, while the lot of us lost to Ben Bova’s Titan<\/i><\/i>, the winner.<\/p>\n

It would be technically inaccurate to describe these results as “controversial”; reactions seem pretty consistent wherever you go (here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, for example). <\/span>Nobody seems to have a problem with the relative rankings of the runners-up (although I’ve seen more than one regret that Karl’s Sun of Suns<\/i><\/i> didn’t make the cut), but Bova’s win appears to be a source of widespread disgruntlement, and \u2014 so far, at least<\/a> \u2014 none of the jurors have gone public with the rationale for their decision. <\/span>I myself have not read Titan <\/i><\/i>(although I read a lot of Bova’s novels back in high school), so I’m in no position to pass judgment. <\/span>I am, however, following the discussion with considerable interest.<\/p>\n

Anyway, third is a nice Canadian kind of ranking (Jo Walton’s Canadian too, I note); politely accomplished and not the bottom of the heap, but not quite world class. <\/span>In fact, I’ve been told that Blindsight<\/i><\/i> also came in third for the Locus Award a few weeks back, although I haven’t been able to track that down. <\/span>Can anyone out there confirm or deny? <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…”We”, of course, being Jo Walton and myself, who (as you all must know by now even though I’m only getting around to posting it now) tied for third on the Campbells. We came in just behind Morrow’s The Last Witchfinder in second place, while the lot of us lost to Ben Bova’s Titan, the […]<\/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-38","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\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}