{"id":3909,"date":"2013-01-15T10:47:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T18:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2013-01-15T15:13:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T23:13:54","slug":"going-to-extremes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=3909","title":{"rendered":"Going to Extremes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ExtremePlanets-PaulDrummond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3910\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"ExtremePlanets-PaulDrummond\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ExtremePlanets-PaulDrummond.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ExtremePlanets-PaulDrummond.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ExtremePlanets-PaulDrummond-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a>Okay, I can come up long enough for this. Pimping and tub-thumping never takes more than a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>You know that new <em>Eriophora<\/em> story I&#8217;ve been fibletting recently?\u00a0 I&#8217;m now free to announce that it&#8217;ll be making its appearance later this year in an anthology entitled <em>Extreme Planets: A Science Fiction Anthology of Alien Worlds<\/em> edited by David Conyers, David Kernot and Jeff Harris. The whole production is an Anglointernational effort: the editors are Australian, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pauldrummond.co.uk\/\">cover artist<\/a> is English, and the publisher is USnian (<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.chaosium.com\/\">Chaosium<\/a>, out of California, and evidently one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chaosium\">Grand Old RPG companies<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The official announcement is <a href=\"http:\/\/extremeplanetsanthology.com\/\">over here<\/a>. The cover art is to the right (although one assumes that the planets <em>behind<\/em> the cover are a bit more extreme than the one <em>on<\/em> it<em><\/em>, what with the apparent earth-type gravity and nitrox atmosphere). And the Table of contents is below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cBanner of the Angels\u201d by David Brin and Gregory Benford<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBrood\u201d by Stephen Gaskell<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHaumea\u201d by G. David Nordley<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA Perfect Day off the Farm\u201d by Patty Jansen<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDaybreak\u201d by Jeff Hecht<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGiants\u201d by Peter Watts<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMaelstrom\u201d by Kevin Ikenberry<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMurder on Centauri\u201d by Robert J. Mendenhall<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Flight of the Salamander\u201d by Violet Addison and David Smith<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPetrochemical Skies\u201d by David Conyers and David Kernot<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Hyphal Layer\u201d by Meryl Ferguson<\/li>\n<li>\u201cColloidal Suspension\u201d by Geoff Nelder<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSuper-Earth Mother\u201d by Guy Immega<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLightime\u201d by Jay Caselberg<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Seventh Generation\u201d by Brian Stableford<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to my own limited awareness of such things, I&#8217;d just kind of assumed that this was a small-to-middling project featuring small-to-middling names.If I&#8217;d known it was going to feature the likes of Brin, Benford, and Stableford I would have been a lot more scared about getting involved.<\/p>\n<p>Too late now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I can come up long enough for this. Pimping and tub-thumping never takes more than a few minutes. You know that new Eriophora story I&#8217;ve been fibletting recently?\u00a0 I&#8217;m now free to announce that it&#8217;ll be making its appearance later this year in an anthology entitled Extreme Planets: A Science Fiction Anthology of Alien [&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-3909","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\/3909","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=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3916,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions\/3916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}