{"id":5,"date":"2007-04-21T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=5"},"modified":"2007-04-21T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T21:02:00","slug":"blindsight-locus-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Blindsight: Locus Finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, yeah.  Blindsight is evidently a finalist for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/2007\/04_LocusFinalists.html\">Locus Award for Best Novel.<\/a>  Once again, I am in august company: losing to any of these folks, I would not feel jilted.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this nomination especially sweet for me is that Blindsight was evidently a write-in candidate&#8211; at least, I&#8217;ve been told by a voter that my novel was not initially on the list of eligible candidates, that he had to enter it manually in the &#8220;oh, and any other book you think might be worthy&#8221; field.  I can&#8217;t vouch for this first-hand&#8211; I wasn&#8217;t there&#8211; but it seems plausible in light of the fact that Locus never actually reviewed the book.  So in this case at least, being nominated is more than an honor.  It&#8217;s a fucking <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">victory<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, yeah. Blindsight is evidently a finalist for the Locus Award for Best Novel. Once again, I am in august company: losing to any of these folks, I would not feel jilted. What makes this nomination especially sweet for me is that Blindsight was evidently a write-in candidate&#8211; at least, I&#8217;ve been told by 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","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=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}