{"id":52,"date":"2007-09-06T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=52"},"modified":"2007-09-06T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T17:19:00","slug":"no-not-the-pigment-around-the-nipples-the-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"No, not the pigment around the nipples. The award."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sentex.net\/~dmullin\/aurora\/trphy91g.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sentex.net\/~dmullin\/aurora\/trphy91g.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>So barring the possibility of some cruel hoax, <i>Blindsight<\/i> is now on the final ballot for the Auroras.  They haven&#8217;t posted it officially yet, but my buddy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kschroeder.com\/1189082849\">Karl<\/a>&#8216;s just announced that he&#8217;s on the same ballot for <i>Sun of Suns<\/i>, so I guess I&#8217;m not breaking any embargoes.  For the nonCanadian among you (and probably for most of the Canadians too, now that I think of it), the Auroras might best be described as a Canuckian Hugo, albeit much smaller of scale and a bit more threadbare at the knees (as befitting the modest and self-effacing nature of the Canadian people).  The award itself looks pretty cool, like something out of Delany&#8217;s <i>Dhalgren<\/i>.  I doubt anyone&#8217;s been able to carry one onto a commercial flight since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I&#8217;ve also just been told that <i>Starfish<\/i> is going to be translated into German &mdash; presumably by the same guys who are translating <i>Blindsight<\/i>, although I have no details.  I was younger and even dumber when <i>Starfish<\/i> sold, and I let Tor retain all the overseas rights, so this is basically their deal.  Hopefully I&#8217;ll get a few more spoils out of it than I did from <i>Blindsight<\/i>&#8216;s SFBC edition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So barring the possibility of some cruel hoax, Blindsight is now on the final ballot for the Auroras. They haven&#8217;t posted it officially yet, but my buddy Karl&#8216;s just announced that he&#8217;s on the same ballot for Sun of Suns, so I guess I&#8217;m not breaking any embargoes. For the nonCanadian among you (and probably [&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-52","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\/52","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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}