{"id":2425,"date":"2013-02-27T19:50:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T18:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2014-06-24T17:59:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T16:59:45","slug":"solaris-rising-2-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/?p=2425","title":{"rendered":"SOLARIS RISING 2 AND ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/solarisrising2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2426\" alt=\"solarisrising2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/solarisrising2-e1361990701942-195x300.jpg\" width=\"152\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/solarisrising2-e1361990701942-195x300.jpg 195w, http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/solarisrising2-e1361990701942.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a>So busy with stuff I hadn&#8217;t noticed that the table of contents for Solaris Rising 2 had been announced. I&#8217;m chuffed to be in this book alongside a list of very fine writers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m only slightly worried that I&#8217;m the one whose been stuck in to make everyone else look good.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s a very good content list and Ian Whates has done an impressive job of putting it together. I can&#8217;t wait to get my hands on a copy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u201cTom\u201d by Paul Cornell<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMore\u201d by Nancy Kress<\/li>\n<li>\u201cShall Inherit\u201d by James Lovegrove<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFeast and Famine\u201d by Adrian Tchaikovsky<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhatever Skin You Wear\u201d by Eugie Foster<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPearl in the Shell\u201d by Neil Williamson<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Time Gun\u201d by Nick Harkaway<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen Thomas Jefferson Dined Alone\u201d by Kristine Kathryn Rusch<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBonds\u201d by Robert Reed<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTicking\u201d by Allen Steele<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBefore Hope\u201d by Kim Lakin-Smith<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Spires of Greme\u201d by Kay Kenyon<\/li>\n<li>\u201cManmade\u201d by Mercurio D. Rivera<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Circle of Least Confusion\u201d by Martin Sketchley<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFar Distant Suns\u201d by Norman Spinrad<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Lighthouse\u201d by Liz Williams<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cThe First Dance\u201d by Martin McGrath<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u201cStill Life with Skull\u201d by Mike Allen<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWith Fate Conspire\u201d by Vandana Singh<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Discovering that I was in a book with the man who wrote Bug Jack Barron had me dancing around the room in a distinctly foolish fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So busy with stuff I hadn&#8217;t noticed that the table of contents for Solaris Rising 2 had been announced. I&#8217;m chuffed to be in this book alongside a list of very fine writers. I&#8217;m only slightly worried that I&#8217;m the one whose been stuck in to make everyone else look good. Still, it&#8217;s a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[67],"tags":[116,42,46,117,35],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27AP7-D7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}