{"id":2436,"date":"2013-03-20T22:34:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T21:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2014-06-24T17:59:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T16:59:45","slug":"speculative-fiction-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/?p=2436","title":{"rendered":"SPECULATIVE FICTION 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/specyfiction72ppi.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2437\" alt=\"specyfiction72ppi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/specyfiction72ppi-218x300.jpeg\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/specyfiction72ppi-218x300.jpeg 218w, http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/specyfiction72ppi.jpeg 613w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>Another publication announcement &#8211; let&#8217;s us hope this doesn&#8217;t start happening too often, I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;d all get terribly bored. This time it&#8217;s for a piece of non-fiction, my review\/rant on Stina Leicht&#8217;s first two Fey and the Fallen books has been selected for\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staffersbookreview.com\/2013\/03\/announcing-specfic-12-contributors.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Speculative Fiction 2012: The Best Online Reviews, Essays and Commentary<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As is often the case, I find myself in the kind of company in which I have the vague sense that I&#8217;m the idiot boy in the corner that everyone is patting on the head and congratulating for only spilling a little of his weak lemon drink down the front of his shirt. I&#8217;m sure the Germans have a word for that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Despite all this, I think this is book is a great idea and I&#8217;d have been buying it even if my essay wasn&#8217;t in there. I am, therefore, especially chuffed to have a piece included, and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing which the other pieces that the editors, Jared Shurin and Justin Landon, have selected. And I&#8217;m already looking forward to the 2013 edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another publication announcement &#8211; let&#8217;s us hope this doesn&#8217;t start happening too often, I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;d all get terribly bored. This time it&#8217;s for a piece of non-fiction, my review\/rant on Stina Leicht&#8217;s first two Fey and the Fallen books has been selected for\u00a0Speculative Fiction 2012: The Best Online Reviews, Essays and Commentary.\u00a0 As is [&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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27AP7-Di","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436"}],"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=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}