{"id":2448,"date":"2013-04-02T19:54:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T18:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2014-06-24T17:59:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T16:59:45","slug":"my-favourite-short-story-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/?p=2448","title":{"rendered":"MY FAVOURITE SHORT STORY (SORT OF&#8230;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/solarisrising2-e1361990701942.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"solarisrising2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/solarisrising2-e1361990701942-195x300.jpg\" width=\"137\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>So with Solaris Rising 2 being released tomorrow, the people at Solaris asked the anthology&#8217;s authors (you can read my effort, &#8220;The First Dance&#8221;, in those pages along with some stories that are really, really good) to write something about our favourite short stories.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t pick one.<\/p>\n<p>So instead I talked a bit about the first science fiction short story that lodged itself firmly in my memory and that had a huge effect on the way I thought about the world, &#8220;The Star&#8221; by Arthur C Clarke.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/solaris-editors-blog.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/04\/solaris-rising-2-countdown-to-launch-t.html\">You can read what I wrote by clicking here.<\/a>\u00a0And, by poking around a bit, you can read what the other contributors picked.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/solarisrising2-e1361990701942.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So with Solaris Rising 2 being released tomorrow, the people at Solaris asked the anthology&#8217;s authors (you can read my effort, &#8220;The First Dance&#8221;, in those pages along with some stories that are really, really good) to write something about our favourite short stories. I couldn&#8217;t pick one. So instead I talked a bit about [&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":[42,46,117],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27AP7-Du","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448"}],"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=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}