{"id":16860,"date":"2009-02-23T19:20:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T00:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16860"},"modified":"2014-12-11T17:54:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T22:54:39","slug":"interesting-funny-and-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/23\/interesting-funny-and-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting, funny, and dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <i>Fantasy Book Critic<\/i><\/a>, Liviu C. Suciu reviewed the entire contents of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Solaris-Book-New-Science-Fiction\/dp\/184416599X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1235434476&amp;sr=8-1\"><i>The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Three<\/i><\/a>, edited by George Mann.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Solaris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Solaris.jpg\" alt=\"Solaris\" width=\"180\" height=\"288\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why do I care?<\/p>\n<p>Because  my short story,  &#8220;Glitch,&#8221;  earned 4 1\/2 stars &#8230; which as far as I can tell, was on a scale of 1 through 5.  (If I&#8217;m misinterpreting things, and it was instead on a scale of 1 through 100, please &#8230; keep that to yourself.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Suciu had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Prim S-Tr resists the attempts of her bonded partner X-ta to have &#8220;animal-like&#8221; human intimacy. Then things go out of control&#8230; Interesting, funny and dark at the same time. The style was a bit flat but otherwise very good.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The anthology will officially go on sale tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Fantasy Book Critic, Liviu C. Suciu reviewed the entire contents of The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Three, edited by George Mann. Why do I care? Because my short story, &#8220;Glitch,&#8221; earned 4 1\/2 stars &#8230; which as far as I can tell, was on a scale of 1 through 5. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-16860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16861,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16860\/revisions\/16861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}