{"id":170,"date":"2009-06-16T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2009\/06\/16\/the-little-antho-that-could\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:45:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:45:59","slug":"the-little-antho-that-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2009\/06\/16\/the-little-antho-that-could\/","title":{"rendered":"The Little Antho That Could"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\"\"<\/a>Seems like FAST FORWARD 2 is the critical darling that just won\u2019t die, well over a year after initial release! \ud83d\ude42 Here\u2019s two more extensive reviews courtesy of SFSite (reviewed by Derek Johnson)<\/a> and Fantasy Book Critic (reviewed by Fabio Fernandes)<\/a>. Happy to see this, as it\u2019s always been tough for anthologies to survive, even at the best of times. I\u2019ve said this before, but I\u2019m extremely proud to have illustrated this cover because books this good don\u2019t grow on trees, to say the least. If you love great sf, and wish to see anthos like FF2 continue, please consider buying one<\/a>, if you haven\u2019t already. Your purchase doesn\u2019t affect me one way or the other. I certainly don\u2019t make any money from the sale, but literature is best when it\u2019s diverse. The sf field needs books like FF2 just as it needs its ubiquitous best-sellers.\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seems like FAST FORWARD 2 is the critical darling that just won\u2019t die, well over a year after initial release! \ud83d\ude42 Here\u2019s two more extensive reviews courtesy of SFSite (reviewed by Derek Johnson) and Fantasy Book Critic (reviewed by Fabio Fernandes). Happy to see this, as it\u2019s always been tough for anthologies to survive, even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/FF2lowreslettered.jpg?fit=432%2C648","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-2K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}