{"id":193,"date":"2009-04-28T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2009\/04\/28\/2009-locus-award-finalist\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:46:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:46:17","slug":"2009-locus-award-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2009\/04\/28\/2009-locus-award-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Locus Award Finalist!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\"\"<\/a>Good news \u2014 the 2009 Locus Award Finalist List<\/a> went out yesterday. I\u2019m one of the five finalists in the Artist category!\n

Here\u2019s the Artist list:<\/p>\n

Bob Eggleton
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Michael Whelan
Charles Vess<\/p>\n

The Locus Award winners will be announced in late June in Seattle. I\u2019m thrilled and honored to be in this year\u2019s top five and it\u2019s a heckuva list all around. Very pleased to see Pyr\u2019s FAST FORWARD 2<\/a> with two stories amongst the finalists: \u201cTrue Names\u201d by Benjamin Rosenbaum and Cory Doctorow and \u201cThe Kindness of Strangers\u201d by Nancy Kress. Congrats to editor Lou Anders<\/a> for that! I illustrated the cover of the Sept. \u201908 ASIMOV\u2019S<\/a> and my cover illo was based on Stephen Baxter\u2019s \u201cThe Ice War\u201d which is one of the finalists for Best Novelette. Congrats to Stephen and of course, editor Sheila Williams. <\/p>\n

Congrats to everyone on the list\u2026.it\u2019s an honor to be amongst you. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good news \u2014 the 2009 Locus Award Finalist List went out yesterday. I\u2019m one of the five finalists in the Artist category! Here\u2019s the Artist list: Bob EggletonJohn PicacioShaun TanMichael WhelanCharles Vess The Locus Award winners will be announced in late June in Seattle. I\u2019m thrilled and honored to be in this year\u2019s top five […]<\/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-193","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-37","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/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=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}