{"id":247,"date":"2008-11-29T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/11\/29\/dozois-fast-forward-2-08s-best-sf-antho\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:47:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:47:16","slug":"dozois-fast-forward-2-08s-best-sf-antho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/11\/29\/dozois-fast-forward-2-08s-best-sf-antho\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozois: FAST FORWARD 2 = 08’s Best SF Antho!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p> $\"\"$ <\/a>Just read the December issue<\/a> of LOCUS MAGAZINE. Gardner Dozois breaks down 2008\u2019s best sf anthologies in his column, \u201cGardnerspace\u201d.\n

Gardner: \u201cThis has been an almost unprecedented year for the number of first-rate original SF anthologies published, at least since the heyday of ORBIT, NEW DIMENSIONS, and UNIVERSE in the \u201970\u2019s.\u201d<\/span> He goes on to say, \u201c\u2026I\u2019d have to say that the three strongest original SF anthologies of the year were Lou Anders\u2019 FAST FORWARD 2<\/a>, Jonathan Strahan<\/a>\u2018s ECLIPSE 2<\/a>, and Strahan\u2019s THE STARRY RIFT<\/a>\u2026.\u201d<\/span> And then the kicker, \u201cOf these, I think I\u2019d give a very slight edge to FAST FORWARD 2.\u201d<\/span> Awesome. Congrats to Lou<\/a> and all of the contributing authors! Proud to have done the cover art for this one. And speaking of LOCUS<\/a>, if you aren\u2019t a print subscriber yet, have you heard they\u2019ve got the October issue online for free<\/a>? Seems they may start making the print mag available on a web-subscription basis. Let \u2019em know what you think!<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just read the December issue of LOCUS MAGAZINE. Gardner Dozois breaks down 2008\u2019s best sf anthologies in his column, \u201cGardnerspace\u201d. Gardner: \u201cThis has been an almost unprecedented year for the number of first-rate original SF anthologies published, at least since the heyday of ORBIT, NEW DIMENSIONS, and UNIVERSE in the \u201970\u2019s.\u201d He goes on to […]<\/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-247","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-3Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/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=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}