{"id":306,"date":"2008-05-27T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/05\/27\/the-ice-war-by-stephen-baxter\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:48:00","slug":"the-ice-war-by-stephen-baxter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/05\/27\/the-ice-war-by-stephen-baxter\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Ice War” by Stephen Baxter"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p> $\"\"$ <\/a>Here\u2019s my cover illustration for the September issue of ASIMOV\u2019S SCIENCE FICTION<\/a>. The illustration is based on the issue\u2019s lead story, \u201cThe Ice War\u201d by Stephen Baxter. Imagine a War-of-the-Worlds cataclysm colliding with England in the 1720s. However, the alien ships in this story are a different take from the usual tentacled, flexible tripods of previous WOTW stories. Baxter\u2019s aliens are Phoebeans made of ice that erupt from the ground. Their lenticular bodies are supported by huge shafts of ice that converge concentrically in-and-out underneath their body masses and this sliding action is what allows them to move. Pretty cool! So their \u2018legs\u2019 don\u2019t bend at all, and they\u2019re always parallel. Not until I started sketching did I realize those features make it challenging to depict movement in an illustration. At any rate \u2014 it\u2019s a terrific story, and I think it\u2019s more about communication than it is about conflict. A pleasure to work with ASIMOV\u2019S for the first time!\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s my cover illustration for the September issue of ASIMOV\u2019S SCIENCE FICTION. The illustration is based on the issue\u2019s lead story, \u201cThe Ice War\u201d by Stephen Baxter. Imagine a War-of-the-Worlds cataclysm colliding with England in the 1720s. However, the alien ships in this story are a different take from the usual tentacled, flexible tripods of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748,"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-306","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\/ASIMOVS0908.jpg?fit=438%2C648","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-4W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}