{"id":352,"date":"2008-01-18T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/01\/18\/2008-the-year-of-moorcock\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:48:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:48:34","slug":"2008-the-year-of-moorcock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/01\/18\/2008-the-year-of-moorcock\/","title":{"rendered":"2008: The Year of Moorcock?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\"\"<\/a>Just heard this news from George Mann of Solaris<\/a>\u2026.
SCIFI NOW<\/a>, one of the UK\u2019s major SF media mags, has released their list of the Best Books of 2007. Michael Moorcock\u2019s THE METATEMPORAL DETECTIVE<\/a> is amongst their top five. Congrats, Mike! Congrats to Pyr<\/a> and Solaris as well!\n

The list:
1) HALTING STATE (Stross) \/ Orbit
2) STEALING LIGHT (Gibson) \/ Tor UK
3) BRASYL (McDonald) \/ Pyr\/Gollancz
4) THE METATEMPORAL DETECTIVE (Moorcock) \/ Pyr
5) HELIX (Brown) \/ Solaris<\/p>\n

Also here\u2019s a conversation<\/a> between Mike and SHRIEK<\/a> author Jeff Vandermeer<\/a> over at Amazon.com\u2019s OMNIVORACIOUS<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n

Great days for Moorcock \u2014 he\u2019s got a hit with THE METATEMPORAL DETECTIVE; talks continue regarding a major ELRIC motion picture; and the ELRIC<\/a> series will launch next month. More on that Monday\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just heard this news from George Mann of Solaris\u2026.SCIFI NOW, one of the UK\u2019s major SF media mags, has released their list of the Best Books of 2007. Michael Moorcock\u2019s THE METATEMPORAL DETECTIVE is amongst their top five. Congrats, Mike! Congrats to Pyr and Solaris as well! The list:1) HALTING STATE (Stross) \/ Orbit2) STEALING […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901,"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-352","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\/2008\/04\/METATEMP1.jpg?fit=450%2C666","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-5G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","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=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}