{"id":425,"date":"2007-02-01T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2007\/02\/01\/the-locus-recommended-reading-list-for-2006\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:49:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:49:43","slug":"the-locus-recommended-reading-list-for-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2007\/02\/01\/the-locus-recommended-reading-list-for-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The LOCUS Recommended Reading List for 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/2007\/2006RecommendedReading.html\">Here it is<\/a>. I\u2019m pleased to see <a href=\"http:\/\/budplant.com\/product.asp?pn=CVEHS\">COVER STORY: THE ART OF JOHN PICACIO<\/a> listed amongst LOCUS\u2019 list of the best art books of 2006. Awesome.\n<p>Also especially pleased to see the following books on the list because I was fortunate to do covers for them:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/EMPIREcover.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/EMPIREcover.jpg?w=680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><br>THE EMPIRE OF ICE CREAM by Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon)<\/p>\n<p>THE MAN FROM THE DIOGENES CLUB by Kim Newman (MonkeyBrain Books)<\/p>\n<p>FUTURESHOCKS, edited by Lou Anders (Penguin\/Roc)<\/p>\n<p>SCIENCE FICTION: THE VERY BEST OF 2005, edited by Jonathan Strahan (Locus Press)<\/p>\n<p>FANTASY: THE VERY BEST OF 2005, edited by Jonathan Strahan (Locus Press)<\/p>\n<p>MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE: PHILIP JOSE FARMER\u2019S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE, edited by Win Eckert (MonkeyBrain Books)<\/p>\n<p>BLOOD &amp; THUNDER: THE LIFE &amp; ART OF ROBERT E. HOWARD by Mark Finn (MonkeyBrain Books)<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is. I\u2019m pleased to see COVER STORY: THE ART OF JOHN PICACIO listed amongst LOCUS\u2019 list of the best art books of 2006. Awesome. Also especially pleased to see the following books on the list because I was fortunate to do covers for them: THE EMPIRE OF ICE CREAM by Jeffrey Ford (Golden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1003,"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-425","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\/2007\/04\/EMPIREcover.jpg?fit=235%2C347","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-6R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","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=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}