{"id":444,"date":"2006-11-09T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2006\/11\/09\/pws-100-best-books-of-2006\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:49:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:49:59","slug":"pws-100-best-books-of-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2006\/11\/09\/pws-100-best-books-of-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"PW’s 100 Best Books of 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As many of you know, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY has released its list of the 100 Best Books of 2006<\/a>. Congrats to all, but especially to the five selections in the SF\/Fantasy\/Horror category. Amongst those elite five, I\u2019m thrilled to see Jeffrey Ford\u2019s THE EMPIRE OF ICE CREAM<\/a> (Golden Gryphon, wraparound art pictured above) and Norman Partridge\u2019s DARK HARVEST<\/a> (Cemetery Dance, see front cover art below). So if you\u2019re scoring at home, of the five superlative sf\/f\/horror works chosen by PW, I illustrated the covers for two of them, which ain\u2019t a bad ratio, if you know what I\u2019m saying.
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Back in the spring, I made no secret that I thought Ford\u2019s collection would be the best of 2006. A few collections may be in its league, but I couldn\u2019t see how any collection could top its embarrassment of storytelling riches. PW must\u2019ve thought the same. DARK HARVEST is a bonafide, dark-horse winner and kudos to Rich Chizmar and all at CD for cracking this list. And of course, huge congrats to Mr. Barbed-Wire Fists himself!\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As many of you know, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY has released its list of the 100 Best Books of 2006. Congrats to all, but especially to the five selections in the SF\/Fantasy\/Horror category. Amongst those elite five, I\u2019m thrilled to see Jeffrey Ford\u2019s THE EMPIRE OF ICE CREAM (Golden Gryphon, wraparound art pictured above) and Norman Partridge\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754,"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-444","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\/EMPIRE.jpg?fit=720%2C463","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-7a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","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=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}