{"id":4312,"date":"2017-09-03T16:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T16:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2017-10-03T21:22:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T21:22:47","slug":"dragon-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2017\/09\/03\/dragon-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the winners of this year&#8217;s Dragon Awards, presented at Dragoncon in Atlanta.  You can find the list here:  <a href=\"http:\/\/awards.dragoncon.org\/2017_winners\/\" target=\"_self\">http:\/\/awards.dragoncon.org\/2017_winners\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/472610_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/472868_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/473226_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/473520_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>I understand that 8,000 votes were received this year, twice last year&#8217;s turnout.  If that trend continues, the Dragons may have a long and successful future ahead of them as the People&#8217;s Choice Award of science fiction and fantasy, a broadbased popular anyone-can-vote award that will complement the Hugo Awards (the Oscars of science fiction and fantasy) and the Nebulas (the guild awards, like the DGA\/ WGA\/ SAG awards in film and TV).<\/p>\n<p>I was especially pleased to see BABYLON&#8217;S ASHES take the Dragon for the Best SF Novel of the year.  A terrific piece of work, as all the EXPANSE books have been.  James S.A. Corey, that two-headed monster, is doing something remarkable there, and if they stick the landing with the final books I think they will have created a classic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/473881_600.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations also to STRANGER THINGS, which won the Dragon as the best SF\/ fantasy TV show.  I don&#8217;t know the people who do the show, but I&#8217;ve certainly enjoyed and admired their work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the winners of this year&#8217;s Dragon Awards, presented at Dragoncon in Atlanta. You can find the list here: http:\/\/awards.dragoncon.org\/2017_winners\/ I understand that 8,000 votes were received this year, twice last year&#8217;s turnout. If that trend continues, the Dragons may have a long and successful future ahead of them as the People&#8217;s Choice Award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,19],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4320,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}