{"id":5217,"date":"2019-02-21T21:42:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T04:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2019-02-21T21:42:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T04:42:07","slug":"hugo-recommendations-editing-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2019\/02\/21\/hugo-recommendations-editing-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Recommendations &#8211; Editing (Redux)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Best Editor, Short Form:<\/p>\n<p><strong>GARDNER DOZOIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5218\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1603-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1603-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1603-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1603-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1603.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We lost Gardner last May.\u00a0\u00a0 A lot of love and laughter went out of the world when he died, and a tremendous amount of talent as well.\u00a0\u00a0 He was a gifted writer who did not write nearly enough&#8230; and an amazing editor, the single most important and influential editor in our field since John W. Campbell Jr.\u00a0\u00a0 It was my privilege\u00a0 to co-edit half a dozen anthologies with him. \u00a0 That was a joy and a pleasure, and I will always regret that we can&#8217;t do any more.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner loved science fiction with all his heart and soul, and the field loved him as well.\u00a0\u00a0 He won more Hugos for editing than any other editor, past or present.\u00a0\u00a0 But that does not mean we cannot give him one more.\u00a0\u00a0 THE BOOK OF MAGIC, his last original anthology, was published in 2018, along with the final volume of his annual BEST.\u00a0\u00a0 Great works, both.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be putting Gardner&#8217;s name on my ballot for Best Editor, Short Form.\u00a0\u00a0 I hope you will as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Best Editor, Short Form: GARDNER DOZOIS Of course. &nbsp; We lost Gardner last May.\u00a0\u00a0 A lot of love and laughter went out of the world when he died, and a tremendous amount of talent as well.\u00a0\u00a0 He was a gifted writer who did not write nearly enough&#8230; and an amazing editor, the single most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[29,39],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5220,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions\/5220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}