{"id":759,"date":"2015-10-07T14:45:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2017-06-30T01:15:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T01:15:06","slug":"the-martian-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2015\/10\/07\/the-martian-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Martian Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not the movie (curse you, Fox).  The writer.<\/p>\n<p>We had a great evening last night with William Gibson, but at the Jean Cocteau we like to keep the big nights coming&#8230; so we&#8217;re bringing in ANDY WEIR on October 19 for a reading, a talk, and a booksigning.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/289303_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/289731_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not being allowed to show the film (but you can catch it down the street with our friends at the Violet Crown), but we&#8217;ll have plenty of copies of the novel on hand, and Andy will be here to scrawl in them and answer all your questions about book, movie, and planet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/289884_900.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>And hey, I will be there as well, so all you Martians can also pick up a signed copy of OLD MARS, if you like, and maybe an OLD VENUS for good measure.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Weir is one of the few SF writers I&#8217;ve yet to meet, so I am really looking forward to hosting him at the Jean Cocteau.  The fun starts at 7pm.  Reserve your book and your ticket at our website, and come join us.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/290277_900.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not the movie (curse you, Fox). The writer. We had a great evening last night with William Gibson, but at the Jean Cocteau we like to keep the big nights coming&#8230; so we&#8217;re bringing in ANDY WEIR on October 19 for a reading, a talk, and a booksigning. We&#8217;re not being allowed to show [&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":[9,28,31],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759"}],"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=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}