{"id":936,"date":"2008-08-05T07:33:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T11:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=936"},"modified":"2008-08-04T10:39:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T14:39:26","slug":"discuss-sf-authors-during-author-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"Discuss SF Authors During &#8220;Author August&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <A HREF=\"http:\/\/sciencefiction.yuku.com\/\">Science Fiction Message Board<\/A> is hosting its four annual Author August.  Users are invited to discuss a different SF author every day of the month.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Each Author August we celebrate a different sf writer every day, with reviews, reminiscences, cover scans, and general comments. This is a post-a-thon open to all who wish to contribute, anything you wish to post about the author of the day, we want to have!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The schedule for this year:<\/p>\n<p>8\/1 Arthur C. Clarke<br \/>\n8\/2 Vernor Vinge<br \/>\n8\/3 Vonda McIntyre<br \/>\n8\/4 Robert A. Heinlein<br \/>\n8\/5 Roger Zelazny<br \/>\n8\/6 Chelsea Quinn Yarbro<br \/>\n8\/7 Lloyd Biggle Jr.<br \/>\n8\/8 Elizabeth Bear<br \/>\n8\/9 Elizabeth Moon<br \/>\n8\/10 Edgar Rice Burroughs<br \/>\n8\/11 H. Beam Piper<br \/>\n8\/12 Keith Laumer<br \/>\n8\/13 Joan D. Vinge<br \/>\n8\/14 J.T. McIntosh<br \/>\n8\/15 Katherine MacLean<br \/>\n8\/16 Bruce Sterling<br \/>\n8\/17 William Gibson<br \/>\n8\/18 Pat Cadigan<br \/>\n8\/19 Ursula K. Le Guin<br \/>\n8\/20 Storm Constantine<br \/>\n8\/21 Rosel George Brown<br \/>\n8\/22 Ray Bradbury<br \/>\n8\/23 Caitlin Kiernan<br \/>\n8\/24 Tanith Lee<br \/>\n8\/25 Peter F. Hamilton<br \/>\n8\/26 Stanislaw Lem<br \/>\n8\/27 Neil Gaiman<br \/>\n8\/28 Zenna Henderson<br \/>\n8\/29 Michael Moorcock<br \/>\n8\/30 Jules Verne<br \/>\n8\/31 Iain M. Banks<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/sciencefiction.yuku.com\/topic\/1672\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Science Fiction Message Board is hosting its four annual Author August. Users are invited to discuss a different SF author every day of the month. Each Author August we celebrate a different sf writer every day, with reviews, reminiscences, cover scans, and general comments. This is a post-a-thon open to all who wish to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}