{"id":15365,"date":"2014-09-29T01:51:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T01:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/introductory-note-mary-robinette-kowals\/"},"modified":"2014-09-29T01:51:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T01:51:32","slug":"introductory-note-mary-robinette-kowals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/introductory-note-mary-robinette-kowals\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Introductory note: Mary Robinette Kowal\u2019s novelette \u201cThe Lady Astronaut of Mars\u201d was first published in 2012 as part of RIP-OFF, an original audiobook anthology from Audible.com. It was later published in text form in early 2013 on Kowal\u2019s personal blog, along with a (few) \u201cstage directions\u201d the author had provided to the audio producers. In the nominating phase of the 2013 Hugo Awards, the audiobook appearance of the story received enough nominations to have been one of the finalists for Best Novelette\u2014in fact, it received the third largest number of nominations. However, the committee overseeing this year\u2019s Hugo process decided that it was ineligible in the \u201cBest Novelette\u201d category but eligible in \u201cBest Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)\u201d, where, unfortunately, it didn\u2019t actually have enough nominations to be a finalist. It\u2019s our understanding that, without wishing to constrain the committee that will oversee the 2014 Hugo Awards, the people who oversaw the awards in 2013 believe that the author\u2019s 2013 self-publication of the story will make it eligible in 2014. What we think is that \u201cThe Lady Astronaut of Mars\u201d is a fine story, and deserves not merely to be technically eligible for the 2014 Hugo ballot, but also to be read by large numbers of people. So we\u2019re pleased to be presenting it to you here in its definitive, author-preferred text form. [\u2014Patrick Nielsen Hayden]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/stories\/2013\/09\/the-lady-astronaut-of-mars\">The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal | Tor.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introductory note: Mary Robinette Kowal\u2019s novelette \u201cThe Lady Astronaut of Mars\u201d was first published in 2012 as part of RIP-OFF, an original audiobook anthology from Audible.com. It was later published in text form in early 2013 on Kowal\u2019s personal blog, along with a (few) \u201cstage directions\u201d the author had provided to the audio producers. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3ZP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}