{"id":18694,"date":"2014-05-19T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18694"},"modified":"2014-05-19T11:58:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T18:58:55","slug":"mandolin-wins-a-second-nebula-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18694","title":{"rendered":"Mandolin Wins A Second Nebula Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/nebula1.jpg\" alt=\"nebula1\" width=\"263\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18695\" \/>And this year&#8217;s Nebula for short story goes to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Swirksy!!!<br \/>\n<b>Rachel Swirksy!!!<\/b><br \/>\n<b>RACHEL SWIRSKY!!!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m <em>thrilled <\/em>to announce that our own Mandolin has won this year&#8217;s Nebula award for short story, for her heartbreaking story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apex-magazine.com\/if-you-were-a-dinosaur-my-love\/\">&#8220;If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not Mandolin&#8217;s award in the photo &#8211; it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwriter.com\/nebwin.htm\">Robert Sawyer&#8217;s<\/a> 1995 trophy for <em>The Terminal Experiment<\/em>. But I wanted to post a photo of what a Nebula Trophy looks like because I think they are the single most beautiful trophy that anyone could win. The trophy, which is handmade, is a transparent Lucite block embedded with glitter and polished rocks set to resemble planets and a spiral galaxy; and, like unhappy families, no two Nebula trophies are identical.<\/p>\n<p>This is Mandolin&#8217;s second Nebula win. She previously won a Nebula in 2011 for her novella &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/subterraneanpress.com\/index.php\/magazine\/summer-2010\/fiction-the-lady-who-plucked-red-flowers-beneath-the-queens-window-by-rachel-swirsky\/\">The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen&#8217;s Window.<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And this year&#8217;s Nebula for short story goes to&#8230; Rachel Swirksy!!! Rachel Swirksy!!! RACHEL SWIRSKY!!! I&#8217;m thrilled to announce that our own Mandolin has won this year&#8217;s Nebula award for short story, for her heartbreaking story &#8220;If You Were a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18694\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mandolins-fiction-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18694"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18701,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18694\/revisions\/18701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}