{"id":355,"date":"2002-03-18T22:45:48","date_gmt":"2002-03-19T06:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/03\/18\/355.html"},"modified":"2002-03-18T22:45:48","modified_gmt":"2002-03-19T06:45:48","slug":"beluthahatchie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/03\/18\/beluthahatchie\/","title":{"rendered":"Beluthahatchie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just one more thing before I run off to edit: in spare moments here and there, I've been reading Andy Duncan's short-story collection <cite>Beluthahatchie.<\/cite> (Which won last year's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldfantasy.org\/awards\/\">World Fantasy Award<\/a> for best short-story collection.)  Almost exactly a year ago, when Chris Cobb ran his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2001\/20010319\/beluthahatchie.shtml\">review<\/a> of the book at <cite>SH,<\/cite> Chris told me I would like these stories.  I've been waiting for the paperback, but the guys at Other Change of Hobbit said there might not be a paperback (the hardcover is from a small press, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldengryphon.com\/\">Golden Gryphon<\/a>), so I went ahead and bought it.  And boy am I glad I did.  I've only read the first four stories so far, but they're all superb.  Chris mentioned in passing that Duncan is funny, but what I've read of his before (\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asimovs.com\/_issue_0202\/LincolninFrogmore.html\">Lincoln in Frogmore<\/a>,\" \"The Chief Designer,\" \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiction\/originals\/originals_archive\/duncan\/\">The Pottawatomie Giant<\/a>\" (that last won the World Fantasy Award for short fiction)) has been fairly serious&#8212;good, certainly, but serious, and not especially fantastical; almost mainstream historical fiction.  (And I'm afraid I wasn't thrilled with \"Senator Bilbo\" in <cite>Starlight 3.<\/cite>) But the stories so far in this collection are laugh-out-loud funny, sometimes several times on a page, without ever resorting to slapstick or failing to take characters seriously.<\/p>\n<p>A phenomenal collection; if the rest of the stories in it are even half as good, this will rank way up there with my favorite short-story collections.  And this is stuff from the beginning of this man's career.  I'm looking forward to seeing where he goes.<\/p>\n<p><cite>SH<\/cite> also ran an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2001\/20010813\/duncan.shtml\">interview<\/a> with him last year, btw.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one more thing before I run off to edit: in spare moments here and there, I&#8217;ve been reading Andy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}