{"id":14149,"date":"2010-05-02T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14149"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:28","slug":"various-anthologies-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14149","title":{"rendered":"Various Anthologies – Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Impossible<\/strong><\/p>\n

OK, now<\/em> we have to deal with what you should do if parts of an anthology suck and parts of it are really good. This thing looked like a lost cause up until right around the midway point. Then I read Halfway to Hell, a story about the building of the Golden Gate bridge and the “club” of people who fell off the bridge but were saved by the temporary safety net. A few stories after that saved this book from being a total loss, but it certainly wasn’t great. Look, if you’re trying to find a wide variety of small press people that you probably haven’t seen before, anthologies are always going to be the way to go. I’d recommend starting with something like Non or Stripburger before this, but it does have its moments too. I think it’s $3 (I got it in a pile of stuff and it doesn’t have a price tag on it), and in this case the good stories make up for the bad ones, but just barely. Still, you could do worse than to send them some money. There’s no name on the address, but here it is:<\/p>\n

PO Box 12299 St. Louis, MO 63157<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Impossible OK, now we have to deal with what you should do if parts of an anthology suck and parts of it are really good. This thing looked like a lost cause up until right around the midway point. Then I read Halfway to Hell, a story about the building of the Golden Gate bridge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2250],"class_list":["post-14149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-impossible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16424,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14149\/revisions\/16424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}