{"id":287,"date":"2017-06-17T21:26:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T02:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lfs.org\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2024-01-03T22:27:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T04:27:32","slug":"ken-macleod-at-edinburgh-international-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/ken-macleod-at-edinburgh-international-book-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken MacLeod at Edinburgh International Book Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kenmacleod.blogspot.com\/2017\/06\/science-fiction-stars-at-biggest-ever.html\">Ken MacLeod blogged<\/a> about being asked to host a series of talks and interviews at the annual Edinburgh Festival (&#8220;The largest festival of its kind in the world&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>He brought in luminaries like Stephen Baxter, as well as several Prometheus winning and nominated authors, including Charles Stross, Jo Walton, and Ada Palmer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1303\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0-Ken_McLeod_2005.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1303\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/an-appreciation-of-ken-macleods-the-star-fraction-the-1996-prometheus-best-novel-winner\/0-ken_mcleod_2005\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0-Ken_McLeod_2005.jpg?fit=270%2C267&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"270,267\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0 Ken_McLeod_2005\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Ken MacLeod (Creative Commons photo)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0-Ken_McLeod_2005.jpg?fit=270%2C267&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0-Ken_McLeod_2005.jpg?fit=270%2C267&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1303\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0-Ken_McLeod_2005.jpg?resize=270%2C267&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken MacLeod (Creative Commons photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you will be in the vicinity, consider stopping by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken MacLeod blogged about being asked to host a series of talks and interviews at the annual Edinburgh Festival (&#8220;The largest festival of its kind in the world&#8221;). He brought in luminaries like Stephen Baxter, as well as several Prometheus winning and nominated authors, including Charles Stross, Jo Walton, and Ada Palmer. If you will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/ken-macleod-at-edinburgh-international-book-festival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ken MacLeod at Edinburgh International Book Festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[32,2205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-updates","category-ken-macleod"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe8nGl-4D","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6848,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/6848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}