{"id":657,"date":"2019-04-23T19:51:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T00:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lfs.org\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2024-01-03T21:58:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T03:58:03","slug":"l-neil-smith-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/l-neil-smith-news-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"L. Neil Smith news roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Science fiction writer L. Neil Smith<\/a> is staying busy with a bunch of writing projects. Ares<\/em>, the latest book of his Ngu Family Saga, will be out soon from Smith’s publisher, Arc Manor. \u00a0<\/a>Smith’s Only the Young Die Good,<\/em> the sequel to his 2011 vampire novel, Sweeter Than Wine<\/em>, also will be out before too long, and Smith has begun work on the next Ngu novel, Rosalie’s World.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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L. Neil Smith in the 1980s (Creative Commons license)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Smith received our Special Prometheus Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2016 and also received Prometheus Awards for four individual works: The Probability Broach,<\/em> Pallas<\/em>,\u00a0The Forge of the Elders <\/em>and the graphic novel version of The Probability Broach<\/em>.<\/em> (Pallas<\/em> is the first book of the Ngu Family Saga.)<\/p>\n

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Science fiction writer L. Neil Smith is staying busy with a bunch of writing projects. Ares, the latest book of his Ngu Family Saga, will be out soon from Smith’s publisher, Arc Manor. \u00a0Smith’s Only the Young Die Good, the sequel to his 2011 vampire novel, Sweeter Than Wine, also will be out before too … Continue reading L. Neil Smith news roundup<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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":[32,2203,10],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-updates","category-l-neil-smith","category-news","tag-l-neil-smith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe8nGl-aB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6830,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/6830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}