{"id":869,"date":"2017-09-19T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=869"},"modified":"2017-09-19T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T13:00:09","slug":"first-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"First Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/First-Contact-102.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-870\" src=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/First-Contact-102-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"911\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/First-Contact-102-236x300.jpg 236w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/First-Contact-102-768x977.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/First-Contact-102-805x1024.jpg 805w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/First-Contact-102.jpg 1628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Marsha is away (once again), I get to post something I like.\u00a0 This illustration has some awkward bits in this context, but it made for\u00a0a good cover and was (strictly) scene-specific to the story\/ assignment;\u00a0 The Earth delegation approaches, having landed their shuttle (by invitation) on the surface of a massive alien starship orbiting Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First Contact&#8221; is\u00a0the cover illustration for the May, 2006 issue of Analog Magazine.\u00a0 This is the first of 5 images (a cover and 4 interior illos.) for a 4 month serialized story by Edward M. Lerner called &#8220;A New Order of Things,&#8221; part of his &#8216;Interstellarnet&#8217; series\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great story and well worth reading.\u00a0 I got to meet Lerner at the 2010 Nebula awards &#8211; nice guy.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve read a few of his books over the years and highly recommend them.\u00a0 -John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 While Marsha is away (once again), I get to post something I like.\u00a0 This illustration has some awkward bits in this context, but it made for\u00a0a good cover and was (strictly) scene-specific to the story\/ assignment;\u00a0 The Earth delegation approaches, having landed their shuttle (by invitation) on the surface of a massive alien starship &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=869\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Contact<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[79,56,7,10,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}