{"id":2052,"date":"2007-10-09T15:03:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T21:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/2007\/10\/09\/green-leopard-plague\/"},"modified":"2007-10-09T15:03:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T21:03:53","slug":"green-leopard-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/green-leopard-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Leopard Plague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading the first winner in the <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2dfy8q\">2006 Nebula Showcase<\/a> <em>(yes, I&#8217;m one year behind. But this is one of the last compilations to be edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gardner_Dozois#Biography\">Gardner Dozois prior to his extensive surgery<\/a>, so I&#8217;m entitled to play catch-up)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the winning novella was <em>Green Leopard Plague<\/em> by Walter Jon Williams, and I discovered that the entire text of the story is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asimovs.com\/_issue_0406\/greenleopards.shtml\">available online at Asimov&#8217;s<\/a>. So, I encourage you to read it! It&#8217;s a fantastic story, well-written and imaginative, and for the non-negotiated price of <em>free<\/em>, you really have no excuse not to read this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;He was a republican, you know,&#8221; Terzian said. &#8220;You don\u2019t get that from just <em>The Prince.<\/em> He wanted Florence to be a republic, defended by citizen soldiers. But when it fell into the hands of a despot, he needed work, and he wrote the manual for despotism. But he looked at despotism a little too clearly, and he didn\u2019t get the job.&#8221; Terzian turned to Stephanie. &#8220;He was the founder of modern political theory, and that\u2019s what I do. And he based his ideas on the belief that all human beings, at all times, have the same passions.&#8221; He turned his eyes deliberately to Stephanie\u2019s shoulder bag. &#8220;That may be about to end, right? You\u2019re going to turn people into plants. That should change the passions if anything would.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading the first winner in the 2006 Nebula Showcase (yes, I&#8217;m one year behind. But this is one of the last compilations to be edited by Gardner Dozois prior to his extensive surgery, so I&#8217;m entitled to play catch-up). In any case, the winning novella was Green Leopard Plague by Walter Jon Williams, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[450,516,116],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-literature-2","tag-nebula-awards","tag-science-fiction","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}