{"id":259,"date":"2008-04-28T21:08:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T21:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.gregoryfrost.com\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2026-06-04T01:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:29:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?page_id=259","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is what fellow Philadelphia, SF author Michael Swanwick has eloquently said of\u00a0<strong>Gregory Frost:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThis is what you have to know in order to understand Gregory Frost\u2026\u00a0 That fire couldn\u2019t stop him, or poverty, or neglect. That he did what it took to get where he wanted to go.\u00a0 Now you know and now you understand. Gregory Frost has ambitions, and they are not modest ones.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Frost is the author of highly-regarded novels that include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baen.com\/rhymer.html\"><strong><em>Rhymer<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookviewcafe.com\/book\/shadowbridge\/\"><strong><em>Shadowbridge<\/em><\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/fitchers-brides-gregory-frost\/1004975005?ean=9780765301956\"><strong><em>Fitcher\u2019s Brides<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Tor), the \u201cPK Dickian\u201d sf novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/bookviewcafe.com\/bookstore\/book\/the-pure-cold-light\/\"><strong><em>The Pure Cold Light,<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0as well as two novels derived from the Celtic epic, the\u00a0<em>t\u00e1in b\u00f3 cuailnge, <strong>T\u00e1in<\/strong><\/em> and\u00a0<strong>Remscela<\/strong>, available in ebook format from <a href=\"https:\/\/bookviewcafe.com\/bookstore\/\">Book View Cafe<\/a>, Amazon.com, and B&amp;N.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-209\" title=\"Portrait at Poe\" src=\"http:\/\/new.gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/poe52.jpeg?w=200\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/poe52.jpeg 471w, https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/poe52-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>His short fiction has appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including<em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asimovs.com\/2013_12\/index.shtml\"><strong><em>Asimov\u2019s Science Fiction<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 including &#8220;Boomerang, co-written with the late Bill Johnson, and the Readers&#8217; Award winner, &#8220;Lock Up Your Chickens and Daughters, H&#8217;ard and Andy Are Come to Town,&#8221; collaboratively written with that Michael Swanwick fellow mentioned above. Latest is &#8220;Episode in Liminal State Technical Support, or Mr. Grant in the Bardo&#8221; appearing in the anthology <em>Three Time Travelers Walk Into&#8230;<\/em>, edited by Michael Ventrella, and a final short story collaboration with Hugo Award-winning author Bill Johnson, &#8220;Boomerang,&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asimovs.com\/2013_12\/index.shtml\"><strong><em>Asimov\u2019s Science Fiction<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0early in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Follow him on Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=1053121474&amp;ref=profile\">gregory.frost1<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\">Bluesky<\/a> (@GregFrost.bsky.social).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is what fellow Philadelphia, SF author Michael Swanwick has eloquently said of\u00a0Gregory Frost:\u00a0\u201cThis is what you have to know in order to understand Gregory Frost\u2026\u00a0 That fire couldn\u2019t stop him, or poverty, or neglect. That he did what it took to get where he wanted to go.\u00a0 Now you\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?page_id=259\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-259","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PcmYKr-4b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}