{"id":975,"date":"2015-04-17T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.gregoryfrost.com\/?p=975"},"modified":"2015-04-17T18:51:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T13:51:03","slug":"tom-purdoms-casanova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"Tom Purdom&#8217;s Casanova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SF Author Tom Purdom &#8220;has slowly and slyly&#8230;been building up a series of stories centered on a fellow who might be succinctly\u2014if reductionistically\u2014described as an &#8216;interplanetary Casanova.'&#8221; So says Paul Di Filippo in<strong><a title=\"Locus Review of Tom Purdom\" href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/Reviews\/2015\/04\/paul-di-filippo-reviews-tom-purdom\/\" target=\"_blank\"> his review of ROMANCE ON FOUR WORLDS in Locus Magazine<\/a><\/strong>. Purdom&#8217;s a fine and underappreciated writer, a steady contributor to Asimov&#8217;s Magazine, and it&#8217;s great to see him getting some column space for this quartet of tales. \u00a0Solid SF in space with romance that Publishers Weekly calls &#8220;a pleasure from beginning to end&#8221;&#8230;You want one, you know you do.<\/p>\n<p>-gf<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Romance-on-Four-Worlds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-976 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/new.gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Romance-on-Four-Worlds-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Purdom's Romance on Four Worlds\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Romance-on-Four-Worlds-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Romance-on-Four-Worlds-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Romance-on-Four-Worlds.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SF Author Tom Purdom &#8220;has slowly and slyly&#8230;been building up a series of stories centered on a fellow who might be succinctly\u2014if reductionistically\u2014described as an &#8216;interplanetary Casanova.&#8217;&#8221; So says Paul Di Filippo in his review of ROMANCE ON FOUR WORLDS in Locus Magazine. Purdom&#8217;s a fine and underappreciated writer, a\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?p=975\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[213,6,60,165,93,7],"tags":[215,214,229,173,230],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collection","category-publishing","category-science-fiction","category-story-collection","category-tom-purdom","category-words","tag-locus-magazine","tag-romance","tag-science-fiction","tag-stories","tag-tom-purdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcmYKr-fJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}