{"id":957,"date":"2007-01-15T12:42:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T04:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2007\/01\/15\/beagle-and-the-world-fantasy-award\/"},"modified":"2007-01-15T12:42:56","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T04:42:56","slug":"beagle-and-the-world-fantasy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2007\/01\/15\/beagle-and-the-world-fantasy-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Beagle and the World Fantasy Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time this year Peter Beagle<\/a> turns sixty-eight. Even though he’s nowhere near the oldest guy out there writing science fiction or fantasy, he’s getting up there. And yet, somehow, even though he’s sixty-eight and has been publishing first rank work<\/a> since before I was born, he’s still producing fiction that wins awards, gets critically raved about and, more importantly, is loved by readers everywhere. I mean, he wrote The Last Unicorn<\/a> in the late ’60s and “Two Hearts<\/a>” in 2005, The Folk of the Air<\/a> in 1986 and Tamsin<\/a> in 1999. He’s a seriously impressive writer, and one of the best fantasists we’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

Which got me to thinking. I don’t think this is inappropriate. After all, the judges haven’t been empanelled yet, and if they have, they haven’t been announced and I certainly don’t know who they are, so… how about Beagle for the World Fantasy Award<\/a>? Not for best novelette for “Salt Wine” or “El Regalo” (though both would be worthy nominees in my opinion), but for Life Achievement<\/a>. I don’t know how many people deserve to be recognised for lifetime achievement by the World Fantasy Convention, but Beagle would have to be one of them. A writing career that stretches back nearly fifty years, at least one genuine world straddling classic, and a very, very impressive body of work. I really hope he gets considered.<\/p>\n

PS: As a booklover and Beagle reader, I’d love to see a treasury of his best short fiction. I’m probably alone, but it’d be something really special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some time this year Peter Beagle turns sixty-eight. Even though he’s nowhere near the oldest guy out there writing science fiction or fantasy, he’s getting up there. And yet, somehow, even though he’s sixty-eight and has been publishing first rank work since before I was born, he’s still producing fiction that wins awards, gets critically … Continue reading Beagle and the World Fantasy Award<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}