{"id":719,"date":"2010-05-09T11:48:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T15:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2010-05-09T11:48:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T15:48:16","slug":"john-scalzi-threatens-the-world-with-my-title-o-tron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/09\/john-scalzi-threatens-the-world-with-my-title-o-tron\/","title":{"rendered":"John Scalzi Threatens the World With My Title-O-Tron"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pulp<\/a>So as I write this, Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual<\/a> <\/em>has seen almost 39,000 page views since its launch, just over two weeks ago.\n<\/p>

\nI’ll take all the credit I can for that but the ball didn’t really start rolling until the site was mentioned at Dark Roasted Blend<\/a><\/em> and Mental Floss<\/a><\/em>. Nice!<\/p>

\nAs you might expect the Pulp Sci Fi Title-O-Tron<\/em><\/a> is the most popular link and the most popular page, too. It’s been fun to watch the incoming links appear and to see where they’re coming from – often from conversations on forums.<\/p>

\nI hate to pick favorites, but I will: there’s a fun conversation<\/a> going on at Metafilter where people are posting random titles they like… to the point where they’re mapping out an actual series based on the titles. They seem to like a "Midshipman" trilogy that ends tragically with Lament for the Celestial Midshipman<\/em>. But hey, folks, it doesn’t really <\/em>need to end there: because with more titles like Gods of the Lieutenant of Phobos<\/em> and Avenged by the Captain of Twilight<\/em> there’s a clear path for promotion.<\/p>

\nBut this<\/em> is why the Metafilter page stands out for me: John Scalzi chimed in with this:<\/p>\n

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\nI’m going to take one of these titles and write a science fiction story out of it.<\/p>

\nSHUT UP I TOTALLY WILL.<\/p>

\nYou’ll see. You’ll ALL see.<\/p>\n\nposted by jscalzi at 6:56 AM on May 9<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nBut which would it be? The Dancing Professor of the Worlds? Pursued by the Quivering Accountant? The Night of the Tentacle of Terror? <\/em>or… The Song of the Accordion of Doom?<\/em><\/p>
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\n<\/a>In other news, I’m happy to say that there’s been some response to my Kickstarter fundraiser for the Thrilling Tales<\/em><\/a>. It may look like a small percentage so far… but at the rate we’re going we can certainly meet the goal. If, you know, we do<\/em> keep going at that rate. So remember: Long arms and shallow pockets<\/strong> beat short arms and deep pockets!<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So as I write this, Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual has seen almost 39,000 page views since its launch, just over two weeks ago. <\/p>\n

I’ll take all the credit I can for that but the ball didn’t really start rolling until the site was mentioned at Dark Roasted Blend and Mental Floss. Nice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}