{"id":24803,"date":"2025-03-26T10:27:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24803"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:27:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:27:48","slug":"library-addition-michael-swanwicks-a-fantasists-guide-to-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24803","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Michael Swanwick&#8217;s A Fantasist&#8217;s Guide to Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Dragonstairs chapbook:<\/p>\n<p>Swanwick, Michael. <b>A Fantasist&#8217;s Guide to Venice<\/b>. Dragonstairs Press, 2025. First edition chapbook original, #30 of 79 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Collection of short essays on various fantastic elements of Venice, in fact and fiction, following the author&#8217;s visit there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Swanwick-Venice-1006x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"458\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Swanwick-Venice-1006x1024.png 1006w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Swanwick-Venice-295x300.png 295w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Swanwick-Venice-768x782.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Swanwick-Venice.png 1177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note that this is one of at least four different cover patterns for this title, all done in reds and yellows.<\/p>\n<p>I will have a small number of copies of this available in the next <a href=\"\/lame.html\">Lame Excuse Books<\/a> catalog, which should be out in May. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Dragonstairs chapbook: Swanwick, Michael. A Fantasist&#8217;s Guide to Venice. Dragonstairs Press, 2025. First edition chapbook original, #30 of 79 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Collection of short essays on various fantastic elements of Venice, in fact and fiction, following the author&#8217;s visit there. Note that this is one of at least four different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137],"tags":[1973,1143,2035,1983,1562,1153,2757],"class_list":["post-24803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","tag-books","tag-chapbooks","tag-dragonstairs-press","tag-fantasy","tag-italy","tag-michael-swanwick","tag-venice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24803"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24825,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24803\/revisions\/24825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}