{"id":2287,"date":"2009-04-20T12:17:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T17:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2015-03-30T00:35:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T00:35:33","slug":"more-on-the-end-of-short-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2287","title":{"rendered":"More on the End of Short Trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2284\">wrote about the end of Big Finish Productions&#8217; <i>Short Trips<\/i> line of <i>Doctor Who<\/i> anthologies<\/a>. The final volume in the series, <i>Re:Collections<\/i>, is coming out next month, and it will be a &#8220;best of&#8221; volume, featuring one story from each of the preceeding twenty-eight volumes.<\/p>\n<p>I found on Big Finish&#8217;s website this morning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigfinish.com\/29-Doctor-Who-Short-Trips-Recollections\">the Table of Contents<\/a> for the volume. This is going to be a monstrous book \u2014 480 pages long.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m very pleased to say that my story, &#8220;The Spindle of Necessity,&#8221; made the cut. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve known for a few months that Keith, my editor on the book, nominated &#8220;Spindle&#8221; for <i>Re:Collections<\/i>, but until I saw something official \u2014 like a Table of Contents \u2014 I didn&#8217;t want to say anything.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only read about a third of the <i>Short Trips<\/i> volumes, so most of the stories planned for <i>Re:Collections<\/i> aren&#8217;t ringing bells for me. However, I can say that the story selected from <i>Dalek Empire<\/i> \u2014 James Swallow&#8217;s &#8220;Museum Piece&#8221; \u2014 is a really top-notch piece of work, and I strongly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really quite pleased about this. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday I wrote about the end of Big Finish Productions&#8217; Short Trips line of Doctor Who anthologies. The final volume in the series, Re:Collections, is coming out next month, and it will be a &#8220;best of&#8221; volume, featuring one story from each of the preceeding twenty-eight volumes. I found on Big Finish&#8217;s website this<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2287\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;More on the End of Short Trips&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[687,4082,689,292,594],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-big-finish","tag-doctor-who","tag-short-trips","tag-sixth-doctor","tag-spindle-of-necessity","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}