{"id":2383,"date":"2009-06-03T18:58:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T23:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2015-02-16T20:18:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T20:18:25","slug":"on-recollections-the-best-of-short-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2383","title":{"rendered":"On Re:Collections: The Best of Short Trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dwst29.jpg\" height=\"319\" width=\"210\" border=\"1\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Received in the mail today &mdash; <i>Re:Collections: The Best of Short Trips<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>As I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2287\">a few weeks ago<\/a>, <i>Re:Collections<\/i> is the final volume in Big Finish&#8217;s series of <i>Doctor Who<\/i> short story anthologies, with a single story from each volume in the series reprinted in this volume.  Among the stories in the book is my own sixth Doctor story, &#8220;The Spindle of Necessity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I knew, just from the fact that it was going to have twenty-eight stories, that it was going to be a <i>huge<\/i> book.  It&#8217;s a good inch, inch-and-a-half thick.<\/p>\n<p>The cover, as you can see, is rather striking.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious about <i>Doctor Who<\/i> short fiction and my own contribution, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whona.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&#038;Store_Code=W&#038;Product_Code=DWST29&#038;Category_Code=drwho\">WhoNA has <i>Re:Collections<\/i> right now for $19.95<\/a>, which is a good ten dollars less than ordering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigfinish.com\/29-Doctor-Who-Short-Trips-Re-Collections\">the book direct from Big Finish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a new book!  It&#8217;s shiny!  I&#8217;m really happy. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Received in the mail today &mdash; Re:Collections: The Best of Short Trips. As I wrote a few weeks ago, Re:Collections is the final volume in Big Finish&#8217;s series of Doctor Who short story anthologies, with a single story from each volume in the series reprinted in this volume. Among the stories in the book is<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2383\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Re:Collections: The Best 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-2383","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\/2383","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=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}