{"id":1320,"date":"2011-01-30T17:22:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T21:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2011-01-30T17:22:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T21:22:46","slug":"sci-fi-sunday-first-niall-harrison-memorial-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/2011\/01\/sci-fi-sunday-first-niall-harrison-memorial-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sci-fi Sunday: First Niall Harrison &#8220;Memorial&#8221; Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nOh god, can I just never see two men salute each other while fighting back the manly tears of manliness ever again? <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/catvalente\/status\/30117341312319488\">Catvalente<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAs <a href=\"http:\/\/everythingisnice.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/12\/links-r-us\/\">Martin Lewis said<\/a>: <cite>Now that Niall Harrison has completed his multi-million pound international transfer from Vector to Strange Horizons, last Friday\u2019s linkdump at Torque Control was probably the last. This leaves a gap in the market for an intelligent round-up of the best links from across the genre blogosphere<\/cite>. This probably isn&#8217;t that, but it&#8217;ll do until somebody starts something better.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nThe Year of Reading Women: <a href=\"http:\/\/vectoreditors.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/20\/reading-future-classics-by-women\/\">Torque Control<\/a>,\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/iansales.com\/2010\/12\/14\/a-challenge-found-possibly\/\">Ian Sales<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/iansales.com\/2011\/01\/18\/women-in-sf-reading-challenge-1-the-steerswoman-rosemary-kirstein\/\">first review<\/a>),\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/everythingisnice.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/22\/a-year-of-reading-women\/\">Martin Lewis<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\nand <a href=\"\/wissewords2\/2011\/01\/23\/other-peoples-new-years-resolutions\/\">yours truly<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nSteampunk is now officially over: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2011\/01\/20\/steampunk-palin-comic\/\">&#8216;Steampunk Palin&#8217; Comic More Insane Than You Imagined<\/a>&#8220;.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nPaul McAuley is thinking about <a href=\"http:\/\/unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/question.html\">publishing his out of print short story collections as e-books<\/a>, asked for feedback from his readers and <a href=\"http:\/\/unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/e-bookery.html\">got it<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nAt <cite>The Guardian<\/cite>, Sam Jordinson is blogging the Hugo winners again, this time covering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/booksblog\/2011\/jan\/06\/hugos-the-gods-themselves-isaac-asimov\">Isaac Asimov&#8217;s <cite>The Gods Themselves<\/cite><\/a>. Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/booksblog\/2011\/jan\/14\/joseph-conrad-science-fiction\">Joseph Conrad&#8217;s science fiction novel<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nSF Signal Mind Melt: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2011\/01\/mind-meld-the-future-of-publishing\/\">the Future of Publishing<\/a> with Nick Mamatas, Tim Pratt Cheryl Morgan, Neil Clarke, Gordon van Gelder and Lou Anders. Mamatas is his usual nuanced self: &#8220;<cite>The major houses are pigs and some of them are going to die. We should gleefully bathe in their blood and fat!<\/cite>&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li>\nShaun Tan&#8217;s The Lost Thing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/83rd_Academy_Awards\">is nominated<\/a> for the Best Animated Short Oscar. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kikA9pUAnWs\">Trailer<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/is-science-fiction-getting-more-conservative\/?singlepage=true\">Is science fiction getting more conservative<\/a>? Since this is Pajamasmedia (sic), no real answer to this question is given, but all involved get to indulge in a good oldfashioned whingefest about how oppressed rightwing science fiction writers are.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/yuki-onna.livejournal.com\/629158.html\">Speculative fiction considered harmful<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nMore women writing science fiction: Abigail Nussbaum looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/wrongquestions.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/women-writing-sf-joanna-russ.html\">Joanna Russ<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wrongquestions.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/women-writing-sf-gwyneth-jones.html\">Gwyneth Jones<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\nAnd finally something that has nothing to do with science fiction, <a href=\"http:\/\/spikejapan.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/23\/huis-ten-bosch-only-miffy-can-save-us-now\/\">but is still the most sfnal thing you&#8217;ll have read this month<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh god, can I just never see two men salute each other while fighting back the manly tears of manliness ever again? Catvalente. As Martin Lewis said: Now that Niall Harrison has completed his multi-million pound international transfer from Vector to Strange Horizons, last Friday\u2019s linkdump at Torque Control was probably the last. This leaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}