{"id":1389,"date":"2011-02-27T15:44:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T19:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2011-03-01T08:01:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T12:01:52","slug":"sidewise-in-links-sci-fi-sundaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/2011\/02\/sidewise-in-links-sci-fi-sundaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidewise in Links &#8212; sci-fi Sundaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nYou know you&#8217;re not enjoying an SF novel when you keep stopping to read a really badly written academic text on international relations.<br \/> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/SFDiplomat\/status\/41905711554375680\">Jonathan McCalmont<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nA year of reading women:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nNiall Harrison reviews <cite>Bold as Love<\/cite>: part <a href=\"http:\/\/vectoreditors.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/22\/bold-as-love-i\/\">I<\/a>, part <a href=\"http:\/\/vectoreditors.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/23\/bold-as-love-ii\/\">II<\/a>, part <a href=\"http:\/\/vectoreditors.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/24\/bold-as-love-iii\/\">III<\/a>, part <a href=\"http:\/\/vectoreditors.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/26\/bold-as-love-iv\/\">IV<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fuckyeahladywriters.tumblr.com\/\">Fuck Yeah Lady Writers<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nAbigail Nussbaum has a list of books by women sf writers she&#8217;s planning to read and asking for suggestions for <a href=\"http:\/\/wrongquestions.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/women-writing-sf-further-reading.html\">more<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nThe table of comments for volume one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2011\/02\/toc-the-collected-stories-of-carol-emshwiller-volume-1\/\">The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nMore science fiction links:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n&#8220;King George&#8217;s Mines&#8221; &#8211; adventures of three Nigerian men on their search for a lost friend through the hostile and exotic landscape of South Yorkshire.  <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodandtreasure.typepad.com\/blood_treasure\/2011\/02\/sub-sub-sub-genres.html#comments\">and more examples of reverse orientalism<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<cite>Resolute Reader<\/cite> reviews <a href=\"http:\/\/resolutereader.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/terry-pratchett-unseen-academicals.html\">Terry Pratchett&#8217;s <cite>Unseen Academicals<\/cite><\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2011\/03\/age-of-man\/kolbert-text\/1\">Welcome to the anthropocene<\/a>, the age of humanity. Which for me raises the question of which far far future science fiction novels are set in a world continuously shaped by humans for the past millions of years, other than Gene Wolfe&#8217;s <cite>Book of the New Sun<\/cite> or Iain M. Banks&#8217; <cite>Feersum Endjin<\/cite>?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nFrederik Pohl on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaythefutureblogs.com\/2011\/02\/fletcher-pratt-part-6-the-last-days-of-the-ipsy-wipsy-institute\/\">Fletcher Pratt<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/markcnewton.com\/2011\/02\/23\/building-secondary-worlds\/\">Mark Charan Newton on building secondary worlds<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/groovyageofhorror.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/what-do-cute-versions-of-monsters-tell.html\">What do cute versions of monsters tell us about horror<\/a>?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nThe Tolkien estate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giro.org\/2011\/02\/23\/the-jrr-tolkien-estate-can-go-fuck-itself\/\">goes after a button seller<\/a> for selling buttons with the text &#8220;While you were reading Tolkien, I was watching Evangelion.&#8221; You can see the problem here; this guy should&#8217;ve used Tolkein.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v33\/n05\/judith-butler\/who-owns-kafka\">Who owns Kafka<\/a>?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nNo money for science fiction this month? <a href=\"http:\/\/baencd.thefifthimperium.com\/\">Look at what Baen Books gives away for free<\/a>!\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nNot science fiction:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sfweekly.com\/exhibitionist\/2011\/02\/this_is_why_your_used_bookstor.php\">This Is Why Your Used Bookstore Clerk Hates You<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/02\/25\/harpercollins-to-lib.html\">HarperCollins wants libraries to nuke their ebooks after 26 loans<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nOver in the world of comics, they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/comicsworthreading.com\/2011\/02\/15\/not-getting-digital-weekly-webzine-going-out-to-buy-online\/\">not getting digital publishing either<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know you&#8217;re not enjoying an SF novel when you keep stopping to read a really badly written academic text on international relations. &#8212; Jonathan McCalmont. A year of reading women: Niall Harrison reviews Bold as Love: part I, part II, part III, part IV. Fuck Yeah Lady Writers. Abigail Nussbaum has a list of [&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-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","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=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}