{"id":3048,"date":"2011-06-23T06:19:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T11:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/06\/23\/reviews-up-at-sf-mistressworks\/"},"modified":"2011-06-23T06:19:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T11:19:04","slug":"reviews-up-at-sf-mistressworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/06\/23\/reviews-up-at-sf-mistressworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews up at SF Mistressworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<cite>Dept. of self promotion<\/cite>: the last few weeks I&#8217;ve gotten some old and new reviews published at Ian Sales&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/sfmistressworks.wordpress.com\/\">SF Mistressworks site<\/a>, dedicated to showcasing good books by female sf writers. Thought it might be good to point y&#8217;all at them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sfmistressworks.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/04\/the-female-man-joanna-russ\/\"><cite>The Female Man<\/cite> &#8212; Joanna Russ<\/a>: &#8220;The Female Man is a tough book, but not a hard book to read. Joanna Russ is a brilliant writer and everything in here sparkles&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sfmistressworks.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/04\/ammonite-nicola-griffith\/\"><cite>Ammonite<\/cite> &#8212; Nicola Griffith<\/a>: &#8220;Nicola Griffith\u2019s goal was to create a world populated solely with women without falling back on clich\u00e9s about what such a world would look like. No \u201cseven-feet-tall vegetarian amazons who would never dream of killing anyone, no \u201caliens who are really women or women who are really aliens\u201d, but \u201cthe entire spectrum of human behavior\u201d. &#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sfmistressworks.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/09\/the-sword-of-rhiannon-leigh-brackett\/\"><cite>The Sword of Rhiannon<\/cite> &#8212; Leigh Brackett<\/a>: &#8220;What sets The Sword of Rhiannon a touch above other pulp adventure stories is both Brackett\u2019s writing and that elegiac sense of loss that comes across through it.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sfmistressworks.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/22\/sign-of-the-labrys-margaret-st-clair\/\"><cite>Sign of the Labrys<\/cite> &#8212; Margaret St. Clair<\/a>: &#8220;The infusion of what at first seemed a fairly standard science fiction story with a dose of Wicca worked pretty well. If necessary, you can ignore all the Wicca mumbo-jumbo and just think of it as psionics.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dept. of self promotion: the last few weeks I&#8217;ve gotten some old and new reviews published at Ian Sales&#8217; SF Mistressworks site, dedicated to showcasing good books by female sf writers. Thought it might be good to point y&#8217;all at them. The Female Man &#8212; Joanna Russ: &#8220;The Female Man is a tough book, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27,22],"tags":[1325,1364,1382,178,1381],"class_list":["post-3048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me","category-science-fiction","tag-joanna-russ","tag-leigh-brackett","tag-margaret-st-clair","tag-nicola-griffith","tag-sf-mistressworks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}