{"id":5069,"date":"2014-02-26T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T20:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2014-02-26T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T20:56:13","slug":"thats-my-reading-sorted-for-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/02\/26\/thats-my-reading-sorted-for-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s my reading sorted for this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theladiesfinger.com\/10-works-of-speculative-fiction-by-women-writers-to-look-forward-to\/\">This is an awesome list of science fiction\/fantasy novels coming out this year<\/a> and I like Mahvesh Murad&#8217;s reasoning here:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThere is a great deal of potentially excellent writing and brilliant storytelling to look forward to this year, especially from women writers of speculative fiction. A number of titles that I am looking forward to are from writers of colour, many with stories set outside of the usual Eurocentric\/American diaspora.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSure, you can make up any culture you like as a writer \u2013 as long as your worldbuilding is authentic and strong, we\u2019ll buy it. But when you\u2019re not from the mainstream, when you\u2019re not a white, heteronormative writer from the UK or US, you\u2019ll probably be bringing your own cultural background, your own myths, beliefs and baggage to your work and it will probably be a whole lot richer and more interesting for it.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nBy way of contrast, <a href=\"http:\/\/james-nicoll.livejournal.com\/4831074.html\">James Nicoll linked to what NASA thinks makes for good science fiction<\/a>, fighting the cutting edge battles of the seventies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an awesome list of science fiction\/fantasy novels coming out this year and I like Mahvesh Murad&#8217;s reasoning here: There is a great deal of potentially excellent writing and brilliant storytelling to look forward to this year, especially from women writers of speculative fiction. A number of titles that I am looking forward to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","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=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}