{"id":447,"date":"2014-06-03T00:26:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T21:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2014-06-03T00:26:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T21:26:05","slug":"women-destroy-science-fiction-in-which-i-also-blather-about-other-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2014\/06\/03\/women-destroy-science-fiction-in-which-i-also-blather-about-other-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Destroy Science Fiction! (in which I also blather about other books)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Lightspeed Magazine&#8217;s<\/em> special issue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightspeedmagazine.com\/ebooks\/issue-49\/\">Women Destroy Science Fiction!<\/a> is now available as an ebook! Huzzah! I just got myself a copy and am super excited about reading it. Wow! Such awesome, much destruct, so women. <\/p>\n<p>So much to read! In addition to this special issue of <em>Lightspeed<\/em>, I&#8217;ve got the following books on my bedside book-table (yes, I have a separate one for books; before you imagine some towering edifice, it&#8217;s just a glorified stool): <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Hild<\/em> by Nicola Griffiths. I&#8217;m in the first third of this book &#8211; such beautiful writing!<\/li>\n<li><em>William Shakespeare&#8217;s Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope<\/em> by Ian Doescher. Have been slowly reading this since Christmas. Awesome concept, quite funny, and usually well Shakespearified, but the misuse of the second person singular pronoun &#8220;thou&#8221; irks me (omg you cannot use &#8220;thou&#8221; to address more than one personnn).<\/li>\n<li><em>Wonderbook<\/em> by Jeff VanderMeer. I usually don&#8217;t like writing guides and such, but <em>Wonderbook<\/em> has some pretty good stuff. I&#8217;ve been slow with getting through it because I want to concentrate on it properly when reading. It&#8217;s pretty awesome to read a creative writing guide that concentrates on speculative fiction instead of turning its nose up at it!<\/li>\n<li><em>The Honey Month<\/em> by Amal El-Mohtar; <em>Here, We Cross<\/em> edited by Rose Lemberg; and <em>Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History<\/em> edited by Rose Fox and Daniel Jos\u00e9 Older. I only just got this lovely trio of books, and haven&#8217;t begun reading them yet because I&#8217;m so excited about them that I want to give them my full attention. I suspect they will all make me cry with awesomeness. <\/ul>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the growing number of unread books in my shelves. I&#8217;m trying to avoid the library right now because otherwise I just end up reserving loads of good books from there instead of reading my own. I \u2665 the public library for the Helsinki metropolitan area &#8211; there&#8217;s a lot of good SFF books. But that means that whenever I come across a book I&#8217;m interested in online, I can reserve it from the library, and of course I have to read the library books first, and&#8230; neverending cycle. For now, I&#8217;ll just write down any interesting new titles and loan them from the library later on. I&#8217;ve got around 30 unread books waiting mournfully in my bookshelves: time to tackle them first. A task for this summer, perhaps!<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion: booksss. We loves them, precious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightspeed Magazine&#8217;s special issue Women Destroy Science Fiction! is now available as an ebook! Huzzah! I just got myself a copy and am super excited about reading it. Wow! Such awesome, much destruct, so women. So much to read! In addition to this special issue of Lightspeed, I&#8217;ve got the following books on my bedside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,16,30,10],"tags":[105,23,80,33,31],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-flailing","category-linkage","category-personal-babble","tag-books-my-precious","tag-huzzah","tag-lightspeed-magazine","tag-lists","tag-recs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}