{"id":147,"date":"2013-02-10T11:50:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T09:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2013-02-10T11:50:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T09:50:43","slug":"sunday-recs-sf-with-fairytale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2013\/02\/10\/sunday-recs-sf-with-fairytale\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday recs: Sf with a dash of fairytale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Sunday, everyone. It’s a grey, mushy one over here, with something unpleasant falling from the sky (ugh, sleet, whyyyy) and the lovely snow turning to slush. I have to go out in a moment, into that mess, but before that – here are some recs again. <\/p>\n

First, the fairytale: Houdini’s Sister<\/a> by Christine Hamm. A lovely prose poem, a praise of fairytale heroines. <\/p>\n

Now for the science fiction. <\/p>\n

Dysphonia in D Minor<\/a> by Damien Walters Grintalis. A bittersweet love story about people who sing bridges and buildings into being. I really enjoyed this, especially the structure. <\/p>\n

And then, oh, then. Gravity<\/a> by Erzebet Yellowboy. Earth is covered in ice; a group of people set off towards the sun. This story made me ache so much by the end. Gorgeous, devastating. And such language! Of Mercury: “A dead god has scrawled its name there in a language we have forgotten.” And: “We become Ouroboros in twenty-five days, when the head of our orbit eats its tail.” Brilliant stuff. <\/p>\n

* <\/p>\n

I edited 10 pages of an old novelette yesterday and did sundry other useful things. Today’s mostly for social activities. Which is lovely, but oh, I just wish I had more time! I have so many things I want to write – stories, poems, an academic article – but time slips through my grasping fingers and February rushes onwards. <\/p>\n

I really need to finish one poem project soon, though, because submissions to Interfictions<\/a> end on the 28th. Will have to set aside time for that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Sunday, everyone. It’s a grey, mushy one over here, with something unpleasant falling from the sky (ugh, sleet, whyyyy) and the lovely snow turning to slush. I have to go out in a moment, into that mess, but before that – here are some recs again. First, the fairytale: Houdini’s Sister by Christine Hamm. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,26,10,11,22],"tags":[34,31,13],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage","category-novelette","category-personal-babble","category-revision","category-submission","tag-clarkesworld","tag-recs","tag-strange-horizons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}