{"id":391,"date":"2014-02-23T14:44:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T12:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2014-02-23T14:44:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T12:44:05","slug":"sunday-recs-two-sf-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2014\/02\/23\/sunday-recs-two-sf-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday recs: Two SF stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading some pretty awesome SF stories lately. Here are two favourites from <em>Strange Horizons<\/em>: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2014\/20140106\/Astronaut-f.shtml\">The Serial Killer&#8217;s Astronaut Daughter<\/a> by Damien Angelica Walters. This near-future (I assume!) story set in a space station orbiting Earth treads the borderline of speculative and mainstream pretty neatly. Also, <em>Aliens<\/em> references FTW. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/2013\/20130211\/north-f.shtml\">The Long Road to the Deep North<\/a> by Lavie Tidhar. Simply put: this story blew me away with its awesomeness. It has poems in a linguistically viable asteroid pidgin! I love it when people deal with language in stories (and I often do so myself &#8211; can&#8217;t help it, I did linguistics at uni and language has always been deeply fascinating to me). The atmosphere is lush, full of the kind of science-fictional future details that I love: strange quirky things that build the story-world into such a delightful creature that I wish there was more of it. And yet this is a brilliant story exactly the way it is. I almost cried at the end because of the sheer beauty of words and images. Please read this. It&#8217;s an unconventional story in some ways, but so gorgeous. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading some pretty awesome SF stories lately. Here are two favourites from Strange Horizons: The Serial Killer&#8217;s Astronaut Daughter by Damien Angelica Walters. This near-future (I assume!) story set in a space station orbiting Earth treads the borderline of speculative and mainstream pretty neatly. Also, Aliens references FTW. \ud83d\ude42 The Long Road to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,19],"tags":[31,13],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage","category-short-stories","tag-recs","tag-strange-horizons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","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=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}