{"id":512,"date":"2012-03-22T04:58:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T04:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=512"},"modified":"2012-03-22T04:58:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T04:58:05","slug":"nick-wood-octoberdecember-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Nick Wood – October\/December 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\t

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In this blog update, I report on new added material to the SF in SA section (Section 13 - November 2011) as well as a few other items of news. Firstly, Section 13 is about a 'South African' Black-Super Hero, seemingly based in Soweto in the turbulent mid 1970's, who was known as Mighty Man<\/b>. I have picked up a couple of issues of this comic over the years of collecting comics in South Africa in the eighties and nineties and contributed this researched article to an old comic-swap friend from Cape Town, George Van Der Riet<\/b>. George<\/b> has developed a nostalgic blog looking at old South African comics, which is well worth a visit, if you like comics: http:\/\/southafricancomicbooks.blogspot.com\/<\/a> (The article was also commented on at SA Books Live<\/i>)<\/a>.<\/p>
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Secondly, my new short story, Case Notes of a Witchdoctor<\/i> was shortlisted for the Aeon 2011 International Awards<\/i><\/a>. There is one more round allowed for submissions - deadline the end of this month, November - and then the short list is reduced to an even shorter list of six stories for the impressive panel of judges. So please, if you have a story you think is speculative fiction, why not submit? My story, Bridges<\/i>, a Runner-Up in the 2009 Award, was published in Albedo One 40<\/i> a couple of months ago. <\/p>
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Bridges<\/i> has just received a decent review at SF Crowsnest<\/i> (November 2011)<\/a>. "Bridges<\/i> by Nick Wood<\/b> may be the best thing in this issue. It is set in an alternative South African present where apartheid is still in force. A psychiatrist has built an empathy box and longs to connect himself to a black patient with whom he is not making much progress. Ethical dilemmas and the sense of a menacing authority are deftly conveyed and I liked the background material about Obama and Osama meeting with the Russians to negotiate that power's withdrawal from Afghanistan. The fact that the author is a clinical psychologist indubitably helped with the authenticity of this story." <\/p>\n

I am also pleased I have a couple of stories due to appear in South Africa. Of Hearts and Monkeys<\/i> is due to appear over the next few months in Something Wicked Magazine<\/i><\/a> and Lunar Voices (on the Solar Wind)<\/i> will be featured at some stage in Jungle Jim Magazine<\/i><\/a>. Try and get hold of these good home-grown South African magazines, which both publish excellent overseas and local fiction. Till next time\u2026 <\/p>\n

Nick Wood - October-December 2011<\/p>\n

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