{"id":1709,"date":"2018-10-18T09:44:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T08:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/49.50.249.40\/~seriousc\/?page_id=1709"},"modified":"2020-05-01T05:42:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T04:42:09","slug":"2016-blog-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?page_id=1709","title":{"rendered":"2016 Blog Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\"><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1472\">Blog \u2013 October 2016 to January 2017: Onwards The African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS)!<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nWell, it\u2019s been a busy and disturbing 2016 on many levels \u2013 I\u2019ll stick mostly with the fiction, although the downturn of Trump and BREXIT are already marginalising the market of dystopian fiction.\n\n\nI mean, how bad can it get, right?\n\n\n***** all signals down ****\n\n\nOf VERY good news at least is the formation of The African ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1472\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1444\">SF in SA 28 (October 2016) &#8211; Is there such a thing as South African Comics?<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nAs I mentioned some years ago on the South African Comics  website, I have been on the search for South African comics for some time &#8211; and wrote about Mighty Man, the 1970s black super-hero here &#8211; who was ultimately toppled by the Soweto Uprising and the Struggle for freedom. George van der Riet ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1444\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1346\">Blog: June to September 2016<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nJust back from WorldCon in Kansas City where I was on a good number of panels, including giving a first reading from AZANIAN BRIDGES\n\n\nI also delivered a well-received workshop on Managing Anxiety and spoke on South African Science Fiction.\n\n\nBig news of this period though is the launch of the African Speculative Fiction Society, with the ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1346\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1253\">Blog: March to May 2016<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nJust a brief update this time.\n\n\nI&#8217;ve added another SF in SA (27) Essay, entitled: &#8216;One Language is Never Enough: On Both Harnessing and Resisting the Western Gaze.&#8217; (With both a debt and thanks to a wonderful writer, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz &#8211; and ongoing warm wishes!)\n\n\nI have a story, Dream-Hunter, in the latest edition of Omenana Magazine. ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1253\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1227\">Blog &#8211; Jan\/Feb 2016 &#8211; Azanian Bridges<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nSoon to be launched, my debut novel &#8216;Azanian Bridges&#8217;\u00a0via the excellent NewCon Press. You can read the opening chapter via Books Live SA here.\u00a0Two reviews of &#8216;AZANIAN BRIDGES&#8216; have come out to date, the first on the SFBook Review site here.\u00a0\u00a0Yes, &#8216;Azanian Bridges is the kind of science fiction we need&#8230;!&#8217; (Not surprising I&#8217;d agree, ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1227\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":108,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1709","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2043,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1709\/revisions\/2043"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}