{"id":1132,"date":"2015-05-18T05:26:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T04:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?page_id=1132"},"modified":"2020-05-01T05:42:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T04:42:03","slug":"2014-blog-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?page_id=1132","title":{"rendered":"2014 Blog Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\"><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1108\">Blog &#8211; November\/December 2014<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Just a brief blog update really, as I head out to visit family in Cape Town again soon.\u00a0Firstly, it&#8217;s very exciting to see a new online African SF magazine launched, called &#8216;Omenana&#8216;, with a great mix of stories and non-fiction (interview and review article). The TOC for Issue 1 is:\nEditorial: \u00a0Speculative Fiction in Nigeria: The ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1108\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1083\">Blog &#8211; September\/October 2014<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">This past month has been a busy month with some great SF Conventions having come and gone, viz. Nine Worlds and the WorldCon in London, LonCon3.\u00a0So, without further ado, a brief report back. I was called on at the last minute to join the African SF panel at Nine Worlds as a panelist Tade Thompson ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1083\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1069\">Blog Hop &#8211; &#8216;Accessing the Future&#8217; &#8211; July\/August 2014<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Kudos to The Future Fire and Kathryn Allan for pursuing a Disability in SF anthology entitled \u2018Accessing the Future\u2019. There has been a recently published generic anthology, looking at essays and \u2018realistic\u2019 fiction, entitled \u2018Criptiques\u2019: http:\/\/bitchmagazine.org\/post\/criptiques-kickstarter-disability-anthology-caitlin-wood This book is available at: http:\/\/criptiques.com\/ However, there has been limited engagement of the SF genre with \u2018disability\u2019 and ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1069\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1053\">Blog \u2013 May\/June 2014<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I have further updated my series of essays on \u2018Science Fiction in South Africa\u2019 with a fascinating pr\u00e9cis of a Ph.D. thesis completed by Dr. Elzette Steenkamp on \u2018Identity, belonging and ecological crisis in South African speculative fiction&#8217;. For those of you may want access to the full Doctoral thesis, completed at Rhodes University in ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1053\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1010\">Nick Wood &#8211; Mar\/Apr 2014<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">AfroSF vol. 2 is a &#8216;GO!&#8217; I believe and due out later this year, around September-October time. Tade Thompson and my co-written novella &#8216;The Last Pantheon&#8216; is indeed onboard this African collection of SF novellas.\nThis month, I have updated my SF in Africa series with my SA speculative fiction essay for Pornokitsch &#8211; published online ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1010\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1002\">Nick Wood &#8211; Jan\/Feb 2014<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nWe\u2019re back from SA earlier this year, having gone to the Cape Town mourning concert for Nelson Mandela with my family. A huge loss indeed, but life goes on and many varied and moving tributes were made: http:\/\/shine.yahoo.com\/healthy-living\/flash-mob-pays-surprise-tribute-to-mandela-in-south-african-mart-203741638.html\n\n\nI finished reading Carole McDonnell&#8217;s &#8216;The Constant Tower&#8217; &#8211; a fantasy epic with well-drawn characters and an implicit ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=1002\" 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-1132","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1132","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=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1132\/revisions\/1836"}],"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=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}