{"id":328,"date":"2012-03-22T01:16:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T01:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?page_id=328"},"modified":"2012-03-22T01:16:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T01:16:39","slug":"2008-blog-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?page_id=328","title":{"rendered":"2008 Blog Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\"><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=391\">Nick Wood &#8211; October\/November 2008<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I was pleased this month that <i>Thirstlands<\/i> won a <i>British Science Fiction Association Orbiter<\/i> writing competition, judged by <b>Ian Watson<\/b>, whose science fiction work I&#39;ve read since the nineteen seventies.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=391\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=385\">Nick Wood &#8211; October 2008<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I would like to acknowledge Gail Jamieson of Science Fiction South Africa for supplying another issue of Probe &#45; the latest &#45; number 137. Two episodes now available on a downloads page. \nFurthermore, also to note that Science Fiction South Africa are imminently publishing a Best of South African Science Fiction III. I hope to ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=385\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=382\">Nick Wood &#8211; September 2008<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">The 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing has been won by Henrietta Rose&#45;Innes, a South African writer who has written a science&#45;fictional tale of a catastrophic event in Cape Town. The Guardian has posted the full story online at &#45; http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2008\/jul\/09\/caineprize. \nAn interesting analysis of this story and why so little African science&#45;fiction has been ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=382\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=379\">Nick Wood &#8211; August\/September 2008<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">This is just a very brief blog this month as I&#39;ve written another section (8) to the SF in SA area of the website, focusing on &#39;insider&#39; and &#39;outsider&#39; African speculative fiction, with reference to two worthwhile collections. I hope you enjoy &#45; please e&#45;mail me if you have any comments, corrections or suggestions! \nNick ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=379\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=374\">Nick Wood &#8211; July 2008<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Unfortunately it looks like only the first issue of  Escape Velocity  is still available as a free download. However, I aim to upload my article on Right and Wrong Stuff: Psychological Factors in Space Flight due out in EV4 in July, after sufficient post&#45;publication time has expired.\n What I have been able to ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=374\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=365\">Nick Wood &#8211; June 2008<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Moving on from the musical mention last month &#45; Toumani Diabate,  I was again fortunate to witness and hear some wonderful African music again &#45; this time it was the son of the late great Ali Farka Toure &#45; Vieux. Hearing his guitar play, it made me realise the father does indeed live on ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=365\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=362\">Nick Wood &#8211; May 2008<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Just a brief update this month &#45; firstly, to let you know that free downloads of Escape Velocity magazine are available: here: Mindreader is in Escape Velocity, issue 2, if anyone is interested.\n Secondly, to alert you of the publication of a new African spec-fic magazine from Cape Town, South Africa: Chimurenga:  &#8211; a ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=362\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=357\">Nick Wood &#8211; March 2008<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I&#8217;ve just heard that my story &#39;Thirstlands&#39; has just been short-listed for the Aeon Awards 2008.\nI am currently dipping in and out of a book on African history as work allows. It&#39;s the pre-colonial history that particularly fascinates me, not just the colonial or post-colonial periods.  This interest has been nurtured by many conversations ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=357\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=354\">Nick Wood  &#8211; January\/February 2008<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\"> I have received two stories from &#39;learners&#39; (students) from Sinethemba High School and have uploaded the one, which ends with a wonderful poem. The author, Sinethemba, writes with English as his second or even possibly his third language, and gives some interesting ideas in his story &#8211; he&#39;s the one at the back in ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=354\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=352\">Nick Wood &#8211; December 2007\/January 2008<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">What is change? This is one of the &#39;problem based learning&#39; exercise questions we sometimes ask our new clinical psychology trainees to research and report on, with particular reference to clinical practice. It&#39;s a peculiarly science fictional theme too, where the notion of the &#39;future&#39; as distinct from the present is speculated upon, very often ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=352\" 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-328","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}