{"id":1010,"date":"2014-04-06T13:54:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T12:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2014-04-06T13:54:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T12:54:11","slug":"nick-wood-marapr-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"Nick Wood &#8211; Mar\/Apr 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AfroSF vol. 2<\/em> is a &#8216;GO!&#8217; I believe and due out later this year, around September-October time. <strong>Tade Thompson<\/strong> and my co-written novella &#8216;<em>The Last Pantheon<\/em>&#8216; is indeed onboard this African collection of SF novellas.<\/p>\n<p>This month, I have updated my <em>SF in Africa<\/em> series with my SA speculative fiction essay for <strong>Pornokitsch<\/strong> &#8211; published online in February 2014 &#8211; &#8216;<em>Beyond Broken Monsters and The Three<\/em>&#8216; (SF in SA Part 20). And for those interested in academic appraisals of African SF, last year <strong>Paradoxa<\/strong> (vol. 25) kindly made freely available their impressive\u00a0 Introductory overview: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/paradoxa.com\/volumes\/25\/introduction\">http:\/\/paradoxa.com\/volumes\/25\/introduction<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Not much fiction writing to report on recently. I&#8217;ve found close family serious illness takes the winds out of my creativity. I did, however, manage to submit an article on &#8216;<em>Position, telling and performing a male illness; Chronic Prostatitis\/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome&#8217;<\/em> to a planned special narrative issue of the <strong>Journal of Health Psychology<\/strong>. Not much escapism of note there, I&#8217;m afraid:-)<\/p>\n<p>Still, plenty of good reading arriving this year. <strong>Nnedi Okorafor&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8216;<em>Lagoon<\/em>&#8216; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hodder.co.uk\/books\/detail.page?isbn=9781444762754\">https:\/\/www.hodder.co.uk\/books\/detail.page?isbn=9781444762754<\/a><\/span> is out, as (imminently) so will <strong>Louis Greenberg&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8216;<em>Dark Windows<\/em>&#8216; be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/umuzi.bookslive.co.za\/blog\/2014\/03\/26\/excerpt-from-dark-windows-by-louis-greenberg\/\">http:\/\/umuzi.bookslive.co.za\/blog\/2014\/03\/26\/excerpt-from-dark-windows-by-louis-greenberg\/<\/a><\/span> Roll ever onwards, African SF and F.<\/p>\n<p>March\/April 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. This month, I have updated my SF in Africa series with my SA speculative fiction essay for Pornokitsch &#8211; published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2014blogs","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}