{"id":1053,"date":"2014-06-07T07:05:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T06:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2014-06-07T07:05:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T06:05:12","slug":"blog-mayjune-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"Blog \u2013 May\/June 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong> on \u2018Identity, belonging and ecological crisis in South African speculative fiction’<\/em>. For those of you may want access to the full Doctoral thesis, completed at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, it can be viewed\/downloaded here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/eprints.ru.ac.za\/2977\/1\/STEENKAMP-PhD-TR12-75.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Elzette also has a chapter in a worthy book, edited by Gerry Canavan<\/strong> and Kim Stanley Robinson<\/strong>, entitled: \u2018Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction<\/em>.\u2019 Below –\u00a0Permission obtained to upload cover picture<\/em>:\u00a0http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Green-Planets-Ecology-Science-Fiction\/dp\/0819574279\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1388771670tag%3Dgerrcana0b-20&sr=8-1\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

\"GreenPlanets\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sunday Times<\/strong> in South Africa have a free viewing of 40 fantastic short visions of South Africa in the year 2034 by top local authors, which is well worth visiting: http:\/\/bookslive.co.za\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/read-sunday-times-future-fiction-edition-featuring-short-stories-set-in-2034-from-40-top-sa-authors\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Newly out is much exciting reading for speculative fiction in Africa \u2013 Nnedi Orkorafor\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Lagoon<\/em>\u2019 Sarah Lotz\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0‘The Three<\/em>‘, Louis Greenberg\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Dark Windows<\/em>\u2019, Nerine Dorman\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018The Guardian\u2019s Wyrd<\/em>\u2019, Dave-Brendon De Burgh\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Betrayal\u2019s Shadow<\/em>\u2019, Cat Hellisen\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018House of Sand and Secrets\u2019<\/em> (paperback issue) – and with Lauren Beukes\u2019<\/strong> \u2018Broken Monsters<\/em>\u2019 out at the end of next month (July), the local genre scene is steaming hot.<\/p>\n

For those of you wanting to write<\/em>, upcoming is an exciting anthology call from Short Story South Africa<\/strong>,<\/em> due at the end of this month (June 2014), called \u2018Terra Incognito<\/em>\u2019: http:\/\/shortstorydayafrica.org\/write-2014-2\/terra-incognita\/<\/a> Also noteworthy is the annual Science Fiction and Fantasy South Africa<\/strong>\u2019s Nova<\/em> short story competition, entries due the end of September: http:\/\/www.sfsa.org.za\/Nova.html<\/a><\/p>\n

No excuses now – go read \u2013 and<\/strong> write! Nick Wood May\/June 2014<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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’. For those of you may want access to the full Doctoral thesis, completed at Rhodes University in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2014blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","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=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}