{"id":1472,"date":"2017-01-26T12:37:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T12:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2017-01-26T12:37:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T12:37:24","slug":"blog-october-2017-to-january-2017-onwards-the-african-speculative-fiction-society-asfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=1472","title":{"rendered":"Blog \u2013 October 2016 to January 2017: Onwards The African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS)!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, it\u2019s been a busy and disturbing 2016 on many levels \u2013 I\u2019ll stick mostly with the fiction, although the downturn of Trump<\/strong> and BREXIT<\/strong> are already marginalising the market of dystopian fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mean, how bad can it get, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

***** all signals down ****<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of VERY good news at least is the formation of The African Speculative Fiction Society<\/strong><\/em><\/strong> \u2013 kudos to Geoff Ryman<\/strong> for leading on this \u2013 and nominations are already open for the Nommo Awards<\/a> <\/em>\u2013 for novels, short fiction, comics\/graphic novels and novellas. Nominations are due to close the end of March 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geoff Ryman\u2019s<\/strong> series of lectures on 100 African SFF writers<\/em> at TOR<\/strong> has been moved on to Strange Horizons<\/em><\/a><\/em>, with the next episode (3) covering South African resident SF writers.Episode 2, which focuses on UK resident writers, includes an interview with me amongst others and will stay available on TOR.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For comic and graphic novel lovers, I\u2019ve posted an Overview on South African Comics<\/em><\/a> under my SF in SA Series<\/em> (number 28!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for my own work, I was pleased to see AZANIAN BRIDGES<\/em><\/a> make a few \u2018Best SF of 2016<\/em>\u2019 summary sites and most especially in The Guardian<\/em><\/strong><\/a> and Best SF Books<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ROSEWATER<\/em><\/a> by Tade Thompson<\/strong> was released by Apex Books late in 2016 and my 5 starred review of this book is here<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: So go – Read It!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wole Talabi<\/strong>, himself a talented author \u2013 he\u2019s posted his own Hugo Award eligibility here<\/em><\/a>: – published a 2016 Best African Short SFF list here<\/em><\/a>, which included my 2016 short story in OMENANA<\/strong>, \u2018Dream-Hunter<\/em><\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for 2017, I\u2019m working on a near future novel looking at WATER<\/strong> \u2013 for a great series of short stories on this theme, go to Short Story Day Africa<\/em><\/a>: I\u2019m also part of a series of lectures on AFRICAN SFF<\/strong> at SOAS<\/em>, the University of London<\/em>. (More details to be added.) So if you\u2019re in London on 22nd February 2017<\/strong> please pop in and say hello after my talk on South African Speculative Fiction<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, here\u2019s to standing together and facing up to the rise of fascism with strength and renewed vigour in our fiction!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nick Wood<\/em>
January 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, 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. I mean, how bad can it get, right? ***** all signals down **** Of VERY good news at least is the formation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016blogs","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","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=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}