{"id":226,"date":"2012-03-21T23:59:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T23:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=226"},"modified":"2012-03-21T23:59:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T23:59:50","slug":"nick-wood-august-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Nick Wood &#8211; August 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is a brief addendum to mention I&#39;ve added an update to my section on <a href=\"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=547\" target=\"_blank\">SF in South Africa<\/a>, entitled <i>Part 3: South African SF &#8211; i.e. Speculative Fiction, not just Science<\/i>. This extends an article I have had recently published in <i>Vector<\/i>, the BSFA critical journal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As regards recent and current reading, I have just finished <b>Ben Okri&#39;s<\/b> wonderful novel <i>The Famished Road<\/i> and look forward to starting a YA book by <b>Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu<\/b> called <i>Zahrah the Windseeker<\/i>. I have also received the latest <i>PostScripts<\/i> magazine with a lively opening editorial by Lucius Shepard, raising amongst other things the importance of political perspectives in writing. Given the fraught political challenges facing the world, &#39;enlightened&#39; political views in fiction seem vital to help us all live together more peacefully. (I&#39;d define &#39;enlightened&#39; as any view which agrees with mine! \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I hope you find update interesting and please let me know if there are any other South African writers I should be aware of, regarding science\/speculative fiction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nick Wood &#8211; August 2006<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?attachment_id=105\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-105\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/vlinec.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"vlinec\" width=\"140\" height=\"10\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a brief addendum to mention I&#39;ve added an update to my section on SF in South Africa, entitled Part 3: South African SF &#8211; i.e. Speculative Fiction, not just Science. This extends an article I have had recently published in Vector, the BSFA critical journal. As regards recent and current reading, I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2006blogs","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}