{"id":470,"date":"2012-03-22T04:34:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T04:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=470"},"modified":"2012-03-22T04:34:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T04:34:51","slug":"nick-wood-mayjune-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"Nick Wood – May\/June 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lauren Beukes'<\/b> Zoo City<\/i> has been released and a glorious follow-up to Moxyland<\/i> it is too! For my money it's an even stronger, more focused and powerful book. It has a great premise involving both a blurred integration of science and traditional African beliefs, as well as a fantastical and metaphorical link between human and beast. It's narrated by a wonderful central character; who seems to be faithfully represented in the gorgeous cover picture! <\/p>\n

Just a couple of other items to report on - firstly, I have a poem published on Ken Macleod's<\/b> Human Genre Project<\/i> entitled 'Fragile X': http:\/\/www.humangenreproject.com\/index.php?id=23<\/a>. Secondly, the TOC of PostScripts 22/23<\/i> has been released, which includes my story 'Of Hearts and Monkeys': http:\/\/store.pspublishing.co.uk\/acatalog\/The_Company_He_Keeps_JHC.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, I went to see the film Invictus<\/i>, which has the two South African leads played by American actors Matt Damon<\/i> and Morgan Freeman<\/i> - both excellent actors, especially Freeman<\/i> - but South Africa has great actors too. I would have loved to see John Kani<\/i> play Madiba(Mandela)<\/i>. For an inspiring article by Kani, read Will the real South African man please stand up<\/i>: http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/sundaytimes\/article230504.ece<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I am not sure when I will next update this blog as my chronic health problems are being extensively evaluated over the next month or so, but I hope to return soon. In the meantime, may your paths be fruitful, healthy and happy!<\/p>\n

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Nick Wood - May/June 2010<\/p\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lauren Beukes' Zoo City has been released and a glorious follow-up to Moxyland it is too! For my money it's an even stronger, more focused and powerful book. It has a great premise involving both a blurred integration of science and traditional African beliefs, as well as a fantastical and metaphorical link between human and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010blogs","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}