{"id":492,"date":"2012-03-22T04:46:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T04:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=492"},"modified":"2012-03-22T04:46:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T04:46:01","slug":"nick-wood-mayjune-2011-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"Nick Wood &#8211; May\/June 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have updated the <a href=\"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?page_id=530\"><i>SF in SA<\/i><\/a> articles with number <a href=\"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=610\"><b>12<\/b><\/a>, a brief appreciation of <b>Lauren Beukes\u2019s<\/b> <i>Zoo City<\/i>, which has deservedly won the British <b>Arthur C. Clarke<\/b> Award, in my view the UK&#39;s premier science fiction award. This appreciation was initially published in the magazine <i>Locus Online<\/i> recently, in <b>Jeff VanDerMeer&#39;s<\/b> annual international compilation, which also included <b>Sarah Lotz&#39;s<\/b> recommendation for <b>Adeline Radloff&#39;s<\/b> YA novel <i>Sidekick<\/i>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/Reviews\/2011\/04\/an-overview-of-international-science-fiction-and-fantasy-2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/Reviews\/2011\/04\/an-overview-of-international-science-fiction-and-fantasy-2010\/<\/a>. Big congratulations go out to <b>Lauren<\/b> for winning the <b>Clarke<\/b>&#33; Also of note, is Capetonian <b>Andrew Salomon&#39;s<\/b> short-listing for the <b>Terry Pratchett<\/b> Prize for his novel <i>Lun<\/i>. Best of luck to <b>Andrew<\/b>, with the winner due to be announced the end of May&#33;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nick Wood&nbsp;&#45;&nbsp;May&nbsp;&#45;&nbsp;June 2011<\/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>I have updated the SF in SA articles with number 12, a brief appreciation of Lauren Beukes\u2019s Zoo City, which has deservedly won the British Arthur C. Clarke Award, in my view the UK&#39;s premier science fiction award. This appreciation was initially published in the magazine Locus Online recently, in Jeff VanDerMeer&#39;s annual international compilation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011blogs","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","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=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}