{"id":10004,"date":"2016-05-01T02:56:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T06:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=10004"},"modified":"2016-05-01T07:32:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T11:32:34","slug":"to-shape-the-dark-liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=10004","title":{"rendered":"To Shape the Dark: Liftoff!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today is the day!\u00a0 Spread the word, To Shape the Dark<\/em> is spreading its wings. Focusing on women scientists doing science not-as-usual,\u00a0the anthology is sister to The Other Half of the Sky<\/em>, which won unprecedented accolades<\/a>.\u00a0 This family of feral astrogators may eventually have a third member — keep frequencies open!<\/p>\n

The book, both print and digital, is available on all major online venues (Amazon, B&N, etc) but Candlemark combines the print version with a DRM-free bundle. More direct sales also make it likelier that we’ll break even. Relevant sites:<\/p>\n

Candlemark & Gleam direct sales<\/a>
\nReviews, interviews<\/a>
\nGoodreads<\/a><\/p>\n

Analog SF<\/em><\/a> said of To Shape the Dark<\/em>: “…these stories make the reader think<\/em>. \/\/ They challenge us to question some cherished conventions of the field… \/\/ If you like well-told, intelligent science fiction that respects the search for knowledge, you can\u2019t afford to miss this one.”<\/p>\n

As I say in the introduction, “Scientists are humanity\u2019s astrogators: they never go into the suspended animation cocoons but stay at the starship observation posts, watching the great galaxy wheels slowly turn while they attend to the hydroponics. To Shape the Dark<\/em> is part of that vigil.”<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/serenity-love.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

To Shape the Dark<\/em> cover: Eleni Tsami<\/a><\/p>\n

Music: End of “Love” theme from Joss Whedon’s Serenity<\/a><\/em> (composer, David Newman)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is the day!\u00a0 Spread the word, To Shape the Dark is spreading its wings. Focusing on women scientists doing science not-as-usual,\u00a0the anthology is sister to The Other Half of the Sky, which won unprecedented accolades.\u00a0 This family of feral astrogators may eventually have a third member — keep frequencies open! The book, both print […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,13,5,7],"tags":[40,97,45,44,96,98],"class_list":["post-10004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-science","category-science-fiction","category-space-exploration","category-writing-and-literature","tag-anthology","tag-launch","tag-science-fiction","tag-space-opera","tag-the-other-half-of-the-sky","tag-to-shape-the-dark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}