{"id":2094,"date":"2010-04-26T01:06:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T06:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2019-12-15T15:46:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T20:46:21","slug":"the-futures-so-bright-i-gotta-wear-shades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=2094","title":{"rendered":"The Future&#8217;s so Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/shine_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2104\" title=\"shine_cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/shine_cover-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/shine_cover-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/shine_cover.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/a>As of last Friday, I&#8217;m an affiliate member of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.\u00a0 I want to thank Mary Robinette Kowal for her lightspeed approval of my application and her warm welcome; and the three friends who supported my application: Jack McDevitt, Laura Mixon and Gerry Nordley.<\/p>\n<p>To further brighten this happy occasion, SF Signal is hosting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2010\/04\/guest_review_athena_andreadis_reviews_shine_an_anthology_of_near-future_optimistic_science_fiction_edited_by_jetse_de_vries\/\">my review of <em>Shine<\/em><\/a>, an anthology of optimistic near-future SF edited by author\/editor Jetse de Vries.\u00a0 Readers of this blog have heard me complain about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipreckless.com\/blog\/?p=1169\">inclination of contemporary SF to whiny broodiness<\/a>.\u00a0 <em>Shine<\/em> is an antidote to that: a worthwhile experiment that deserves to have readers and successors.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; <em>io9<\/em> approached the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossedgenres.com\/simf\/\"><em>Science in My Fiction<\/em><\/a> blog founders, asking if they can reprint posts of potential interest to their readers.\u00a0 For their first &#8220;reprint&#8221;, they chose <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5526680\/well-only-find-extraterrestrial-life-if-we-know-what-were-looking-for\"><em>You Only Find What You&#8217;re Looking For<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Today <em>io9<\/em>, tomorrow the galaxy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of last Friday, I&#8217;m an affiliate member of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.\u00a0 I want to thank Mary Robinette Kowal for her lightspeed approval of my application and her warm welcome; and the three friends who supported my application: Jack McDevitt, Laura Mixon and Gerry Nordley. To further brighten this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-writing-and-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","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=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}