{"id":37645,"date":"2022-01-08T15:58:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=37645"},"modified":"2022-01-08T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T21:26:12","slug":"the-threads-in-my-tapestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=37645","title":{"rendered":"The Threads in My Tapestry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It has been too long since I wrote a blog post. 2021 was a stressful year and the difficulties persist: the continuing pandemic ordeals, the increasingly disquieting path of the US. I haven\u2019t seen my family in Athens for nearly three years now.<\/p>\n

But things got accomplished in 2021, too. Exciting highly-praised books got published; flowers flourished in porch boxes; the Copper Yeti and I managed to briefly visit the Outer Cape in early summer, when things were briefly looking hopeful; there was incremental progress in writing the launch of the Reckless, a cornerstone in my fictional universe and the name of the novella imprint of my small but intrepid press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One high note of 2021 was the interview I gave to Gareth Jelley<\/a>, the engine behind Intermultiversal. He asked informed questions and, as a result of his astute probing, I found myself plucking at all the threads that I’ve woven into my life tapestry\u2014science, writing, science fiction, myth, history, linguistics, walking across cultures & down starry lanes. If anyone wants to know what fuels my own dreams, as well as my eliciting & nurturing of the works of others, you can find all that in this interview.<\/p>\n

“They did more than wish. They wrought tirelessly to make it come true.” — Athena Andreadis, “Planetfall”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been too long since I wrote a blog post. 2021 was a stressful year and the difficulties persist: the continuing pandemic ordeals, the increasingly disquieting path of the US. I haven\u2019t seen my family in Athens for nearly three years now. But things got accomplished in 2021, too. Exciting highly-praised books got published; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,12,10,13,7],"tags":[270,130,271,269,196,216,124,45,79],"class_list":["post-37645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-biology-and-culture","category-history","category-science","category-science-fiction","category-writing-and-literature","tag-cultures","tag-history","tag-intermultiversal","tag-interview","tag-languages","tag-myths","tag-science","tag-science-fiction","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37645","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=37645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}