{"id":5190,"date":"2011-09-08T17:30:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T22:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=5190"},"modified":"2011-09-08T17:35:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T22:35:06","slug":"small-bricks-but-bricks-all-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=5190","title":{"rendered":"Small Bricks, but Bricks All the Same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/catsax.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-856\" title=\"catsax\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/catsax.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a>My dreams of space exploration never wane, no matter how dismal its prospects look. So I&#8217;ll be one of the hopeless (hopeful?) romantics giving presentations at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.100yss.org\/\">100-Year Starship Symposium<\/a>, organized by DARPA (in Orlando&#8230; at least it&#8217;s not Las Vegas).<\/p>\n<p>On other fronts, I moderated and participated in a discussion of Lavie Tidhar&#8217;s new novel, <em>Osama<\/em>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2011\/09\/roundtable-discussion-lavie-tidhars-osama\/\">just went live<\/a> on SF Signal. And Rose Lemberg will include my two <em>Bull Spec <\/em>poems<em> (Spacetime Geodesics<\/em> and <em>Night Patrol)<\/em> in her anthology of feminist speculative poetry, <em>The Moment of Change<\/em> from Aqueduct Press.<\/p>\n<p>Now if only my neuroblastoma lines would behave&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alispagnola.com\/blog\/archives\/143\"><em>Cool Cat<\/em><\/a> is by Ali Spagnola<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dreams of space exploration never wane, no matter how dismal its prospects look. So I&#8217;ll be one of the hopeless (hopeful?) romantics giving presentations at the 100-Year Starship Symposium, organized by DARPA (in Orlando&#8230; at least it&#8217;s not Las Vegas). On other fronts, I moderated and participated in a discussion of Lavie Tidhar&#8217;s new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-exploration","category-writing-and-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190","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=5190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}