{"id":5452,"date":"2011-11-23T02:15:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T07:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=5452"},"modified":"2011-12-04T10:58:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T15:58:13","slug":"gone-away-gone-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=5452","title":{"rendered":"Gone Away, Gone Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Lessa-Robin-Wood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5475\" title=\"Lessa Robin Wood\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Lessa-Robin-Wood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Lessa-Robin-Wood.jpg 380w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Lessa-Robin-Wood-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><em>Restoree, The Ship Who Sang, Crystal Singer, Dragonflight<\/em>.\u00a0 I read them in the 70s and 80s alongside the like-minded works of Andr\u00e9 Norton.\u00a0 I knew then intuitively what I know now from reading biographies: the person who wrote these stories opened a lot of doors previously closed to women.\u00a0 Many of her works have aged badly (to say nothing of some of her views).\u00a0 But her best works were seamless fusions of SF, fantasy and romance &#8212; as it should be, as it can be.\u00a0 And her women protagonists changed worlds while getting to savor (and why not?) beautiful men.<\/p>\n<p>Fair winds, Anne Inez McCaffrey, Weyrwoman of Pern.<\/p>\n<p>Image, used with permission: Lessa, dragonrider of golden Ramoth, Weyr of Benden \u00a9 1988 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robinwood.com\/\">Robin Wood<\/a> (who created lovely portraits of many Pern characters).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restoree, The Ship Who Sang, Crystal Singer, Dragonflight.\u00a0 I read them in the 70s and 80s alongside the like-minded works of Andr\u00e9 Norton.\u00a0 I knew then intuitively what I know now from reading biographies: the person who wrote these stories opened a lot of doors previously closed to women.\u00a0 Many of her works have aged [&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-5452","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\/5452","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=5452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}