{"id":5478,"date":"2011-11-25T02:18:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T07:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2011-12-01T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T21:00:23","slug":"opining-about-sf-and-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=5478","title":{"rendered":"Opining about SF and Fantasy"},"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=\"178\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/catsax.jpg 532w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/catsax-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/charles-tan.blogspot.com\/\">Charles Tan<\/a>, the Bibliophile Stalker, interviewed me for SF Signal.\u00a0 The result<a href=\" http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2011\/11\/exclusive-interview-athena-andreadis-ph-d\/\"> just appeared<\/a> on SFS.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Do you have a preference for SF or fantasy?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I will read anything that is not a hack job; what matters is the quality of the story telling, not the mode.\u00a0 Of course, I have preferences, just as I like dark chocolate and goat cheese: I gravitate to stories that are hybrid and\/or hard to categorize; I still have a soft spot for well-written space opera (with C. J. Cherryh and C. S. Friedman at the top of that list) and particular types of alternative history fantasy (for example, Jacqueline Carey\u2019s Renaissance Europe, in which Celtic Ireland and Minoan Crete are still going strong); I tend to dislike cyberpunk, though I loved Melissa Scott; and steampunk makes me break out in hives, automata in particular \u2013 to say nothing of corsets.\u00a0 At my age and exposure, I can tell from reading the first and last page if it&#8217;s worth my while to read the whole work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ETA: Paul Gilster of Centauri Dreams caught all the echoes of the interview in his recent entry Reflections on a Mythic Voyager.\u00a0 I originally had a link to it, but removed it when his post got deluged by comments from nerdtrolls &#8220;explaining&#8221; why Paul was terribly, terribly wrong in liking the words of a dark female ethnic, no matter what objective credentials she has.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alispagnola.com\/blog\/archives\/143\"><em>Cool Cat<\/em><\/a> by Ali Spagnola<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Tan, the Bibliophile Stalker, interviewed me for SF Signal.\u00a0 The result just appeared on SFS.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an excerpt: &#8220;Do you have a preference for SF or fantasy? I will read anything that is not a hack job; what matters is the quality of the story telling, not the mode.\u00a0 Of course, I have preferences, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology-and-culture","category-science-fiction","category-writing-and-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478","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=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}