{"id":6822,"date":"2012-09-03T12:11:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T17:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=6822"},"modified":"2012-09-06T13:31:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T18:31:34","slug":"the-launch-of-the-first-stage-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=6822","title":{"rendered":"The Launch of the First Stage Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tsami-Fisherman-of-Ares-Vallis-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6918\" title=\"Tsami, Fisherman of Ares Vallis sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tsami-Fisherman-of-Ares-Vallis-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tsami-Fisherman-of-Ares-Vallis-sm.jpg 509w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tsami-Fisherman-of-Ares-Vallis-sm-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As many of you know, I decided to conjure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipreckless.com\/blog\/?p=6581\">an anthology of original stories<\/a> that are (broadly interpreted) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipreckless.com\/blog\/?p=5730\">mythic space opera with women protagonists<\/a>. I will be releasing the TOC of <em>The Other Half of the Sky<\/em> in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Charles Tan interviewed me for the World SF blog specifically about the anthology. This interview is a bookend to an earlier one I gave to SF Signal. The two give a lot of insight into what I wanted to achieve with this venture:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldsf.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/03\/monday-original-content-an-interview-with-athena-andreadis\/\">The World SF interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2011\/11\/exclusive_interview_athena_andreadis_ph_d\/\">The SF Signal interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keep eyes on telescopes for the next stage of the launch!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image:<\/strong> Eleni Tsami, <em>A Fisherman of Ares Vallis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, I decided to conjure an anthology of original stories that are (broadly interpreted) mythic space opera with women protagonists. I will be releasing the TOC of The Other Half of the Sky in the next few days. In the meantime, Charles Tan interviewed me for the World SF blog specifically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-science-fiction","category-space-exploration","category-writing-and-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822","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=6822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}