{"id":8344,"date":"2013-06-30T10:55:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T14:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=8344"},"modified":"2013-06-30T10:57:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T14:57:30","slug":"the-readercon-constellations-align-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=8344","title":{"rendered":"The Readercon Constellations Align Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gift<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Spending the Gift of a Second Life<\/em> — the three major characters of “The Wind Harp”, visualized as beautifully as is her wont by Heather D. Oliver<\/a>. [Click on the image to see larger version.]<\/p>\n

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Last year, the stars aligned in such a way that during Readercon I was able to announce the partnership with Kate Sullivan of Candlemark & Gleam<\/a>, who did such a tremendous job of publishing The Other Half of the Sky<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

This year, I will have a different announcement to make at Readercon, in addition to proudly displaying the anthology (which, incidentally, just received yet another glowing review<\/a>). Because of other urgent, immovable commitments, I will be doing only two events. As described in the Readercon program:<\/p>\n

Saturday, July 13, 7 pm.<\/p>\n

Women’s Bodies, Women’s Power.<\/strong> Athena Andreadis (leader), Alex Dally MacFarlane, Kate Nepveu, Vandana Singh, Sabrina Vourvoulias. <\/em> In many times and places, cisgender girls and women have been evaluated by their bodies, including their choice of dress, sexual behavior, virginity, and fertility. Juxtaposed with this are the mystification and taboos surrounding menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause. This outlook has migrated wholesale into speculative literature. It’s still standard fare in fantasy for women to lose (or be thought to lose) any extranormal powers they possess when they first have penetrative sex, menstruate, or become pregnant, from Andr\u00e9 Norton’s Witchworld adepts to Zamia in Saladin Ahmed’s Throne of the Crescent Moon<\/em>. Athena Andreadis will explore the tropes and assumptions around this issue, including variants applied to trans* and non-binary characters.<\/p>\n

Sunday, July 14, 12:30 pm.<\/p>\n

Reading: Athena Andreadis.<\/strong> Athena Andreadis. <\/em> Athena Andreadis reads excerpts from “Planetfall” and “The Wind Harp”.<\/p>\n

Which is where my announcement comes in.\u00a0 “Planetfall” was published<\/a> in Crossed Genres<\/em>, reprinted<\/a> in World SF<\/em> and Nowa Fantastyka<\/em>, and will be included in the Apex World SF 4<\/em> collection.\u00a0 And… yesterday I received news that Crossed Genres<\/a><\/em> accepted “The Wind Harp” for their issue themed “Deadlines”.\u00a0 This is my first pro rate fiction sale; because of that, the magazine will also spotlight me with an interview when the story appears (September 2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spending the Gift of a Second Life — the three major characters of “The Wind Harp”, visualized as beautifully as is her wont by Heather D. Oliver. [Click on the image to see larger version.] ————————————————————————————— Last year, the stars aligned in such a way that during Readercon I was able to announce the partnership […]<\/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-8344","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\/8344","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=8344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}