{"id":9485,"date":"2015-05-18T14:53:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T18:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=9485"},"modified":"2015-06-07T12:15:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T16:15:36","slug":"to-shape-the-dark-protagonist-vocations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=9485","title":{"rendered":"To Shape the Dark, Protagonist Vocations"},"content":{"rendered":"

As people know, I’ve been working on the successor of The Other Half of the Sky<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 It focuses on women scientists doing science not-as-usual<\/a> and is titled To Shape the Dark<\/em> — because that’s what scientists (should) do.<\/p>\n

I spent this past weekend doing final passes on about half the stories that will appear on the anthology.\u00a0 If things continue at this rate we’ll have a finalized TOC by the first week of June.\u00a0 Until then, here are the occupations of the stories’ protagonists, to whet people’s appetites. People took my injunction not to flood me with computer programmers and psychologists seriously!<\/p>\n

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

Molecular biologist\/virologist
\nPlant biochemists\/engineers
\nBiochemist\/magician
\nProtein chemist
\nTissue\/neural engineer
\nBrain scientist\/engineer
\nExo-botanist
\nExo-ecologist
\nCultural anthropologist
\nMaterials scientist\/architect
\nGeologist\/volcanologist
\nProto-physicist\/engineer
\nPlanetary physicist
\nQuantum physicist
\nHyperspatial mathematician and plasma smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As people know, I’ve been working on the successor of The Other Half of the Sky.\u00a0 It focuses on women scientists doing science not-as-usual and is titled To Shape the Dark — because that’s what scientists (should) do. I spent this past weekend doing final passes on about half the stories that will appear on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,13,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology-and-culture","category-science","category-science-fiction","category-space-exploration","category-writing-and-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485","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=9485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}