{"id":742,"date":"2015-11-09T17:58:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T23:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2016-08-26T18:00:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T23:00:37","slug":"november-915-writing-dystopias-and-contention-in-the-sci-fi-fantasy-world-and-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/november-915-writing-dystopias-and-contention-in-the-sci-fi-fantasy-world-and-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"November 9\/15  Writing Dystopias and contention in the sci-fi fantasy world and RAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dystopia-and-post-apocalyptic3-1-638.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-743\" src=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dystopia-and-post-apocalyptic3-1-638-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"dystopia-and-post-apocalyptic3-1-638\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dystopia-and-post-apocalyptic3-1-638-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dystopia-and-post-apocalyptic3-1-638-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dystopia-and-post-apocalyptic3-1-638.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I must order the above book to see if Giles Becker has been writing his interminable dystopia\/post-apocalyptic tomes in vain for the past fourteen years. I suspect not.<\/p>\n<p>Note that <em>The Martian, <\/em>an absolutely terrific book, received no prizes or awards in the recent conventions of sci-fi\/fantasy writers. That would be the Hugo award and the Nebula award.<\/p>\n<p>Blogs where this is al being discussed, argued over and fought about are: (the best) John Wright&#8217;s blog at scifiwright.com and Voxpopuli and Madgenius.com. among others.<\/p>\n<p>Giles Becker has strongly urged me to read them nd join in. I read them but have not yet joined in.<\/p>\n<p>We have had splendid rains. Ponds are full, April&#8217;s lakes at the camp are full, creeks are running, the Sabinal River is over the dam down at the park, and so I hope and pray this seven-year drought is perhaps over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I must order the above book to see if Giles Becker has been writing his interminable dystopia\/post-apocalyptic tomes in vain for the past fourteen years. I suspect not. Note that The Martian, an absolutely terrific book, received no prizes or awards in the recent conventions of sci-fi\/fantasy writers. That would be the Hugo award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}