{"id":27132,"date":"2014-10-26T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=27132"},"modified":"2014-10-26T09:36:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T20:36:07","slug":"looking-back-looking-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/10\/26\/looking-back-looking-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back: Looking Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/just-arrived-miserere-an-autumn-tale-by-teresa-frohock\/misererefinalcover\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18195\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-18195 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MiserereFinalCover-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"MiserereFinalCover\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MiserereFinalCover-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MiserereFinalCover-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MiserereFinalCover.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>Looking back,<\/strong> this week I had another look at some great heroines of SFF I&#8217;ve encountered over the past three years, with <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/10\/20\/more-great-heroines-of-sff-part-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">More Great Heroines Part 1<\/a> on Monday, and <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/10\/23\/more-great-heroines-of-sff-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">More Great Heroines Part 2<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/06\/23\/two-recent-reads-ive-enjoyed-heartland-by-michelle-leggott-mortal-fire-by-elizabeth-knox\/mortal-fire\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26072\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-26072\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mortal-Fire-96x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mortal Fire\" width=\"96\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mortal-Fire-96x150.jpg 96w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mortal-Fire-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mortal-Fire.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a>In addition to my 10, commenters also suggested:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Persimmon Gaunt<\/strong> in Chris Willrich&#8217;s <strong>Scroll Of Years<\/strong> series (Genre: Sword &amp; Sorcery)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Breq<\/strong> in Ann Leckie&#8217;s <strong><em>Ancillary Justice<\/em><\/strong> &amp; <em><strong>Ancillary Sword<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(Genre: Science Fiction)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Zuleika<\/strong> in Mike, Linda &amp; Louise Carey &amp; Nimit Malavia\u2019s <em><strong>The Steel Seraglio<\/strong><\/em> (Genre: Fantasy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Drozde<\/strong>\u00a0 in Mike, Linda &amp; Louise Carey&#8217;s <strong><em>The House of War and Witness<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 (Genre: Fantasy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Isyllt Iskaldur<\/strong> of Amanda Downum\u2019s <strong>Necromancer Chronicles<\/strong> series (Genre: Fantasy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Samarkar-la<\/strong> in Elizabeth Bear\u2019s <strong>Eternal Sky<\/strong> series (Genre: Epic Fantasy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A nice list to be going on with, but I am happy to hear more suggestions if you want to keep &#8217;em coming. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/is-malian-of-night-a-streetwise-heroine\/lowe-erbin-der-nacht-5-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24298\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-24298 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Lowe-Erbin-der-Nacht-5-94x150.jpg\" alt=\"German cover\" width=\"94\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Lowe-Erbin-der-Nacht-5-94x150.jpg 94w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Lowe-Erbin-der-Nacht-5-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Lowe-Erbin-der-Nacht-5.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 94px) 100vw, 94px\" \/><\/a>As for my own heroines, it was put to me on Twitter that I needed to include Malian, Rue, et al on my great heroines list. But I guess I was thinking more of books I&#8217;d read by other writers&#8212;especially as, <strong>looking a little further back<\/strong>, I did take a look at my own heroines fairly recently:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/09\/15\/i-celebrate-nz-womens-suffrage-by-celebrating-my-women-characters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Celebrating My Women Characters: The Heir Of Night<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/i-celebrate-nz-womens-suffrage-by-celebrating-my-women-characters-part-2-thornspell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Celebrating My Women Characters: Thornspell<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/09\/18\/celebrating-women-characters-the-gathering-of-the-lost\/\" target=\"_blank\">Celebrating My Women Characters: The Gathering Of The Lost <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/09\/21\/celebrating-women-characters-an-easter-egg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Celebrating My Women Characters: Yorindesarinen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And yes, I shall have a similar look at the heroes too, by&#8217;n&#8217;by, but am in heroines mode right now&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<h3>Looking Ahead: A Guest Post From Ashley Capes, Plus More&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/05\/28\/i-am-interviewed-by-ashley-capes-on-city-of-masks\/ash_capes\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25777 \" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Ash_Capes.jpeg\" alt=\"Ash_Capes\" width=\"94\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a>Coming up on Thursday this week, I&#8217;m very pleased to be featuring a guest post from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofmasks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Capes<\/a>, a fellow poet and Fantasy author from Australia. Ashley has been a regular <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;&#8230;on Anything, Really&#8221;<\/a> commenter for a few years now and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofmasks.com\/blog\/helen-lowe-interview\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed me a few months back<\/a> so with his own debut novel, <strong><em>City Of Masks<\/em><\/strong>, recently published I felt it was time to return the hospitality&#8212;and give readers the opportunity to find out more.<\/p>\n<p>Also coming up this week (warning: what follows may be subject to change without notice!) I&#8217;ve been thinking a bit about what makes a SFF heroine great, about the recent blood moon and the moon in Fantasy, and also about whether &#8220;story&#8221; is greater than the sum of its constituent &#8220;craft&#8221; parts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If the posts flow on into next week then that&#8217;s all to the good, right? Righto! (Or should that be, &#8220;write on&#8221;&#8230; ;-))<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back, this week I had another look at some great heroines of SFF I&#8217;ve encountered over the past three years, with More Great Heroines Part 1 on Monday, and More Great Heroines Part 2 on Thursday. In addition to my 10, commenters also suggested: Persimmon Gaunt in Chris Willrich&#8217;s Scroll Of Years series (Genre: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epicfantasy","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27132"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27140,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27132\/revisions\/27140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}