{"id":28978,"date":"2015-05-10T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T18:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=28978"},"modified":"2015-05-04T20:07:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T08:07:18","slug":"celebrating-nz-speculative-fiction-for-nzbookmonthmay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/05\/10\/celebrating-nz-speculative-fiction-for-nzbookmonthmay\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating NZ Speculative Fiction For #NZBookMonthMay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s my roundup of this week’s tweets celebrating NZ Speculative Fiction literature for #NZBookMonthMay:<\/p>\n

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

Monday:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keri Hulme, The Bone People<\/em><\/strong> (Magic Realism)
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"AcrossTheFaceOfTheWorld\"<\/a>Tuesday:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russell Kirkpatrick, Across the Face of the World<\/em><\/strong> (Epic Fantasy)
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Guardian\"<\/a>Wednesday:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Karen Healey, Guardian Of The Dead<\/em><\/strong> (Fantasy; YA)
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"OnceUponATimeInAotearoa\"<\/a>Thursday:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tina Makereti, Once Upon A Time In Aotearoa<\/em><\/strong> (Fantasy; Short Story collection)
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"SevenWondersCvr\"<\/a>Friday:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adam Christopher, Seven Wonders<\/em><\/strong> (Superhero Science Fiction)
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\"the_bridge_0\"<\/a>Saturday:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jane Higgins, The Bridge<\/em><\/strong> (Alternate dystopia; YA)
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"princeofsoul&lighthousecover\"<\/a>Sunday:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fredrik Broun\u00e9ous The Prince Of Soul And The Lighthouse<\/em><\/strong> (Fantasy; YA)
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shall I let you in on a\u00a0 secret? I don’t anticipate having any difficulty at all meeting my target of tweeting a book a day for the month — for the simple and very good reason that NZ authors are producing a wealth of high quality speculative fiction. Just sayin’<\/p>\n

But let’s see if I can meet my target without tweeting an author more than once, even if some, like Elizabeth Knox and Margaret Mahy, have many eligible books of merit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s my roundup of this week’s tweets celebrating NZ Speculative Fiction literature for #NZBookMonthMay: Monday: Keri Hulme, The Bone People (Magic Realism) . Tuesday: Russell Kirkpatrick, Across the Face of the World (Epic Fantasy) . Wednesday: Karen Healey, Guardian Of The Dead (Fantasy; YA) . Thursday: Tina Makereti, Once Upon A Time In Aotearoa (Fantasy; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28978","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=28978"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28984,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28978\/revisions\/28984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}