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<\/a>Rebecca Fisher: Sir Julius Vogel Award For “Best Fan Writing”<\/h3>\nRebecca is a Christchurch-based reader, viewer, and reviewer of speculative fiction. A graduate of the University of Canterbury, she has\u00a0 a Masters degree in English Literature — mainly, she claims, because she was able to get away with writing her thesis on C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman. Rebecca has been a reviewer for FantasyLiterature.com<\/a>, an international\u00a0 website that specializes in fantasy and science-fiction novels, as well as posting reviews to Amazon.com<\/a> where she is a Top 1000 reviewer. She has been penning the Big Worlds On Small Screens<\/a> column (on SFF film and television) here for two years now and also reviews (predominantly) SFF television on her They\u2019re All Fictional<\/a> blog—but also includes posts on topics such as “Margaret Mahy and the Precious Mundane: The Supernatural Threat.”<\/a><\/p>\n “Reading a book by Catherynne Valente<\/strong> is like Forrest Gump\u2019s box of chocolates: you never know what you\u2019re going to get. It could be glass forests with shape-shifting reindeer that used to live on the moon, or blue kangaroos that mine the underground for memories encased within precious gems, or families living in giant Samovars that serve teas called the Elephant\u2019s Fiery Heart … This is not the Fairyland of Enid Blyton<\/strong>…but the Fairyland of older, darker tales … To continue with the chocolate box analogy \u2013 it\u2019s important not to eat too many at once. Pace yourself, and savour things as they come.”<\/em><\/p>\n From FantasyLit.com<\/b>, 2015: Review of The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland<\/b><\/i> by Catherynne M Valente<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This coming Saturday, I’ll be giving the keynote address at an event to celebrate Christchurch’s Sir Julius Vogel Award finalists and winners. Today, I’d like to shine the spotlight on Award winner, Rebecca Fisher. — Rebecca Fisher: Sir Julius Vogel Award For “Best Fan Writing” Rebecca is a Christchurch-based reader, viewer, and reviewer of speculative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29294","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=29294"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29316,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29294\/revisions\/29316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Excerpt from Rebecca\u2019s Work:<\/h4>\n