{"id":30389,"date":"2015-10-30T06:30:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=30389"},"modified":"2015-10-29T17:20:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T04:20:58","slug":"fantasy-heroines-that-rock-my-world-10-on-sf-signal-sisterhood-is-powerful-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/10\/30\/fantasy-heroines-that-rock-my-world-10-on-sf-signal-sisterhood-is-powerful-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFantasy Heroines That Rock My World\u201d #10 On SF Signal &#8212; Sisterhood Is Powerful, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/04\/16\/a-list-of-my-interviews-focusing-on-nz-writers-sff\/sfsignallogov4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25218\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25218\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sfsignalLogov4-300x43.jpg\" alt=\"sfsignalLogov4\" width=\"300\" height=\"43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sfsignalLogov4-300x43.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sfsignalLogov4-150x21.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sfsignalLogov4.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>My guest series <strong>Fantasy Heroines That Rock My World<\/strong> is still going full throttle on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2015\/07\/guest-post-helen-lowe-fantasy-heroines-rock-world-bitterblue-kristin-cashores-bitterblue-graceling\/\">SF Signal<\/a> \u2014 but this time the feature focuses on not just one heroine, but a &#8220;band of sisters&#8221;: Sheera Galernas and <strong><em>The Ladies Of Mandrigyn<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/10\/30\/fantasy-heroines-that-rock-my-world-10-on-sf-signal-sisterhood-is-powerful-part-1\/ladies-of-mandrigyn\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30390\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-30390\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Ladies-of-Mandrigyn-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ladies of Mandrigyn\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Ladies-of-Mandrigyn-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Ladies-of-Mandrigyn-90x150.jpg 90w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Ladies-of-Mandrigyn.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>As I observe in the post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbarahambly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Hambly&#8217;s<\/a> novel contains so many outstanding heroines that this has to be a two-part feature.<\/p>\n<p>In introducing Part 1, I also observed that:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>&#8220;I have always felt the quintessential band of Fantasy sisters is Sheera Galernas and her fifty comrades-in-arms \u2013 The Ladies of Mandrigyn in Barbara Hambly\u2019s 1984 novel of the same name&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To find out more, click on:<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2015\/10\/helen-lowe-on-the-fantasy-heroines-that-rock-her-world-sisterhood-is-powerful-part-1-sheera-galernas-the-ladies-of-mandrigyn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Helen Lowe on the Fantasy Heroines That Rock Her World: Sisterhood Is Powerful, Part 1 \u2013 Sheera Galernas &amp; THE LADIES OF MANDRIGYN<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guest series Fantasy Heroines That Rock My World is still going full throttle on SF Signal \u2014 but this time the feature focuses on not just one heroine, but a &#8220;band of sisters&#8221;: Sheera Galernas and The Ladies Of Mandrigyn. As I observe in the post, Barbara Hambly&#8217;s novel contains so many outstanding heroines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sf-signal-guest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389","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=30389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30393,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389\/revisions\/30393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}