{"id":43211,"date":"2025-08-04T06:30:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43211"},"modified":"2025-08-03T17:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T05:02:55","slug":"new-on-supernatural-underground-its-7-in-the-leadership-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/08\/04\/new-on-supernatural-underground-its-7-in-the-leadership-series\/","title":{"rendered":"New On Supernatural Underground: It’s #7 in the Leadership Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, indeed — it’s August and that<\/em> means a post for Supernatural Underground<\/a>. But not just any post, I’m up to #7 — seven<\/em> dear readers! — in the Great Leaders of Speculative Fiction<\/a> series.<\/p>\n

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Great leaders in my humble opinion anyway, although I do endeavour to back my picks up with a few “terribly important thoughts” ( \ud83d\ude00 ) on wherein their greatness, and leadership chops, lie.<\/p>\n

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This month’s pick is Signe de Barbentain from the awesome (again, imho!) A Song for Arbonne<\/em><\/strong> by Guy Gavriel Kay. Now, I have<\/em> mentioned Signe here<\/a> before, but more as a soundbyte, whereas my latest SU post is taking a deep dive.<\/p>\n

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So without further ado, I give you:<\/p>\n

Signe de Barbentain: Another Great Leader of Fantasy & Science Fiction Literature<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Yes, indeed — it’s August and that means a post for Supernatural Underground. But not just any post, I’m up to #7 — seven dear readers! — in the Great Leaders of Speculative Fiction series. Great leaders in my humble opinion anyway, although I do endeavour to back my picks up with a few “terribly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43211","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=43211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43214,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43211\/revisions\/43214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}