{"id":9649,"date":"2011-11-10T06:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=9649"},"modified":"2015-03-19T21:43:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T08:43:51","slug":"you-gotta-have-character-my-minds-been-melded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/11\/10\/you-gotta-have-character-my-minds-been-melded\/","title":{"rendered":"You Gotta Have Character!&#8212;My Mind&#8217;s Been Melded!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday I <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/whats-happening\/\">posted<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I\u2019m very pleased to have been asked to participate in an <a href=\"http:\/\/sfsignal.com\/\"><strong>SF Signal<\/strong><\/a> Mind Meld on the subject of the advantages of character, as opposed to technology\/sense of wonder driven stories in SciFi.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am now even more pleased to tell you that my mind has been duly melded and the post is now live on SF Signal under the title <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2011\/11\/mind-meld-you-gotta-have-character-character-driven-science-fiction-stories-with-plenty-of-sense-of-wonder\/\">You Gotta Have Character<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, addressing:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;What are the advantages of character driven science fiction stories over stories that emphasize technology and sense of wonder? Can you provide some examples of stories that deliver both in a satisfying way?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OK&#8211;so you want to know whose minds I&#8217;ve been melded to? Well here, in the order we appear in the post, are the Melders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lydamorehouse.com\/\"><strong>Lyda Morehouse<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegalaxyexpress.net\/\">Heather Massey<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Helen Lowe<\/strong> (That&#8217;s me, folks! Oh, you knew that already&#8212;oh well, never mind!)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/niurarebooks.blogspot.com\/\">Lynne Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sff.net\/people\/judith-tarr\/\"><strong>Judith Tarr<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielabraham.com\/\">Daniel Abraham<\/a><\/strong> (whom you&#8217;ll recall I interviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/10\/19\/an-interview-with-daniel-abraham-author-of-the-dragons-path\/\">here<\/a> very recently.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now you&#8217;d better head on over right now and check it out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2011\/11\/mind-meld-you-gotta-have-character-character-driven-science-fiction-stories-with-plenty-of-sense-of-wonder\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday I posted that: &#8220;I\u2019m very pleased to have been asked to participate in an SF Signal Mind Meld on the subject of the advantages of character, as opposed to technology\/sense of wonder driven stories in SciFi.&#8221; I am now even more pleased to tell you that my mind has been duly melded and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-writers","category-sf-signal-guest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649","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=9649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9654,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649\/revisions\/9654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}