{"id":123,"date":"2004-10-02T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2004-10-02T16:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=123"},"modified":"2004-10-02T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2004-10-02T16:08:09","slug":"vanderviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2004\/10\/02\/vanderviews\/","title":{"rendered":"VanderViews"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff VanderMeer is currently blogging<\/a> about the books he’s reading, and he’s been posting some very interesting stuff about Al Sarrantonio’s anthology Flights<\/b>. While he and I differ in opinion on Tim Powers’ novelette from the book, we are very much of a mind about Elizabeth A Lynn’s quite amazing novelette, “The Silver Dragon”. What is most striking about the story is that Lynn manages to cover a remarkable amount of storytelling ground – introducing characters, building a world etc – while never making the story feel compressed, or shortened. Instead, she’s managed to create a wonderful example of ‘traditional’ or ‘mainstream’ fantasy. I’m also intrigued by Jeff’s Evil Monkey question, where he asks “Do writers of experimental fiction need to prove they can tell a good story before they start experimenting?” I think the answer is an unequivocal ‘yes!’. Too many writers of ‘experimental fiction’ seem to simply be displaying their inability to write a story at all, rather than playing fascinating riffs on traditional themes. It seems to me you have to learn the rules before you break them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff VanderMeer is currently blogging about the books he’s reading, and he’s been posting some very interesting stuff about Al Sarrantonio’s anthology Flights. While he and I differ in opinion on Tim Powers’ novelette from the book, we are very much of a mind about Elizabeth A Lynn’s quite amazing novelette, “The Silver Dragon”. What … Continue reading VanderViews<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imported-from-older-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}