{"id":11798,"date":"2009-01-14T21:32:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T05:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/01\/14\/11798.html"},"modified":"2009-01-14T21:32:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T05:32:40","slug":"this-weeks-sh-fiction-greeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/01\/14\/this-weeks-sh-fiction-greeting\/","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s SH fiction: &#8220;Greetings from Kampala&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've been meaning for maybe a year now to start posting a link from my blog to each week's fiction at <cite>Strange Horizons<\/cite>, but somehow I never remember.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure I'll manage to keep doing it regularly, but I'll at least start:<\/p>\n<p>This week's story is \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2009\/20090112\/kampala-f.shtml\">Greetings from Kampala<\/a>,\" by Angela Ambroz. Hindustani and Chinese forces are having an interstellar war; the protagonist, a soldier of African descent who's suffering from PTSD, is stuck on a cargo ship with hundreds of refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Pull quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It was dangerous on such an epic level of dangerous that Ghada was awestruck by the captain's lethal levels of stupidity. If you went down the wrong Drop, the space-time anomalies could rip you apart.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I've never liked it when editors introduce a story by describing it, which is why we've always done pull quotes instead of descriptions on the <cite>SH<\/cite> table-of-contents page. But here in my blog, when I remember to mention the stories, I may give some brief info about them in addition to the pull quote, to try to give y'all an extra little inducement to click over to the site. I will, of course, endeavor to avoid spoilers.<\/p>\n<p>Other <cite>SH<\/cite> material this week includes:<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Green on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2009\/20090112\/green-a.shtml\">Tolkien-themed heavy metal<\/a>; a Bruce Boston &amp; Marge Simon \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2009\/20090112\/boston-p.shtml\">Time Traveler<\/a>\" poem; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/reviews\/\">reviews<\/a> of Lucius Shepard, <cite>The Spirit<\/cite>, and (coming Friday) Glen Cook.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning for maybe a year now to start posting a link from my blog to each week&#8217;s fiction&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange-horizons"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}