{"id":1522,"date":"2003-10-23T00:02:31","date_gmt":"2003-10-23T07:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/10\/23\/1522.html"},"modified":"2003-10-23T00:02:31","modified_gmt":"2003-10-23T07:02:31","slug":"sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/10\/23\/sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A great deal of what I know about writing and criticism, particularly regarding speculative fiction, I learned from reading Delany, particularly <cite>The Jewel-Hinged Jaw.<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>But one of the things I learned from Delany (from the intro to <cite>The Motion of Light in Water,<\/cite> I think) is how fallible memory is.<\/p>\n<p>So let me try that again:<\/p>\n<p>A great deal of what I think I know about writing and criticism, particularly regarding sf, I \"learned\" from misunderstanding and\/or misremembering Delany.<\/p>\n<p>Some day I really ought to sit down and re-read <cite>The Jewel-Hinged Jaw<\/cite> in its entirety and find out what Delany really says in it.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend reading the book (if you can find a copy; my copy remains the only one I've ever seen) even if my memory of what it says is flawed; it contains a lot of stuff Delany wrote in (I think) his late 20s and early to mid-30s, when he was feeling his way to critical stances and to his own ideas about this sf stuff.  It seems to me that the late '60s and early to mid-'70s were in general a fertile period for developing new ideas about sf; I've read a fair bit of thoughtful nonfiction written by sf writers during that time.  But Delany's stuff in this book is particularly interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Or at least, that's how I remember it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great deal of what I know about writing and criticism, particularly regarding speculative fiction, I learned from reading Delany,&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","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=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}