I've been meaning to blog about this for nearly two weeks now. Time flies.<\/p>\n
The absolute high point of WorldCon for me was the Hugo ceremony. This was not just because I got to sit with the cool kids, and not just because people I know and like won well-deserved awards, and not just because it was probably the shortest Hugo ceremony on record, and not just because I got to chat with various nifty people beforehand and afterward.<\/p>\n
No, all those things were great, but the very best part was Kim Newman and Paul McAuley's emcee speech<\/a>. Which I had hoped to post about first thing and scoop everyone, but I was too slow, and by now it's old news.<\/p>\n Anyway, I adored it. Brilliantly written, hilariously funny, excellently delivered. I would post excerpts\/quotes from it, but (a) I would want to quote the whole thing, and (b) I think this is a case where it really is better if you don't know what to expect.<\/p>\n It reminded me a fair bit of David M's \"Irrational Histories<\/a>\" in its marvelously executed dream-logic and refreshing disregard for the usual bugaboos of \"causality.\" Between this, the Irrational Histories, and Ben's \"Biographical Notes . . .<\/a>\" (and perhaps, in a way, David's \"Planet of the Amazon Women<\/a>\"), I feel like we're witnessing the florescence of a particular sub-subgenre, a playful kind of self-referential alternate history that fits my head perfectly.<\/p>\n Vive le fiction scientifique!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been meaning to blog about this for nearly two weeks now. Time flies. The absolute high point of WorldCon…<\/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-3067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067","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=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}