{"id":930,"date":"2003-02-28T10:11:35","date_gmt":"2003-02-28T18:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/02\/28\/930.html"},"modified":"2003-02-28T10:11:35","modified_gmt":"2003-02-28T18:11:35","slug":"brin-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/02\/28\/brin-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Brin stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I keep running into various interesting things by and about David Brin online lately:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An author writes in her LiveJournal about a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/talkread.bml?journal=papersky&itemid=35050\">run-in at a convention<\/a>.  (If you know who this author is, please don't use her last name publicly in connection with her journal; yes, it's easy to figure out who she is if you want to, but for good and sufficient reasons having nothing to do with that particular incident, she doesn't want her full name to be directly connected (on any publicly accessible web page) to her journal.)<\/li>\n<li>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiptree.org\/1993\/long.html\">Tiptree Long List from '93<\/a>, Le&nbsp;Guin has a long comment about Brin's <cite>Glory Season.<\/cite>  An interviewer from <cite>Holland SF<\/cite> asked Nicola Griffith to comment on that book in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicolagriffith.com\/holland.html\">an interview<\/a> (which, unsurprisingly given the subject matter of <cite>Glory Season<\/cite> and <cite>Ammonite,<\/cite> also has some interesting general comments from Nicola on one of my pet subjects of late, single-sex societies).  The interviewer in that interview referred to a 1994 <a href=\"http:\/\/sf.www.lysator.liu.se\/sf_archive\/sf-texts\/authors\/B\/Brin,David.mbox\">interview with Brin<\/a>, also conducted by <cite>Holland SF,<\/cite> in which Brin talks more about the Tiptree and makes snide remarks about Suzy Charnas's books.<\/li>\n<li>An interesting piece by Brin on <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.salon.com\/ent\/movies\/feature\/1999\/06\/15\/brin_side\/index.html\">The Phantom Menace<\/a>,<\/cite> published in <cite>Salon<\/cite> in 1999.  Apparently it's a sidebar to another article of his about <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.salon.com\/ent\/movies\/feature\/1999\/06\/15\/brin_main\/index.html\">Lucas and morality and elitism<\/a> in the <cite>Star Wars<\/cite> movies.  (Some stuff about <cite>Trek<\/cite> there that I don't really buy.   Klingons are the \"only male heroes who are allowed any testosterone\"?  What about Kirk, Riker, and (later) Archer?)  Since I was just on a Space Opera panel last weekend, it occurred to me while reading this that the flip side of the Space Opera idea that one person can make a difference is that <em>only<\/em> one person (or at least only one of a small set of people) can ever make a difference.  The masses don't have much they can do aside from lending succor to the hero or heroine.<\/li>\n<li>Brin apparently wrote both the introduction and a story in a 1992 anthology called <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/index\/t213.html#A23815\">Abortion Stories: Fiction on Fire<\/a>,<\/cite> edited by Rick Lawler.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, enough.  Off to work I go.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep running into various interesting things by and about David Brin online lately: An author writes in her LiveJournal&#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-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","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=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}