{"id":4146,"date":"2008-02-05T12:24:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T19:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/05\/recommended-reading-week-one\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T12:24:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T19:44:14","slug":"recommended-reading-week-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4146","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Reading, Week One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey y&#8217;all,<\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d post some recommended reading as my science fiction writing class and I work our way through it. This semester I&#8217;m only assigning work that can be found online so y&#8217;all can follow along, if you like.<\/p>\n<p>This week, I assigned stories that are basal to their genres &#8212; meaning that they work within genre expectations to tell a good story.<\/p>\n<p>I think some of these stories are better than others. In this group, &#8220;Flat Diane&#8221; is the standout in my opinion, and &#8220;Two Hearts&#8221; is not really to my taste. However, all the stories are worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>Science fiction &#8212; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradleydenton.net\/sgtchipcomplete.htm\">Sergeant Chip<\/a> by Bradley Denton<\/p>\n<p>Fantasy &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterbeagle.com\/works\/shorts\/two_hearts.htm\">Two Hearts<\/a>&#8221; by Peter Beagle<\/p>\n<p>Horror &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pseudopod.org\/2007\/02\/23\/pseudopod-026-flat-diane\/\">Flat Diane<\/a>&#8221; by Daniel Abraham (audio only)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey y&#8217;all, I thought I&#8217;d post some recommended reading as my science fiction writing class and I work our way through it. This semester I&#8217;m only assigning work that can be found online so y&#8217;all can follow along, if you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4146\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}