{"id":9050,"date":"2009-11-04T01:05:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T08:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9050"},"modified":"2009-11-04T01:05:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T08:05:38","slug":"new-fiction-the-memory-of-wind-by-rachel-swirsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9050","title":{"rendered":"New Fiction: &quot;The Memory of Wind,&quot; by Rachel Swirsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tor.com has just published &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=story&#038;id=58211\">The Memory of Wind,<\/a>&#8221; a novelette ((&#8220;The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula awards for science fiction define the novelette as having a word count of between 7,500 and 17,499, inclusive.&#8221; &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Novelette\">Wikipedia<\/a>)) by Rachel Swirsky, who also contributes to &#8220;Alas&#8221; as Mandolin.  The story is available on Tor&#8217;s site as prose, as an audio file (read by Mandolin herself), and in a number of portable-device friendly downloads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Memory of Wind&#8221; concerns Iphigenia, the daughter of King Agamemnon, who Agamemnon sacrificed to bring good winds. As you might imagine, the story has feminist themes.<\/p>\n<p>This is almost my favorite of Mandolin&#8217;s stories; it&#8217;s beautiful and searing and incredibly sad, and I&#8217;ve read it a few times. I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tor.com has just published &#8220;The Memory of Wind,&#8221; a novelette ((&#8220;The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula awards for science fiction define the novelette as having a word count of between 7,500 and 17,499, inclusive.&#8221; &#8212;Wikipedia)) by Rachel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9050\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-bloggers","category-mandolins-fiction-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}