{"id":1274,"date":"2022-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T20:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2025-05-03T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T05:21:07","slug":"years-best-aotearoa-new-zealand-science-fiction-and-fantasy-volume-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/03\/18\/years-best-aotearoa-new-zealand-science-fiction-and-fantasy-volume-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Year&#8217;s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Marie Hodgkinson (Ed)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Paper Road Press<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, March 18th 2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">2020 was a challenging year, and its tortuous nature is perfectly captured in the whirlpool in Rebekah Tisch\u2019s beautiful painting that graces the cover of this anthology. It was, however, a productive time for the imagination, as its contents prove. These stories represent a broad cross-section of NZ speculative fiction ranging from dystopian cli-fi to fable, and several that defy ready classification, including AJ Fitzwater\u2019s blood-soaked recipe for building unicorns and \u2018How to Get a Girlfriend (When You\u2019re a Terrifying Monster)\u2019, a delightful inter-dimensional adventure\/romance reminiscent of Lily Inglegheart\u2019s creations in <em>Sex Education<\/em> without the explicit content. A number also have a distinctly local flavour, such as Anna Kirtlan\u2019s homage to the Wellington wind, T Te Tau\u2019s \u2018K\u014dhuia, which intertwines a vision of genetic engineering informed by m\u0101tauranga M\u0101ori with involuntary time travel, and my favourite, \u2018The Moamancer,\u2019 which posits the survival of Moa in the Manawat\u016b gorge courtesy of the protective spells of generations of musical magicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Some of the stories are more accessible than others, but the diversity of offerings ensures that there will be something here for readers of most persuasions, and for those unfamiliar with our homegrown talent, it provides a good starting point for future reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marie Hodgkinson (Ed) Paper Road Press Otago Daily Times, March 18th 2022 2020 was a challenging year, and its tortuous nature is perfectly captured in the whirlpool in Rebekah Tisch\u2019s beautiful painting that graces the cover of this anthology. It was, however, a productive time for the imagination, as its contents prove. These stories represent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[349,370,500,18,375,407],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-anthology","tag-fiction","tag-nz-author","tag-odt","tag-short-story","tag-speculative-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}