{"id":104,"date":"2008-02-21T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=104"},"modified":"2011-07-14T05:51:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T13:51:13","slug":"ducks-squirrels-and-the-internet-review-of-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Ducks, Squirrels, and the Internet Review of Science Fiction."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many months ago now, sf \u00fcberfan Jan Stinson interviewed me for the Internet Review of Science Fiction \u2014 just before IRoSF lapsed into dormancy.  In all honesty, I kind of forgot about it in the meantime.  But the chrysalis has hatched, the new glorious <a href=\"http:\/\/irosf.com\/index.qsml\">IRoSF<\/a> is letting its new wings dry in the sun (and waiting to grow a couple of legs \u2014 the reborn site isn&#8217;t entirely functional just yet), and there, in the resurrection issue, is <a href=\"http:\/\/irosf.com\/q\/zine\/article\/10391\">Jan&#8217;s interview<\/a>.  It was conducted in those heady days between my nomination for all those awards and my failure to win any of them, so I&#8217;m uncharacteristically cheerful throughout.  I spout the usual thoughts about adaptive sociopathy, but with a smile.<\/p>\n<p>I also cite a couple of classic examples of <em>faux<\/em> altruism in nature \u2014 one involving ducks, the other ground squirrels \u2014 that I recycled in my interview with <em>Locus<\/em>.  I guess I got lazy.  (Then again, they&#8217;re good examples.)  For what it&#8217;s worth, I think Jan&#8217;s interview contains the clearer summation, since that interview was done via e-mail and I could thus take time to edit myself into eloquence.  The <em>Locus<\/em> interview was live, and I was, shall we say, less articulate \u2014 and while they gave me the opportunity to clarify myself post-hoc, the accursed BHO<sup>1<\/sup> kept me from straying <em>too<\/em> far from giddy incoherence.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, check it out.  Jan asked some pretty fresh questions (and forced me to admit that I couldn&#8217;t come up with an original title if my life depended on it), so there might even be some stuff over there you haven&#8217;t already heard from me a dozen times.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and to anyone still following the <em>On Spec<\/em> thing, Derryl Murphy \u2014 another OS alumnus \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/derrylmurphy.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/changes-and-trouble-at-on-spec-its-been.html\">weighs in<\/a> with an insider&#8217;s perspective on his own blog.  The whole thing even warranted a <a href=\"http:\/\/cancult.ca\/2008\/02\/20\/peter-watts-resigns-from-on-spec\/\">couple<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/cancult.ca\/2008\/02\/21\/why-did-i-choose-mohammed-in-a-spacesuit\/\">mentions<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/cancult.ca\/\">Cancult.ca<\/a> (I really owe that Darbyshire guy a beer or two next time I get out to the west coast&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> <span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">Baptist Honesty Override.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many months ago now, sf \u00fcberfan Jan Stinson interviewed me for the Internet Review of Science Fiction \u2014 just before IRoSF lapsed into dormancy. In all honesty, I kind of forgot about it in the meantime. But the chrysalis has hatched, the new glorious IRoSF is letting its new wings dry in the sun (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}