{"id":1618,"date":"2007-07-25T21:11:35","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T21:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/25\/for-loud-values-of-quiet-anywa\/"},"modified":"2007-07-25T21:11:35","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T21:11:35","slug":"for-loud-values-of-quiet-anywa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/25\/for-loud-values-of-quiet-anywa\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;For Loud Values of &#8220;Quiet,&#8221; Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Live Granades has a survey of current SF, done in the form of a <a href=\"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/07\/25\/sff-authors-as-hs-students\/\">school walk-through with new principal Michael Capobianco<\/a> (who won the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/presidential_politics.php\">SFWA election<\/a> discussed earlier this year). It&#8217;s pretty amusing if you know the authors involved, but one bit made me just about spit my drink at the monitor:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Of course. I&#8217;d be happy to discuss the students&#8217; groupings with you. Let&#8217;s start with the fellows in the camouflage. They&#8217;re very interested in military science fiction. It&#8217;s all guns and dropships and the like with them. The student who&#8217;s holding forth very loudly is John Ringo, and that&#8217;s David Weber next to him. The quieter fellow holding the Bob Heinlein mask is John Scalzi. He&#8217;s one of our newer students. I&#8217;m not sure he&#8217;s going to stay at that table, to be honest. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/whatever\/\">Scalzi<\/a> is one of the quiet ones? There&#8217;s a scary thought&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobiasbuckell.com\/2007\/07\/25\/sff-authors-considered-as-high-school-students\/\">Tobias Buckell<\/a>, who will apparently be doing an appearance at a <a href=\"http:\/\/fof.net\/index.html\">local SF store<\/a> in late August. Unfortunately, Kate and I will be in Japan at the time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Granades has a survey of current SF, done in the form of a school walk-through with new principal Michael Capobianco (who won the SFWA election discussed earlier this year). It&#8217;s pretty amusing if you know the authors involved, but one bit made me just about spit my drink at the monitor: Of course. I&#8217;d&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/25\/for-loud-values-of-quiet-anywa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230;For Loud Values of &#8220;Quiet,&#8221; Anyway<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sf","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}