{"id":6284,"date":"2019-04-23T19:28:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2019-04-23T19:28:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:28:41","slug":"sff-writer-elizabeth-bear-set-to-visit-fantasy-faire-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6284","title":{"rendered":"SFF Writer Elizabeth Bear Set To Visit Fantasy Faire Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"670\" data-attachment-id=\"6280\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?attachment_id=6280\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sl.governormarley.com\/slpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ff19_bear_poster.jpg?fit=474%2C670&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"474,670\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ff19_bear_poster\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sl.governormarley.com\/slpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ff19_bear_poster.jpg?fit=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sl.governormarley.com\/slpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ff19_bear_poster.jpg?fit=474%2C670&amp;ssl=1\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sl.governormarley.com\/slpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ff19_bear_poster.jpg?resize=474%2C670\" alt=\"An image should be here\" class=\"wp-image-6280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sl.governormarley.com\/slpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ff19_bear_poster.jpg?w=474&amp;ssl=1 474w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sl.governormarley.com\/slpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ff19_bear_poster.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Science Fiction and Fantasy writer,<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" Elizabeth Bear (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elizabethbear.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Elizabeth Bear<\/a>, is this year&#8217;s LitFest guest of honour at Fantasy Faire 2019 and Elizabeth is set to visit Second Life today, April 23rd, at 2:00pm SLT to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"partake in an interview (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/fantasyfairesl.wordpress.com\/elizabeth-bear-at-litfest\/\" target=\"_blank\">partake in an interview<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first of two scheduled visits to Second Life by Elizabeth Bear, the second is scheduled for  Friday, April 26th at 2:00pm SLT when Elizabeth is scheduled to read from her works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"Trollhaugen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/40703819513\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/40703819513_a9ede57a3f.jpg?resize=500%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Trollhaugen\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interview is scheduled to take place in Trollmouth, in the Trollhaugen region, if you haven&#8217;t had time to visit Trollhaugen then I strongly urge you to do so because it has some spectacular sights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"Troll of Rock\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/40703822433\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/40703822433_15df62c61e.jpg?resize=500%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Troll of Rock\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth Bear shares a  birthday with Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, but the word on the street is that her birthday parties aren&#8217;t quite as spectacular as Bilbo&#8217;s eleventy first. More importantly, Elizabeth is a Hugo, Sturgeon, Locus, and Campbell Award winning author of many novels and even more short stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth&#8217;s work includes <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ancestral Night (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ancestral-Night-White-Space-Elizabeth\/dp\/1534402985\" target=\"_blank\">Ancestral Night<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Red-Stained Wings (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Red-Stained-Wings-Lotus-Kingdoms-Book\/dp\/0765380153\" target=\"_blank\">The Red-Stained Wings<\/a> , but that&#8217;s not even close to covering the diverse range of novels and stories Elizabeth has produced, back in 2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2015\/11\/06\/where-to-start-with-the-work-of-elizabeth-bear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Liz Bourke over at Tor.Com wrote of Elizabeth Bear (opens in a new tab)\">Liz Bourke over at Tor.Com wrote of Elizabeth Bear<\/a> :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;She\u2019s not just a prolific writer. She\u2019s a writer who jumps subgenres, and sometimes styles, from book to book and series to series, and absolutely in her short fiction. She\u2019s always trying something new.<br><\/p><p>So where should you start?<br><\/p><p>That depends on what you\u2019re looking for. SF, fantasy, epic fantasy, steampunk, spies? What floats your boat?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in hearing Elizabeth speak, pop along to Trollhaugen today at 2:00pm SLT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SLURL : <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/FF%20Trollhaugen\/150\/115\/136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/FF%20Trollhaugen\/150\/115\/136 (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/FF%20Trollhaugen\/150\/115\/136<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Fiction and Fantasy writer, Elizabeth Bear, is this year&#8217;s LitFest guest of honour at Fantasy Faire 2019 and Elizabeth is set to visit Second Life today, April 23rd, at 2:00pm SLT to partake in an interview. This is the first of two scheduled visits to Second Life by Elizabeth Bear, the second is scheduled &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6284\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SFF Writer Elizabeth Bear Set To Visit Fantasy Faire Today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[159,375,130,3,14],"tags":[131,1204,19,1022],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rJUK-1Dm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6286,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions\/6286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}