{"id":866,"date":"2007-02-22T11:33:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T11:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=866"},"modified":"2007-02-22T11:33:16","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T11:33:16","slug":"the_new_space_princess_movemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/22\/the_new_space_princess_movemen\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Space Princess Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I normally reject the idea of literary manifestos as pretentious ego self-stroking (on the part of whomever writes the manifesto) that treads on my anti-authoritarian &#8220;do whatever the hell I like&#8221; nature, but <a href=\"http:\/\/johncwright.livejournal.com\/76001.html\">here<\/a> is one I can get behind wholeheartedly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sff.net\/people\/john-c-wright\/\">John C. Wright<\/a>&#8216;s NEW SPACE PRINCESS MOVEMENT:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The literary movement will follow two basic principles: first, science fiction stories should have space-princesses in them who are absurdly good looking. Second, the space princesses must be half-clad (if you are a pessimist. The optimist sees the space princess as half-naked). Third, dinosaurs are also way cool, as are ninjas. Dinosaur ninjas are best of all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The second thing to remember: bare midriffs. This is what science fiction is actually all about. Let no one tell you differently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, yeah. That&#8217;s the stuff, baby. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/whatever\/004891.html\">Scalzi<\/a> for cluing me onto this.<\/p>\n<p>In a somewhat-related note, I&#8217;ve just learned from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/004814.html\">SF Signal<\/a> that you can get science fiction and fantasy stories from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freesfonline.de\/\">this site<\/a> &#8212; for FREE! Just in case you really don&#8217;t feel like working today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I normally reject the idea of literary manifestos as pretentious ego self-stroking (on the part of whomever writes the manifesto) that treads on my anti-authoritarian &#8220;do whatever the hell I like&#8221; nature, but here is one I can get behind wholeheartedly, John C. Wright&#8216;s NEW SPACE PRINCESS MOVEMENT: The literary movement will follow two basic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bookshelf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}