{"id":1710,"date":"2017-12-07T10:35:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T15:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2017-12-05T15:38:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T20:38:40","slug":"recommended-read-angel-monster-man-with-props-to-sentencebender-and-nightmaremag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/12\/recommended-read-angel-monster-man-with-props-to-sentencebender-and-nightmaremag\/","title":{"rendered":"RECOMMENDED READ: &#8220;Angel, Monster, Man&#8221; (with props to @sentencebender and @nightmaremag)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever read anything quite like\u00a0this (and the audio version\u2014also free on the <i>Nightmare Magazine<\/i> website\u2014is really good).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Nominally a horror story, Sam J. Miller&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightmare-magazine.com\/fiction\/angel-monster-man\/\">Angel, Monster, Man<\/a>&#8221; is, in fact, a really interesting piece of speculative fiction.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Gets me thinking about how frequently fiction that speculates on a disenfranchised group getting power gets slotted into &#8220;horror&#8221;\u2014and once you start thinking that way, <i>all<\/i> horror starts to look like a liberation fantasy as seen through the establishment&#8217;s eyes: Is <i>Night of the Living Dead<\/i> more about zombies, or more about the terror experienced by rural whites and the patriarchy when confronted with a competent black man? Is <i>The Exorcist<\/i> about demon possession or the threat of women&#8217;s liberation (see also, <i>Carrie<\/i>)?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Is <i>Psycho<\/i> about a &#8220;psycho&#8221; or about the terrifying prospect of homosexuals no longer shackled by shame\/guilt?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever read anything quite like\u00a0this (and the audio version\u2014also free on the Nightmare Magazine website\u2014is really good).\u00a0\u00a0 Nominally a horror story, Sam J. Miller&#8217;s &#8220;Angel, Monster, Man&#8221; is, in fact, a really interesting piece of speculative fiction.\u00a0 Gets me thinking about how frequently fiction that speculates on a disenfranchised group getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/12\/recommended-read-angel-monster-man-with-props-to-sentencebender-and-nightmaremag\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RECOMMENDED READ: &#8220;Angel, Monster, Man&#8221; (with props to @sentencebender and @nightmaremag)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11,153,14],"tags":[113,26,30,53,102,25],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}