{"id":240,"date":"2011-02-13T22:01:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T03:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T15:58:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T20:58:34","slug":"together-forever-at-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/together-forever-at-the-end-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Together Forever at the End of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Resnick edited two anthologies on a similar theme in 2003&#8212;<em>Women Writing Science Fiction as Men<\/em> (for which I was obviously not qualified) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Men-Writing-Science-Fiction-Women\/dp\/0756401658\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1298321861&#038;sr=1-1\"><em>Men Writing Science Fiction as Women<\/em><\/a>, which came out in November. Stories submitted to these anthologies were supposed to conform to two rules&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>First, they had to be written about a member of the opposite sex.<\/p>\n<p>Second, they had to be written in the first person.<\/p>\n<p>My story, &#8220;Together Forever at the End of the World,&#8221; is from the point of view of an emergency room doctor dragged into playing a very special role after an unlikely alien invasion. Was I able to pull off the editor&#8217;s assignment, and successfully pass myself off as a woman? That&#8217;s up for you to decide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Together Forever at the End of the World&#8221; was reprinted in my SF collection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/books\/what-we-still-talk-about\/\"><em>What We Still Talk About<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Resnick edited two anthologies on a similar theme in 2003&#8212;Women Writing Science Fiction as Men (for which I was obviously not qualified) and Men Writing Science Fiction as Women, which came out in November. Stories submitted to these anthologies were supposed to conform to two rules&#8212; First, they had to be written about a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241,"parent":13,"menu_order":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-240","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}