{"id":2828,"date":"2022-02-16T15:22:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T15:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2022-02-16T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T15:22:20","slug":"why-ill-never-get-tenure-by-peter-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=2828","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u2019ll Never Get Tenure by Peter Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Why I\u2019ll Never Get Tenure<\/em><\/strong> by Peter Wood (<em>Asimov\u2019s SF<\/em>, July-August 2020) starts on the Frying Pan Tower (modelled on an oil rig), where the narrator, a physics professor called Kate Nardozi, watches as \u201chuge bursts of sand bubble up through the shallow water.\u201d When the event is over, she calls her robot Mitch and asks him how big the new atoll is: nine hundred and twelve feet.<br>After this confusing start we get information about gravity wave transmitters and \u201cquantum sparks\u201d before Kate\u2019s ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend Duke (another academic) turn up. The rest of the story sees land and sea continue to swap, and romantic and academic competition between Kate and Duke. Eventually they all land up on a ship that runs aground, and Kate finds that Duke has tampered with her gravity machine. Then the robot goes back in time to stop it all happening in the first place.<br>I know that this is supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek piece but the story\u2019s odd events are hard to follow, and it\u2019s not amusing.<br>* (Mediocre). 4,150 words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I\u2019ll Never Get Tenure by Peter Wood (Asimov\u2019s SF, July-August 2020) starts on the Frying Pan Tower (modelled on an oil rig), where the narrator, a physics professor called Kate Nardozi, watches as \u201chuge bursts of sand bubble up through the shallow water.\u201d When the event is over, she calls her robot Mitch and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[711],"tags":[21,296,4,713,712,12,457],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peter-wood","tag-21","tag-296","tag-asimovs-sf","tag-gravity-waves","tag-peter-wood","tag-short-story","tag-time-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}