{"id":3893,"date":"2017-04-30T14:05:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T21:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2017-04-30T14:06:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T21:06:16","slug":"the-centaur-interviewed-on-sage-and-savant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/30\/the-centaur-interviewed-on-sage-and-savant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Centaur Interviewed on Sage and Savant!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3895\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/centaur-lantern-landscape_smaller-600x463.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/centaur-lantern-landscape_smaller-600x463.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/centaur-lantern-landscape_smaller-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/centaur-lantern-landscape_smaller-768x593.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/centaur-lantern-landscape_smaller.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sageandsavant.com\/2017\/04\/05\/anthony-francis-talks-about-jeremiah-willstone\/\">interview with Sage and Savant<\/a> &#8230; me!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zHQeltS4hN\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/sageandsavant.com\/2017\/04\/05\/anthony-francis-talks-about-jeremiah-willstone\/\">Anthony Francis talks about Jeremiah Willstone<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Anthony Francis talks about Jeremiah Willstone&#8221; &#8212; Sage and Savant\" src=\"https:\/\/sageandsavant.com\/2017\/04\/05\/anthony-francis-talks-about-jeremiah-willstone\/embed\/#?secret=nBoIz4UGUH#?secret=zHQeltS4hN\" data-secret=\"zHQeltS4hN\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Q: In your story \u201cThe Fall of the Falcon\u201d the main character is female, but she has a male name, Jeremiah Willstone. Why is that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>AF: It\u2019s more than just gender bending: it\u2019s an outward sign of their society\u2019s aggressive approach to women\u2019s liberation. I wanted to tell a steampunk story about a young Victorian female soldier, but the Victorians didn\u2019t have women soldiers \u2013 we\u2019ve only recently started to allow them in our military. So I imagined a world where that wasn\u2019t just a little bit different, but comprehensively different \u2013 a world where women\u2019s liberation came a century early, and with twice as many brains working on hard problems, they were more advanced in 1908 than we are today. But I needed a way to communicate that in the story, and decided that the women in Jeremiah\u2019s family took male names to try to achieve gender equality. With her history written into her name, I now had the storytelling power to discuss that issue as much as I wanted to \u2013 or let it slide into the background until someone innocently asks the question, \u201cSo, Jeremiah is female, but has a male name. Why is that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3470\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Jeremiah-Willstone-and-TCTM-533x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Jeremiah-Willstone-and-TCTM-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Jeremiah-Willstone-and-TCTM-266x400.jpg 266w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Jeremiah-Willstone-and-TCTM.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read more, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sageandsavant.com\/2017\/04\/05\/anthony-francis-talks-about-jeremiah-willstone\/\">my interview, and also check out the podcast on Sage and Savant<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more interview with Sage and Savant &#8230; me! 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