{"id":404,"date":"2007-12-06T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/12\/06\/on-science-fiction\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T19:58:00","slug":"on-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/12\/06\/on-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"On Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article in the Times of London, <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/books\/article2961480.ece\">Why don&#8217;t we love science fiction?<\/a>, by Bryan Appleyard:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the 1970s, Kingsley Amis, Arthur C Clarke and Brian Aldiss were judging a contest for the best science-fiction novel of the year. They were going to give the prize to Grimus, Salman Rushdie\u2019s first novel. At the last minute, however, the publishers withdrew the book from the award. They didn\u2019t want Grimus on the SF shelves. \u201cHad it won,\u201d Aldiss, the wry, 82-year-old godfather of British SF, observes, \u201che would have been labelled a science-fiction writer, and nobody would have heard of him again.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you like science fiction, you might want to read the whole article.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article in the Times of London, Why don&#8217;t we love science fiction?, by Bryan Appleyard: In the 1970s, Kingsley Amis, Arthur C Clarke and Brian Aldiss were judging a contest for the best science-fiction novel of the year. They &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/12\/06\/on-science-fiction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}