{"id":1742,"date":"2010-03-03T13:15:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T18:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2019-12-15T15:38:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T20:38:49","slug":"i-like-a-little-science-in-my-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Like a Little Science in My Fiction&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/SiMF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1751\" title=\"SiMF\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/SiMF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>Some people walk on water \/\/<br \/>\nSome just keep falling down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; from <em>Ramon<\/em>, by Laurie Anderson<\/p>\n<p>Whenever the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipreckless.com\/blog\/?p=1169\">imminent death of SF<\/a> from lack of scientific knowledge and\/or mindset comes up, some people <a href=\"http:\/\/markcnewton.com\/2009\/12\/08\/why-sf-is-dying-the-follow-up-post-in-which-the-author-defends-himself\/\">wring hands and point fingers<\/a> at YA fantasy or the &#8220;feminization&#8221; of the domain, some spring to action:\u00a0 Kay Holt and Bart Leib, the founders\/editors of <a href=\"http:\/\/crossedgenres.com\/\">Crossed Genres<\/a>, just launched a blog titled <a href=\"http:\/\/crossedgenres.com\/simf\/\">Science in My Fiction<\/a>.\u00a0 As Kay says, both in words and in the playful image she created to celebrate the launch (right):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The purpose of the <strong>Science in My Fiction<\/strong> blog is to get science fiction and fantasy writers and fans thinking ahead of science again. Playful bloggers will take a look at recent scientific developments and extrapolate potential futures from them. \/\/ This is a fight for survival of the fiction. It\u2019s time to seize culture and do science to it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Visitors to Astrogator&#8217;s Logs will recognize<a href=\"http:\/\/crossedgenres.com\/simf\/contributors\/\"> some SiMF contributors<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com\/\">Peggy Kolm<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sci.sdsu.edu\/johnson\/\">Calvin Johnson<\/a>, and yours truly.\u00a0 The first post is <a href=\"http:\/\/crossedgenres.com\/simf\/2010\/02\/28\/extrapolative-fiction-for-sapient-earthlings\/\">Extrapolative Fiction for Sapient Earthlings<\/a> by Kay Holt.\u00a0 Posts will initially appear twice weekly and may increase to thrice weekly once the contributors find their rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>Go take a look!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people walk on water \/\/ Some just keep falling down. &#8212; from Ramon, by Laurie Anderson Whenever the imminent death of SF from lack of scientific knowledge and\/or mindset comes up, some people wring hands and point fingers at YA fantasy or the &#8220;feminization&#8221; of the domain, some spring to action:\u00a0 Kay Holt and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,10,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology-and-culture","category-uncategorized","category-science","category-science-fiction","category-writing-and-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}