{"id":10957,"date":"2018-06-28T11:43:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10957"},"modified":"2018-06-28T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:43:07","slug":"a-literary-history-of-sci-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10957","title":{"rendered":"A Literary History of Sci-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jules Verne speaking of H.G. Wells: “I go to the moon in a cannonball discharged from a cannon. Here there is no invention. He goes to Mars [sic<\/em>] in an airship which he constructs of a metal which does away with the law of gravitation.\u00a0\u00c7a c\u2019est tr\u00e8s joli<\/em>\u2026. But show me this metal. Let him produce it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“In this put-down of one of the ‘Fathers of Science Fiction’ by another,” writes\u00a0Alexi Sargeant, “we see the future of the field<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Long before anyone coined the terms \u201chard sci-fi\u201d and \u201csoft sci-fi\u201d or used them as badges of pride or disparaging slurs, long before the \u201choly war\u201d between old school pulp and the \u201960s era New Wave, we have this demand from the cranky old school to the squishy new school: \u201cShow me this metal.<\/a>\u201d Wells, whose social activism permeated his fiction, would no doubt claim that Verne was rather missing the point. But what becomes clear from a survey of science fiction\u2019s history is that, if there\u2019s one thing these authors love more than cosmic wonder and terror, it\u2019s petty fights about what constitutes \u201creal\u201d science fiction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(via Prufrock News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jules Verne speaking of H.G. Wells: “I go to the moon in a cannonball discharged from a cannon. Here there is no invention. He goes to Mars [sic] in an airship which he constructs of a metal which does away with the law of gravitation.\u00a0\u00c7a c\u2019est tr\u00e8s joli\u2026. But show me this metal. Let him … Continue reading A Literary History of Sci-Fi<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_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":[7],"tags":[2510],"class_list":["post-10957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}