{"id":2956,"date":"2009-08-11T07:39:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T11:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2009-08-11T07:39:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T11:39:21","slug":"the-wand-beats-the-laser-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2956","title":{"rendered":"The Wand Beats the Laser Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=laser&#038;iid=168712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/0165\/2f667002-ae5c-45e2-a15e-10f59faa819a.jpg?w=166\"  border=\"0\" alt=\"Futuristic man with gun\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/afterword\/archive\/2009\/08\/08\/open-book-philip-marchand-on-how-fantasy-took-over-science-fiction.aspx\">Fantasy has thrown down Science Fiction in popular literature<\/a>, in case you haven&#8217;t noticed.  It&#8217;s partly science&#8217;s fault.  Philip Marchand reports this quote: \u201cWe have reached the point where contemporary science is so far out, to most people it is indistinguishable from magic,\u201d comments well-known Canadian science fiction novelist Robert J. Sawyer. \u201cThe notion, for example, that black holes might provide not only links between space but links to time is grounded in current theoretical thinking.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/publishing.shtml\">Arts Journal<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantasy has thrown down Science Fiction in popular literature, in case you haven&#8217;t noticed. It&#8217;s partly science&#8217;s fault. Philip Marchand reports this quote: \u201cWe have reached the point where contemporary science is so far out, to most people it is indistinguishable from magic,\u201d comments well-known Canadian science fiction novelist Robert J. Sawyer. \u201cThe notion, for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2956\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Wand Beats the Laser Gun<\/span> <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":{"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":[],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-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\/2956","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=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}