{"id":5125,"date":"2013-02-07T16:23:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T21:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2013-02-07T16:23:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T21:23:17","slug":"writers-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5125","title":{"rendered":"Ray Bradbury on Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6012\/the-art-of-fiction-no-203-ray-bradbury\">In The Paris Review, Ray Bradbury expounds:<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I\u2019m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn\u2019t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[M]ainstream [fiction] hasn\u2019t been paying attention to all the changes in our culture during the last fifty years. The major ideas of our time\u2014developments in medicine, the importance of space exploration to advance our species\u2014have been neglected. The critics are generally wrong, or they\u2019re fifteen, twenty years late. It\u2019s a great shame. They miss out on a lot. Why the fiction of ideas should be so neglected is beyond me. I can\u2019t explain it, except in terms of intellectual snobbery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Take <i>Fahrenheit 451<\/i>. You\u2019re dealing with book burning, a very serious subject. You\u2019ve got to be careful you don\u2019t start lecturing people. So you put your story a few years into the future and you invent a fireman who has been burning books instead of putting out fires\u2014which is a grand idea in itself\u2014and you start him on the adventure of discovering that maybe books shouldn\u2019t be burned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Paris Review, Ray Bradbury expounds: Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I\u2019m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn\u2019t exist yet, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5125\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ray Bradbury on Science Fiction<\/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":[2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-writing"],"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\/5125","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=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}