{"id":9896,"date":"2017-09-06T18:06:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T22:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9896"},"modified":"2017-09-06T18:06:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T22:06:14","slug":"sci-fi-and-mans-abolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9896","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi and Man&#8217;s Abolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember when I read Lewis&#8217;s <em>The Abolition of Man<\/em>, but I remember agreeing with all of it.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Edgin reviews the book&#8217;s influence on sci-fi film and literature in <a href=\"http:\/\/englewoodreview.org\/science-fiction-and-the-abolition-of-man-review\/\">the essay collection<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/englewoodreview.org\/science-fiction-and-the-abolition-of-man-review\/\">\u00a0Science Fiction and the Abolition of Man<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The backbone of much of the science fiction we love are the questions Lewis asked: What do we do when technology gives us such powers that we are no longer able to identify that which is human? Or, even worse, at what point do we begin actively denying humanity around us for our own comfort or gain?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember when I read Lewis&#8217;s The Abolition of Man, but I remember agreeing with all of it. Sam Edgin reviews the book&#8217;s influence on sci-fi film and literature in the essay collection\u00a0Science Fiction and the Abolition of Man.\u00a0 The backbone of much of the science fiction we love are the questions Lewis asked: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9896\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sci-Fi and Man&#8217;s Abolition<\/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":[432,2510],"class_list":["post-9896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-c-s-lewis","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\/9896","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=9896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}