{"id":1662,"date":"2009-07-23T15:02:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2009-07-23T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:03:56","slug":"the-new-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2009\/07\/23\/the-new-solar-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOver at Centauri Dreams, from which the above image was taken, they’re talking about missions to the outer planets<\/a>, specially to Haumea. What struck me was how different our understanding of the Solar System is from the classical image of nine planets and some rubble I grew up with. It’s not until you get it all laid out like this that you realise just how different and how much more interesting the Solar System is. So where’s all the science fiction set in it? There’s Paul McAuley’s The Quiet War<\/cite>, now in a nice new US edition<\/a>, but apart from that I can’t think of any other newish book set in our own system…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at Centauri Dreams, from which the above image was taken, they’re talking about missions to the outer planets, specially to Haumea. What struck me was how different our understanding of the Solar System is from the classical image of nine planets and some rubble I grew up with. It’s not until you get it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[515,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}