{"id":754,"date":"2009-03-26T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T20:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=754"},"modified":"2009-03-26T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T20:48:09","slug":"it%e2%80%99s-like-hard-sf-where-the-science-is-literary-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2009\/03\/26\/it%e2%80%99s-like-hard-sf-where-the-science-is-literary-history\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It\u2019s like hard SF where the science is literary history.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOn the Tor website, Jo Walton talks about one of her favourite books, A. S. Byatt&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=blog&#038;id=18266\"><cite>Possession<\/cite><\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<i>Possession<\/i> is an odd book, and I love it and re-read it frequently. It\u2019s about scholars in 1987 trying to find out some precise events that happened in the late nineteenth century and which concern the relationship between two poets. But what it\u2019s really about is the way we are what time has made of us, whether we know it or not, the way we exist in our time and place and circumstances and would be different in any other. The way it does this, the very precise way in which the theme is worked out in all the curlicues of the story, makes the experience of reading it more like reading SF than like a mainstream work.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nJo Walton was a science fiction reader and fan long before she became a published writer. What she&#8217;s doing for Tor now, back in the mid-nineties she did on <cite>rec.arts.sf.written<\/cite> and I can&#8217;t tell you how many books and writers I only discovered through them. Including <cite>Possession<\/cite>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Tor website, Jo Walton talks about one of her favourite books, A. S. Byatt&#8217;s Possession. Possession is an odd book, and I love it and re-read it frequently. It\u2019s about scholars in 1987 trying to find out some precise events that happened in the late nineteenth century and which concern the relationship between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[460,138,461],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-a-s-byatt","tag-jo-walton","tag-possession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","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=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}