{"id":332,"date":"2005-04-19T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=332"},"modified":"2005-04-19T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-19T13:44:00","slug":"clute-and-macleod-on-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2005\/04\/19\/clute-and-macleod-on-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"Clute and Macleod on SF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to suggest that everyone should go read John Clute&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/sfw\/current\/excess.html\">really quite interesting review<\/a> of Andreas Eschbach&#8217;s <em>The Carpet Makers<\/em>, and you still should. But&#8230;I&#8217;ve just read the latest post from Ken Macleod over at <em>Early Days of a Better Nation<\/em>, where he <a href=\"http:\/\/kenmacleod.blogspot.com\/2005_04_01_kenmacleod_archive.html#111382942341307675\">queries the accuracy<\/a> of his own recollections about the history of SF. It&#8217;s a subject I find fascinating because I think we are subject to the &#8216;collective wisdom&#8217;, do sign up for the consensus view of things, and don&#8217;t usually have time to go back and check that our facts are straight. Read it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and another fascinating piece here, which ties up with the Macleod piece above, from Charlie Stross, about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blosxom.cgi\/2005\/04\/18#state-of-sf\">sf and the cultural zietgeist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to suggest that everyone should go read John Clute&#8217;s really quite interesting review of Andreas Eschbach&#8217;s The Carpet Makers, and you still should. But&#8230;I&#8217;ve just read the latest post from Ken Macleod over at Early Days of a Better Nation, where he queries the accuracy of his own recollections about the history &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2005\/04\/19\/clute-and-macleod-on-sf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clute and Macleod on SF<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imported-from-older-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}