{"id":5244,"date":"2017-04-18T07:08:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T23:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=5244"},"modified":"2017-04-18T07:08:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T23:08:27","slug":"episode-305-kim-stanley-robinson-and-the-drowning-of-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2017\/04\/18\/episode-305-kim-stanley-robinson-and-the-drowning-of-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 305: Kim Stanley Robinson and the Drowning of New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we&#8217;re joined by the delightful and provocative Kim Stanley Robinson, to discuss his new novel <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/titles\/kim-stanley-robinson\/new-york-2140\/9780316262330\/\">New York 2140<\/a><\/em>, his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153comedy of coping\u00e2\u20ac\u009d about dealing with catastrophic climate change in the next century, as well as how his previous novel Aurora\u00c2\u00a0challenged one of the cherished ideas in science fiction, the literary and artistic function of exposition in fiction, the relationship of science fiction writers to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153futurists\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or to MFA programs in creative writing, and his own distinguished career in the context of both science fiction and contemporary environmental literature.<\/p>\n<p>As always, our thanks to Stan for making the time to tallk to us. \u00c2\u00a0We hope you enjoy the episode and will be back next week!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/gmrq8-69d039?from=site&amp;vjs=1&amp;skin=1&amp;fonts=Helvetica&amp;auto=0&amp;download=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we&#8217;re joined by the delightful and provocative Kim Stanley Robinson, to discuss his new novel New York 2140, his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153comedy of coping\u00e2\u20ac\u009d about dealing with catastrophic climate change in the next century, as well as how his previous novel Aurora\u00c2\u00a0challenged one of the cherished ideas in science fiction, the literary and artistic function &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2017\/04\/18\/episode-305-kim-stanley-robinson-and-the-drowning-of-new-york\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Episode 305: Kim Stanley Robinson and the Drowning of New York<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-37","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5245,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions\/5245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}