{"id":2696,"date":"2007-08-30T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2007-08-30T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T19:25:00","slug":"2696","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2696","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Science fiction is dead! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/005560.html\">So says Ridley Scott<\/a>. Sounds to me like he just hasn&#8217;t been paying attention. There&#8217;s been plenty of science fiction as good as, if not better than, <i>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/i> in the nearly forty years since that film was made. Every time someone says this or that genre is dead, there are usually half a dozen easy examples to prove them wrong. The half dozen that spring to my mind of interesting, challenging, unique, enjoyable and, more importantly, <i>recent<\/i> science fiction? How about:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Gattaca<\/i><br \/><i>Primer<\/i><br \/><i>12 Monkeys<\/i><br \/><i>Solaris<\/i><br \/><i>Donnie Darko<\/i><br \/><i>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I can think of more. Is there a lot of terrible and derivative science fiction being produced? Of course there is. But when <i>wasn&#8217;t<\/i> there? When in the history of human culture has <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sturgeon's_law\">Sturgeon&#8217;s Law<\/a> <i>not<\/i> applied?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science fiction is dead! So says Ridley Scott. Sounds to me like he just hasn&#8217;t been paying attention. There&#8217;s been plenty of science fiction as good as, if not better than, 2001: A Space Odyssey in the nearly forty years since that film was made. Every time someone says this or that genre is dead, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2696\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}