{"id":741,"date":"2011-08-05T21:24:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T01:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=741"},"modified":"2011-08-05T21:24:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T01:24:06","slug":"npr-science-fiction-and-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"NPR Science Fiction and Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Systems Lunch earlier today one of the Professors brought up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/08\/02\/138938145\/science-fiction-and-fantasy-finalists\">NPR&#8217;s Science Fiction And Fantasy Finalists<\/a> list, which kicked off a fabulous discussion of favorites and extended the already ridiculous list of things I&#8217;d like to read.  There are only a handful of things I consider appropriate for the list missing (like Brian Aldiss&#8217; Helliconia Trilogy, mentioned in my last post), and a surprising number of things usually excluded for one reason or another (Like Timothy Zhan&#8217;s Thrawn Trilogy which is tainted by association with the Star Wars franchise, and Yevgeny Zamyatin&#8217;s under-appreciated dystopia novel We) present.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Systems Lunch earlier today one of the Professors brought up NPR&#8217;s Science Fiction And Fantasy Finalists list, which kicked off a fabulous discussion of favorites and extended the already ridiculous list of things I&#8217;d like to read. There are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=741\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general","tag-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}