{"id":1928,"date":"2007-11-05T08:56:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T08:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/05\/literary-poll-science-fiction\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T08:56:32","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T08:56:32","slug":"literary-poll-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/05\/literary-poll-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Poll: Science Fiction Scavenger Hunt!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realized that last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/literary_poll_fantasy_scavenge.php\">scavenger hunt<\/a> posts neglected half of my favorite genre fiction, so here&#8217;s a post to make up for that:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>What items should appear on a Science Fiction Novel Scavenger Hunt?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some suggestions to get things started:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One Big Dumb Object<\/li>\n<li>One improbably brilliant genius scientist who is able to both invent a new Theory of Everything and use it to build a time machine\/ star drive\/ whatever in his basement lab<\/li>\n<li>One book offering a &#8220;scientific&#8221; explanation for some &#8220;paranormal&#8221; phenomenon<\/li>\n<li>One alien planet consisting of a single ecosystem<\/li>\n<li>One reference to special relativity<\/li>\n<li>One reference to quantum mechanics<\/li>\n<li>One alien race with godlike powers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realized that last week&#8217;s scavenger hunt posts neglected half of my favorite genre fiction, so here&#8217;s a post to make up for that: What items should appear on a Science Fiction Novel Scavenger Hunt? Some suggestions to get things started: One Big Dumb Object One improbably brilliant genius scientist who is able to both&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/05\/literary-poll-science-fiction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Literary Poll: Science Fiction Scavenger Hunt!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,37,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-pop_culture","category-sf","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}