{"id":5812,"date":"2011-08-14T08:03:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T08:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/14\/links-for-2011-08-14\/"},"modified":"2011-08-14T08:03:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T08:03:38","slug":"links-for-2011-08-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/14\/links-for-2011-08-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-08-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2011\/08\/the-dont-miss-volume#205122'>THE &#8220;Don&#8217;t Miss&#8221; Volume? | Tor.com<\/a>\n<p>&quot;In the 1995 Hugos thread, Womzilla asked what was THE don&#8217;t-miss novel of Bujold&#8217;s Vorkosigan series. There has been much interesting discussion in the thread of the idea of a series novel winning the Hugo and specifically of which Bujold to read first, but I think the whole question of &#8220;the one don&#8217;t-miss volume&#8221; is interesting to examine. It&#8217;s quite a different question from &#8220;Where do I start?&#8221; It&#8217;s full of assumptions and worth unpacking.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2011\/08\/i-am-the-very-model-of-a-singu.html'>I am the Very Model of a Singularitarian &#8211; Charlie&#8217;s Diary<\/a>\n<p>&quot;If the Singularity is our new Maginot Line, what&#8217;s the future equivalent of a line of panzers running right over it? Since scenarios are often productively built around oppositions, I&#8217;ll suggest an opposite worldview to the Singularity&#8211;one that makes opposite assumptions.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE &#8220;Don&#8217;t Miss&#8221; Volume? | Tor.com &quot;In the 1995 Hugos thread, Womzilla asked what was THE don&#8217;t-miss novel of Bujold&#8217;s Vorkosigan series. There has been much interesting discussion in the thread of the idea of a series novel winning the Hugo and specifically of which Bujold to read first, but I think the whole question&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/14\/links-for-2011-08-14\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-08-14<\/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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812","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=5812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}