{"id":1309,"date":"2014-05-28T01:01:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T07:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2014-05-28T09:51:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T15:51:12","slug":"earthfic-production-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"(Earthfic) Production Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe I take this sort of thing too personally, but recently I saw one of those lists of highly-regarded books. This was a diverse list, and had a few titles in a large range of fields, including Science Fiction, and Fantasy. It also contained Literary Fiction. And in that category? Friggin Murakami<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You know how something like Wind-Up Bird Chronicle gets placed under Lit Fic? Goddamn cultural appropriation. Whenever a good piece of SF actually manages to sneak under the radar and get the attention of the Lit Fic crowd they decide that it couldn\u2019t POSSIBLY be SF, because they<\/em> would never like something as low-status as science fiction<\/em>! So things like Flowers For Algernon or The Handmaiden\u2019s Tale get re-classified as Literary Fiction in the face of all reason, simply because someone highfalutin liked it and thought it was tarnished under the SF label.<\/p>\n

I probably don\u2019t need to say this to the readership\/listenership of HPMoR, but to put this in perspective for the two other people that stumbled here somehow \u2013 imagine someone saying Neil deGrasse Tyson couldn\u2019t possibly be black, because he was too smart, so they would be classifying him as \u201cwhite\u201d from now on. That\u2019s\u2026 well OK, that\u2019s worse honestly, comparing the two is a bit of an exaggeration. But it\u2019s similar.<\/p>\n

What I\u2019m saying is, screw every single one of those uppity bastards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe I take this sort of thing too personally, but recently I saw one of those lists of highly-regarded books. This was a diverse list, and had a few titles in a large range of fields, including Science Fiction, and Fantasy. It also contained Literary Fiction. And in that category?\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}