{"id":1015,"date":"2014-08-26T21:27:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T21:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arielsheen.com\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2014-08-26T21:27:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T21:27:56","slug":"current-book-club-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/26\/current-book-club-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Tentative Book Club Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Science Fiction has played a powerful\u00a0role in human culture’s relationship to new technological developments. It has not only foreshadowed the possibilities involved by applied scientific research but also delineated the potentials for conflict as a result of it. Issac Assimov’s works have inspired generations of scientists and politicians to unabashedly embrace the automation and artificial intelligence while as early as the 1920’s Karel Capek depicted the anxiety\u00a0of such developments in\u00a0Rossum’s Universal Robots<\/a>\u00a0that has since become one of Hollywood’s most recurring tropes. It is not just, however, in the inspiration of a select few that helped science fiction become a potent voice for expressing the varieties and anxieties of the human condition.\u00a0Books such as\u00a0Looking Backward<\/a>\u00a0played a large historical role in helping American’s to understand the possibilities involved in increasingly technological world and how best they could benefit from it.<\/p>\n

The books I’ve chosen thus far\u00a0for the SubCulture book club all represent modern iterations of Science Fiction\/Science Fantasy that have each been heavily awarded for their aesthetic and intellectual content. Over the next 6 months we’ll look at new worlds, future Earths that’ve taken on\u00a0an entirely new form due to technological\u00a0changes, as well as a historical attempt to apply Science to all aspects of human relations. We’ll discuss what it means to the characters involved and what it means to us now in an age where each of is, to an extent, a cyborg.<\/p>\n

Ancillary Justice<\/a>\u00a0by Ann Leckie
\nThe Windup Girl<\/a> by Pablo Bacigalupi
\nThe Moon Is a Harsh Mistress<\/a> by Robert Heinlein
\nPerdido Street Station<\/a> by China Mieville
\nRed Plenty<\/a> By Francis Spufford
\nSnow Crash<\/a> by Neal Stephenson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Science Fiction has played a powerful\u00a0role in human culture’s relationship to new technological developments. It has not only foreshadowed the possibilities involved by applied scientific research but also delineated the potentials for conflict as a result of it. Issac Assimov’s works have inspired generations of scientists and politicians to unabashedly embrace the automation and artificial … Continue reading “Tentative Book Club Reading List”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-club","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8e7kf-gn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}