{"id":37188,"date":"2020-04-18T05:27:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T02:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=37188"},"modified":"2020-04-18T05:27:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T02:27:27","slug":"new-book-aliens-robots-virtual-reality-idols-in-the-science-fiction-of-h-p-lovecraft-isaac-asimov-and-william-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/04\/18\/new-book-aliens-robots-virtual-reality-idols-in-the-science-fiction-of-h-p-lovecraft-isaac-asimov-and-william-gibson\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: Aliens, Robots &#038; Virtual Reality Idols in the Science Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov and William Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/johnlsteadman.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/greetings-friends-colleagues-my-new.html\">new book<\/a>, due later in 2020&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My new book: <em>Aliens, Robots &amp; Virtual Reality Idols in the Science Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov and William Gibson<\/em> is due to be published on October 30th of this year&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The core idea seems to be that some of us enjoy imagining extreme aliens\/robots, encountered under extreme conditions. Such ideas then both threaten and reinforce the reader&#8217;s ideas about &#8216;what it is to be human&#8217;. One can certainly see how such repeated literary lessons might have been useful for a certain kind of young nerd in the 1930s-80s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/zero.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/zero.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"464\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book, due later in 2020&#8230; My new book: Aliens, Robots &amp; Virtual Reality Idols in the Science Fiction &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/04\/18\/new-book-aliens-robots-virtual-reality-idols-in-the-science-fiction-of-h-p-lovecraft-isaac-asimov-and-william-gibson\/\">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":[18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}