{"id":4857,"date":"2012-07-07T02:51:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T23:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=4857"},"modified":"2012-07-07T02:51:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T23:51:02","slug":"4857","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/07\/07\/4857\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctica in Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just published in hardback from Cambridge University Press: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Antarctica-Fiction-Imaginative-Narratives-South\/dp\/1107020824\/\">Antarctica in Fiction: Imaginative Narratives of the Far South<\/a><\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This comprehensive and engaging analysis of a wide range of Antarctic fiction &#8211; from lost-race romances to espionage thrillers to travellers&#8217; tales to horror fantasies &#8211; is essential reading for anyone interested in the history, literature and culture of Antarctica&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Introduction is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cup.cam.ac.uk\/aus\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9781107020825&amp;ss=exc\">free online<\/a>, with footnotes missing.<\/p>\n<p>And interesting find is George Clarke Simpson&#8217;s 1914 story &#8220;Fragments of a Manuscript Found by the People of Sirius When They Visited the Earth During the Exploration of the Solar System&#8221; (<em>South Polar Times<\/em>. Vol. 3), which uses the term &#8220;climate change&#8221; to imagine a dramatically warmed earth, so much so that it causes all the Antarctic ice to melt. The author is not obscure, since he was a famous polar expeditionary of the time and went on to head the Met Office. But the story is so obscure that it seems rather unlikely Lovecraft knew of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just published in hardback from Cambridge University Press: Antarctica in Fiction: Imaginative Narratives of the Far South&#8230; &#8220;This comprehensive and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/07\/07\/4857\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857","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=4857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}