{"id":62239,"date":"2023-11-20T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=62239"},"modified":"2023-11-17T12:53:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T12:53:23","slug":"the-scientist-in-popular-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/11\/20\/the-scientist-in-popular-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scientist in Popular Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New to me, a 2015 McFarland study I&#8217;d missed, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/46gvN4R\">The Literary Haunted House: Lovecraft, Matheson, King and the Horror in Between<\/a><\/em>. Finding this led me to note that the same author also put together a <em>Haunted House Short Stories<\/em> anthology in 2021, and (more in my line) edited a new essay collection book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3T3znwv\">The Scientist in Popular Culture: Playing God and Working Wonders<\/a><\/em> (2022). Amazon has no TOCs for the latter, but Google Books has a basic list of chapters:<\/p>\n<p>Frankenstein Goes West;<br \/>\n&#8220;Pay Attention, 007&#8221;;<br \/>\nA Space Odyssey;<br \/>\nThe Scientist as Sixties Icon;<br \/>\nWhy Is Everything So Heavy in the Future?;<br \/>\nThrough Heroism and Science, Woman Inherits the Earth;<br \/>\nA Scientific Method to Muppet Madness;<br \/>\nAll of It Madness;<br \/>\nA Feeling for the Clone;<br \/>\nDexter;<br \/>\nIts My Time Now, The Time of Science;<br \/>\nI Suggest You Don&#8217;t Worry about Those Things and Just Enjoy Yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New to me, a 2015 McFarland study I&#8217;d missed, The Literary Haunted House: Lovecraft, Matheson, King and the Horror in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/11\/20\/the-scientist-in-popular-culture\/\">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-62239","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\/62239","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=62239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62241,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62239\/revisions\/62241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}