{"id":3598,"date":"2010-01-11T10:23:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T14:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2010-01-11T10:25:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T14:25:36","slug":"the-thing-from-another-point-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3598","title":{"rendered":"The Thing from Another Point of View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Watts has a story in Clarkesworld Magazine which revisits <i>The Thing<\/i> from the Thing&#8217;s viewpoint.  It&#8217;s rather unsettling, particularly given the alien&#8217;s belief that assimilating humans is doing them a favor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was so much more, before the crash. I was an explorer, an ambassador, a missionary. I spread across the cosmos, met countless worlds, took communion: the fit reshaped the unfit and the whole universe bootstrapped upwards in joyful, infinitesimal increments. I was a soldier, at war with entropy itself. I was the very hand by which Creation perfects itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clarkesworldmagazine.com\/watts_01_10\/\">Link<\/a> <i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.typepad.com\/wwdnbackup\/\">Wil Wheaton<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Watts has a story in Clarkesworld Magazine which revisits The Thing from the Thing&#8217;s viewpoint. It&#8217;s rather unsettling, particularly given the alien&#8217;s belief that assimilating humans is doing them a favor. I was so much more, before the crash. I was an explorer, an ambassador, a missionary. I spread across the cosmos, met countless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}