{"id":4160,"date":"2010-05-05T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T12:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2010-05-05T08:29:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T12:29:56","slug":"a-century-of-gernsback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4160","title":{"rendered":"A Century of Gernsback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Gernsback&#8217;s novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ralph-124C-41-Frontiers-Imagination\/dp\/0803270984\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1273062194&#038;sr=1-1\">Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660<\/a> was first serialized in <i>Modern Electrics<\/i> magazine almost a century ago in April, 1911.  Which, by most accounts, really sucked.  But it also helped to kick off SF as a genre.<\/p>\n<p>Ars Technica has an <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2010\/05\/ralph-124c-41-a-century-later.ars\">article<\/a> about Gernsback and his contributions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Gernsback&#8217;s novel Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660 was first serialized in Modern Electrics magazine almost a century ago in April, 1911. Which, by most accounts, really sucked. But it also helped to kick off SF as a genre. Ars Technica has an article about Gernsback and his contributions.<\/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\/4160"}],"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=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4168,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}