{"id":805,"date":"2008-07-22T07:30:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T11:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=805"},"modified":"2008-07-17T20:35:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T00:35:52","slug":"must-read-british-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"Must-Read British SF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given Shadow&#8217;s reading list over the past couple of years, I would have thought that science fiction was moving in a strongly Brit-ward direction.  However, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/justhastobeplausible.blogspot.com\/\">It Doesn&#8217;t Have to be Right&#8230;<\/A> feels that literary SF is still very Americocentric and is combating that by listing 20 British SF novels that everyone should read.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being written by British authors, the stories he&#8217;s chosen take place either in the UK or in futures where nations don&#8217;t exist any more.  Not all are current&#8211;H.G. Wells and George Orwell make the list&#8211;but the more recent authors are solid choices.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/justhastobeplausible.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/20-british-sf-novels-you-should-read.html\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\">SF Signal<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given Shadow&#8217;s reading list over the past couple of years, I would have thought that science fiction was moving in a strongly Brit-ward direction. However, It Doesn&#8217;t Have to be Right&#8230; feels that literary SF is still very Americocentric and is combating that by listing 20 British SF novels that everyone should read. In addition [&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\/805"}],"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=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}