{"id":162,"date":"2004-01-18T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-18T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2004-01-18T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-18T23:05:00","slug":"the-sf-book-of-lists-by-maxim-jakubowski-malcolm-edwards-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2004\/01\/the-sf-book-of-lists-by-maxim-jakubowski-malcolm-edwards-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"The SF Book of Lists by Maxim Jakubowski &amp; Malcolm Edwards, 1983."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to read lots and lots of science fiction. Now I basically just re-read a few favorites (LeGuin, Heinlein, Vance, the short stories I loved as a teen). But I still like reading <b>about<\/b> science fiction from time to time, in the same way I enjoy most books about books and reading; I like the feeling of possibility, all those books I <b>could<\/b> read. The sense of wonder that was my main draw to SF I now get from non-fiction. I think that&#8217;s partly why I didn&#8217;t like the Franzen essays; where Wallace has sheer exuberance and Baker revels in the quiddity of the world, Franzen had only crankiness to offer. Anyway, I enjoyed flipping through this for the memories it prompted, but the only real highlight was &#8220;Ten Characters Who Have Promoted the Consumption of Coffee in Improbable Quarters of Space and Time&#8221; by Nick Lowe (as in <i>Jesus of Cool<\/i> Nick Lowe, I wonder? How many could there be?) He doesn&#8217;t even mention the Pern &#8220;klah,&#8221; which joined redfruit in my list of Anne McCaffery&#8217;s bogus earth substitutions (later lamely explained in the lousy tail-end of the &#8220;Dragonrider&#8221; series.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to read lots and lots of science fiction. Now I basically just re-read a few favorites (LeGuin, Heinlein, Vance, the short stories I loved as a teen). But I still like reading about science fiction from time to time, in the same way I enjoy most books about books and reading; I like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}