{"id":160,"date":"2005-07-02T14:57:26","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T19:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2005-07-02T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2005-07-02T19:57:26","slug":"summer-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Summer Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <strong>&#8220;Steven Spielberg&#8217;s (?) War of the Worlds&#8221;<\/strong> approaching, we&#8217;re beginning to see the usual pre-release deluge of puff piece news stories about science fiction.  Among them, though, is this anomaly: a great discussion on CNN radio online you can download as an MP3 (I refuse to use the term &#8220;podcast&#8221; under any circumstances) featuring Harlan Ellison, Connie Willis, Bruce Sterling and Len Wein&#8230;.and most shocking of all, an interviewer who actually seems to be familiar with the topic he&#8217;s discussing.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/services\/podcasting\/specials\/SCIFI.mp3\">here.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/save_rock.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/_save_rock.png\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" alt=\"save rock\" title=\"save rock\"  \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:10px\">(Click for larger image)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With &#8220;Steven Spielberg&#8217;s (?) War of the Worlds&#8221; approaching, we&#8217;re beginning to see the usual pre-release deluge of puff piece news stories about science fiction. Among them, though, is this anomaly: a great discussion on CNN radio online you can download as an MP3 (I refuse to use the term &#8220;podcast&#8221; under any circumstances) featuring &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=160\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-2A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}