{"id":611,"date":"2007-07-06T01:51:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T05:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=611"},"modified":"2018-08-16T22:50:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T02:50:51","slug":"james-e-gunn-station-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"(James E. Gunn) Station In&nbsp;Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=8998\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8998\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8998\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/07-07-06-READ-James-E.-Gunn-Station-In-Space.jpg\" alt=\"07-07-06 READ (James E. Gunn) Station In Space\" width=\"247\" height=\"416\"><\/a>James Gunn was writ\u00ading \u201chard sci\u00adence fic\u00adtion\u201d in the 1950\u2019s, and was in some ways the pre\u00adcur\u00adsor of peo\u00adple like Ben Bova and Lar\u00adry Niv\u00aden. The con\u00adnected sto\u00adries in this book are Gunn\u2019s attempt to envi\u00adsion the con\u00adstruc\u00adtion of an orbit\u00ading space sta\u00adtion, at a time when \u201cseri\u00adous\u201d sci\u00aden\u00adtists still dis\u00admissed talk of space explo\u00adration as mere fan\u00adtasy. Unlike many who had writ\u00adten sto\u00adries in which eccen\u00adtric sci\u00aden\u00adtists built space ships in their back yards, Gunn under\u00adstood that such a project would require engi\u00adneer\u00ading and financ\u00ading on a mam\u00admoth scale, and would involve polit\u00adi\u00adcal com\u00adplex\u00adi\u00adties. The sto\u00adries are quaint, now, but will inter\u00adest any\u00adone who reads fic\u00adtion with a his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal perspective.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-611\"><\/span>con\u00adtents:<\/p>\n<p>15119. (James E. Gunn) The Cave of Night [sto\u00adry]<br> 15120. (James E. Gunn) Hoax [sto\u00adry]<br> 15121. (James E. Gunn) The Big Wheel [sto\u00adry]<br> 15122. (James E. Gunn) Pow\u00adder Keg [sto\u00adry]<br> 15123. (James E. Gunn) Space Is a Lone\u00adly Place [sto\u00adry]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Gunn was writ\u00ading \u201chard sci\u00adence fic\u00adtion\u201d in the 1950\u2019s, and was in some ways the pre\u00adcur\u00adsor of peo\u00adple like Ben Bova and Lar\u00adry Niv\u00aden. The con\u00adnected sto\u00adries in this book are Gunn\u2019s attempt to envi\u00adsion the con\u00adstruc\u00adtion of&nbsp;an&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=611\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bt-reading-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8999,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/8999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}