{"id":986,"date":"2009-05-06T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/05\/06\/science-fiction-writers-take-note\/"},"modified":"2009-05-06T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T18:59:00","slug":"science-fiction-writers-take-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/05\/06\/science-fiction-writers-take-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction Writers Take Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From io9&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5241996\/the-top-ten-rules-of-space-opera\">Top Ten Rules of Space Opera<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">9. There should be a captain. If there is not a captain, there should be a special agent. If there is not a special agent, there should be a cadet with a future. If there is no cadet with a future, there should be a mercenary with a dark past.<\/span><br \/>If there is no mercenary with a dark past, there should be a wisecracking stowaway. If there is no wisecracking stowaway, there should be a witch. If there is no witch, there should be a scientist. If there is no scientist, just remake <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Spaceballs<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Annaleen\">Annalee Newitz<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Has there been a really great science fiction satire recently?  And no, crap like <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Superhero Movie<\/span> does not count.<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From io9&#8217;s Top Ten Rules of Space Opera: 9. There should be a captain. If there is not a captain, there should be a special agent. If there is not a special agent, there should be a cadet with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[13,56,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-tv","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}