{"id":3541,"date":"2019-07-04T05:18:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T05:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/64.156.26.201\/*sergneri.net\/httpdocs\/wordpress\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2019-07-04T05:18:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T05:18:44","slug":"kim-stanley-robinson-built-a-moon-base-in-his-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/07\/04\/kim-stanley-robinson-built-a-moon-base-in-his-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Stanley Robinson Built a Moon Base in His Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To write his new novel, Red Moon, the sci-fi author became an expert on lunar colony tech<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/aerospace\/space-flight\/kim-stanley-robinson-built-a-moon-base-in-his-mind\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">IEEE Spectrum &#8211; By Sally Adee <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/image\/MzMyNzM0OQ.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: Sean Curtin \" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But for Red Moon, which is set so close to the current moment, the underlying \u201creally\u201d is the same thing as the explicit plot\u2014it\u2019s about China taking over the moon. China and the United States are the two crucial players in world history in our time, and neither country has a really effective system of political representation, and both exist in an important way under the rule of global capital, a rule that is wrecking the biosphere and people\u2019s lives. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To write his new novel, Red Moon, the sci-fi author became an expert on lunar colony tech IEEE Spectrum &#8211; By Sally Adee But for Red Moon, which is set so close to the current moment, the underlying \u201creally\u201d is the same thing as the explicit plot\u2014it\u2019s about China taking over the moon. China and &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/07\/04\/kim-stanley-robinson-built-a-moon-base-in-his-mind\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,9,12,13,15,16,17],"tags":[1933,2041,2047,850,2040,2045,2042,2043,2044,2046],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-3541","6":"format-standard","7":"category-climate-change","8":"category-ethical-and-green-living","9":"category-finanace","10":"category-nuclear-industry","11":"category-politics","12":"category-science","13":"category-sea-stories","14":"category-thinking-about","15":"post_tag-capitalism","16":"post_tag-china","17":"post_tag-helium-3","18":"post_tag-ieee-spectrum","19":"post_tag-kim-stanley-robinson","20":"post_tag-libration-zones","21":"post_tag-lunar","22":"post_tag-mars","23":"post_tag-moon","24":"post_tag-socialism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3544,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions\/3544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}