{"id":36689,"date":"2016-12-18T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36689"},"modified":"2016-12-17T09:50:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T14:50:43","slug":"young-people-read-old-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/12\/18\/young-people-read-old-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people read old SF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Hutton linked to James Nicoll&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/youngpeoplereadoldsff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">interesting little experiment<\/a> on the go:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/youngpeoplereadoldsff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/YPROSFF-853x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"210\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/YPROSFF.jpg 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/YPROSFF-150x37.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/YPROSFF-480x118.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/YPROSFF-768x189.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Young People Read Old SF was inspired by something award-winning author Adam-Troy Castro said on <em>Facebook<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>nobody discovers a lifelong love of science fiction through Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein anymore, and directing newbies toward the work of those masters is a destructive thing, because the spark won&#8217;t happen. You might as well advise them to seek out Cordwainer Smith or Alan E. Nourse \u2014 fine tertiary avenues of investigation, even now, but not anything that&#8217;s going to set anybody&#8217;s heart afire, not from the standing start. Won&#8217;t happen. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a testable hypothesis! I&#8217;ve rounded up a pool of younger people who have agreed to let me expose them to classic works of science fiction and assembled a list of older works I think still have merit. Each month my subjects will read and react to those stories; I will then post the results to this site. Hilarity will doubtless ensue! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Hutton linked to James Nicoll&#8217;s interesting little experiment on the go: Young People Read Old SF was inspired by something award-winning author Adam-Troy Castro said on Facebook. nobody discovers a lifelong love of science fiction through Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein anymore, and directing newbies toward the work of those masters is a destructive thing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-36689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9xL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36692,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36689\/revisions\/36692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}