{"id":14624,"date":"2022-01-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=14624"},"modified":"2022-01-24T14:29:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T21:29:54","slug":"the-evolution-of-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/the-evolution-of-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The 50s:<\/strong> We&#8217;re going to SPACE, baby! By the end of the century, space travel will be cheap and we&#8217;ll have a permanent base on the Moon, and probably on Mars too.<\/li><li><strong>The 60s:<\/strong> We&#8217;re going to have a free love future, but relations between the sexes will remain essentially unchanged. Also, communism will win in the long run.<\/li><li><strong>The 70s:<\/strong> By the beginning of next century, the Earth will be so polluted and overpopulated that it will practically be unlivable. And then, we&#8217;re all gonna die in a big nuclear war.<\/li><li><strong>The 80s:<\/strong> Yeah, Earth will probably suck, but that&#8217;s okay because we&#8217;re gonna build some massive, sprawling space empires! Humanity&#8217;s future lies among the stars.<\/li><li><strong>The 90s:<\/strong> Oh good, we didn&#8217;t all die. Let&#8217;s have some fun with time travel and space empires. Better yet, let&#8217;s go to Mars, since that&#8217;s obviously humanity&#8217;s next big step.<\/li><li><strong>The 00s:<\/strong> \u2026are we sure we&#8217;re not all gonna die? Maybe not in a nuclear holocaust, but climate change will be even worse, and who has time for space empires anyway? So unrealistic.<\/li><li><strong>The 10s:<\/strong> If you&#8217;re white, or straight\/cisgender, or Christian, or your politics are to the right of Stalin, GET OUT! We&#8217;re queer, we&#8217;re here, and the future belongs to us now!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 50s: We&#8217;re going to SPACE, baby! By the end of the century, space travel will be cheap and we&#8217;ll have a permanent base on the Moon, and probably on Mars too. The 60s: We&#8217;re going to have a free love future, but relations between the sexes will remain essentially unchanged. Also, communism will win&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/the-evolution-of-science-fiction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Evolution of Science Fiction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[259,99],"class_list":["post-14624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-just-for-fun","tag-science-fiction","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-3NS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14625,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624\/revisions\/14625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}