{"id":1969,"date":"2011-04-20T10:34:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:30","slug":"sci-fi-authors-unite-against-genre-snobbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/20\/sci-fi-authors-unite-against-genre-snobbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi authors unite against genre snobbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/mobylives\/?p=30786\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sf-216x300.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The shunning of genre fiction isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly a new revelation, and having worked as a Bookseller for a sci-fi and graphic novels specialist, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been on my radar for several years. As a student, I even used to feel a little sheepish admitting to my more discerning peers that, yes, one of my favorite authors is Stephen King. Of course, literary and genre fiction both have value, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also worth mentioning that as with all fiction, some of it is good, and some of it is terrible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/mobylives\/?p=30786\">MOBYLIVES \u00c2\u00bb Sci-Fi authors unite against genre snobbery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The shunning of genre fiction isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly a new revelation, and having worked as a Bookseller for a sci-fi and graphic novels specialist, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been on my radar for several years. As a student, I even used to feel a little sheepish admitting to my more discerning peers that, yes, one of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/20\/sci-fi-authors-unite-against-genre-snobbery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sci-Fi authors unite against genre snobbery<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,1],"tags":[253,360,241,359],"class_list":["post-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","category-information","tag-fiction","tag-genrefiction","tag-mobylives","tag-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10162,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions\/10162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}