{"id":2460,"date":"2007-03-19T15:13:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T15:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonings.com\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2018-10-30T13:22:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T13:22:52","slug":"an-interview-with-m-john-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=2460","title":{"rendered":"An interview with M John Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Harrison, whose story In Autotelia appeared in the inaugural issue of Arc, reveals his love of science, takes a wry view of the human project, and looks back on his ten-year effort to give science fiction its long-overdue Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"M John Harrison at arcfinity.org\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/08bZpGm_kPc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here he discusses In Autotelia: &#8220;There&#8217;s more crammed into those 4000 words than there is crammed into the entire Light trilogy,&#8221; he says. &#8220;The fewer words you use, the more you can stuff in, which is why poetry is so good, and so hard to unpick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"In Arc 1.1: M. John Harrison\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F9G3rtu3ayM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Harrison, whose story In Autotelia appeared in the inaugural issue of Arc, reveals his love of science, takes a wry view of the human project, and looks back on his ten-year effort to give science fiction its long-overdue Saturday &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=2460\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,617],"tags":[351,86],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arc","category-books-reviews-and-opinion","tag-books","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}