{"id":15560,"date":"2017-07-17T10:26:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T17:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2017\/07\/17\/15560.html"},"modified":"2017-07-17T10:26:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T17:26:20","slug":"more-multimedia-speculative-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2017\/07\/17\/more-multimedia-speculative-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"More multimedia speculative fiction from Jon Bois"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jon Bois's tour-de-force multimedia science fiction future-of-football extravaganza &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/a\/17776-football\">17776<\/a>&rdquo; is now complete. 25 brief chapters. Well worth reading\/viewing, even for non football fans. But even if you don't read the rest of it, I highly recommend the first chapter.<\/p>\n<p>I'll be nominating this for a Hugo next year, probably in Dramatic Presentation Short Form.<\/p>\n<p>Some further notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>If you want to contact the author directly, you can find him <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jon_bois\">on Twitter<\/a>. (His last name is pronounced like \"Boyce,\" btw, or so I'm told.)<\/li>\n  <li>More of his multimedia speculative fiction available online:\n<ul>\n  <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/2014\/8\/18\/5998715\/the-tim-tebow-cfl-chronicles\">The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles<\/a>.<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/2015\/12\/3\/9827226\/nfl-catch-rules\">What the heck is a catch in the NFL, anyway? An explainer<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n  <\/li>\n  <li>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/168038\/What-football-will-look-like-in-the-future#7089452\">interesting thoughts<\/a> about Bois, \"17776,\" and fictional games, from Sumana.<\/li>\n  <li>More generally, that whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/168038\/What-football-will-look-like-in-the-future\">MetaFilter page<\/a> has some interesting thoughts and comments from various people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Bois&#8217;s tour-de-force multimedia science fiction future-of-football extravaganza &ldquo;17776&rdquo; is now complete. 25 brief chapters. Well worth reading\/viewing, even for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,28,27,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-video","category-short-stories","category-speculative-fiction","category-writers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}