{"id":236,"date":"2001-12-22T19:16:21","date_gmt":"2001-12-23T03:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2001\/12\/22\/236.html"},"modified":"2001-12-22T19:16:21","modified_gmt":"2001-12-23T03:16:21","slug":"heat-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2001\/12\/22\/heat-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've had Pamela Zoline's <cite>The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories<\/cite> on my bookshelf for who knows how many years.  So when the title story was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiction\/classics\/classics_archive\/zoline\/zoline1.html\">reprinted at <cite>Sci Fiction<\/cite><\/a> I figured it was time to finally read it.  And I was right.<\/p>\n<p>Lovely story, nicely done, some great images.  It feels to me like it's part of a subgenre, or at least a style of story, that I've seen other examples of from the New Wave: a series of numbered paragraphs that don't exactly form a linear narrative, a story about a normal person's disaffection or existential crisis or alienation, a story that draws on science-related ideas as metaphors but is not, by my usual definitions, itself science fiction per se.  I'd call it literary fiction, but it was published in <cite>New Worlds<\/cite> in '67, which I suppose makes it SF or possibly slipstream, or at least New Wave.  (Where did the New Wave disappear to during the '80s?  I blame cyberpunk.)  More and more I begin to think that some of the genre-b(l)ending we're seeing these days is in some ways a return to what the New Wave writers were trying to do thirty years ago, only now without the sense of it being a Movement.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Zoline's bio is worth reading (click her name at the top of the story); she's spent the last quarter-century in Telluride, working on art and sustainability.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had Pamela Zoline&#8217;s The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories on my bookshelf for who knows how&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","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=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}